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Episode 489: Whitney Lee: From Wedding Photographer to Cloud-Native DevRel
This episode is from the reboot of Software Defined Interviews. Whitney Lee joins Coté to discuss her varied career path, from artist and wedding photographer to her career in DevRel within the cloud-native world. They kick off this revamped series with an engaging conversation. Expect new episodes of Software Defined Interviews every two weeks!
Subscribe at softwaredefinedinterviews.com (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com).
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 489 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_bK94A5uA).
Full show notes for Software Defined Interivews Episode 83. (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/83) Special Guest: Whitney Lee.
10/18/2024 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 488: Am I Here for the Mission or the Paycheck?
This week, we discuss WordPress paying employees to quit, the perils of management by fear, and Matt shutting down his datacenter. Plus, the definitive top 5 ranking of Australia’s iconic Big Things.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTYb9mUd38M) 488 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTYb9mUd38M)
Runner-up Titles
The Spirit of Open Source
Debating ‘Benevolent’
The Hero 1-Day Guy
The Mullenweg Way
He has Been Great for Podcasting
Spider Vacuuming
Rundown
A Guide To 30 Of Australia's Iconic Big Things (https://www.australiantraveller.com/australia/most-iconic-big-things-of-australia/)
More WordPress
WordPress cofounder is paying employees to leave if they disagree with him (https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24261931/wordpress-matt-mullenweg-automattic-employee-pay-package)
The WordPress Saga: Does Matt Mullenwegg Want a Fork or Not? (https://thenewstack.io/the-wordpress-saga-does-matt-mullenwegg-wants-a-fork-or-not/)
Automattic demanded web host pay $32M annually for using WordPress trademark (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/automattic-demanded-web-host-pay-32m-annually-for-using-wordpress-trademark/)
WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power (https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/wp-engine-sues-automattic-and-wordpress-co-founder-matt-mullenweg/)
Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’ (https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-org-wp-engine)
Automattic Alignment (https://ma.tt/2024/10/alignment/)
RTO or GFTO / Oxide (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/2105673)
Relevant to your Interests
OpenAI's product focus raises safety concerns as key execs depart (https://www.axios.com/2024/10/02/chatgpt-openai-products-shift-profit)
Wayback Machine integrated into Google search (https://boingboing.net/2024/09/26/wayback-machine-integrated-into-google-search.html)
OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with better dashboard, security (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/03/openstack_dalmatian/)
Gmail adding redesigned summary cards to your inbox with ‘Happening soon’ (https://9to5google.com/2024/10/02/gmail-summary-cards-happening-soon/)
How I exited the cloud (https://rameerez.com/how-i-exited-the-cloud/)
As data center usage heats up, Submer raises $55.5M to cool things down (https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/as-data-center-usage-heats-up-submer-raises-55-5m-to-cool-things-down/)
Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan (https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril)
A Look Back at Q2 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q2-24-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=149718363&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads (https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/3/24260637/googles-ai-overview-ads-launch)
OpenWrt One WiFi 6 router samples are now available for $89 - Liliputing (https://liliputing.com/openwrt-one-wifi-6-router-is-now-available-for-89/)
Elastic CTO Shay Banon on suing AWS and returning to OSS (https://www.thestack.technology/the-big-interview-their-product-sucked-elastic-cto-shay-banon-on-suing-aws-and-returning-to-oss/)
AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, open source, and closing services (https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/06/aws-ceo-matt-garman-on-generative-ai-open-source-and-closing-services/)
Bitcoin’s inventor is a mystery. An HBO filmmaker thinks he found him. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/08/bitcoin-hbo-documentary-satoshi-nakamoto-identity/)
HBO doc names Bitcoin creator suspect - who says ‘not me’ (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/09/satoshi_nakamoto_suspect_hbo_bitcoin/)
Apple Tweaks Screen Recording App Permissions to Decrease Popup Frequency (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/07/apple-screen-recording-popup-update/)
Nonsense
Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Austin, Texas - Waymo (https://waymo.com/waymo-one-austin/)
NYC Costco shoppers empty shelves in panic over port strike (https://nypost.com/2024/10/03/business/nyc-costco-shoppers-empty-shelves-in-panic-over-port-strike/)
Conferences
VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu), Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
GoTech World (https://www.gotech.world/), Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY
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REI Bike Maintenance (https://www.rei.com/stores/bike-shop)
AppleCare+ for iPhone (https://www.apple.com/support/products/iphone/)
JohnnyTankless (https://johnnytankless.com)
Matt: This Is How You Lose the Time War (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1534430997/)
Photo Credits
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10/11/2024 • 57 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 487: WordPress Drama and Chicken Sandwiches
This week, we recap the WordPress showdown between Automattic and WP Engine, and discuss the future of OpenAI. Plus, Coté has a lot (maybe too much) to say about Chick-fil-A coming to the UK.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/KDlBdG0OlZ8?si=bg705q4AX0WmFOcr) 487 (https://www.youtube.com/live/KDlBdG0OlZ8?si=bg705q4AX0WmFOcr)
Runner-up Titles
Time change is a-comin’.
Don’t worry, I’m wearing clothes under this bathrobe.
Where-ever there are chickens, there is fried chicken, I assume.
Waffle Chips
Free Refills and Ice
The tyranny of no free refills
Take the Five Guy approach
You can’t change the rules in the race
Fill the square
Rundown
Chick-fil-A to open in the UK (https://www.chick-fil-a.com/press-room/chick-fil-a-launching-in-the-uk)
Wordpress
Big chronological list of WordPre (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/24/automattic-vs-wp-engine/)s (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/24/automattic-vs-wp-engine/)s/WP Engine drama (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/09/24/automattic-vs-wp-engine/)
The Word (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/26/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-drama-explained/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABCzxY8I1T5GJaC-5-r2ZPSlWzU70oxy1GPtzV7NLmfUAUGFSUWFhX3OVxWCqeZSWLn4lCXlNat3dpWXnwTFqZsG8MzcRTsgkMQDrOCIoYElP84SzmjPhQwrQEeSvmBZ_IJ050-ixuNbmzEZyxQjVzDZLlbXy1ViAS0Xdx89AAFM)P (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/26/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-drama-explained/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABCzxY8I1T5GJaC-5-r2ZPSlWzU70oxy1GPtzV7NLmfUAUGFSUWFhX3OVxWCqeZSWLn4lCXlNat3dpWXnwTFqZsG8MzcRTsgkMQDrOCIoYElP84SzmjPhQwrQEeSvmBZ_IJ050-ixuNbmzEZyxQjVzDZLlbXy1ViAS0Xdx89AAFM)ress vs. WP Engine drama, explained (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/26/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-drama-explained/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABCzxY8I1T5GJaC-5-r2ZPSlWzU70oxy1GPtzV7NLmfUAUGFSUWFhX3OVxWCqeZSWLn4lCXlNat3dpWXnwTFqZsG8MzcRTsgkMQDrOCIoYElP84SzmjPhQwrQEeSvmBZ_IJ050-ixuNbmzEZyxQjVzDZLlbXy1ViAS0Xdx89AAFM)
How much would it cost to fork WordPress? (https://www.threads.net/@hazardalexander/post/DAjbKhtTiiS?xmt)
Charitable Contributions (https://ma.tt/2024/09/charitable-contributions/)
OpenAI
New funding to scale the benefits of AI (https://openai.com/index/scale-the-benefits-of-ai/)
OpenAI Is A Bad Business (https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/)
Relevant to your Interests
Announcing Upgraded Docker Plans (https://www.docker.com/blog/november-2024-updated-plans-announcement/)
OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Transition (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-25/openai-cto-mira-murati-says-she-will-leave-the-company)
Intel's Transformation 2.0 (https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/intels-transformation-20)
Intel begins reducing real estate holdings worldwide (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-begins-reducing-real-estate-holdings-worldwide-european-hq-up-for-sale-leaving-purpose-built-swindon-site-after-more-than-40-years)
Arm Is Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Buying Product Unit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-27/arm-rejected-by-intel-after-approaching-it-about-buying-product-unit?srnd=phx-deals&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Hurricane Helene May Have Given Intel (https://www.tipranks.com/news/hurricane-helene-may-have-given-intel-nasdaqintc-a-death-blow)
Pure Storage announces VM assessment service (https://www.itpro.com/cloud/cloud-storage/pure-storage-announces-vm-assessment-and-it-could-please-beleaguered-vmware-customers)
Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I (https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/)
Clouded Judgement 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-92724-the-foundation?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=149461824&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
The streaming wars are over. (https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-stock-historic-high-chart-streaming-2024-9)
Uber’s next act: taking on Amazon (https://www.ft.com/content/7b503c54-ee5b-4413-ad06-580cdab531e5?accessToken=zwAGIx5DTf8Akc97UDxU7ltEE9OtBlgM2rUx5Q.MEUCIQCpieab4UZjnSSY9bGhGLZwigzHqcUUtL5cx0LMP8_17AIgQZD3nUAX-gsir_cRYv9AK2SdTf_JSVYiV-ZAGL5f7-Y&sharetype=gift&token=556e605c-1bb8-4882-a66d-9ce783d5103a)
Trump Says He'll Prosecute Google If He Retakes Power (https://gizmodo.com/trump-says-hell-prosecute-google-if-he-retakes-power-2000504499)
Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung, too (https://www.theverge.com/policy/2024/9/30/24256395/epic-sues-google-samsung-antitrust-auto-blocker)
Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/30/windows_11_kb5043145/)
Observe Inc. Introduces AI-Powered Observability, Closes Series B Funding Of $145M (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/observe-inc-introduces-ai-powered-observability-closes-series-b-funding-of-145m-302259523.html)
How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry (https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/02/how-north-korea-infiltrated-the-crypto-industry/)
How to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the annual nerdy nephew of the year awards (https://a.wholelottanothing.org/how-to-share-your-access-to-media-with-family-and-simultaneously-sweep-the-annual-nerdy-nephew-of-the-year-awards/)
Nonsense
A guide to 30 of Australia's iconic Big Things (https://www.australiantraveller.com/australia/most-iconic-big-things-of-australia/)
Chick-fil-A to open in the UK (https://www.chick-fil-a.com/press-room/chick-fil-a-launching-in-the-uk)
Listener Feedback
Observability Architect (Remote, USA) (https://boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5336194004)
Conferences
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VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu), Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
GoTech World (https://www.gotech.world/), Coté speaking, Bucharest, Nov 12th and 13th.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
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Balatro on the App Store (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/balatro/id6502453075&ved=2ahUKEwiRjYOywfCIAxW74skDHTpRLeoQFnoECAoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1yGgqh4oVBzK4ocblojsY6)
Cloud News of the Month - September 2024 (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/10/cloud-news-of-month-september-2024.html)
Matt: Some Like it Hot (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
Coté:
Creaks (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/creaks/id1466040723)
Software Defined Interviews relaunch (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/83), with Whitney Lee.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-fast-food-restaurant-with-a-large-menu-iHljlctatOE)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/person-in-black-and-white-t-shirt-using-computer-Zk--Ydz2IAs)
10/4/2024 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 486: Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
This week, we discuss the intersection of DevOps and Platform Engineering, the latest WordPress drama, and some M&A tips for Intel. Plus, a few recommendations on using iPhone mirroring.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxrtrRWtvc) 486 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxrtrRWtvc)
Runner-up Titles
I’m out of nuts, time to podcast
System Settings
Security, it never ends
Fancy Sysadmins
Providing needles for your balloons
Batman’s not real
What’s the opposite of a taboo
DevOps is not the tooling
Software gets old
Release the turbo button
Rundown
Windows App (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/windows-app/id1295203466?mt=12)
PlatformDays vs. DevOpsDays
Has DevOps been "worth it" to you? (https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1f5srog/has_devops_been_worth_it_to_you/)
R (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/how-devops-can-come-back-from-the)enaming a few DevOpsDays (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/how-devops-can-come-back-from-the) t (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/how-devops-can-come-back-from-the)o PlatformDays (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/how-devops-can-come-back-from-the).
Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs (https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-eggs/)
Digital Transformation Gone Wrong
How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-09-23/how-sonos-botched-an-app-and-infuriated-its-customers)
FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/24/us_air_traffic_control_system_upgrade/)
Apple
Apple launches iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-launches-iphone-16-with-apple-intelligence-183724722.html)
Apple removes Control-click option for skipping Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia (https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/08/06/apple-removes-control-click-option-for-skipping-gatekeeper-in-macos-sequoia)
Intel
Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days (https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/qualcomm-approached-intel-about-a-takeover-in-recent-days-fa114f9d)
Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-launches-new-ai-chips-as-takeover-rumors-swirl-153749461.html)
Wordpress Drama
Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/22/matt-mullenweg-calls-wp-engine-a-cancer-to-wordpress-and-urges-community-to-switch-providers/)
Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP (https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/matt-mullenweg-wp-engine-debacle/)
WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking (https://ma.tt/2024/09/ecosystem-thinking/)
WP Engine responds (https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf)
Relevant to your Interests
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/ibm_job_cuts/)
Comment on #1262 Health of Linkerd project (https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1262#issuecomment-2357919000)
Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’ (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/starbucks-new-ceo-on-return-to-office-we-re-all-adults-here)
Yaak Is Now Open Source (https://yaak.app/blog/now-open-source)
OpenAI to Decide Which Backers to Let Into $6.5 Billion Funding (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/openai-to-decide-which-backers-to-let-into-6-5-billion-funding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/google-rolls-out-automatic-passkey-syncing-via-password-manager/)
A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/a-leader-in-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-container-management/)
Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea. (https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/competition-companies-employees-9099a425)
Microsoft has announced new efforts to improve its cybersecurity systems (https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-announced-new-efforts-to-improve-its-cybersecurity-systems/)
Oracle Sees $104 Billion Sales in Fiscal 2029 on Cloud Expansion (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-12/oracle-sees-104-billion-sales-in-fiscal-2029-on-cloud-expansion)
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds (https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/10/oracle-runs-oci-clones-at-rival-aws-google-and-azure-clouds/)
Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership (https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ocw24-oracle-and-amazon-web-services-announce-strategic-partnership-2024-09-09/)
John Mulaney got paid $2M to show up to Dreamforce and say this (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04EK1VBK/p1727125631774399)
The Cloud is Darker and More Full of Terrors (https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/sect2024/?ck_subscriber_id=1141233388)
Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-deletes-itself-installs-ultraav-antivirus-without-warning/)
IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/24/ibm_layoffs_ai_talent/)
More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/17/more-americans-regularly-get-news-on-tiktok-especially-young-adults/)
Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/25/meta-augmented-reality-glasses/)
Google Rehired Noam Shazeer With Major Payout, (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/google-rehired-noam-shazeer-major-141808501.html)
Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/24/congress-grills-crowdstrike-about-multibillion-dollar-july-outage/)
Wiz In Talks to Sell Shares at Valuation as High as $20 Billion (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-24/cyber-firm-wiz-in-talks-to-sell-shares-at-20-billion-valuation)
Google files Brussels complaint against Microsoft cloud business (https://archive.ph/VtRiP)
Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24253023/mkbhd-panels-wallpaper-app-response-criticism)
Progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/09/23/securing-our-future-september-2024-progress-update-on-microsofts-secure-future-initiative-sfi/?ref=runtime.news)
OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/openai-rolls-out-advanced-voice-mode-with-more-voices-and-a-new-look/)
Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-launches-new-ai-chips-as-takeover-rumors-swirl-153749461.html)
Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report (https://therecord.media/major-us-companies-unwittingly-hire-north-korean-remote-it-workers)
Nonsense
Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/grocery-store-owners-map-kroger-albertsons-merger/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3f166c7%2F66f2df1965e56477aea35218%2F5ed96de79bbc0f3a78a62db3%2F8%2F54%2F66f2df1965e56477aea35218)
Conferences
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VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu), Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/events/devopsday-la) at SCALE22x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x), March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
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Recommendations
Brandon: Use Magnifier on your iPhone or iPad (https://support.apple.com/en-us/105102)
Matt: Ghosts (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8594324/)
Coté: The Modern Myths (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo52584433.html).
Photo Credits
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9/27/2024 • 55 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 485: It's an Ending, That's Enough
This week, we discuss IBM acquiring Kubecost, AWS moving OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation, and Amazon employees heading back to the office. Plus, some thoughts on what it means to be in "employee mode."
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWj5n7LWCdk) 485 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWj5n7LWCdk)
Runner-up Titles
That’s a good looking setup there
Feels like sweatpants
London’s busy, Amsterdam's laid back
AIFinOps
Mission Bankruptcy
The settings page is more than 1 page
Don’t get turned into hamburger, that’s the goal
Feature checkbox acquisition.
Employee Mode
Using people as a whiteboard.
Work on smarter things, not dumber things.
Rundown
Announcing Kubecost’s Acquisition by IBM! (https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/ibm-acquisition-announcement/)
AWS hands OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3520875/aws-hands-opensearch-to-the-linux-foundation.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=content&utm_campaign=organic&utm_source=twitter)
Update from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on return-to-office plans and manager team ratio (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassy-latest-update-on-amazon-return-to-office-manager-team-ratio)
JPMorgan creates new role overseeing junior bankers as Wall Street wrestles with workload concerns (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/18/jpmorgan-investment-bank-creates-new-role-overseeing-junior-bankers.html)
Relevant to your Interests
OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Value to $150 Billion (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/openai-fundraising-set-to-vault-startup-s-value-to-150-billion)
Lyft CEO keeps it real on his stock price compared to Uber (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lyft-ceo-keeps-it-real-on-his-stock-price-compared-to-uber-230146967.html)
We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI (https://labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-20-to-achieve-rce-and-accidentally-became-the-admins-of-mobi/)
How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector (https://www.ft.com/content/1e9e7544-974c-4662-a901-d30c4ab56eb7)
Wall Street Curbs Young Bankers’ Hours After Overwork Outcry (https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/bank-america-jpmorgan-overtime-work-hours-f9f204a7)
Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee (https://unity.com/blog/unity-is-canceling-the-runtime-fee)
Intel Awarded up to $3B by the Biden-Harris Administration (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/2024-intel-news.html)
Free 'JavaScript' from Legal Clutches of Oracle, Devs Petition (https://thenewstack.io/free-javascript-from-legal-clutches-of-oracle-devs-petition/)
Instagram makes teen accounts private by default (https://www.platformer.news/instagram-teen-accounts-private-default-daily-limit/?ref=platformer-newsletter)
Cisco's second layoff of 2024 affects thousands of employees (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/ciscos-second-layoff-of-2024-affect-thousands-of-employees/)
Call For Proposals (CFP) | LF Events (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/cfp/)
Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/londoners-will-soon-see-drones-ferrying-blood-between-hospitals/)
Nonsense
Polishing Cloth (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MW693AM/A/polishing-cloth)
United Airlines is adding free Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/13/24243594/united-airlines-free-starlink-wi-fi-connectivity)
Founder mode, baby #tech #founder #foundermode (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFFRvSv1/)
Chipotle’s New Guac Robots Can Peel Your Avocados in 26 Seconds (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-16/chipotle-cmg-robots-for-guac-and-bowls-are-ready-for-brisket-season)
LinkedIn Roaster - Brutal honesty for your profile (https://liroast.web.app/)
SpaceX Starlink has 2,500 airplanes under contract after United megadeal, director says (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/17/spacexs-starlink-has-2500-aircraft-under-contract.html)
Passport renewals go digital to ease wait times for American travelers (https://www.axios.com/2024/09/18/online-passport-renewal-us-travelers?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
Conferences
Cloud Foundry Day EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-europe/), Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu), Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/events/devopsday-la) at SCALE22x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x), March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
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Recommendations
Brandon: iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPhone from your Mac (https://support.apple.com/en-us/120421)
Matt: NSW Electoral Commission (https://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/LG2401)
Coté: Code to Production: From Cloud to DevOps to Platform Engineering, with Purnima Padmanabhan (https://www.tanzutalk.com/e/purnima-career/)
Photo Credits
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9/20/2024 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 14 seconds
Episode 484: A Lot of USB Ports
This week, we discuss Dell's growth in AI servers, GEICO’s transition from VMware to OpenStack, and the concept of Kingmaking. Plus, plenty of thoughts on USB hubs.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Y7WI3BU0c) 484 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Y7WI3BU0c)
Runner-up Titles
You just put it in a different USB port
I am just going to repeat thing you say
A Decade of Aftershow
Happy Anniversary
Whatever :43 it is for you
Cascading hubs not supported anywhere.
Mac Dongle Pro
Getting DevOps to work on Intel
Enterprise Gaming PCs.
Brian Cantrell as Elon Musk
Computers are awesome
Matt and JJ can always go to GIECO.
I’ll take the more.
Really good surfers
Rundown
Dell
Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be (https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/30/dells-ai-server-business-now-bigger-than-vmware-used-to-be/)
There's a lot of private cloud out there (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/theres-a-lot-of-private-cloud-out)
OpenStack
US insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack (https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/geico_vmware_openstack_migration/)
VMware Migration to OpenStack (https://www.openstack.org/vmware-migration-to-openstack)
King Making (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-9624-king-making?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=148500331&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Relevant to your Interests
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Surprised by Skeptics (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-09-02/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-surprised-by-skeptics)
Nvidia Has Held Discussions About Joining OpenAI’s Funding Round (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-29/nvidia-has-held-discussions-about-joining-openai-s-funding-round)
Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise plan to compete with OpenAI (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/04/anthropic-launches-claude-enterprise-plan-to-compete-with-openai/)
What's Behind Elastic's Unexpected Return to Open Source? (https://thenewstack.io/whats-behind-elastics-unexpected-return-to-open-source/)
The startup teaching your computer how to smell (https://thehustle.co/news/the-startup-teaching-your-computer-how-to-smell)
Automatically summarize Word documents with Copilot (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-insider-blog/automatically-summarize-word-documents-with-copilot/ba-p/4231202)
Intel's Lunar Lake Looks Like a Home Run (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intels-lunar-lake-looks-home-112000963.html)
AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/att-sues-broadcom-for-refusing-to-renew-perpetual-license-support/)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux/ai)
The Self-Destruction of Open Source Software (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-self-destruction-of-open-source)
Confluent acquires streaming data startup WarpStream (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/confluent-acquires-streaming-data-startup-warpstream/)
There are almost no IPOs. (https://x.com/chrisfralic/status/1833651875046105302?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/05/amazon_q_developer_gartner/)
Charles Schwab Adopts PostgreSQL (With VMware Tanzu) (https://thenewstack.io/charles-schwab-adopts-postgresql-with-vmware-tanzu/)
Sponsor
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Nonsense
Delta, Other Airline Loyalty Programs Are Being Probed by US (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-05/delta-dal-american-aal-airline-loyalty-programs-under-investigation)
The 35-Year-Old CEO Plotting Red Lobster’s Comeback (https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/the-35-year-old-ceo-plotting-red-lobsters-comeback-3c79d1a3)
New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol outlines priorities to end coffee chain's slump (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/10/new-starbucks-ceo-brian-niccol-outlines-plans-for-business.html)
Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists (https://www.404media.co/historic-newspaper-uses-janky-ai-newscasters-instead-of-human-journalists/)
Conferences
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
Cloud Foundry Day EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-europe/), Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu), Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Rebel Ridge (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.netflix.com/title/81157729&ved=2ahUKEwjCjfjMoLmIAxUuMdAFHW1AGn0QFnoECEMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2-SZ5c5q-XeQL3kiJU9brc)
Cloud News of the Month - August 2024 (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/09/cloud-news-of-month-august-2024.html)
Matt: Interstellar (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/)
Coté: Reino Slippers (https://finlaysonshop.com/products/reino-slippers).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/people-surfing-on-waves-5__FobjBei8)
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9/13/2024 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Episode 483: [AGPL does not close deals for you]
This week, we discuss Intel's challenges, Elastic's adopting the AGPL, and getting AI to introduce itself. Plus, some thoughts on a gesticulating flâneur using a speakerphone in public.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 483 (https://www.youtube.com/live/iOnzx3rL_hE?si=1Z53JKvpHYRmTji7)
Runner-up Titles
Why are you in an attic
Flâneur
Gesticulating
That’s not
I’m over the big pile of nachos
What’s your corporate strategy here?
They carry the flame
Keeper of the Flame
Cote’ likes weather
Brakenthetical
Rundown
Intel
Intel Said to Explore Options to Cope With Historic Slump (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-30/intel-is-said-to-explore-options-to-cope-with-historic-slump)
Intel debuts second-gen Core Ultra mobile chips in bid to fend off Qualcomm, AMD (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-debuts-second-gen-core-ultra-mobile-chips-in-bid-to-fend-off-qualcomm-amd-160038473.html)
'Time is running out' for Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger: Analyst (https://finance.yahoo.com/video/time-running-intel-ceo-patrick-205943896.html)
Report: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to reveal new plan to cut costs and sell off business units (https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/01/report-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-reveal-new-plan-cut-costs-sell-off-business-units/)
“Broadcom and Intel?” (https://stratechery.com/2024/broadcom-and-intel-nvidia-earnings-doj-investigating-nvidia/)
Qualcomm’s new eight-core Snapdragon X Plus makes these Windows laptops cheaper (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235065/qualcomm-8-core-snapdragon-x-plus-windows-laptops)
Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors at AheadComputing (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/senior-intel-cpu-architects-splinter-to-develop-risc-v-processors-veterans-establish-aheadcomputing)
OSS Licensing
Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again (https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again)
Why Elastic (ESTC) Shares Are Trading Lower Today (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-elastic-estc-shares-trading-154216841.html)
The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/)
Post-Open Source (https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html) (circa 2020)
Relevant to your Interests
Data infrastructure startup Cribl raises $319M at a $3.5B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/27/data-infrastructure-startup-cribl-raises-319m-at-a-3-5b-valuation/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Cribl Closes $319M Series E Round at a $3.5B Valuation to Revolutionize Enterprise Data Management (https://cribl.io/blog/announcing-our-series-e/)
Broadcom Launches Rally Anywhere (https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-launches-rally-anywhere-premises-version-its-leading)
Courts close the loophole letting the feds search your phone at the border (https://reason.com/2024/07/26/courts-close-the-loophole-letting-the-feds-search-your-phone-at-the-border/)
GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/29/github-copilot-competitor-codeium-raises-150m-at-a-1-25b-valuation/)
Amazon's Remarkable Alexa will reportedly run on Claude AI and cost $5-10 per month (https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazons-remarkable-alexa-will-reportedly-run-on-claude-ai-and-cost-5-10-per-month-122532161.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANR-tMgHgoAVIPpbIFukogu1d3pwdPd_GUdl0sjGCYNHFhfKgwOjeuFmr1t3Hgf6Lr2icFYYS13rAx4TimFx4Tpzmn1N0MKYtCSGd_LSydKC-avA5igy4bwhj4meKgXe04Bcbxke9b36h40_4yeupf2uivsAlg9_J8KFvqgAy-SV)
Artifacts are now generally available (https://www.anthropic.com/news/artifacts?ueid=3d6a2c800561880c901963d51e644d95&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2024-08-31%20Installer%2050&utm_term=Installer)
Founder Mode (https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html)
Research Papers into Podcasts (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTF1Jj9dH/) via Google Illuminate (https://illuminate.google.com/home?pli=1)
Andreessen Horowitz Ditches Miami Two Years After Opening Office (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-04/andreessen-horowitz-ditches-miami-two-years-after-opening-office)
Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces (https://apnews.com/article/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-privacy-fine-netherlands-a1ac33c15d561d37a923b6c382f48ab4)
China leads in up to 89% of tech research, study shows (https://www.techradar.com/pro/china-leads-in-up-to-89-of-tech-research-study-shows)
This 451 Research highlights Kloudfuse (https://www.kloudfuse.com/analystreports/451researchkloudfusecoverage)
Nonsense
Beaches are for people who enjoy the bureaucracy of going to the beach (https://interconnected.org/home/2024/08/29/beaches).
Costco membership fee increase starts Sept. 1 for new members and renewals (https://www.axios.com/2024/08/31/costco-membership-cost-increase-2024-renewal-price).
The penny. (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-cc0b0182-805c-4be3-8d7c-cd9da8aa9779.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Sponsor
Nasuni: Head to nasuni.com/software (https://bit.ly/3MvMDoY) and see how it can revolutionize your data infrastructure today!
Listener Feedback
Amazon.com: Fulext Sleep Headphones Bluetooth Headband (https://www.amazon.com/Headphones-Bluetooth-Fulext-Cancelling-Meditating/dp/B0BBL1GMHC/ref=asc_df_B0BBL1GMHC/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693275908971&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17257257273966662560&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028305&hvtargid=pla-1928720591899&psc=1&mcid=470edb27a8173df5bccd8f05cc58a325)
Shokz Bone Conduction Headphone (https://shokz.com/)
Conferences
Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin (https://www.civo.com/navigate/europe), Sept 10-11, 2024.
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
Cloud Foundry Day EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-europe/), Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu), Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Slow Horses (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwigrYDZxamIAxUnh8IIHePYKxIYABAAGgJqZg&ae=2&co=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiuC2BhDSARIsALOVfBJ1WsnYOESOZRg8Ap8iUw1C9wYhRV1nBMLjjALo3grF-ZePh8aZ_NoaAhiFEALw_wcB&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESVeD2D814G1UIoqvw-1HqoEsvv6MaYwDg2-N74hrOR-bCYEOGPDzVcSkVVs58ogPWXwlW9yc3L9DdHBTGpVY_pgFBJ_G_VPyjTfyMmS-sFlNeY8UcCB0&sig=AOD64_3l1gukzjldLrXEWw5KGhEWtlUzVA&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwiapvjYxamIAxXwGtAFHdi7IsAQ0Qx6BAgIEAE) Season 4 (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwigrYDZxamIAxUnh8IIHePYKxIYABAAGgJqZg&ae=2&co=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiuC2BhDSARIsALOVfBJ1WsnYOESOZRg8Ap8iUw1C9wYhRV1nBMLjjALo3grF-ZePh8aZ_NoaAhiFEALw_wcB&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESVeD2D814G1UIoqvw-1HqoEsvv6MaYwDg2-N74hrOR-bCYEOGPDzVcSkVVs58ogPWXwlW9yc3L9DdHBTGpVY_pgFBJ_G_VPyjTfyMmS-sFlNeY8UcCB0&sig=AOD64_3l1gukzjldLrXEWw5KGhEWtlUzVA&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwiapvjYxamIAxXwGtAFHdi7IsAQ0Qx6BAgIEAE)
Matt: open source Synergy (https://github.com/symless/synergy/)
Coté:
denim pearl snap shirt at C&A (https://www.c-and-a.com/be/nl/shop/spijkerblouse-regular-fit-kent-2222891/1)
Little Shop of Hoarders (https://www.facebook.com/littleshopofhoardersantwerpen/) in Antwerp.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-and-black-concrete-building-ypcEalNjg0Y)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/photography-of-person-walking-on-sideway-looking-at-leftside-with-buildings-olpYWcO2kHw)
9/6/2024 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 482: Tip Jar Economy
This week, we discuss our AI usage, recap key announcements from VMware Explore, and examine RedMonk's analysis of how open-source licensing impacts revenue and market cap. Plus, some thoughts on power bricks.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/eb85zwGi-I8?si=obl5uvVehHdNZYQ8) 482 (https://www.youtube.com/live/eb85zwGi-I8?si=obl5uvVehHdNZYQ8)
Runner-up Titles
Information wants to be free, yo
Stay In The Bushes
Tip Jar Culture
Tell Me About Meatloaf
I want you in here with me
Platforms For Building Platforms
Private SaaS
Mom and Dad having a fun conversation on a road trip
I have my special chargers
I want it back
Rundown
Sign up for Coté’s Newsletter (https://newsletter.cote.io)
IDC's Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending (https://blogs.idc.com/2024/08/21/idcs-worldwide-ai-and-generative-ai-spending-industry-outlook/)
Private Cloud at VMware Explore - Notebook (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/private-cloud-at-vmware-explore-notebook)
Cursor.com (https://newsletter.cote.io)
OSS
Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2024/08/26/software-licensing-changes-and-their-impact-on-financial-outcomes/)
Coté’s proposal for how to fix it (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1724827874689099).
Another Thread from Adam Jacob on OSS (https://x.com/adamhjk/status/1828150343332700223)
Zoom Docs Is Here. Is It Any Good? (https://gizmodo.com/zoom-docs-vs-google-docs-2000490313)
Relevant to your Interests
Apple’s App Store Head to Leave in Reorganization Amid Global Scrutiny (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-21/apple-s-app-store-head-to-leave-in-reorganization-amid-global-scrutiny)
Snowflake Outlook Fails to Ease Investor Fears of Competition (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-21/snowflake-outlook-fails-to-ease-investor-fears-of-competition)
Microsoft revamps reporting structure to give better visibility into cloud consumption revenue (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/21/microsoft-changes-reporting-to-boost-cloud-consumption-visibility.html)
More than 28% of Americans are searching for new jobs — the highest rate in a decade (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/28-americans-are-now-searching-new-job-highest-rate-decade-rcna167368)
Microsoft is reportedly making more branding changes for Copilot business services (https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-reportedly-making-more-branding-changes-for-copilot-business-services/)
SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in helpdesk product (https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/22/hardcoded_credentials_bug_solarwinds_whd/)
Intel has hired Morgan Stanley, other advisers for activist defense (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/intel-intc-activist-defense-sources.html)
The Future of the Trade Show Industry – Are We In Danger of Losing Our Soul? (https://tsnn.com/experts-opinions/future-trade-show-industry-%E2%80%93-are-we-danger-losing-our-soul)
The massive Social Security number breach is actually a good thing (https://www.vox.com/technology/367986/freeze-credit-equifax-experian-transunion-ssn-breach)
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/08/continuous-reinvention-a-brief-history-of-block-storage-at-aws.html)
Grafana Labs raises $270M (https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/21/grafana-labs-is-now-valued-at-6b/)
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, (https://www.nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa-foia/declassification-transparency-initiatives/historical-releases/view/article/3880193/capt-grace-hopper-on-future-possibilities-data-hardware-software-and-people-1982/)
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack (https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/22/rackspace-goes-all-in-again-on-openstack/)
Sonos App Debacle Leaves Company Racing to Save Its Reputation (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-22/sonos-app-issues-leave-company-racing-to-save-its-reputation)
Nonsense
Chick-fil-A Opens First Elevated Drive-Thru Concept (https://www.chick-fil-a.com/press-room/chick-fil-a-opens-first-elevated-drive-thru-concept)
How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/dining/costco.html)
NASA Picks SpaceX to Rescue Astronauts Marooned in Space (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-24/spacex-selected-by-nasa-to-rescue-astronauts-marooned-in-space)
The startup teaching your computer how to smell (https://thehustle.co/news/the-startup-teaching-your-computer-how-to-smell)
Conferences
DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), Coté Speaking, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary.
Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin (https://www.civo.com/navigate/europe), Sept 10-11, 2024.
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
Cloud Foundry Day EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-europe/), Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
SREday Amsterdam (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/), Nov 21st, 2024. Coté speaking (https://sreday.com/2024-amsterdam/Michael_Cote_VMwarePivotal_We_Fear_Change), 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Ozlo Sleepbuds (https://ozlosleep.com/).
Coté: Ori (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiqb8q02ZSw)ginal Cloud Foundry launch videos, April, 2011 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiqb8q02ZSw).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/shallow-focus-photography-of-white-travel-adapter-ZUabNmumOcA)
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8/30/2024 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 481: There Never Was a Rug
This week, we discuss CockroachDB's relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1iHd2XPB48) 481 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1iHd2XPB48)
Runner-up Titles
Put in your AirPods
People’s lives are boring
More than zero
Know your risks
Violating the social contract
Keeping my “Rug Pull” card
Love of the code
I call it a waiting room
Rundown
Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay (https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/15/cockroach-labs-shakes-up-its-licensing-to-force-bigger-companies-to-pay/)
Justin Warren’s newsletter this week (https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/).
Oxide: Whither CockroachDB? (RFD) (https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0508) and Whither CockroachDB? (Podcast) (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/2052742)
Remote Work
Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-eric-schmidt-ai-remote-work-stanford-f92f4ca5?st=wq34bupg4eqific&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
New Starbuck’s CEO gets remote office (https://www.threads.net/@matthewsamuelphillips/post/C-scpeqRuVb/?xmt=AQGzZAiR7spKgmL8b-wyyZDacAbjVSQJcg4-qsOzEivroA)
Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management? (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/platform-engineering-problems-can?r=2d4o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
Relevant to your Interests
Exclusive: Sonos considers relaunching its old app (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220421/sonos-s2-app-relaunch)
Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220357/sonos-layoffs-august-2024-app)
Palo Alto Networks apologizes as sexist marketing misfires (https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/14/palo_alto_networks_execs_apologize/)
NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards (https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-first-3-finalized-post-quantum-encryption-standards?_bhlid=1ff5eef8914205413c93c758a30c7afce5305655)
Threads is testing a slew of new features like scheduling and analytics (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/15/24220224/meta-threads-features-scheduling-insights-drafts)
Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/google-and-meta-ignored-their-own-rules-in-secret-teen-targeting-ad-deals/)
FTC finalizes rule to prohibit sale or purchase of fake reviews (https://www.retaildive.com/news/ftc-prohibit-sale-purchase-fake-reviews/724333/)
Goodfire raises $7M for its ‘brain surgery’-like AI observability platform (https://venturebeat.com/ai/goodfire-raises-7m-for-its-brain-surgery-like-ai-observability-platform/)
Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11 (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221635/microsoft-fat32-partition-size-limit-windows-11)
The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars 'talk' to each other (https://www.engadget.com/transportation/the-us-lays-out-a-road-safety-plan-that-will-see-cars-talk-to-each-other-170043265.html)
Jeff Bezos’ famed leadership rules are being tested inside Amazon (https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/amazon-leadership-principles-changes-jeff-bezos/)
Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g)
Swiss Startup Connects 16 Human Mini-Brains to Create Low Energy 'Biocomputer' (https://www.sciencealert.com/swiss-startup-connects-16-human-mini-brains-to-create-low-energy-biocomputer)
AMD to acquire server builder ZT Systems for $4.9 billion in cash and stock (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/19/amd-to-acquire-server-builder-zt-systems.html)
The unique promise of 'biological computers' made from living things (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834422-100-the-unique-promise-of-biological-computers-made-from-living-things/)
Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity 'technocapitalist' school (https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/19/former-a16z-vc-balaji-srinivasan-obtained-a-private-island-for-his-new-longevity-technocapitalist-school/)
Inside the Snowflake-Databricks Rivalry, and Why Both Fear Microsoft (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-14/inside-the-snowflake-databricks-rivalry-and-why-both-fear-microsoft)
Assessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months On (https://thecuberesearch.com/243-breaking-analysis-assessing-broadcom-vmware-eight-months-on/)
Morpheus Data Origin Story (https://morpheusdata.com/about/)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire Morpheus Data (https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2024/08/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-morpheus-data.html)
Nonsense
Waymos honking (https://x.com/ajtourville/status/1823509421357719763?s=09)
Saudi man earns world record for 444 game consoles hooked to one TV (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/08/how-to-hook-a-record-setting-444-game-consoles-to-a-single-tv/)
Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), Aug 26-29, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin (https://www.civo.com/navigate/europe), Sept 10-11, 2024
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
Cloud Foundry Day EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day-europe/), Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW
SDT News & Community
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Recommendations
Brandon: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/furiosa_a_mad_max_saga).
Coté: Long walks with VLC (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-man-standing-in-front-of-a-tv-holding-a-cell-phone-jfEXaUYUjp8)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/pair-of-white-shoes-hX3SLYPe3f0)
8/23/2024 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 480: No offsite content
This week, we revisit our 2021 Intel CEO predictions, discuss Hyperscaler AI investment concerns and debate LinkedIn content. Plus, which products could thrive if Google were broken up?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6rXxIXc1Us) 480 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6rXxIXc1Us)
Runner-up Titles
New camera, dog is still here
Teenagers can put away some meat
We operated at a loss last year because of BBQ
Dog ate your Internet
Getting out of a Zoom
Under the couch data center
Excuse me can I plug in my Satellite Dish
A lot of 86-stuff
You shouldn’t be AI-ing that much
Out of tokens, again
Never bet against inertia
Home of Markdown
One cord, all power.
Rundown
Looking back at Intel Predicatons
SDT Episode 281 (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/281)
Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio (https://changelog.com/practicalai/281)
How chip giant Intel spurned OpenAI and fell behind the times (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chip-giant-intel-spurned-openai-110138000.html)
Is AI too expensive for HyperScalers?
Microsoft’s AI Dreams Make for an Expensive Reality (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-ai-dreams-make-for-an-expensive-reality-90a8c8e4)
Amazon's cloud unit reports 19% revenue growth, topping estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/01/aws-q2-earnings-report.html)
Big Tech Fails to Convince Wall Street That AI Is Paying Off (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-02/big-tech-fails-to-convince-wall-street-that-ai-is-paying-off?srnd=phx-technology)
Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyx5x44vnyeo?_bhlid=027b7775b0cab914048391ea5d8c6254d1468ee1)
Are all LinkedIn posts just a form of virtue signaling?
There’s One Thing You Really Don’t Need to Do After Getting Laid Off (https://slate.com/technology/2024/07/laid-off-jobs-announcement-grateful-twitter-linkedin.html)
Lighting round
US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-13/doj-considers-seeking-google-goog-breakup-after-major-antitrust-win?srnd=homepage-americas)
H-E-B is finally testing Apple Pay, (https://www.threads.net/@dsilverman/post/C-fVfKQJFyr/?xmt=AQGzlkdYqDg5ncWBmOvviB_QPKGOhv4CndLpOQtMpNlYLg)
Relevant to your Interests
Why CSV is still king (https://konbert.com/blog/why-csv-is-still-king?utm_source=changelog-news)
Missing Semester IAP 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzOVJj3bHQuloKGG59rS43e29ro7I57J)
iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/6/24214338/apple-ios-18-thanos-snap-animation-hide-ads)
Sonos reportedly delaying two upcoming product releases to fix its misbehaving app (https://www.phonearena.com/news/sonos-reportedly-delaying-two-upcoming-product-releases-to-fix-its-misbehaving-app_id161241)
Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-08/mac-mini-m4-apple-plans-to-release-smallest-desktop-computer-yet)
Background check company breached, nearly 3 billion exposed in data theft (https://mashable.com/article/background-check-company-breached-3-billion-affected)
Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell (https://apple.news/Awy0Ps7UvQSGZ8ASo2bhTtA)
The Wizard of Cyber: what is behind Wiz's success (https://ventureinsecurity.net/p/the-wizard-of-cyber-what-is-behind)
Brands should avoid this popular term. It’s turning off customers (https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/10/business/brands-avoid-term-customers/index.html)
Datadog, MongoDB, Snowflake in spotlight as cloud consumption rose in July: BofA (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4138587-datadog-mongodb-snowflake-in-spotlight-cloud-consumption-rose-in-july-bofa)
The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes)
Google takes another startup out of the AI race (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24212348/google-hires-character-ai-noam-shazeer)
How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/1/24190060/amazon-adept-ai-acquisition-playbook-microsoft-inflection)
Delta CEO offers employees free flights after CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/delta-ceo-offers-employees-free-flights-after-crowdstrike-microsoft-chaos.html)
Microsoft says Delta ignored Satya Nadella’s offer of CrowdStrike help (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/6/24214371/microsoft-delta-letter-crowdstrike-response-comments)
External Technical Root Cause Analysis (https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf)
Nonsense
not sure why barking at it didn't help tbh. 12/10 for both #weratedogs (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNgm76JG/)
Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/13/starbucks-replaces-ceo-laxman-narasimhan-with-chipotle-ceo-brian-niccol.html)
Listener Feedback
How South of the Border Keeps Going After All These Years (https://www.theassemblync.com/place/south-of-the-border/)
Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell (https://apple.news/Awy0Ps7UvQSGZ8ASo2bhTtA)
XBox (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/ultimate) (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/ultimate)G (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/ultimate)ame (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/ultimate) P (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/ultimate)ass (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/ultimate) U (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/ultimate)ltimate (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/ultimate)
Conferences
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Brandon: Google Colab (https://colab.google)
Matt: macOS Universal Control (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102459)
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8/16/2024 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 479: Packing Cube Victory
This week, we discuss what people buy for Kubernetes, the latest cloud earnings, enterprise product management, and health records coming to apps. Plus, why I-95 is the most important U.S. interstate.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 479 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81zRf3erSA)
Runner-up Titles
Eat some sausages
I can’t eat good cheese
Certified Thought Leader
Rundown
What people buy for Kubernetes (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/what-people-buy-for-kubernetes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=147369016&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Exploring the State of Cloud Native App Platforms and VMware Tanzu (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7217250057580892160/comments/)
Clouded Judgement 8.2.24 - Uncertainty Everywhere (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-8224-uncertainty?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=147253899&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Your health records are coming to new apps. Here's why (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/01/epic-systems-will-support-the-governments-tefca-program-for-health-records.html)
Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) (https://www.healthit.gov/topic/interoperability/policy/trusted-exchange-framework-and-common-agreement-tefca)
Coté’s recent talk about AI in healthcare with JT Perry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT_cugqsocw&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=3&t=1090s)
Now is the time for innovation in healthcare, with JT Perry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpac46N_5qM)
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon countersues Nokia for a dozen patent infringements (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/31/amazon_nokia_lawsuit/)
SentinelOne CEO On CrowdStrike Outage: ‘Not Just An Honest Mistake’ (https://www.crn.com/news/security/2024/sentinelone-ceo-on-crowdstrike-outage-not-just-an-honest-mistake)
Apple snubs Nvidia for AI training kit, chooses Google (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/30/apple_google_tpu_ai/)
Kyndryl records first quarterly profit as consulting strengthens (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kyndryl-records-first-quarterly-profit-202129641.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACs7hKgDdiXyr6SYV-5mMFZhYoPhsBGnJ2G-rZ-3FqosfGrA0uIFTN_oGYmhXDT_Fgf7Moo0JuigtmBl-7JknEOxFWZy_wPA3bHStvcu-g4kLCl3UMOdcKSGhJZQcxDkcUaDf0I5GcFiF0FhFUHgRVQ-Ehp-TCFbjC0nrv9rFWoG)
Intel to Cut Jobs, Suspend Dividend in Cost-Saving Push (https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-intc-q2-earnings-report-2024-6ec4ea69?st=w57g9zyvnqdg4b7)
Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years (https://www.techspot.com/news/102871-zero-regrets-firefox-power-user-kept-7500-tabs.html)
Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/3/24212518/nvidia-ai-chip-delay-blackwell-b200-microsoft-amazon-google-openai-meta-artificial-intelligence)
Apple’s pause of its RTP campus may reflect bigger changes at work (https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article290152224.html)
Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2I6V52K2&ct=240726&st=sb)
AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia (https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/05/ai-chip-startup-groq-lands-640m-to-challenge-nvidia/)
AWS breaking changes and price increases (https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes/?ref=thestack.technology)
Killed by AWS tracker (https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes/?ref=thestack.technology)
Nonsense
Please Like Me (https://www.theonion.com/please-like-me-1848674003)
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DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin (https://www.civo.com/navigate/europe), Sept 10-11, 2024
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Cloud News of the Month - July 2024 (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/08/cloud-news-of-month-july-2024.html)
Microsoft Volume II | Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft-volume-ii) – Azure History starts at 3:35 mark
Coté: cheese slicers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_knife) and photos from Finland: 001 (https://www.instagram.com/p/C-QaWIftTsY/) and 002 (https://www.instagram.com/p/C-TCEQLtmZn/).
8/9/2024 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 478: Beware of the Llama
This week, we discuss Meta making Llama "open source," Microsoft (over)investing in AI, and AWS doing some spring cleaning. Plus, a lightning round and lamenting the end of Southwest Airlines' open seating.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 478 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaiUufwNdU4)
Runner-up Titles
Meat in pastry
Llama in sheep’s clothing
Cookies again
Joining the ranks of the rank
I don’t like it, but I like the things he said
Rug pull source
Where is the source for legless VR?
Be quiet and do your job
They’re all ruthless
Rundown
Southwest Airlines is getting rid of open seating (https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/investing/southwest-airlines-assigned-seats/index.html)
Meta
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/)
Try Llama (https://www.meta.ai/?utm_source=llama_meta_site&utm_medium=web&utm_content=Llama_nav&utm_campaign=July_moment)
Meta Sales Surpass Estimates on Advertising Growth; Shares Jump (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-31/meta-reports-better-than-expected-quarterly-advertising-sales)
MSFT
Microsoft stock drops over 6% after results fall short in latest AI disappointment (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-stock-drops-over-6-after-results-fall-short-in-latest-ai-disappointment-201321390.html)
Azure outage (https://x.com/AzureSupport/status/1818294946270461983)
Microsoft's costs in focus as fears rise over slow payoff from AI (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsofts-costs-focus-fears-rise-103203838.html)
AWS Spring Cleaning
The end of the Everything Cloud (https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-end-of-the-everything-cloud?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
Codecommit - cannot create a repository (https://repost.aws/questions/QUshILm0xbTjWJZSD8afYVgA/codecommit-cannot-create-a-repository)
AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO (https://www.thestack.technology/aws-deprecations-services-codecommit/?ref=the-stack-newsletter)
CrowdStrike Follow Up
Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206719/microsoft-windows-changes-crowdstrike-kernel-driver)
Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/delta-hires-david-boies-to-seek-damages-from-crowdstrike-microsoft-.html)
4,000 flights canceled. Had to manually reset 40,000 servers (https://www.threads.net/@firstadopter/post/C-FrAyHuYZP)
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us (https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us)
Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard (https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/crowdstrike-bug-hit-banks-hard/)
Lighting Round
Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205449/apple-maps-web-beta)
100 million using WhatsApp across the United States (https://blog.whatsapp.com/100-million-using-whatsapp-across-the-united-states)
Sonos apologized for messing up its app and has offered a roadmap for fixing everything (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/sonos-apologized-for-messing-up-its-app-and-has-offered-a-roadmap-for-fixing-everything-191528422.html)
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205701/openai-searchgpt-ai-search-engine-google-perplexity-rival)
Relevant to your Interests
The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations)
Here's why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/25/david-sacks-paul-graham-silicon-valley-names-brawl-on-x-over-vc-behavior/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIUZwXuCjayx29QLzGycNVIZ4GinuSkEJ0LhF-rJF375790uTpToPI1T1owK8c3om9O_eKPpLLzqlHHAkj5tTa3hbJdlPOnOTHuniZ3KctVZwq_s_69Xk6h4OPtGZulAKZD9XVzK8bRj6OwTlk4zYxuyzWWeNwUZkbU18RfbJxJx)
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/)
Report: Apple beginning serious work on a foldable iPhone (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/report-apple-begins-serious-work-on-a-foldable-iphone)
Who will control the future of AI? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/25/sam-altman-ai-democracy-authoritarianism-future/)
Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/22/google-cancels-plans-to-kill-off-cookies-for-advertisers.html)
Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/360952/summer-travel-airport-facial-recognition-scan)
Announcing Chainguard's Series C (https://x.com/chainguard_dev/status/1816455710080704807?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
ChatGPT highly anticipated Voice Mode to launch next week — here’s how to get it (https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt-highly-anticipated-voice-mode-to-launch-next-week-heres-how-to-get-it)
CrowdStrike’s CEO Has Known Failure—but Never Like This (https://www.wsj.com/tech/crowdstrikes-ceo-george-kurtz-failure-global-tech-outage-microsoft-windows-07d27a4a)
Why open source is not a good strategy for startups. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_oss-opensource-startups-activity-7223432828749815809-N_iI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios)
CrowdStrike Outage Puts Its Financial Reporting Under Scrutiny, Too (https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/crowdstrike-outage-puts-its-financial-reporting-under-scrutiny-too-25ad9e9b?st=iliigq6v6581t4g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)
Alphabet Second Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS Beats Expectations (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-second-quarter-2024-earnings-131726123.html)
Apple admits to using Google Tensor hardware to train Apple Intelligence (https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/29/apple-admits-to-using-google-tensor-hardware-to-train-apple-intelligence)
The re:Invent session catalog was released (https://registration.awsevents.com/flow/awsevents/reinvent24/public/page/catalog/?trk=e83a[…]EeRwzQ5l2ltCKT2Gkyqogx8LCLJOz7_az4jTAAYwK9hsNLDSiwmKa7g)
Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow (https://thenewstack.io/salary-pressures-not-ai-vex-developers-says-stack-overflow/)
Lawrence Hecht on LinkedIn: Developer Unemployment at Highest Level Since 2019 (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lawrence-hecht_developer-unemployment-at-highest-level-since-activity-7224056653761916928-ov9N?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
Video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs (https://x.com/ballmatthew/status/1800912075171999884)
Nonsense
The Scale of Life (https://www.thescaleoflife.com/)
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DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
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Recommendations
Brandon: Peacock's Gold Zone brings NFL Red Zone style coverage to the Olympics (https://decider.com/2024/07/29/how-to-watch-peacock-gold-zone-at-the-2024-olympics/)
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8/2/2024 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 477: We’re an N-1 Organization
This week, we discuss the CrowdStrike outage, FinOps data exports, and the state of open-source forks. Plus, Matt shares some exciting exclusive news about his future!
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYoFk0K_XpI) 477 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYoFk0K_XpI)
Runner-up Titles
Matt Ray Explains
Channel File 291
Documenting CYA
An intern did it
Default lifestyle strikes again
All the Nelson GIFs
Rundown
CrowdStrike
Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World (https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-windows-outage-crowdstrike-global-it-probems/)
12-hour timelapse of airline traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history (https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1814268813879206397)
Flights grounded and offices hit as internet users face disruptions (https://apnews.com/live/internet-global-outage-crowdstrike-microsoft-downtime)
TODAY (@TODAYshow) on X (https://x.com/TODAYshow/status/1814266372882391523?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet)
George Kurtz (@George_Kurtz) on X (https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814316045185822981)
CrowdStrike’s Global Outage Doesn’t Have to Be a Recurring Nightmare (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-19/crowdstrike-s-nightmare-it-microsoft-outage-shouldn-t-be-normal?srnd=homepage-americas)
Heard on the Street: CrowdStrike May Get More Than a Slap (https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp500-nasdaq-live-07-19-2024/card/heard-on-the-street-crowdstrike-may-get-more-than-a-slap-CbyAd5zi7ELT4miAZHNV)
What Happened to Digital Resilience? (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/us/politics/crowdstrike-outage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k0._ZDj.e5unf_bqIJNo&smid=url-share)
SolarWinds Defeats Part of SEC’s Fraud Case Over Hack (https://www.wsj.com/articles/solarwinds-defeats-part-of-secs-fraud-case-over-hack-ec69169a)
Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/)
Microsoft tried to get AV vendors to use APIs (https://www.threads.net/@sbisson/post/C9pIIYmo19q?xmt=AQGzVYTNKy9-De3zRXlIsl7QNqarqWsTWlmD_4Wc-7MM2A)
House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/22/house-committee-calls-crowdstrike-ceo-testify-global-outage/)
Crashes and Competition (https://stratechery.com/2024/crashes-and-competition/)
The CrowdStrike Failure Was a Warning (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/crowdstrike-failure-warning-solutions/679174/)
Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs (https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=top)
CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/#google_vignette)
CrowdStrike Update: Latest News, Lessons Learned from a Retired Microsoft Engineer (https://youtu.be/ZHrayP-Y71Q?si=AmavOuoU_IjGMTFi)
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/)
Announcing Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview) in AWS Billing and Cost Management (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/announcing-data-exports-for-focus-1-0-preview-in-aws-billing-and-cost-management/)
Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/google-wiz-deal-dead.html)
Import and export Markdown in Google Docs (http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/07/import-and-export-markdown-in-google-docs.html)
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/)
The Post-Valkey World (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/07/16/post-valkey-world/)
A tale of two forks - comparing Valkey/Redis and OpenTofu/Terraform! (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_oss-opensource-community-activity-7221488717704609792-U2SR/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
Datadog rumoured to be sniffing round GitLab as tech M&A market heats up (https://www.thestack.technology/datadog-rumoured-to-be-sniffing-round-gitlab-as-tech-m-a-market-heats-up/)
Google-Backed Software Developer GitLab Eyes Sale, Reuters Says (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-17/google-backed-software-developer-gitlab-eyes-sale-reuters-says)
Relevant to your Interests
Google Open Sources 27B Parameter Gemma 2 Language Model (https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/07/google-gemma-2/)
What It Really Takes to Build an AI Datacenter (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-21/what-it-really-takes-to-build-an-ai-datacenter)
State of Developer Experience 2024 (https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/state-of-developer-experience-2024?r=2d4o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
The Return-to-Office Productivity Argument Is Over (https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/the-return-to-office-productivity-argument-is-over.html)
A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web (https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-update)
The search for the random numbers that run our lives (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240704-the-search-for-the-random-numbers-that-run-our-lives)
OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/18/24200714/openai-new-cheaper-smarter-model-gpt-4o-mini)
Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets (https://www.thestack.technology/microsoft-llm-spreadsheet-llm/)
Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator (https://netflixtechblog.com/maestro-netflixs-workflow-orchestrator-ee13a06f9c78)
IBM shares jump on earnings and revenue beat (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/24/ibm-q2-earnings-report-2024.html)
US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law (https://apnews.com/article/repo-act-banks-russia-ukraine-russian-assets-9ecda7e3e799cdbfb564844ae89a144b)
Nonsense
Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) agreed to buy Tex-Mex chain Chuy's (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-0bb0be2c-41d0-4181-bf39-ba3e827303da.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Leadership within a costco warehouse (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNaLxKJg/)
If The Office took place at a car dealership (https://x.com/milkkarten/status/1813968113526067449?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut (https://github.com/veggiedefender/open-and-shut)
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DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Austin FC (https://www.austinfc.com/competitions/mls-regular-season/2024/matches/atxvssea-07-13-2024/)
Presumed Innocent (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://tv.apple.com/us/show/presumed-innocent/umc.cmc.5hnqrhwtzt3esr7rb1wq2ppvn&ved=2ahUKEwiClKPk28CHAxWXLUQIHd59CCoQFnoECEcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw20AOPkQVtwWO77Jomxeua0)
The Contrarian (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609711/the-contrarian-by-max-chafkin/)
Matt: Crying Out Cloud (https://www.wiz.io/crying-out-cloud) podcast
Photo Credits
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-computer-screen-with-a-blue-screen-on-it-t_IkF_CNvSY)
7/26/2024 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 476: Bring a point of view
This week, we discuss Google possibly buying Wiz, why "meta work" leads to too many meetings, and why it took forty years to get spell check in Notepad. Plus, we share some thoughts on enjoying your vacation.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 476 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsf8ZV0y2cI)
Runner-up Titles
Enjoy the time
Everyone can get a beef rib at this year’s club.
We also need to go over your summariztion prompt, because mine is dog shit right now.
Make your own happiness
Grand unified theory of food - every culture has a tortilla and an empanada.
“Platform” is the new “Suite.”
A robust NO Answer
Writing a book report
Failure by lack of airport ads.
What is you five dollar chicken
I write to figure out what I am thinking
Rundown
There's a lot of private cloud out there (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/theres-a-lot-of-private-cloud-out?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=146459324&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Google near deal to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion (https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/google-near-deal-to-acquire-cybersecurity-startup-wiz-for-23-billion--wsj-3518269)
Meta Work
White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/white-collar-meetings-more-frequent/678941/?gift=kZAb-CYAytdK21NICp8tcksr3ftg7NNiIjAvQD0GxRo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)
Bullshit Jobs (https://web.archive.org/web/20180807024932/http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/)
Far Left Take (https://web.archive.org/web/20180807024932/http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/)
Vanguard’s Die-Hard Customers Have a Message for New CEO: ‘The Service Is Abysmal’ (https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/vanguards-die-hard-customers-have-a-message-for-new-ceo-the-service-is-abysmal-c2da0491)
Measuring the impact of Developer Relations on Revenue (https://jmeiss.me/posts/measuring-devrel-impact-on-revenue/)
DevRel's Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon (https://dx.tips/zirp)
Microsoft’s Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/8/24194047/microsoft-notepad-spellcheck-autocorrect-features-available)
Agile Manifesto co-author on making process 'beacon of hope' (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/16/jon_kern/)
Relevant to your Interests
The Silent Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Walk Away (https://dev.to/opensauced/the-silent-crisis-in-open-source-when-maintainers-walk-away-1m81)
Google’s dark web monitoring service will soon be free for all users (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/9/24194970/google-one-free-dark-web-monitoring)
Software Development Job Postings on Indeed (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE)
Samsung unveils its new Galaxy Ring, an AI-backed competitor to the Oura Ring (https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/samsung-galaxy-ring-release-date-price-features-specs)
Does Social Media Cause Anything? (https://crookedtimber.org/2024/07/03/does-social-media-cause-anything/)
Redbox Owner to Shut Down Kiosk Business in Bankruptcy (https://www.wsj.com/articles/redbox-owner-to-shut-down-kiosk-business-in-bankruptcy-f0cada8d)
Intuit to cut about 1,800 jobs as it looks to increase AI investments (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/10/intuit-to-cut-about-1800-jobs-plans-to-rehire-in-key-areas.html)
Microsoft Exec Althoff: VMware Pricing Gave ‘The World The Greatest Gift Of All’ (https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2024/microsoft-exec-althoff-vmware-pricing-gave-the-world-the-greatest-gift-of-all)
Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/nearly-all-att-subscribers-call-records-stolen-in-snowflake-cloud-hack/)
OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/13/openai-safety-risks-whistleblower-sec/)
I've Switched to Apple's Password Manager, and I'm Never Going Back (https://www.makeuseof.com/switch-to-apple-password-manager/)
Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation (https://marco.org/2024/07/16/overcast-rewrite)
Nonsense
Costco hikes membership fee for the first time since 2017 (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/10/costco-hikes-membership-fee-for-the-first-time-since-2017.html)
Costco plans to build 800-unit apartment complex in bid to ease housing crisis (https://nypost.com/2024/06/28/business/costco-teaming-up-with-developers-to-build-an-800-unit-apartment-complex-in-bid-to-ease-housing-crisis/)
Here's why the original Buc-ee's went up in flames in Luling (https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/luling-bucees-fire-cause-19567134.php)
If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/miss-defragmenting-c-drive-theres-002734202.html)
The Morning After: Dune-inspired spacesuit recycles astronauts’ urine into drinkable water (https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-dune-inspired-spacesuit-recycles-astronauts-urine-into-drinkable-water-111540921.html)
OldMapsOnline (https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en)
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Conferences
Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jul-24-exploring-the-state-of-cloud-native-application-platforms-and-tanzu), July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/), August 19–21, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), 15th anniversary, Sep 4th–5th, 2024
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SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th–20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
COTA Bike Night (https://circuitoftheamericas.com/bike-night/?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAABXF-geXk7FxOT844q2nAxFPRq2W-&gclid=CjwKCAjw1920BhA3EiwAJT3lSeeD4WQEfQVJokUXc_KFhuoBpl1SgZzNoGluN4Rm5pPUNKdgI5dvshoC6TYQAvD_BwE)
The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/07/the-mid-year-2024-mailbag.html)
Sharp Tech answers Brandon’s question about F1 (https://overcast.fm/+8V7cdzZs0/58:52)
Coté: Soulver (https://soulver.app).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/people-on-sand-7_ZDmcq8x6A)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/person-standing-near-the-stairs-MYbhN8KaaEc)
7/19/2024 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 475: Calendar Math
This week, we discuss Mary Meeker's AI & Universities report, the CD Foundation's State of CI/CD Report, and share a few thoughts on DevRel. Plus, Coté gets fiber and is forced to watch soccer.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1ppy88kwg) 475 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1ppy88kwg)
Runner-up Titles
If not better, at least the same. The enterprise software buyer’s lament.
Order tokens at fantastical speeds.
They think I am an idiot
Cherry pick it from a survey
The Demo Matters
Rundown
Mary Meeker’s new report AI and Universities (https://www.bondcap.com/reports/aiu)
State of CI/CD Report 2024 - CD Foundation (https://cd.foundation/state-of-cicd-2024/?utm_source=cote&utm_content=30pctvcs)
70% of people hadn't checked their code in for 12 months (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1810279223946334292)
Relevant to your Interests
Opinion | The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues (https://apple.news/AP-Z9HB9_T4iZwJdA75Q0Vw)
How Apple used Google's help to train its AI models (https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/how-apple-used-googles-help-train-its-ai-models-2024-06-11/)
Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts (https://www.geekwire.com/2024/microsoft-lays-off-employees-in-new-round-of-cuts/)
Clouded Judgement 7.5.24 - Declining Growth (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-7524-declining?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=146291628&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76 (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/business/bruce-bastian-dead.html)
Mirantis Builds on OpenStack To Serve Up a VMware Alternative (https://thenewstack.io/mirantis-builds-on-openstack-to-serve-up-a-vmware-alternative/)
Is this the biggest password leak ever uncovered? Researchers claim nearly 10 billion credentials under threat — here's what we know so far (https://www.techradar.com/pro/is-this-the-biggest-password-leak-ever-uncovered-researchers-claim-nearly-10-billion-credentials-under-threat-heres-what-we-know-so-far)
We tested over a dozen laptops to see how Snapdragon compares to Intel, AMD, and Apple’s chips (https://www.theverge.com/24191671/copilot-plus-pcs-laptops-qualcomm-intel-amd-apple)
Nonsense
Mark Zuckerberg's Lake Tahoe antics are getting even weirder (https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/mark-zuckerberg-lake-tahoe-american-flag-tuxedo-19555381.php)
The Fried Chicken Sandwich Wars Are More Cutthroat Than Ever Before (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-01/mcdonald-s-wendy-s-amp-up-fried-chicken-sandwich-wars)
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Conferences
Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jul-24-exploring-the-state-of-cloud-native-application-platforms-and-tanzu), July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/), August 19–21, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Tailscale (https://tailscale.com).
Coté: Moonbound (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790867-moonbound).
Photo Credits
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7/12/2024 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 474: There’s at least a road to Nirvana
This week, we explore the reasons behind the slowdown in DevOps adoption, compare open-source and proprietary foundation models, and discuss how AI might simplify CI/CD implementation. Additionally, Matt takes on an Australian history quiz.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xmarzk5aw8) 474 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xmarzk5aw8)
Runner-up Titles
No silver bullets
If you aspire for nothing, you’re done.
We can hang out with the boulder at the bottom
Who owns the black box
You have to want to put in the effort
Anyone on the bleeding edge is going to bleed
Rundown
A Eulogy for DevOps (https://matduggan.com/a-eulogy-for-devops/)
DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either (https://thenewstack.io/devops-isnt-dead-but-its-not-in-great-health-either/)
The InfraRed Report from Redpoint (https://www.redpoint.com/infrared/report/)
Dan Davies Explains Why Accountability Sinks Are Everywhere Now (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-01/dan-davies-explains-why-accountability-sinks-are-everywhere-now)
Relevant to your Interests
Indonesia won't pay an $8 million ransom after a cyberattack compromised its national data center (https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-ransomware-attack-national-data-center-213c14c6cc69d7b66815e58478f64cee)
Odaseva raises $54M to secure Salesforce users (https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/odasevas-founder-once-solved-a-security-gap-for-saleforces-biggest-customer-now-hes-raised-54m-to-secure-all-of-its-users/)
More YouTube Premium plans are coming (https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187590/youtube-premium-subscription-more-plans)
Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/01/alibaba_cloud_closes_india_australia/)
Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-02/apple-to-get-openai-board-observer-role-as-part-of-ai-agreement)
How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/1/24190060/amazon-adept-ai-acquisition-playbook-microsoft-inflection)
Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-02/apple-to-get-openai-board-observer-role-as-part-of-ai-agreement)
Infrastructure as Code Landscape Overview 2024 (https://medium.com/@bgrant0607/infrastructure-as-code-landscape-overview-2024-a066124e5989)
Infrastructure as Code reminds me of “make run-all” (https://medium.com/@bgrant0607/infrastructure-as-code-reminds-me-of-make-run-all-15eb6628f306)
Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble? / Oxide (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1973013)
“Everything’s frozen”: Ransomware locks credit union users out of bank accounts (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/everythings-frozen-ransomware-locks-credit-union-users-out-of-bank-accounts/)
Exclusive-Vista Equity in talks to hand over Pluralsight to creditors, sources s (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-vista-equity-talks-hand-183356419.html)
Nonsense
Faces made of living skin make robots smile (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedd3208veyo)
Mandatory Texas vehicle safety inspections end in six months (https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/mandatory-texas-vehicle-safety-inspections-end-in-six-months/)
Costco's bold new plan for the California housing crisis (https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/costco-housing-apartments-south-la-19541521.php?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Conferences
DevOpsDays Birmingham (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/), August 19–21, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon:
House of Dragons Season 2 (https://www.hbo.com/house-of-the-dragon)
Cloud News of the Month - June 2024 (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/07/cloud-news-of-month-june-2024.html)
Photo Credits
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7/5/2024 • 1 hour, 33 seconds
Episode 473: RESOLVED: Unscheduled Outage
This week, we discuss the 5 key trends from Bessemer’s State of the Cloud 2024 report. Plus, Matt makes a stock pick for the next 10 years!
Runner-up Titles
Is it named after Hootie and the Blowfish?
Prepaying for your bad behavior
You have a thought piece, we’re gonna think about it
The Footloose Soundtrack
Rundown
Amazon Hits $2 Trillion Market Value as AI Frenzy Fuels Rally (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-26/amazon-amzn-hits-2-trillion-market-value-as-ai-frenzy-fuels-rally)
State of the Cloud 2024 (https://www.bvp.com/atlas/state-of-the-cloud-2024)
The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse (https://youtu.be/1bZ0OSEViyo?si=F_Yy7c1RYkXh-Iqd)
Relevant to your Interests
The short, happy reign of CD-ROM (https://www.fastcompany.com/91128052/history-of-cd-roms-encarta-myst)
1Password is simplifying setup on new devices and adding 'Recovery codes' (https://9to5google.com/2024/06/20/1password-recovery-code-sign-in-beta/)
Apple is winning in financial services (https://www.axios.com/2024/06/20/apple-winning-finance-bnpl)
Anthropic’s latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, just released on Amazon Bedrock (https://www.threads.net/@ajassy/post/C8ccbgRiEeY)
What it Takes to Be Valued at >10x Rev (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-62124-what-it-takes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=145617522&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs (https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24182979/microsoft-copilot-key-keyboard-shortcut-pwa)
Exclusive: Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-mulls-5-10-monthly-price-tag-unprofitable-alexa-service-ai-revamp-2024-06-21/)
Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa might cost up to $10 per month (https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183013/amazon-alexa-ai-subscription)
Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/technology/driver-scores-insurance-data-apps.html)
AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children (https://www.wired.com/story/ai-tools-are-secretly-training-on-real-childrens-faces/)
Nvidia Is No Cisco, but It Is Getting Expensive (https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/nvidia-is-no-cisco-but-it-is-getting-expensive-1938fcc0)
Microsoft shelves its underwater data center (https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/microsoft-shelves-its-underwater-data-center)
With Pen and Paper in Hand, Car Dealers Improvise as Cyber Outage Persists (https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/with-pen-and-paper-in-hand-car-dealers-improvise-as-cyber-outage-persists-2642ebb7)
Nvidia Insiders Cash In on Rally as Share Sales Top $700 Million (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/nvidia-nvda-insiders-cash-in-on-rally-as-share-sales-top-700-million)
We’ve got to talk about the environment when we talk about AI (https://thehustle.co/news/we-ve-got-to-talk-about-the-environment-when-we-talk-about-ai)
Gmail’s Gemini AI sidebar and email summaries are rolling out now (https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/24/24185277/google-gmail-gemini-ai-sidebar)
Google is bringing Gemini access to teens using their school accounts (https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/24/google-is-bringing-gemini-access-to-teens-using-their-school-accounts/)
Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternatives (https://feed.feedburster.com/macstoriesnet/redirect?url=https://www.macstories.net/roundups/managing-your-mac-menu-bar-a-roundup-of-my-favorite-bartender-alternatives/)
Report: Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT and others (https://www.geekwire.com/2024/report-amazon-developing-ai-chatbot-that-would-compete-with-chatgpt-and-others/)
How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v (https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/21/virtv2v_helps_you_move_vms/)
Figma’s new Slides app focuses on design, fun, and (oh, yeah!) AI (https://www.fastcompany.com/91145153/figma-slides-presentations-config-2024)
Powering the AI Revolution: The PyTorch Documentary (https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-documentary/)
Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites (https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack)
Some CIOs say getting full value out of AI tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 requires heavy lifting, as enterprise data isn't always accurate and up-to-date (http://www.techmeme.com/240626/p6#a240626p6)
****## Nonsense
Cybertruck: The Embarrassing beginning of Teslas Demise (https://youtu.be/MoYXhcxngxI?si=Rxg48DLqAtyAE-Ck)
The Buc-ee’s Statue Got A New Look, And Fans Have Thoughts (https://www.southernliving.com/buc-ees-luling-statue-8665734)
Delta's most exclusive airport lounge opens. Here's what's inside (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/25/delta-one-jfk-airport-lounge.html)
Explaining Software Development Methods By Flying to Mars [Comic] (https://toggl.com/blog/mars-software-development)
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Conferences
DevOpsDays Birmingham (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/), August 19–21, 2024
DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Pause your YouTube TV Subscription (https://support.google.com/youtubetv/answer/7129668?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid#zippy=%2Chow-to-pause-your-membership)
Matt: Anti-pick: NBN Broadband
Photo Credits
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6/28/2024 • 50 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 472: Speaking of Goat Rodeos
This week, we discuss Forrester’s LLM Wave, Nvidia's Market Cap Dilemma, and why everything is code. Plus, Matt Ray explains more about Australian slang.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWDSWwjpPM) 472 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWDSWwjpPM)
Runner-up Titles
Is pig latin American?
The final boss for Duolingo
The Corrections Episode
You can always get it from the leader
Frito Lay of Chips
Everything is code
Rundown
Forrester has no idea what its talking about (https://www.threads.net/@aakashg0/post/C78Ob6MBYxv)
Get it from Google (https://cloud.google.com/resources/forrester-wave-ai-foundation-models?hl=en).
Nvidia
Nvidia Earnings: Stock Rallies As AI Giant Reports 600% Profit Explosion, 10-For-1 Stock Split (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/05/22/nvidia-earnings-stock-rallies-as-ai-giant-reports-600-profit-explosion/?sh=18dffe2e4679)
Nvidia: Short bets against stock top $34B (https://finance.yahoo.com/video/nvidia-short-bets-against-stock-143717553.html)
Nvidia to Become $10T Company: I/O Fund's Kindig (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-05-23/i-o-fund-s-kindig-nvidia-to-become-10t-company-video)
Intel CEO Fires Back at Nvidia in Battle for AI Chip Leadership (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-04/intel-ceo-fires-back-at-nvidia-in-battle-for-ai-chip-leadership)
Peak Nvidia (https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/1797994922735522260)
Solomon Hykes & Dagger (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/06/solomon-hykes-dagger.html)
Relevant to your Interests
Ghost jobs : The Indicator from Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2024/06/07/1197965117/ghost-jobs)
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-12/apple-to-pay-openai-for-chatgpt-through-distribution-not-cash)
Broadcom soars as demand for AI chips power forecast raise (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-soars-demand-ai-chips-121601719.html)
Clouded Judgement 6.14.24 - Is Seat Based Pricing Dead? (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-61424-is-seat-based?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=145395123&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog) Shares Every Lesson From Scaling to $40B (https://www.theloganbartlettshow.com/archive/ep-108-olivier-pomel-ceo-datadog-shares-every-[…]om-scaling-to-40b?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions (https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/us-sues-adobe-for-hiding-termination-fees-and-making-it-difficult-to-cancel-subscriptions/)
Senior Engineer Fatigue (https://luminousmen.com/post/senior-engineer-fatigue?utm_source=changelog-news)
AWS’ AI And GenAI Leader Leaves For DigitalOcean As New CTO (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/aws-ai-and-genai-leader-jumps-to-digitalocean-as-new-cpto)
The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24181278/framework-laptop-risc-v-laptop-isa-arm-amd-intel-x86)
A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://open.substack.com/pub/cloudedjudgement/p/a-look-back-at-q1-24-public-cloud?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios)
Nonsense
You can renew U.S. passports online again (https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/06/12/passport-renewal-online-travel/)
The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas (https://www.theverge.com/c/24133822/microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-competition-chapmionship)
Conferences
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/)
DevOpsDays Antwerp (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-antwerp/welcome/), 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Houston Public Library (https://houstonlibrary.org/mylink) and Libby (https://libbyapp.com/interview/welcome#doYouHaveACard)
Matt: Dissect podcast (https://dissectpodcast.com/)
Coté: Ikea RIKLIG (https://www.ikea.com/nl/en/p/riklig-teapot-glass-40297848/) - small, glass teapot.
Photo Credits
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Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/close-up-photography-of-green-motherboard--9jmFkN-_U4)
Wave (https://www.threads.net/@aakashg0/post/C78Ob6MBYxv)
6/21/2024 • 59 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 471: The Gen X mascot is Fine Dog
This week, we discuss the AI Hype Cycle, Apple Intelligence and other announcements from WWDC. Plus, Coté concludes the episode by using as many phrases as possible from Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz8EOYkfyps) 471 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz8EOYkfyps)
Runner-up Titles
Our dreams fell with the Berlin Wall
I need two offers
You Kids
We are the rock eaters to Slack
I mean, what else am I doing with my life?
Rundown
Apple Made Once-Unlikely Deal With Sam Altman to Catch Up in AI (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-05/why-is-apple-aapl-teaming-up-with-openai-both-companies-need-each-other)
Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements (https://www.theverge.com/24171190/apple-wwdc-2024-biggest-announcements)
iOS and iPadOS 18: The MacStories Overview (https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-18-the-macstories-overview/)
Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud (https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/)
Here’s Everything Apple Plans to Show at Its AI-Focused WWDC Event (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-07/apple-wwdc-2024-what-to-expect-ai-ipados-18-macos-15-siri-updates-more)
Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-06/apple-to-debut-passwords-app-in-challenge-to-1password-lastpass)
macOS Sequoia's Layouts just fixed the worst thing about Mac vs Windows (https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/macos/macos-sequoias-layouts-just-fixed-the-worst-thing-about-mac-vs-windows)
Relevant to your Interests
Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding (https://siliconangle.com/2024/05/23/cloud-cost-optimization-startup-finout-reels-26-3m-series-b-funding/)
Dell Data Breach Impacts 49 Million Customers - CPO Magazine (https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/dell-data-breach-impacts-49-million-customers/)
It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/computershare_vm_migration_project/)
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals (https://world.hey.com/dhh/linux-as-the-new-developer-default-at-37signals-ef0823b7)
Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/details-of-google-cloud-gcve-incident/)
The Worst Website In The Entire World (https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/)
How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size (https://abovethecrowd.com/2014/07/11/how-to-miss-by-a-mile-an-alternative-look-at-ubers-potential-market-size/)
Michael Dell, Jensen Huang and Bill McDermott on New AI Factories (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOhAvWF0cc)
Google Fiber unveils first CFO (GOOG) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4110807-google-fiber-unveils-first-cfo)
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead to head up new team (https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/28/anthropic-hires-former-openai-safety-lead-to-head-up-new-team/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJ4DaSct34uWZ_1C_cgY77kNsMOW1suiZHSVZqvs-gr22VZ1jIqy7gXpxSdFipr-b7QXBpbTOPSllIxmj7sChZESNpdXLIcDnNKKb88OWdAjaaZlWj8BMQA6n6-px8ZSmL8ABMKaiVkHJyB8ycVJCcpdOyRUegOtVgFE2BiaTol7)
What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/technology/what-to-know-open-closed-software.html)
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo)
Australians may be caught up in suspected Ticketmaster hack (https://www.smh.com.au/technology/australians-may-be-caught-up-in-suspected-ticketmaster-hack-20240529-p5jhjt.html)
Australians among 560 million users around the world caught in Ticketmaster hack (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/ticketmaster-hack-allegedlyshinyhunter-customers-data-leaked/103908614)
Salesforce shares plunge 16% on first revenue miss since 2006 (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/29/salesforce-crm-q1-earnings-report-2025.html)
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167407/google-search-algorithm-documents-leak-confirmation)
Interview - WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana on being acquired by major investor (https://diginomica.com/interview-wso2-ceo-sanjiva-weerawarana-being-acquired-major-investor)
Your employees are afraid to take PTO, but a third are playing hooky from work anyway (https://www.fastcompany.com/91128407/employees-play-hooky-work-pto-fear-survey)
OpenAI appears to have closed its deal with Apple. (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167511/openai-appears-to-have-closed-its-deal-with-apple)
Openwashing (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/business/what-is-openwashing-ai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
IRS opening free online tax filing program to all 50 states for 2025 tax season (https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program)
How ‘world-changing’ solar tech could mean the death of batteries (https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-power-battery-panels-exeger-powerfoyle-b2553622.html)
OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members (https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/30/openai-board-members-respond-to-a-warning-by-former-members)
A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come (https://www.wired.com/story/police-face-recognition-biometrics-leak-india/)
RISC-V battles to get messaging right over open standard (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/riscos_messsaging_struggle/)
'ThreadsDeck' arrived just in time for the Trump verdict | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/31/threadsdeck-arrived-just-in-time-for-the-trump-verdict/)
Adam Selipsky, the exit interview (https://www.geekwire.com/2024/adam-selipsky-the-exit-interview-amazon-web-services-ceo-on-ai-competition-and-the-future/)
Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches (https://www.thestack.technology/snowflake-breach-update-rapeflake/)
10 things you need to know about AWS CEO Matt Garman (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-ceo-matt-garman-things-to-know?ck_subscriber_id=512834888)
Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated? (https://stratechery.com/2024/computex-2024-aws-and-integration/?access_token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6InN0cmF0ZWNoZXJ5LnBhc3Nwb3J0Lm9ubGluZSIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJzdHJhdGVjaGVyeS5wYXNzcG9ydC5vbmxpbmUiLCJhenAiOiJIS0xjUzREd1Nod1AyWURLYmZQV00xIiwiZW50Ijp7InVyaSI6WyJodHRwczovL3N0cmF0ZWNoZXJ5LmNvbS8yMDI0L2NvbXB1dGV4LTIwMjQtYXdzLWFuZC1pbnRlZ3JhdGlvbi8iXX0sImV4cCI6MTcyMDAxODUwNCwiaWF0IjoxNzE3NDI2NTA0LCJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL2FwaS5wYXNzcG9ydC5vbmxpbmUvb2F1dGgiLCJzY29wZSI6ImZlZWQ6cmVhZCBhcnRpY2xlOnJlYWQgYXNzZXQ6cmVhZCBjYXRlZ29yeTpyZWFkIGVudGl0bGVtZW50cyIsInN1YiI6IlRIMzRnVkN5aHhXZ21uQWZ0WEZtdVMiLCJ1c2UiOiJhY2Nlc3MifQ.QfzNJxuyE5DCskl_c4_rRbFAs2vFePfoZ1O-BRs_uLe_tjsR_nB23TtoBXoROeEcc6qqOWzPIjH-85lPGLFKqeB4pgHZ4zttd-3UqbZriUIGMHMq0xQrEc8p_GlGkbwkm7GjAqcawLVais82qE0-TDWSFcJIoeurZPzNWWSd61nBEvjA6ZILchotRSWiuotA22BUBo7ePEhfU9O0jrduc0_C9kyhg13yu4C_I3RxyaoAxYQzGg5VNl7oiceHLGGjLRXYalNLcTFxkSEWZXtunSlFkijFcH2ZqBRePYjJU3Xhul1540DAnx7iwxvhss7momQe_0xUQw_sSJYWbEcsuw)
Broadcom’s VMware strategy looking shaky - and less relevant (https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/03/broadcoms_vmware_strategy_looks_ever/)
Yet another open source rug pull (Changelog News #97) (https://changelog.com/news/97)
OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/technology/openai-culture-whistleblowers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE0._mTr.aNO4f_hEp2J4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb)
Job openings fall to new 3-year low, as the US economy continues to slow (https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/economy/job-openings-quits-jolts-april/index.html)
AI Patterns (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/05/29/ai-patterns/)
Stacklet Secures $14.5M in Funding (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stacklet-secures-14-5m-funding-130000954.html)
Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS (https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/5/24171900/google-cameyo-acquisition-chromeos-windows-app-virtualization)
GitLab quarter (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1797749233019400696)
eBay debuts AI-powered background tool to enhance product images (https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/ebay-ai-powered-background-enhancement-tool/)
Privacy policies have gone insane. Doubt it? Consider Instacart (https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117552/privacy-policies-have-gone-insane-doubt-it-consider-instacart.html)
The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever (https://www.wired.com/story/snowflake-breach-advanced-auto-parts-lendingtree/)
The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning (https://www.wired.com/story/snowflake-breach-ticketmaster-santander-ticketek-hacked/)
GameStop stock slumps after announcing sale of 75M shares (https://finance.yahoo.com/video/gamestop-stock-slumps-announcing-sale-144719278.html)
VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come” (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/price-hikes-of-over-2x-widely-expected-under-broadcoms-vmware-survey-finds/)
Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS (https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/vmare_aws_elasticity_reduced/)
Silicon Valley's False Prophet (https://www.wheresyoured.at/false-prophet/)
Raspberry Pi Hands London a Starry Share Market Debut at Last (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-11/raspberry-pi-hands-london-a-starry-share-market-debut-at-last)
Nonsense
Navneet Alang (@navneetalang) on Threads (https://www.threads.net/@navneetalang/post/C7V6HO9OWEe/)
Fans can finally get a chance to listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s one copy album… but there’s a catch (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/28/style/wu-tang-clan-album-museum-australia-intl-hnk/index.html)
The five stages of computer science (https://www.threads.net/@benedictevans/post/C7guKXJi3S3)
Chipotle says its portion sizes haven’t changed, despite complaints on TikTok (https://www.yahoo.com/news/chipotle-says-portion-sizes-haven-033930077.html)
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/magazine/benjamin-bolger-college-harvard-yale.html)
Costco hot dogs have cost $1.50 since the 1980s. Here's why prices aren't changing (https://www.npr.org/2024/06/03/nx-s1-4990206/costco-hot-dog-price)
Joro spiders, giant, venomous flying arachnids, are here to stay, pest experts say (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/04/giant-flying-joro-spiders-flying-new-york-area/73975183007/)
The 'big boof' is out. What data reveals about football's hair trends (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/afl-mullet-count-data-analysis/103850072)
Conferences
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/)
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon:
MoviePass, MovieCrash (https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1229898-moviepass-moviecrash?ueid=3d6a2c800561880c901963d51e644d95&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2024-06-01%20Installer&utm_term=Installer)
From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592) (https://changelog.com/podcast/592)
Matt: Bazzite (https://bazzite.gg/) - Linux Gaming OS
Coté: if you liked my Business Bullshit dictionary and surviving at BigCo stuff (https://cote.io/bigco/), you’ll enjoy Taylor’s Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix (https://taylor.town/urgent-optimistic). Also, self-promotion: “How (https://www.cio.com/article/2114716/how-to-build-a-successful-agile-development-culture-and-why-your-business-needs-one.html) to build a successful agile development culture – and why your business needs one.” (https://www.cio.com/article/2114716/how-to-build-a-successful-agile-development-culture-and-why-your-business-needs-one.html?amp=1)
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6/14/2024 • 54 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 470: Paul Yuknewicz on Serverless
Matt interviews Paul Yuknewicz, Product Leader for Azure Serverless. They discuss Azure Functions, Dapr, WASM, and security. Plus, Matt explains rhyming Australian slang in the aftershow.
Show Links
Serverless Days Sydney (https://sydney.serverlessdays.io/)
dapr.io (https://t.co/4skLywNAZq)
Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/dapr-overview)
Paul is hiring a Principal Product Manager (https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1703452/Principal-Product-Manager)
Contact Paul
LinkedIn: Paul Yuknewicz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-yuknewicz-50a91125/)
Twitter: @paulyuki99 (https://twitter.com/paulyuki99)
SDT News & Hype
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6/7/2024 • 36 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 469: Amanda K. Silver on Developer Tools
Matt interviews Amanda K. Silver, Corporate Vice President in the Developer Division at Microsoft. They discuss the latest developments with Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and why developers only want to see live demos. Plus, some thoughts on tiny houses and Murphy beds vs. hammocks.
Show Links
visualstudio.com (https://t.co/QHl5wYlaUn)
Contact Amanda
LinkedIn: Amanda K. Silver (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaksilver/)
Twitter: @amandaksilver (https://twitter.com/amandaksilver?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
SDT News & Hype
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Special Guest: Amanda K. Silver.
5/31/2024 • 46 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 468: Learning to love Enterprise Software
This week, we discuss Tanzu’s latest releases, Microsoft Build announcements, and the Raspberry Pi going public. Plus, thoughts on expense reporting systems and tablet kickstands.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJjAKS4umk) 468 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJjAKS4umk)
Runner-up Titles
Coté's calendar style: quick to decline, slow to accept.
Enterprise Software — Give it time and you’ll love it
Thanks Clayton Williams
Multi-size Monkey Phase
There’s people I know
“Yes, and” is now fully ironic
Pop sockets are the future
All out of tokens, going home
You said Squawkbox Cote’
Rundown
New at Tanzu: the Tanzu Platform (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/introducing-vmware-tanzu-platform) and Tanzu Data Services (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-data-services-for-modern-apps)
A PaaS on-top of Cloud Foundry (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/introducing-vmware-tanzu-platform) and (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/introducing-vmware-tanzu-platform) Kubernetes (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/introducing-vmware-tanzu-platform)
App Engine overlay (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Platform/services/create-manage-apps-tanzu-platform-k8s/concepts-about-spaces.html)
Postgres, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Gemfire in a suite (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-data-services-for-modern-apps)
Greenplum (https://greenplum.org)
Microsoft Build (https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home#live-stream)
Introducing Copilot+ PCs (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/)
Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA (https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2021/01/qualcomm-acquire-nuvia#:~:text=The%20acquisition%20of%20NUVIA%20will,IT%20Products%20Business%2C%20Acer%20Inc)
Microsoft Build 2024: Everything Revealed in 9 Minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1EepB0mCbE)
Microsoft Copilot+ Recall feature 'privacy nightmare' (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o)
Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024 (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/raspberry_pi_ipo_set_for_june_2024/)
Relevant to your Interests
Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157240/mike-krieger-anthropic-instagram-ai)
VMware Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/14/vmware_workstation_pro_fusion_pro/)
More thoughts on OSS business models (https://x.com/sytses/status/1790797642714206675?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
After selling his startup for a life-changing $3.7 billion, Jyoti Bansal launched a VC firm and two high-value startups. Why? (https://fortune.com/2024/05/14/jyoti-bansal-triple-duty-startup-founder-ceo-harness-traceable-unusual-venturesal-ventures/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content)
Palo Alto Networks is buying security assets from IBM to expand customer base (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/15/palo-alto-networks-will-buy-ibm-qradar-cloud-security-software-assets.html)
ChatGPT in “4o” mode is not running the new features yet (https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/15/chatgpt-in-4o-mode/#atom-everything)
With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS? (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/with-selipsky-out-whats-next-for-aws/)
Exclusive: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation (https://www.reuters.com/technology/vercel-completes-250-mln-series-e-round-325-bln-valuation-2024-05-16/)
Tech Influencing (https://www.freemanandforrest.com/)
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy (https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-is-neither-a-community-nor-a-democracy-606abdab)
Artificial Intelligence - Global | Statista Market Forecast (https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/artificial-intelligence/worldwide#:~:text=Artificial%20Intelligence%20%2D%20Worldwide&text=The%20market%20size%20is%20expected,US%2450.16bn%20in%202024)
Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT (https://openai.com/index/improvements-to-data-analysis-in-chatgpt/)
Privacy Principles: Search, Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Legal (https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles)
As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline? (https://www.semafor.com/article/05/19/2024/as-clicks-dry-up-for-news-sites-could-apples-news-app-be-a-lifeline)
Apple execs on iMessage for Android (https://www.threads.net/@techemails/post/C1k85lsPeko/)
‘You’re Fighting AI With AI’: Bots Are Breaking the Hiring Process (https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-job-application-685f29f7?st=vxqwd9gugswmf2k&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/)
Scott Galloways Predictions for 2024 at OMR24 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHZhLE8OVmk)
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ (https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html)
C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89 (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk0.DZWu.6h3GnnGnux0P&smid=url-share)
The pandemic darlings: where are they now? (https://sherwood.news/markets/the-pandemic-stock-market-darlings-have-come-back-down-to-earth/)
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud End-User Spending to Surpass $675 Billion in 2024 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-05-20-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-public-cloud-end-user-spending-to-surpass-675-billion-in-2024)
ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai-departures-sam-altman-employees-chatgpt-release)
Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/20/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-ai-voice/)
OpenAI loses its voice (https://www.platformer.news/open-ai-scarlett-johansson-her-voice-sam-altman/)
Nonsense
Mexico City taco stand makes history as 1st to earn Michelin star (https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/mexico-city-taco-stand-makes-history-1st-earn/story?id=110303468)
Listener Feedback
Backpack / Everyday Daily Carry Recommendations
Black Hole® Pack 25L (https://www.patagonia.com.au/products/black-hole-pack-25l-49298-blk?variant=39982163034184) – Matt
Goruck (https://www.goruck.com/collections/travel-rucksacks) Travel (https://www.goruck.com/collections/travel-rucksacks) (https://www.goruck.com/collections/travel-rucksacks)Rucksacks (https://www.goruck.com/collections/travel-rucksacks) – Matt
Crumpler | Making Messenger Bags Since 1995 (https://www.crumpler.com/) – Michael
Everyday Backpack (https://www.peakdesign.com/collections/all-bags/products/everyday-backpack?variant=29743300771884) from Peak Design – Andy
Conferences
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/)
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Water Meter Valve Key (https://www.homedepot.com/p/28-in-Solid-Steel-Water-Meter-Valve-Key-with-Grips-410-302-0111/311774568)
Matt: Bobby Fingers: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIEPKEhE2s) “ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIEPKEhE2s)Fabio and the Goos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIEPKEhE2s)e” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIEPKEhE2s)
Coté: Joby GripTight PRO TelePod (https://joby.com/us-en/griptight-pro-telepod-jb01534-bww/)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/person-holding-black-card-ex_p4AaBxbs)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-laptop-computer-sitting-on-top-of-a-wooden-desk-40R02bvsL3c)
5/24/2024 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 467: Multimodal
This week, we discuss ChatGPT-4o, Google I/O Announcements, the impact of AI on smartphones, and executive shuffling at OpenAI and Amazon. Plus, we share some thoughts on how to plan your wedding.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBzblajcAUY) 467 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBzblajcAUY)
Runner-up Titles
Do what works
Blame the children
I had an alphanumeric pager in 1993
I like carrots
Rundown
A.I. Announcements
Introducing GPT-4o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQacCB9tDaw)
Gemini Apps’ release updates & improvements (https://gemini.google.com/updates)
Google I/O 2024 (https://io.google/2024/)
Palace Intrigue
Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/leadership-update-aws-adam-selipsky-matt-garman?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. (https://twitter.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Sam Altman gracefully thanked his OpenAI cofounder who quit. Then another exec quit hours later. (https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-leadership-shakeup-jan-leike-ilya-sutskever-resign-chatgpt-superalignment-2024-5)
Relevant to your Interests
Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-generative-ai-aws-global-summits-2024-5)
Should Cisco Have Paid $3.7 Billion for AppDynamics? (https://sg.news.yahoo.com/finance/news/cisco-paid-3-7-billion-222608679.html)
Boomi Dismembers The TIBCO Frankenstein (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/boomi-dismembers-the-tibco-frankenstein/)
Apple to Power AI Tools With In-House Server Chips This Year (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-09/apple-to-power-ios-18-ai-features-with-in-house-server-mac-chips-this-year)
Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/tech/cyberattack-disrupts-healthcare-network/index.html)
Did IBM make a $6.4 billion blunder by buying HashiCorp? (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/10/opinion_column_ibm_hashicorp/)
How Ahrefs gets a Billion dollar-worth infrastructure with a 90% discount (https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-gets-a-billion-dollar-worth-infrastructure-with-a-90-discount-5edd473b2399)
Was VMware's takeover by Broadcom a terrible mistake? (https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cloud/vmware-takeover-by-broadcom-mistake)
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/apple-siri-ai-chatgpt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb)
DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take! (https://x.com/dhh/status/1789314705384972506)
Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/13/squarespace-to-go-private-in-7-billion-private-equity-deal.html)
Aligning with User Needs with Rod Johnson (https://www.emilyomier.com/podcast/aligning-with-user-needs-with-rod-johnson)
Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156712/meta-workplace-facebook-work-shutdown)
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/unisuper-google-cloud-issue-account-access)
DHH: ZIRP driving microservices is quite the take! (https://x.com/dhh/status/1789314705384972506)
Nonsense
YETI 34 oz French Press (https://www.yeti.com/drinkware/mugs/french-press-34oz.html) - in NL, €125 (https://nl.yeti.com/products/rambler-french-press-34oz)!
Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed (https://newatlas.com/marine/seabike-swimming-propeller/)
World's Largest Vacuum to Suck Carbon From Atmosphere Turns On for First Time (https://ca.news.yahoo.com/worlds-largest-vacuum-suck-carbon-123026944.html)
Conferences
Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd (https://sincusa.com/events/tanzu-atlanta-ga-dinner/)
MS Build (https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home), Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/).
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024.
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets).
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dark Matter (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwigrIn86o-GAxVCB60GHX_XCckYABAAGgJwdg&ae=2&gclid=CjwKCAjwupGyBhBBEiwA0UcqaAa8Z6SXzoW8TS-PYFgjm4HL8xNpfmnW3o2W1RQfUS-0K5DpEYHsBRoCyPoQAvD_BwE&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESVeD2akPZ_G87IWC2gzc9HUAMvuTN941I9pWeoTge9Q6YvvFQYnVJDVRn9V0WZ8Ow2eckKnvlIp6ONdvBfFb68l3oKwAfclfRuCaCvZ-dWdYFZuYWY-8&sig=AOD64_1pcfwYWDAqCh9q_XcP8kLsc38mQQ&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwiZzf776o-GAxWhD0QIHUUMDwQQ0Qx6BAgJEAM)
Coté: The Business of Open Source (https://www.emilyomier.com/podcast) podcast, e.g., episode with Rod Johnson (https://www.emilyomier.com/podcast/aligning-with-user-needs-with-rod-johnson).
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5/17/2024 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 466: Great Grammarly
This week, we discuss 451’s Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple’s new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft’s acquiring Nokia.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENsBkKFvDSU) 466 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENsBkKFvDSU)
Runner-up Titles
Coté is in a Dungeon
Everything’s going to be different
What would Stringer Bell say?
Displacing Google
Great Grammarly
A room full of barking dogs
A little bit of hustle porn.
Over value activity
A whole room with barking dogs
Rundown
Clouded Judgement 5.3.24 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-5324-hyperscalers?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=144188884&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
OpenAI To Launch Search Engine (https://www.seroundtable.com/openai-to-launch-search-engine-37319.html)
Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/23/perplexity-is-raising-250m-at-2-point-5-3b-valuation-ai-search-sources-say/)
That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/05/microsoft_nokia_anniversary/)
The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event (https://www.theverge.com/24148044/apple-ipad-let-loose-event-biggest-announcements-may-2024)
HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM (https://open.substack.com/pub/theloganbartlettshow/p/hashicorp-co-founder-reflects-48?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios)
Relevant to your Interests
Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be Safari’s default search engine. (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple-20-billion-in-2022-to-be-safaris-default-search-engine)
Data Privacy: All the Ways Your Cellphone Carrier Tracks You and How to Stop It (https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/data-privacy-all-the-ways-your-cellphone-carrier-tracks-you-and-how-to-stop-it/)
Supercharged Developer Portals (https://engineering.atspotify.com/2024/04/supercharged-developer-portals/)
VMware eases changes and deadlines for CSPs (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/vmware_cloud_partner_changes/)
Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys, but our passwordless future remains elusive (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147030/google-passkey-passwordless-authentication-400-million-accounts)
Wiz deal to acquire Lacework collapses | CTech (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj3v0algc)
Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/snowflake-releases-a-flagship-generative-ai-model-of-its-own/?ref=runtime.news)
Open sourcing Octo STS (https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/open-sourcing-octo-sts)
Apple is an edge computing company. (https://www.threads.net/@benedictevans/post/C6hJol6uCht/?xmt=AQGzm5jTjO-azBUGdYe3GtrTcZuYxq_qB08WbCMmlWwqSQ)
EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/03/eqt-snaps-up-enterprise-software-company-wso2-for-more-than-600m/)
Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/coreweaves-1-1b-raise-shows-the-market-for-alternative-clouds-is-booming/)
VMware Cloud on AWS - Here Today, Here Tomorrow | Hock Tan, President and CEO Broadcom (https://www.broadcom.com/blog/vmware-cloud-on-aws-here-today-here-tomorrow)
Amazon's AWS to double down on Singapore with additional $9 billion cloud investment (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/07/amazons-aws-to-invest-nearly-9-billion-in-singapore.html)
How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E)
UniSuper and GCP (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1787792760336257153?s=46&t=tKrY7ObmfMDBTim-ug3gOw)
AWS ‘Disappointed’ It’s No Longer A VMware Cloud On AWS Reseller; Future Of Product In Doubt (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/aws-disappointed-its-no-longer-a-vmware-cloud-on-aws-reseller-future-of-product-in-doubt)
Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-rethinks-the-linux-distro-for-the-container-age/)
Why companies list fake jobs (https://thehustle.co/news/why-companies-list-fake-jobs)
Nonsense
Justice for cord boxes!!! (https://www.threads.net/@kevinroose/post/C6hhdoDvQ2F)
Burnout - When does work start feeling pointless? | DW Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raVms8w61No)
North Yorkshire to drop apostrophes from street signs (https://www.localgov.co.uk/North-Yorkshire-to-drop-apostrophes-from-street-signs/60329)
Wife Surprises Husband With Birthday Party at Costco (https://youtu.be/cnLB6FH7SmY?si=O1HZ_tlJ2eDIuOvu)
Conferences
Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd (https://sincusa.com/events/tanzu-atlanta-ga-dinner/) - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony.
MS Build (https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home), Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/).
SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024.
SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets).
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Recommendations
Brandon: Fallout (https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Season-1/dp/B0CN4GGGQ2)
Matt: The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/television/mid-tv.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oE0.8Bfm.OYcqiUg-VWaa)
Coté:
My book is on sale at Leanpub (https://twitter.com/leanpub/status/1787799577690771709).
Get XP for donating miles with KLM/Flying Blue (https://www.flyingblue.com/en/mileshub/donate).
Trade show interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqVcqdR6Gk8)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/black-nokia-candybar-phone-F5V6d7nPsLQ)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/white-and-black-board-on-brown-wooden-surface-FvhyAFRE414)
5/10/2024 • 49 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 465: The Big Blue Burger Buffet
This week, we discuss IBM's intent to acquire HashiCorp, the state of Open Source Businesses, and the (slow) adoption of Continuous Integration. Plus, some thoughts on the end of non-compete agreements.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYXl62_VMX0) 465 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYXl62_VMX0)
Runner-up Titles
Extra Innings
Later Innings
Customer is always right, except for pricing
Leave the party crying
Put a price on it
Rundown
Hashi
Introducing The Infrastructure Cloud (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-the-infrastructure-cloud)
HashiCorp unveils The Infrastructure Cloud, a unified platform for cloud Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/04/22/2866901/0/en/HashiCorp-unveils-The-Infrastructure-Cloud-a-unified-platform-for-cloud-Infrastructure-and-Security-Lifecycle-Management.html)
IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-to-acquire-hashicorp-inc-creating-a-comprehensive-end-to-end-hybrid-cloud-platform-302126646.html)
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/ibm_q1_2024/)
IBM falls as enterprise-spending constraints choke consulting demand (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-falls-enterprise-spending-constraints-115210911.html)
IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2024/04/26/ibm-is-buying-hashicorp-what-comes-next/)
The threat to open source comes from within (https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-threat-to-open-source-comes-from)
You should automate your builds and tests - 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.” (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/you-should-automate-your-builds-and)
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes)
Relevant to your Interests
AlmaLinux 9.4 beta: RHEL compatible, but a little different (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/almalinux_94_ciq_lts_kernels/)
Building for our AI future (https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/building-ai-future-april-2024/)
Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/wiz-is-in-talks-to-buy-lacework-for-150-200m-security-firm-was-last-valued-at-8-3b/)
Amazon recently bought a $650 million nuclear-powered data center (https://x.com/finmoorhouse/status/1781022862482059444)
Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/wiz-is-in-talks-to-buy-lacework-for-150-200m-security-firm-was-last-valued-at-8-3b/)
Netflix Dealt With the Freeloaders. Its Next Act Will Be Tougher. (https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-earnings-analysis-23b12db8)
Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tesla-cybertruck-throttle-accelerator-pedal-stuck/)
Do software companies actually have good margins? (https://benn.substack.com/p/do-software-companies-actually-have)
Women Who Code: Influential tech network shuts down unexpectedly (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0769446nyo)
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships)
Tesla’s Q&A with investors rips open Musk anguish: ‘Will you please at least appear to make Tesla your top priority?’ (https://fortune.com/2024/04/19/teslas-investors-musk-anguish-conduct-x-erratic/)
The SignalFire State of Talent Report: 2023 tech employee trends (https://www.signalfire.com/blog/state-of-talent-tech-trends)
Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone (https://reason.com/2024/04/19/appeals-court-rules-that-cops-can-physically-make-you-unlock-your-phone/)
Improve cost visibility of Amazon EKS with AWS Split Cost Allocation Data | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/improve-cost-visibility-of-amazon-eks-with-aws-split-cost-allocation-data/)
Introducing Our Open Mixed Reality Ecosystem | Meta (https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-open-mixed-reality-ecosystem/)
US is reviewing risks of China's use of RISC-V chip technology (https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-is-reviewing-risks-chinas-use-risc-v-chip-technology-2024-04-23/)
Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Origins (https://open.substack.com/pub/thechipletter/p/googles-first-tensor-processing-unit?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on 'substantial proportion of people in America' | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/22/unitedhealth-change-healthcare-hackers-substantial-proportion-americans/)
Broadcom Tells Partner Negotiating For Charity ‘VMware Is Not For Everybody’ (https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/2024/broadcom-tells-partner-negotiating-for-charity-vmware-is-not-for-everybody)
Oracle is moving its world headquarters to Nashville to be closer to health-care industry (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/oracle-is-moving-its-world-hq-to-nashville.html)
Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part. (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/tiktok-ban-bill-congress.html)
The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives - Stories (https://news.microsoft.com/2024/04/23/the-coca-cola-company-and-microsoft-announce-five-year-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-cloud-and-generative-ai-initiatives/)
Atlassian Co-CEO Scott Farquhar Resigns, Leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes as Sole Chief (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/atlassian-team-co-ceo-farquhar-resigns-leaving-cannon-brookes-as-sole-chief)
Thoma Bravo to buy UK-listed Darktrace for £4.3bn (https://www.ft.com/content/44b9884b-0b7b-4cb7-b372-0b390ed96947)
All we have to fear is FUD itself — Oxide and Friends (https://overcast.fm/+4jBHj8QDI)
The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down (https://www.theverge.com/24141929/apple-iphone-imessage-antitrust-dma-lock-in)
We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-re-moving-continuous-integration-back-to-developer-machines-3ac6c611)
Enterprise Browser Island Receives Capital at $3 Billion Value (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-30/enterprise-browser-island-receives-capital-at-3-billion-value)
Kubernetes Market Sizing Windmills (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/kubernetes-market-sizing-windmills?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=144035534&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes)
Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/aws-stops-selling-snowmobile-truck-for-cloud-migrations.html)
The Port State of Platform Engineering in two surveys (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/the-port-state-of-platform-engineering?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=143633003&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)
Cloud native platforms: To build or to buy? (https://www.cio.com/article/2091709/cloud-native-platforms-to-build-or-to-buy.html)
State of DevSecOps | Datadog (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-devsecops/)
Letter from Edward Norton, Founder of Zeck (https://www.zeck.app/letter-from-edward-norton-founder-of-zeck), Why Zeck (https://www.zeck.app/why-zeck)
The Man Who Killed Google Search (https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/)
Alphabet earnings are out — here are the numbers (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/25/alphabet-set-to-report-first-quarter-results-after-market-close.html)
Alphabet stock surges on earnings beat, dividend announcement (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-stock-surges-on-earnings-beat-dividend-announcement-142011040.html)
Amazon earnings are out — here are the numbers (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/amazon-amzn-q1-earnings-report-2024.html)
Microsoft earnings are out – here are the numbers (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/25/microsoft-msft-q3-earnings-2024.html)
Nonsense
Adam Neumann moves to buy back WeWork as it seeks funds to exit bankruptcy (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/adam-neumann-moves-buy-back-045708441.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
A Mansion, Two Dogs and a Wall: Inside The Conflict Between a Utah Billionaire And His Neighbors (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/cloudflare-billionaire-matthew-prince-fights-utah-locals-over-house-dogs-wall)
Red Lobster Is Reportedly Heading For Bankruptcy After Losing Millions On Endless Shrimp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/red-lobster-is-reportedly-heading-for-bankruptcy-after-losing-millions-on-endless-shrimp/ar-AA1nnPt7)
Conferences
Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd (https://sincusa.com/events/tanzu-atlanta-ga-dinner/)
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/).
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Recommendations
Brandon:
MarkdownDown (https://markdowndown.vercel.app/)
BBEdit's Extract and new feature blindness (https://leancrew.com/all-this/2016/05/bbedits-extract-and-new-feature-blindness/)
Coté: Adam Savage Q&A (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtitKU0CAeg88RBY08TZkB7dcVmJLJLJ)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-building-with-a-sign-on-the-side-of-it-4EnA55QfxKo)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/two-burger-with-lettuce-and-tomato-ndNw_6QGR_c)
5/3/2024 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 464: Jana Werner on The Digital Transformation Card Game
Coté interviews Jana Werner, Enterprise Transformation Lead EMEA, from Amazon Web Services (AWS). How can you start small changes to make big changes? That's the premise of Jana Werner's organization transformation card game. Sure, it's not really a "game," but each question is meant to help nudge management and executives a little closer to changing how they operate. Many of the ideas come from Amazon thinking, but many of the are also just the type of common sense that's too often uncommonly practiced. Coté interviews her about some of the cards, but, more importantly, the thinking, management philosophy, the life-style behind the cards.
Show Links
Coté mentioned a case study Jana did with Barry O'Reilly about Tesco Bank, here it is (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VejBzjF2R7JV1TEvvbTtIN2cTynwxY9q/view).
Appoint and empower a single threaded leader (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_in-phil-le-brun-my-post-last-week-we-shared-activity-7019653493850284033-6Iqv)
Two way door decisions (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/phillebrun_aws-activity-7017155613646336001-gyUf/)
Dogs not barking (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_culture-leadership-change-activity-7024735757156155392-iNkm).
Weasel words (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawerner1_talked-about-dogs-not-barking-last-week-activity-7029732454575828993-14iE).
If you'd like to hear more from Jana, Coté also interviewed her back in 2020 about her work at Tesco Bank (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/250).
Contact Jana Werner
LinkedIn: Jana Werner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janawerner1/).
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The Cards
Here's the text of the all the cards:
Mechanism
1. How can you remove 40% of the time required by a process within 45 days?
2. How can you encourage and recognize experimentation with a community of practice?
3. How can you use Amazon’s wheel of fortune to focus your operations meetings?
4. How can you dive deep on one recurring problem to create a mechanism?
5. How can you introduce Bar Raisers into hiring interviews to assess cultural fit/bar raising?
6. How can you make visible how much of a product’s new functionality is actually used?
7. How can you create your next prototype as a Minimum Loveable Product?
8. How can you pick someone unfamiliar with your product to deep dive into the data and customer experience with?
9. How can you use data to examine a decision that you made 2+ months ago for issues?
10. How can you define your next business outcome as a Press Release?
11. How can you visualise the decision-making for a process and eliminate 20% of the steps?
12. How can you agree [on] the single threaded owner for each decision?
13. How can you pick an organisational report, understand its purpose and eliminate or simplify it?
14. How can you introduce recognition for best simplification of the quarter?
15. How can you accelerate decision making by having more frequent, shorter senior meetings?
Culture
How can you evidence that your next investment or product decision is what the customer really needs?
How can you start leadership meetings with “one thing I learned this week” discussions?
How can you create a feedback ritual at the end of each meeting?
How can you work towards a safe meeting environment to practice "Disagree and Commit as a Principle?
How can you give monthly recognition to the best cultural heck your organization has seen?
How can you publicly discuss one of your “failures” and why the learnings were valuable?
How can you run a culture hackathon, to identity hacks for a more agile culture?
How can you schedule and protect time for retrospectives with learnings published?
How can you dive deep when anecdotes and data conflict for a decision?
How can you for every decisions ask what would need to be true to make the decisions faster?
How can you replace weasel, words with data and customer anecdotes in business cases and reports?
How can you identify a Day 2 behaviour to turn into a Day 1 behaviour with your team?
How can you interview new hires within 2 months on good and bad culture observations?
How can you start your next meeting with a document read?
Organisation
How can you identify one emerging skill your organisation will need and create a learning path for it?
How can you measure, reduce, and share learnings on the Bureaucratic Mass Index of a single team?
How can you identity two-way door decisions und relinquish these to your teams?
How can you stop using silos (“IT”) and instead use names (“Andy”)?
How can you reduce “Keeping the Lights On” time and cost for one team?
[REPEAT?] How can you start your next meeting with a quiet document read?
How can you give your teams carte blanche for fast escalations?
How can you identify one gate-keeper process that can be replaced with a guardrail or an automation?
How can you change a KPI from an absolute achievement to one that shows continual improvement?
Leadership
How can you use the Ladder of Inference to seek disconfirming data for key decisions.
How can you identity “dogs not barking” in your leadership meetings and address these?
How can you focus your next 1:1s on understanding employees' super powers?
How can you create a shared understanding for phrases like “Digital Transformation” and “Agile” through lunch h-and-learn.
How can you define team ambition and pride statements that resonate emotionally and intellectually?
How can you create a press release describing where you imagine your organization to be in 3 years?
How can you go around the room for feedback with the leader speaking last?
How can you ask 10 employees about your organizations' priorities, vision, and their role in these?
How can you define what makes you truly compensative using Wardley Maps or similar?
How can you agree to what would help prioritize speed for your next two-way door decisions?
How can you appoint and empower a single threaded leader for key initiatives?
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4/26/2024 • 50 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 463: Phishing License
This week, we discuss OpenTofu’s response to Hashicorp, Salesforce potentially acquiring Informatica and the latest Kubernetes Market Size from IDC. Plus, when will Enterprise A.I. improve the DMV experience?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Yvt-NtjVc) 463 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Yvt-NtjVc)
Runner-up Titles
The fun run was fun.
You don’t have to pay for this, just glue it together with a couple of bash scripts.
The Phish are biting
Everything’s cool zone
Words that rhyme with “acquisation”
Maybe AI can find it
The market for products that start with “K”
I like hotdogs
Don’t do the values, just the fun facts
Rundown
An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About Google’s Enterprise AI Strategy (https://stratechery.com/2024/an-interview-with-google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-about-googles-enterprise-ai-strategy/)
OpenTofu responds to Hashicorp
Our Response to Hashicorp's Cease and Desist Letter | OpenTofu (https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/)
Matt Asay response Tweet (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1778454498664690108)
Adam Jacob take (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1778470920094691625)
Salesforce in Advanced Talks to Buy Informatica (https://www.wsj.com/tech/salesforce-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-informatica-ba9ec09c?mod=tech_lead_story&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
451 Research's kubernetes market-sizing ($2.85 billion in 2028) (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/203924/Toc?ref=PCN%20email)
Exclusive: API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/akamai-acquisition-talks-noname-security/)
Relevant to your Interests
Introducing Our Next Generation Infrastructure for AI | Meta (https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-next-generation-infrastructure-for-ai/?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124)
ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances (https://www.engadget.com/isps-roll-out-mandatory-broadband-nutrition-labels-that-show-speeds-fees-and-data-allowances-103832369.html)
How ZIRP benefited hyperscaler revenue (https://twitter.com/treiner5/status/1778403310871179678)
Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag (https://platformonomics.com/2024/04/follow-the-capex-the-clown-car-race-checkered-flag/)
Splunk vs Cribl Lawsuit of Terms Violating Enterprise License (https://cybersecuritynews.com/splunk-vs-cribl-lawsuit/)
It's easy to bash tech, but I've started taking robotaxis — and they're awesome (https://www.businessinsider.com/waymo-self-driving-robotaxi-cars-without-drivers-amazing-tech-review-2024-4)
Citi slashes 110 apps: Next up... Data transformation (https://www.thestack.technology/citi-data-transformation-2024/)
Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/technology/microsoft-g42-uae-ai.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack (https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/widely-used-putty-ssh-client-found.html)
Meta's Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/16/metas-oversight-board-probes-explicit-ai-generated-images-posted-on-instagram-and-facebook/?_hsmi=302971940)
New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/uk-seeks-to-criminalize-creation-of-sexually-explicit-ai-deepfake-images-without-consent/?_hsmi=302971940)
Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe (https://www.theverge.com/24100464/altstore-pal-dma-eu-launch-delta-nintendo-emulator-clip-clipboard-manager)
Linux Foundation leads the fight against fauxpen source (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/12/linux_foundation_opinion/)
Enterprise Nonsense
How to setup your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) for RabbitMQ, MySQL, Postgres, Redis (https://youtu.be/FBvQRpZYSXw?si=BAtYDg4ImZDgYxea)
Listener Feedback
Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SJ8SQ6Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share)
Grip Case for Nintendo Switch Lite (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DVCCWXH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1)
Andrew Shafer owns an All American Burger? (http://All> American Burger - Tucson, AZ)
Conferences
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/).
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund / Oxide (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1843393)
Civil War (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/civil_war_2024)
Matt:
Ostrich travel pillow (https://amzn.to/3Jm4ixF)
H (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)- (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)E (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)- (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)B Pro-Sleep Mask (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/optic-shop-pro-sleep-blindfold-sleeping-mask-each/6176002)
Coté: Continuity Camera (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102546), kibbeling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbeling).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/six-black-and-yellow-fishing-rod-in-boat-UivGzIDhVyw)
Artwork (https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/)
4/19/2024 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 462: Lifting Code
This week, we discuss Matt Asay accusing OpenTufu of "lifting code" and recap the Google Next '24. announcements. Plus, we share some thoughts on camera placement and offer listeners a chance to get free coffee beans.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBJU8UdLOA) 462 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBJU8UdLOA)
Runner-up Titles
Hey, I’m VP of Cables, not VP of Hubs.
Well, I still have meetings.
The Cote’ Experience
ClosedTofu
Our Cloud is Huge(tm)
Rundown
Matt Asay vs. OpenTofu
OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714980/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork.html)
OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated (https://twitter.com/opentofuorg/status/1776398008558493991?s=46&t=kiCCT8LlOOqj0WYcmUddTg)
Matt Asay (https://x.com/mjasay/status/1776635226124632423?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg) Follow up Tweet
Bryan Cantrill (https://x.com/bcantrill/status/1775962870762844212) calls it an extraordinarily serious accusation
Adam Jacob says “incendiary claim with no actual facts backing it up. The code looks completely different. (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1775663819693703674)
Google Cloud Next ’24
Introducing Google’s new Arm-based CPU (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-googles-new-arm-based-cpu/)
Google’s first Arm-based CPU will challenge Microsoft and Amazon in the AI race (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24125074/google-axion-arm-cpu-ai-chips-cloud-server-data-center)
Welcome to Google Cloud Next ‘24 | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/welcome-to-google-cloud-next24)
Gemini for Google Cloud is here | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-for-google-cloud-is-here)
Google Cloud Next '24 Opening Keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DJYGn2SFk)
Google Cloud Next '24 Developer Keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMH5OcW5UYw)
Relevant to your Interests
WhatsApp goes down in Meta's second big outage this year (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/whatsapp-goes-down-in-metas-second-big-outage-this-year/)
Alphabet is weighing an offer for $32 billion marketing tech firm HubSpot, sources say (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-google-parent-alphabet-weighs-134439629.html)
OpenStack debuts its first easy-to-upgrade release (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/openstack_caracal_released/)
No, Amazon Isn’t Killing Just Walk Out But Rather “Pushing Hard” On It (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/no-amazon-isnt-killing-just-walk-out-but-rather-pushing-hard-in-it/)
Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion (https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2024/04/02/substack-is-setting-writers-up-for-a-twitter-style-implosion/comment-page-1/#comments)
Why WASI Preview 2 Makes WebAssembly Production Ready (https://thenewstack.io/why-wasi-preview-2-makes-webassembly-production-ready/)
Why Broadcom may set the future of software licensing (https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/the_world_is_watching_broadcom/)
Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ teams (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/)
New York City defends AI chatbot that advised entrepreneurs to break laws (https://www.reuters.com/technology/new-york-city-defends-ai-chatbot-that-advised-entrepreneurs-break-laws-2024-04-04/)
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24122341/apple-app-store-game-emulators-super-apps)
The Status of Just Walk Out, TSMC Gets CHIPS Act Grant (https://stratechery.com/2024/the-status-of-just-walk-out-tsmc-gets-chips-act-grant/)
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up' - IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-larians-publishing-director-calls-games-industry-an-avoidable-fck-up)
Access: A New Portal for Managing Internal Authorization (https://discord.com/blog/access-a-new-portal-for-managing-internal-authorization)
Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24124174/android-find-my-device-network-offline-tracker-tag-chipolo-pebblebee)
Gemini 1.5 Makes a Scholarly Connection that Took Me Years to Find (https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1bkcjs4/gemini_15_makes_a_scholarly_connection_that_took/)
Android’s upgraded Find My Device network is here (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24124174/android-find-my-device-network-offline-tracker-tag-chipolo-pebblebee)
KKR Weighs Sale or IPO for $15 Billion BMC Software (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/kkr-is-said-to-weigh-sale-or-ipo-for-15-billion-bmc-software?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=tech&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech&utm_medium=social&embedded-checkout=true)
Nonsense
Dude Perfect scores $100M+ investment from Highmount Capital (https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/dude-perfect-investment-highmount-capital)
Costco selling as much as $200M in gold bars per month, Wells Fargo estimates (https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/business/costco-selling-as-much-as-200m-in-gold-bars-per-month-wells-fargo/)
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Conferences
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/).
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Node.js: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiUGy0)
How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook | React.js: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDqJVdNa44)
Matt: Qatar Airlines Stopover Tour (https://www.qatarairways.com/en/offers/qatar-stopover.html)
Coté: Noah Kalina YouTubes (https://www.youtube.com/@NoahKalina) (follow-up: he’s three years younger than Coté (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Kalina), so same cultural cohort as theorized.)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/Coffee-Beans?orientation=landscape)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-computer-screen-with-a-bunch-of-text-on-it-1LLh8k2_YFk)
4/12/2024 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 461: Not illegal, works as designed
This week, we discuss Redis Relicensing, Progress acquiring MariaDB and Microsoft unbundling Teams. Plus, Coté shares his Top 10 Tech and Productivity Wish List for regulators.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLlXxJWlOE) 461 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLlXxJWlOE)
Runner-up Titles
The Fork is a feature not a bug
Relicensing: The path to Private Equity
Is this Progress?
Hot Antitrust Action
Give it to Switzerland, they can hold our calendars
Won’t someone think of the children?
Cote’s airing of (Apple) grievances
The deepest of pockets
Fine-adjacent.
Not complicated enough
What’s it called when they plateau going down?
Frankenstein Grand Theory of Open Source Business Models
a large, wide portfolio of things that you’re vaguely aware of
Mostly contrast
Rundown
Zuck Just Entered the Fediverse: Here’s What That Means (https://gizmodo.com/zuck-entered-fediverse-threads-heres-what-that-means-1851356849)
Redis
RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history (https://www.gomomento.com/blog/rip-redis-how-garantia-data-pulled-off-the-biggest-heist-in-open-source-history)
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing no one (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/22/redis_changes_license/)
Battle of the Redis forks? (https://www.thestack.technology/battle-of-the-redis-forks-begins/)
Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714688/the-bizarre-defense-of-trillion-dollar-cabals.html)
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/31/why-aws-google-and-oracle-are-backing-the-valkey-redis-fork/)
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted (https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted)
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community)
Is this Progress?
Progress Software considering an offer for MariaDB plc (NASDAQ:PRGS) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4083996-progress-software-considering-offer-for-mariadb-plc).
Progress Software Confirms Bid to Acquire MariaDB (https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/progress-software-revenue-beats-estimates-outlook-short-of-forecasts-769e9c7e).
Database popularity index (https://db-engines.com/en/ranking)
Exclusive: Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-separate-teams-office-globally-amid-antitrust-scrutiny-2024-04-01/)
Google defends auto-deletion of chats after US alleged it destroyed evidence (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/google-defends-auto-deletion-of-chats-after-us-alleged-it-destroyed-evidence/)
20 years of Gmail (https://www.theverge.com/24113616/gmail-email-20-years-old-internet)
Cote's Top 10 Tech & Productivity Wishlist for Regulators
Clickable Links in Instagram Captions: Make it easier to direct followers to relevant content.
Unified Social Media: Allow seamless posting across platforms, ideally leveraging Twitter's existing reach.
Native ChatGPT Downloads: Eliminate the need for external plugins to download chat sessions.
Universal Link Insertion Shortcut: Standardize link insertion across apps (Cmd-K for everyone!).
Apple Notes Customization & Integration: Enable background customization and merge with Freeform to challenge GoodNotes' dominance.
Universal Free/Busy Calendar: Facilitate effortless scheduling across platforms.
Standardized Markdown Export: Ensure all major word processors export in a common markdown format (Gruber or Common Markdown).
Granular Screen Time Controls: Empower users with detailed control over device usage.
Regulate Car Rental Insurance Fees: Put a stop to excessive and unfair insurance charges by rental companies.
Bring Back Google Reader! (Okay, this one's a personal plea, but wouldn't it be great?)
Relevant to your Interests
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/)
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry (https://www.wired.com/story/reddits-sale-user-data-ai-training-draws-ftc-investigation/)
Apache Kvrocks (https://kvrocks.apache.org/)
Ex-technology companies (https://lethain.com/ex-technology-companies/)
FTX to Sell Two-Thirds of Anthropic Stake for $884 Million (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-to-sell-two-thirds-of-anthropic-stake-for-884-million-2cb3ccd2)
“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/windows-current-disk-formatting-ui-is-a-30-year-old-placeholder-from-windows-nt/)
Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork, source says (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-adam-neumann-submits-over-221446962.html)
Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM (https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm)
Marissa Mayer's startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn't sure what to think | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/marissa-mayers-startup-just-rolled-out-apps-for-group-photo-sharing-and-event-planning-and-the-internet-isnt-sure-what-to-think/)
Key takeaways from the Entrust incident (https://www.digicert.com/blog/key-takeaways-from-the-entrust-incident)
Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/amazon-spends-2point7b-on-startup-anthropic-in-largest-venture-investment.html)
Stepping on the Gas - Observe, Inc. (https://www.observeinc.com/blog/stepping-on-the-gas/)
Bankman-Fried Is Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Over FTX Collapse (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-28/bankman-fried-is-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison?srnd=homepage-americas)
Databricks CEO Says Competition Spurred High-Profile Exit at Snowflake (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/databricks-ceo-says-competition-spurred-165030607.html)
Snowflake's Meltdown Is Not Drastic Enough - Still Expensive Here (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4680854-snowflake-meltdown-not-drastic-enough-still-expensive-here)
Flox 1.0: Containerless development environments using Nix (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/23/flox_1_nix/)
Apple to Launch New iPad Pro and iPad Air Models in May (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/28/new-ipad-models-may-launch/)
A US Business Tax Law Change That Partially Caused Layoffs (Section 174) (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-business-tax-law-change-partially-caused-layoffs-174-levitt-mba-mrbbf/?trackingId=BLvRFIlxS%2F66kmfrkzeptQ%3D%3D)
Results of 2024 elections of OSI board of directors (https://opensource.org/blog/results-of-2024-elections-of-osi-board-of-directors)
To the pharmacy and beyond: Drug development goes to space (https://thehustle.co/news/to-the-pharmacy-and-beyond-drug-development-goes-to-space)
AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/30/tech/att-data-leak/index.html)
Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/1/24117929/google-incognito-browsing-data-delete-class-action-settlement)
KubeCon EU 2024 Paris: Key Takeaways (https://danielbryantuk.medium.com/kubecon-eu-2024-paris-key-takeaways-ad4c1bb7fbfe)
Amazon cuts hundreds of jobs in cloud computing unit (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/amazon-layoffs-hundreds-of-jobs-cut-in-cloud-computing-unit.html)
Intel slides as foundry business loss spotlights wide gap with rival TSMC (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-slides-foundry-business-loss-120623062.html)
Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack (https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-cybersecurity-hack-raimondo-breach-b0901a93cca2ffaf05edacbfb9ecf3da)
California Law Would Give Workers ‘Right to Disconnect’ From Employer’s Messages Outside Work Hours (https://gizmodo.com/california-right-to-disconnect-stop-employer-messages-1851380159)
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders (https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118436/yahoo-news-artifact-acquisition)
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk (https://spectrum.ieee.org/3m-floppy)
why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project (https://macwright.com/2024/03/25/about-placemark-io)
Ensuring a Project's Long-Term Survival with William Morgan (https://www.emilyomier.com/podcast/ensuring-a-projects-long-term-survival-with-william-morgan)
Tennr puts fax machines back in vogue for healthcare organizations using AI, as it secures $18m from a16z (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tennr-puts-fax-machines-back-130000653.html)
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116)
A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo (https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/03/22/a-few-thoughts-on-the-apple-doj-antitrust-case-from-someone-who-isnt-riding-his-first-rodeo/)
Nonsense
Some New England universities and colleges break $90,000 barrier for total cost in upcoming school year (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/business/college-tuition-new-england-ninety-thousand/index.html)
As markets soar, should investors look beyond America? (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/03/24/as-markets-soar-should-investors-look-beyond-america)
Conferences
Tanzu Defined, online, April 3rd, 2024 (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7175971321300865024/about/) - but check the replay in LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7175971321300865024/about/) or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvWDyd98hA).
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking.
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19 -to21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/).
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Recommendations
Brandon: 3 Body Problem (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821&ved=2ahUKEwj7y8yl0Y-FAxUkkO4BHSPsAokQFnoECDwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw34C7IJEMHi6y9j30HRthhu)
Matt: Uni Jetstream Pen, 0.5 mm (https://amzn.to/4apzuYT)
Coté: First chapter of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icewind_Dale:_Rime_of_the_Frostmaiden) - so this is what a “sandbox” adventure is. Related, my overview of making huge D&D maps with Midjourney (https://cote.io/2024/04/03/creating-huge-dd.html). Also, though I might have recommended it before, this is both good in its own and fascinating from an Internet-artist perspective. And I don’t even like house (can’t they take that damn beat out so we can hear the actual mish-mash of music without that metal scrapping on Brillo pads all the time?) https://youtu.be/EgepxKANDGc?si=hO6_092WONyp-QUI
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-wooden-fence-with-a-painted-sign-on-it-4XbEgggW93o)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-in-gold-dress-holding-sword-figurine-L4YGuSg0fxs)
4/5/2024 • 1 hour, 11 seconds
Episode 460: Tom Wilkie on Observability
Matt Ray interviews Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs CTO. They discuss the latest trends in Observability, Grafana’s recent announcements and the state of OSS businesses . Plus, some ideas for your next 3D printing project.
Show Links
The Brewintosh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9oz4Ylzm4)
Prusa Mini v6 Hotend Adapter (https://www.printables.com/model/31006-prusa-mini-v6-hotend-adapter)
Cortex (https://cortexmetrics.io)
Prometheus (https://prometheus.io)
Grafana Labs (https://grafana.com)
OpenCost (https://www.opencost.io/blog/carbon-costs)
GrafanaCON 2024 April 9-10 (https://grafana.com/about/events/grafanacon/2024/)
Contact Tom Wilkie
LinkedIn: tomwilkie (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomwilkie/?originalSubdomain=uk)
Twitter: @tom_wilkie (https://twitter.com/tom_wilkie?lang=en)
GitHub: tomwilkie (https://github.com/tomwilkie)
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Special Guest: Tom Wilkie.
3/29/2024 • 30 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 459: Is Hello A Proper Slack Message?
This week, we discuss Kubecon EU, Nvidia’s hyper growth, having 55 direct reports and the Worldwide Container Infrastructure Forecast. Plus, is “hello” a proper slack message?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-SnxTaHhL4) 459 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-SnxTaHhL4)
Runner-up Titles
"Hey. Got a sec? Want to run something by you.”
You don’t want to scare you coworkers
Eating bugs off your coworkers
“Hi” has become a trigger word
Rehabilitate the “Hi”
55 Direct Reports
Everyone worked at one company, and that one company didn’t want to do the work for everyone.
The YAML hand off market
Rundown
Is Hello a proper Slack message? (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1770411476022354075)
Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (https://www.nohello.com/2013/01/please-dont-say-just-hello-in-chat.html)
Kubecon
“Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rqe5Yc13-A) "Boosting Developer Platform Teams with Product Thinking," (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_KCOcoliLI) “Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs!” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhloarnpxVo)
OpenCost Introduces Carbon Costs (https://www.opencost.io/blog/carbon-costs)
What if the CNCF was private equity? (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/03/what-if-cncf-was-private-equity.html)
Nvidia
Nvidia shares pop on Q4 earnings, generative AI "hits tipping point" (https://www.axios.com/2024/02/21/nvidia-nvda-earnings-q4-stock-price?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang - has 55 direct reports (https://www.threads.net/@1393985902/post/C4dsKakP97W)
Video that tracks the trajectories of Intel and NVIDIA (https://www.threads.net/@briansolis/post/C4lZBcKsdtC/?xmt=AQGzp25jpaWtHUqgBJaBCIJrv22Ag5Q0bPRX3Q6xRh_S4Q)
Nvidia's latest AI chip will cost more than $30,000, CEO says (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/19/nvidias-blackwell-ai-chip-will-cost-more-than-30000-ceo-says.html)
Worldwide Container Infrastructure Software Forecast, 2023–2027 (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US49244823&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY)
Relevant to your Interests
Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug (https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/leadership-is-a-hell-of-a-drug/)
Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executives-role-in-sam-altman-ouster.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Who Still Works From Home? (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/08/business/economy/remote-work-home.html)
A new TikTok ban gains steam (https://www.platformer.news/tik-tok-ban-bill-2024-bytedance-biden/?ref=platformer-newsletter)
Sam Altman reinstated to OpenAI board after investigation clears him of wrongdoing (https://venturebeat.com/security/sam-altman-reinstated-to-openai-board-after-investigation-clears-him-of-wrongdoing/)
More companies getting rid of free tiers: (https://x.com/planetscale/status/1765438197981708684?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
49% of founders say they’re considering quitting their startup this year (https://sifted.eu/articles/founder-mental-health-2024)
The WiFi at Google's new Bay View office hasn't been working properly for months: report (https://www.businessinsider.com/googles-swanky-new-bay-view-office-suffers-bad-wifi-2024-3)
Moon Mission Could Redefine Computing in Deep Space (https://www.eetimes.com/data-centers-could-soon-break-lunar-ground/)
Doctors Are Using the Apple Vision Pro During Surgery (https://gizmodo.com/doctors-are-using-the-apple-vision-pro-during-surgery-1851329884)
Apple Buys Canadian AI Startup as It Races to Add Features (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-14/apple-aapl-buys-canadian-ai-startup-darwinai-as-part-of-race-to-add-features?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=240314&utm_campaign=author_19842959&sref=9hGJlFio)
Python with braces. Because python is awesome, but whitespace is awful. (https://github.com/mathialo/bython)
Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" of users (https://www.thestack.technology/bias-biometrics-and-black-boxes-europes-ai-act-what-you-need-to-know/)
How The Cloud Is A Trap (https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP1144808)
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky says more than 10,000 organizations are using Bedrock (https://www.axios.com/2024/03/12/aws-ceo-ai-bedrock-amazon-anthropic)
Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans (https://martinfowler.com/articles/measuring-developer-productivity-humans.html)
Snowflake Stock: Melting Faster Than An Ice Cube (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4678674-snowflake-melting-faster-than-an-ice-cube-snow-stock)
Games Are Coming to LinkedIn (https://www.pcmag.com/news/games-are-coming-to-linkedin)
Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report (https://gizmodo.com/dell-remote-employees-eligible-promotions-1851347699)
European Cloud Group Calls for Regulatory Scrutiny Over Broadcom’s VMware Overhaul (https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-cloud-group-calls-for-regulatory-scrutiny-over-broadcoms-vmware-overhaul-28b7c6ed?st=6n4vd93zeqr9d0o&reflink=article_email_share)
Analogpunk, or, Tools, Shoes and Misery (https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP1145788)
Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2Me-TpMQFvCphDu_xm71ed_)
Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing (https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/)
Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/apple-in-talks-to-license-google-gemini-for-iphone-ios-18-generative-ai-tools)
The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24089999/apple-macbook-air-m3-announced-13-15-inch)
Walmart sells a Mac (https://www.threads.net/@parkerortolani/post/C4iaGaFuKS8/?xmt=AQGzjqrbQ8qCsg4UUGYIc8LbOh2c9MoMdzn7sXSwOehXkA)
Apple Plans AirPods Overhaul With New Low- and High-End Models, USB-C Headphones (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-25/apple-airpods-plans-4th-generation-low-end-3rd-generation-pro-and-usb-c-max)
AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/amazon-follows-google-in-announcing-free-data-transfers-out-of-aws/)
Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/)
Buyout Firm Vista Equity Explores Options Including Sale for LogicMonitor (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-13/buyout-firm-vista-equity-explores-options-including-sale-for-logicmonitor)
Nonsense
Airlines Are Coming for Your Carry-Ons (https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/flights-carry-on-bags-personal-items-3bcd3c2c?st=nx8npa3s7g8tm7f&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
Clocks Change (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo)
Costco CFO ‘voice’ looks back on 40 years, $1.50 hot dogs and leadership (https://www.cfodive.com/news/costco-cfo-voice-40-years-150-hot-dogs-Richard-Galanti/709622/)
Star Wars: Millennium Falcon 50p coin unveiled by Royal Mint (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68594916)
Delta’s CEO says controversial Sky Lounge changes reflect the airline’s status as premium brand (https://www.fastcompany.com/91060105/deltas-ceo-controversial-sky-lounge-changes-airlines-status-premium-brand)
3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh - The Brewintosh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9oz4Ylzm4)
Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/formula-1-chief-appalled-to-find-team-using-excel-to-manage-20000-car-parts/)
Listener Feedback
Chris tell us the Owala Water Bottle is on sale. (https://a.co/d/30B4wA1)
Conferences
Tanzu (Re)defined online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDvWDyd98hA), April 3rd, Coté Speaking.
Tanzu (Re)defined (https://www.fig-street.com/041124-tanzu-redefined/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), April 11th, Coté speaking, Palo Alto.
TEQNation (https://conference.teqnation.com), May 22nd, 2024, Utrecht, Coté speaking.
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19 to 21, 2024, Coté speaking.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/).
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), Seattle April 16-18. Matt’s speaking
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon:
The E-Gates Modality Will Now Be Implemented at Cancun Airport - Cancun Airport (https://www.cancuniairport.com/the-e-gates-modality-will-now-be-implemented-at-cancun-airport/)
Global Entry better then ever (https://globalfinder-usonline.com/glofinderus/?utm_term=global%20entry&utm_campaign=5C1B-2023-04-07&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwte-vBhBFEiwAQSv_xZTL8mD-XjuwoT_Kqr6-YHaCUiyCITM5HugRhsRNLqm_50l3sSIJZxoC-jsQAvD_BwE)
Mobile Passport Control (MPC) (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-control) available in Austin Airport
Matt: Duck Duck Go (https://duckduckgo.com)
Coté: MacBook Pro (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/14-inch-m3-max)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/Hello)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/Matrix-math)
3/22/2024 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 458: How to survive and thrive at work
This week, we discuss Coté's O'Reilly video series where he offers up some tips on how to survive and thrive in the workplace. Plus, some ideas on how to reinvent the virtual town hall.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiWr-jUM0FQ) 458 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiWr-jUM0FQ)
Runner-up Titles
Surviving Corporate America
Hopes and Dreams
Second half of your career
Soul Crushing
I stole this from TikTok
Living too much
Just be happy
Review life imbalance
Rundown
10 part course at O’Reilly about working in a large organization, a BigCo (https://learning.oreilly.com/course/how-to-survive/0790145433268/)
Conferences
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
Tanzu (Re)defined (https://www.fig-street.com/041124-tanzu-redefined/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), April 11th, Palo Alto.
NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th.
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon:
How Will You Measure Your Life? (https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life)
The Psychology of Money (https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Money-Timeless-lessons-happiness/dp/0857197681)
Vitamix (https://www.vitamix.com/us/en_us/shop?cid=ppc-google-Brand&coupon=07-0063&gad_source=1)
Coté: pecans in smoothies.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/people-on-conference-table-looking-at-talking-woman-Q80LYxv_Tbs)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/person-holding-light-bulb-fIq0tET6llw)
3/15/2024 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 457: Nobody owns YAML
This week, we discuss whether or not Kubernetes is boring, Winglang’s attempt to simply cloud deployments and Linkerd status as a graduated CNCF project. Plus, a few thoughts on frogs…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXssLonmkEw) 457 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXssLonmkEw)
Runner-up Titles
Blame the seagulls
Speaking of lizards in our houses
Burying people under B-trees
Compiler for the Cloud
I’m tired of speaking French
We need a big pie
If we stop shooting each other we can sit down and eat some pie.
The Jacob Principle
Has there every been a config file format love affair?
Rundown
Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong (https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-predictions-were-wrong/)
Wing Programming Language for the Cloud (https://www.winglang.io/)
#1262 Health of Linkerd project (https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1262)
Craig Box X Thread (https://twitter.com/craigbox/status/1760370351828320539)
Adam Jacob’s X Thread (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1761051900215275760)
Five Cloud News Trends for February (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/03/five-cloud-news-trends-for-february.html)
Relevant to your Interests
X adds support for passkeys on iOS after removing SMS 2FA support last year (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/23/x-adds-support-for-passkeys-on-ios-after-removing-sms-2fa-support-last-year/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABw_QgA37nl432nhb6Gn3krzLFMb5OvmaZr6thvov5iGJ8UrvQec-jpGjenN-KUP-cSFa4MRW9DXVXJ3_u87Z0-zfC2mR708qqm34sAhBT-mAcL5pP8L04T54Mqn-xnUCDNXYBJFr2Y4oHXFjkIWgTU_iwJ4vqK52MC4hYtaAC9W)
CACM Is Now Open Access (https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/)
Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087666/apple-disable-iphone-web-apps-eu-reversal)
A Few Jelly Beans and a World of Disappointment at Willy Wonka Event (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/world/europe/willy-wonka-experience-glasgow.html)
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over 'betrayal' of nonprofit AI mission | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-court/)
Meta says it’s deleting all Oculus accounts at the end of the month (https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087855/meta-delete-oculus-accounts)
Snowflake CEO Steps Down From Post Richer Than Tim Cook or Satya Nadella (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-04/snowflake-ceo-frank-slootman-steps-aside-richer-than-tim-cook-or-satya-nadella)
RISC-V launch (https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-launches-its-risc-v-servers-in-the-cloud-a-world-first-and-a-firm-commitment-to-technological-independence/)
Amazon goes nuclear, acquires atomic datacenter for $650M (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/04/amazon_acquires_cumulus_nuclear_datacenter/)
Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic (https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/business/red-sea-cables-cut-internet/index.html)
It’s Time to Give Up on Email (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/email-nightmare-just-give-up/677615/)
Nonsense
When a funeral is clickbait (https://www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-obituary-spam-generative-clickbait)
Conferences
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming).
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:[email protected]) if you want to hear more about it.
Tanzu (Re)defined (https://www.fig-street.com/041124-tanzu-redefined/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), April 11th, Palo Alto.
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Dune Part 2 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dune_part_two)
Matt: Our Band Could Be Your Life (https://amzn.to/49G2Ulg)
Conan O’Brien in Australia (https://conanclassic.com/australia/conan-becomes-a-bondi-beach-lifeguard)
Coté: Bruce Sterlings new-ish blog (https://toshareproject.it/artmakerblog/), especially the color scheme.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/shallow-focus-photography-of-brown-frog-hHDMQqP4jPU)
Gemini
3/8/2024 • 52 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 456: Second Guessing
This week, we second guess recent decisions made by Google and Apple. Plus, what social media sites is everyone actually using these days?
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKPcTxTejYM) 456 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKPcTxTejYM)
Runner-up Titles
Is it Russian hackers?
Bad upgrade is the 1B to DNS
They’re all bad product launches
Vikings are 98% more Nordic
Can I pay for features?
They’ve defeated vaporware
Interoperability is for underdogs
Rundown
Google
Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/google-pauses-gemini-ai-image-generator-after-inaccuracies.html)
Google Pay app is shutting down in the US after being replaced by Google Wallet (https://mashable.com/article/google-pay-shutting-down-replaced-by-google-wallet?ref=cardsftw.com)
AT&T outage caused by software update, not malicious intent: Sources (https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/att-outage-impacting-us-customers-company/story?id=107440297)
AT&T reimburses customers after massive network outage | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/25/business/att-network-outage-reimbursement/index.html)
Apple
Apple Music testing feature that easily imports playlists from Spotify and other services (https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/19/apple-music-spotify-playlists-music-transfer/)
Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Shifts Team to Generative AI (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai)
Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079081/apple-imessage-pq3-post-quantum-cryptography)
Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079064/apple-sports-app-launch-iphone-live-scores-odds-stats)
Don't dry your iPhone in a bag of rice, says Apple (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68357165)
The Sneaky Genius of Apple’s AirPods Empire (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-09-22/apple-airpods-sales-bode-well-for-vr-headset?sref=9hGJlFio)
Relevant to your Interests
Reddit’s IPO Is for Redditors (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-21/reddit-s-ipo-is-for-redditors?srnd=undefined)
Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds (https://codeengineered.com/blog/2024/open-source-not-builds/)
Cloud-Native Is In Shambles (https://dev.to/thenjdevopsguy/cloud-native-is-in-shambles-1klf)
S&P 500 rallies to record high on the back of strong Nvidia earnings: Live updates (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/21/stock-market-today-live-updates.html)
Reducing Waste and Managing Commitments Top Key Priorities for FinOps Practitioners (https://www.finops.org/insights/key-priorities-shift-in-2024/)
SadServers - Troubleshooting Linux Servers (https://sadservers.com/)
The Open Source Sustainability Crisis (https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/the-open-source-sustainability-crisis/)
Octopus Deploy Acquires Codefresh to Bring CD, CI, and GitOps Into One Trusted Platform (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/octopus-deploy-acquires-codefresh-to-bring-cd-ci-and-gitops-into-one-trusted-platform-302071690.html)
What to Do about VMware (https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/day-two-cloud/d2c234-what-to-do-about-vmware/)
Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24085075/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-lawsuit)
Improving Developer Experience Drives Profitability (https://thenewstack.io/improving-developer-experience-drives-profitability/)
ServerlessHorrors | Home (https://serverlesshorrors.com/)
Sony is laying off 900 employees from its PlayStation unit | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/27/sony-is-laying-off-900-employees-from-its-playstation-unit)
Future Software Should Be Memory Safe | ONCD | The White House (https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/02/26/press-release-technical-report/)
Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-ai-models-on-hugging-face-backdoor-users-machines/)
Snowflake says Frank Slootman is retiring as CEO, stock plunges more than 20% (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/snowflake-says-frank-slootman-is-retiring-as-ceo-stock-plunges-20percent.html)
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD (https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected)
Nonsense
Dope'n'Stack - Cloud Anthem (https://youtu.be/3jUQ09Jf4GU?si=umY8M2w8y9ALsE6f)
Dope'n'Stack - E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E. (https://youtu.be/KHqzTBPQYl8?si=gSpufvgHGlTHWyv4)
Conferences
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming).
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:[email protected]) if you want to hear more about it.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Delta Wi-Fi (https://www.delta.com/us/en/onboard/inflight-entertainment/onboard-wifi)
Matt: Anti-pick Aliens 3
Aliens Dark Descent (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150440/Aliens_Dark_Descent/)
Coté: GM’s Apprentice (http://jamesturneronline.net/game-masters-apprentice/). Also: How to Survive and Thrive in a Big Company: Tactics and Practices to Manage Your Time and Relationships (https://learning.oreilly.com/course/how-to-survive/0790145433268/)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/social-media-icons?orientation=landscape)
Google Gemini
3/1/2024 • 49 minutes, 47 seconds
Episode 455: LTS: Let Thou Support it
This week, we discuss open source forks, what’s going on at OpenAI and checkin on the IRS Direct File initiative. Plus, plenty of thoughts on taking your annual Code of Conduct Training.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwXvnb53iY) 455 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAwXvnb53iY)
Runner-up Titles
I live my life one iCal screen at a time
We always have sparklers
Meta-parenting
Everyone is always tired
Cheaper version of Red Hat
This week in “Do we need to be angry?”
All we get is wingdings.
I’m in a Socialist mood this week
Pies shot out of my eyes and stuff
Those dingalings bought my boat
Dingalings of the mind
Rundown
CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace (https://ciq.com/press-release/ciq-offers-long-term-support-for-rocky-linux-8-6-8-8-and-9-2-images-through-aws-marketplace/)
Will CIQ’s new support program alienate the community (https://medium.com/@gordon.messmer/will-ciqs-new-support-program-alienate-the-community-it-built-on-an-objection-to-subscriber-only-fb58ea6a810e)
NGINX fork (https://narrativ.es/@janl/111935559549855751)? freenginx.org (http://freenginx.org/en/)
Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/19/struggling-database-company-mariadb-could-be-taken-private-in-a-37m-deal/)
Tofu (https://opentofu.org)
So Where’s That New OpenAI Board? (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/so-wheres-that-new-openai-board?utm_source=ti_app&rc=giqjaz)
The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/04/direct-file-irs-taxes/)
Relevant to your Interests
Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy (https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/)
Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens - Open Web Advocacy (https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#apple-has-effectively-banned-all-third-party-browsers)
Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data (https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-column-explorer/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=294232392&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8vobC3nom9chsGc_Y8KM9pO75KKvrGTtL7uS-sfcNQ1sNd8ThaMnP5KsfbSUWCWW2KOjlPpa3AwC4ToYbaCmYOAMva0rvKIZ2jkB461YKJX2TLQtg&utm_content=294233055&utm_source=hs_email)
Apple TV+ Became HBO Before HBO Could Become Netflix (https://spyglass.org/its-not-tv-its-apple-tv-plus/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Sora: Creating video from text (https://openai.com/sora)
Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI: GreenOps survey results - ClimateAction.Tech (https://climateaction.tech/blog/sustainability-kpi-greenops-survey-results/)
Slack AI has arrived (https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/news/slack-ai-has-arrived)
What's new and cool? - Adam Jacob (https://youtu.be/gAYMg6LNEMs?si=9PRiK1BBHaBGSypy)
Apple is reportedly working on AI updates to Spotlight and Xcode (https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/24074455/apple-generative-ai-xcode-spotlight-testing)
Apple Readies AI Tool to Rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-15/apple-s-ai-plans-github-copilot-rival-for-developers-tool-for-testing-apps)
VMs on Kubernetes with Kubevirt session at Kubecon (https://kccnceu2024.sched.com/event/1YhIE/sponsored-keynote-a-cloud-native-overture-to-enterprise-end-user-adoption-fabian-deutsch-senior-engineering-manager-red-hat-michael-hanulec-vice-president-and-technology-fellow-goldman-sachs)
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/?comments=1&comments-page=1)
Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/microsoft_retires_azure_iot_central/)
The big design freak-out: A generation of design leaders grapple with their future (https://www.fastcompany.com/91027996/the-big-design-freak-out-a-generation-of-design-leaders-grapple-with-their-future)
Most of the contents of the Xerox PARC team's work were tossed into a dumpster (https://x.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1759071289401368635?s=20)
1Password expands its endpoint security offerings with Kolide acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/20/1password-expands-its-endpoint-security-offerings-with-kolide-acquisition/)
Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-21/microsoft-will-use-intel-to-manufacture-home-grown-processor)
In a First, Apple Captures Top 7 Spots in Global List of Top 10 Best-selling Smartphones - Counterpoint (https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/apple-captures-top-7-spots-in-global-top-10-best-selling-smartphones/)
Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/technology/google-open-source-ai.html)
Apple Shuffles Leadership of Team Responsible for Audio Products (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-20/apple-shuffles-leadership-of-team-responsible-for-audio-products?srnd=premium)
Signal now lets you keep your phone number private with the launch of usernames (https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/20/signal-now-lets-you-keep-your-phone-number-private-with-the-launch-of-usernames/)
How Google is killing independent sites like ours (https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/)
VMware takes a swing at Nutanix, Red Hat with VM converter (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/vmware_kvm_converter/)
(https://narrativ.es/@janl/111935559549855751)## Nonsense
An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds (https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/pc-building/an-ordinary-squirt-of-canned-air-achieves-supersonic-speeds-engineer-spots-telltale-shock-diamonds)
Conferences
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming).
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:[email protected]) if you want to hear more about it.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Fair Play (https://www.netflix.com/title/81674326) on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/81674326)
Matt: Julia Evans: Popular Git Config Options (https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popular-git-config-options/)
Coté: Anker USB C Charger (Nano II 65W) Pod 3-Port PPS Fast Charger (https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09LLRNGSD?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-couple-of-large-sculptures-sitting-on-top-of-a-cement-floor-g4xIcepnx6I)
Google Gemini
2/23/2024 • 52 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 454: The Galactic Tent
This week, we discuss the ever expanding CNCF Landscape, bundling and unbundling, and the latest cloud earnings. Plus, some thoughts on soap dispensers in Europe vs. U.S.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pg_rXxn1YQ) 454 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pg_rXxn1YQ)
Runner-up Titles
Are we streaming.
I have the whole earth to roam, so I’m not going to get space madness.
If you watch it long enough every movie represents all of life.
The sound track to walking the dog.
At least it’s open source.
The Magic Quadrant of Fashion.
I guess everyone’s cool?
What pair of pants do I need?
The AirPods Pro pocket.
Go down the metaphor hole.
I was eating steak, and now I’m eating OpenTofu.
Not good, but good enough.
The Metaphor Hole
Rundown
CNCF Landscape (https://landscape.cncf.io)
Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/02/bundling-unbundling-and-enshtification.html) (Cloudcast Pod)
Earnings
Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/meta-beats-sales-forecast-estimates-announces-first-dividend)
Amazon Projects Profit Topping Estimates on Further Cost Cutting (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/amazon-projectsprofit-topping-estimates-on-further-cost-cutting)
Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-2224-cloud-giants?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=141292535&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
Alphabet: Cloud Rebounds (https://www.appeconomyinsights.com/p/alphabet-cloud-rebounds?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
Platformonomics - Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2023 Retrospective (https://platformonomics.com/2024/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2023-retrospective/)
Relevant to your Interests
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens)
Broadcom's strategy ignores most VMware customers (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/broadcom_strategy_vmware_customer_impact/)
Allen Institute for AI releases ‘truly open source’ LLM to drive ‘critical shift’ in AI development (https://venturebeat.com/ai/truly-open-source-llm-from-ai2-to-drive-critical-shift-in-ai-development/)
OLMo - Open Language Model by AI2 (https://allenai.org/olmo)
Threads is growing steadily with more than 130M monthly actives. (https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C20tMr8Pjeh/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024 (https://snyk.io/blog/leaky-vessels-docker-runc-container-breakout-vulnerabilities/)
From unicorns to unicorpses: Why billion-dollar startups and even VC firms keep imploding (https://fortune.com/longform/failed-unicorn-startups-billion-dollar-valuation-unicorpses/)
Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office mandate (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/03/dell_return_to_work/?td=rt-3a)
Weaveworks shuts down (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richardsonalexis_hi-everyone-i-am-very-sad-to-announce-activity-7160295096825860096-ZS67?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
A Giant Reborn: Satya Nadella’s Decade as Microsoft CEO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KzIKFpKZKM)
Is the $139 Amazon Prime Subscription Still Worth It? (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/is-the-139-amazon-prime-subscription-still-worth-it-83a597c7?reflink=integratedwebview_share)
Everbridge Agrees to $1.5B Buyout Offer From Thoma Bravo (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/everbridge-agrees-to-1-5b-buyout-offer-from-thoma-bravo-179db224?mod=newsviewer_click)
Adam Neumann Tries to Buy Back WeWork (https://www.wsj.com/articles/adam-neumann-looks-to-buy-back-wework-86ee5f2b)
NinjaOne Notches $1.9 Billion Valuation in Deal Led By Iconiq (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-06/ninjaone-notches-1-9-billion-valuation-in-deal-led-by-iconiq)
YouTube TV says it has more than 8 million subscribers (https://www.axios.com/2024/02/06/youtube-tv-subscribers-cable-satellite)
Pivotal founder Rob Mee is back with a new startup. (https://twitter.com/alexrkonrad/status/1755278551828300162?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
ESPN, Fox, WBD shake up media with plans for new sports streaming service (https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/02/06/ESPN-Disney-Warner-Bros-Discovery-Fox-pay-joint-streaming-service)
Arm shares surge 48% after SoftBank-controlled chip designer issues strong forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/08/arm-shares-soar-after-reporting-strong-earnings-and-forecast.html)
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-dollars-to-reshape-business-of-chips-and-ai-89ab3db0?page=1)
Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe” (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/epic-working-with-disney-on-new-gaming-universe-after-1-5b-investment/)
Dynatrace hits $1.4 billion ARR, grabs logos from AppDynamics, aims to grow logs offering (https://www.thestack.technology/dynatrace-hits-1-4-billion-arr-grabs-customers-from-appdynamics-aims-to-grow-logs-offering/)
Google and Yahoo Are Cracking Down on Inbox Spam. Don’t Expect Less Email Marketing. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-and-yahoo-are-cracking-down-on-inbox-spam-dont-expect-less-email-marketing-dd124c19)
Cloudflare's crowd-sources another patent troll case victory (https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/cloudflare_patent_troll/)
(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup (https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/)
2024 State of Internal Developer Portals | Port (https://www.getport.io/state-of-internal-developer-portals)
Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing (https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazons-cloud-crisis-how-aws-will?ck_subscriber_id=1141233388)
Yandex: The end of an era for Russia’s most innovative firm (https://en.thebell.io/yandex-the-end-of-an-era-for-russias-most-innovative-firm/)
How Mastodon made friends with Meta (https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/?ref=platformer-newsletter)
The Vision Pro (https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/the_vision_pro)
Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and more are coming to Apple’s Vision Pro at launch (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/31/24057122/microsoft-apple-vision-pro-office-apps-microsoft-365)
Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/31/24057392/apple-vision-pro-battery-lightning-cable)
Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/tim-cook-apple-vision-pro?mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=vf)
the thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvkgmyfMPks)
Working in the Vision Pro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9Xy6L_rlM)
Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have to Take It Back to Store (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-05/forgot-your-apple-vision-pro-s-passcode-you-may-have-to-take-it-back-to-store)
Tesla owners told not to wear Apple virtual reality headsets while driving (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68215614)
Nonsense
Cynical book summaries (https://www.plg.news/p/aoapm-002-cynical-book-summaries)
H-E-B's North Texas impact starting to become clear across groceries, real estate (https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/h-e-b-stores-north-texas-impact-starting-to-become-clear-across-groceries-real-estate/287-86836f22-e000-4d67-83d7-42e66ac01542?fbclid=IwAR1feOapOO7kMdv-xH3oBATelXpoKvf2ioNJEGt5MUzvA_X8C4nYMYPNquI_aem_AUUb7ZEwow8o6qAELGm8Xwb8eYCBdezDAdIpe-9nCSanh6MKQWpd8RIZRqMgBJekf6U#ls972nf7ju9xufblh6q)
The 10 Best-Selling Vehicles in America in 2023 (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/best-selling-vehicles-in-america-in-2023/)
One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking (https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/quora-what-happened-ai-decline.html)
Stanley Made Reusable Cups Huge. Now It Has to Make Them Sustainable (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/stanley-made-reusable-cups-huge-now-it-has-to-make-them-sustainable)
Most accurate video I’ve ever seen (https://x.com/anothercohen/status/1756181201847509392?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Listener Feedback
Brian recommends Subprime Attention Crisis (https://www.audible.com/pd/Subprime-Attention-Crisis-Audiobook/0593454103?ref_pageloadid=Dsqv0n17FOwUqOpK&ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_0593454103_0&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=7C4TQFGZXK856S6W40BH&pageLoadId=Fo0QcV8X3KEf9ys4&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225)
Andrew recommends the Amazon.com: Sink Soap Dispenser (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SJ8SQ6Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share)
Conferences
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference. Get 20% off with the discount code KCEU24VMWBC20.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 13st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming).
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:[email protected]) if you want to hear more about it.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Chamberlain Smart Garage Control (https://www.myq.com/products/smart-garage-control)
Matt: FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: OpenCost — We Spent How Much? (https://hackaday.com/2024/02/07/floss-weekly-episode-769-opencost-we-spent-how-much/)
Coté: chocolate covered dates at Tree of Dates (https://maps.app.goo.gl/QRc9Zj89cn4CZmMbA).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-row-of-books-sitting-on-top-of-a-shelf-HqA7l8IbhmY)
Artwork by Google Gemini
2/16/2024 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 453: John Willis on how Kubernetes won, digital transformation and Deming
This week, Coté interviews John Willis and they discuss how Kubernetes ultimately won, why large companies struggle with Digital Transformation, and Systems Thinking. Plus, John shares his opinions about Human Resources and Venture Capital.
Show Links
Kubernetes: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU)
Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge (https://www.amazon.com/Demings-Journey-Profound-Knowledge-Industry/dp/B0CCW999G8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ABYP2L2X31GG&keywords=Willis+Deming&qid=1707157953&s=books&sprefix=willis+deming%2Cstripbooks%2C110&sr=1-1)
The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCuLyv6SHo)
Profound Deming (https://www.profound-deming.com)
Profound Podcast (https://profound.buzzsprout.com)
Contact John Willis
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwillisatlanta/)
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
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2/9/2024 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 452: Write the letters
This week, we examine the balancing act CEOs face between maintaining operations and pursuing growth, the IRS's attempt to automate tax filing, and defining success in thought leadership.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlRgILBnn0) 452 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlRgILBnn0)
Runner-up Titles
Know the rules
Until you reach infinity
When you’re washing your full ass, don’t half-ass your shower door.
All-in on Minecraft
Eminent domain for digital transformation.
There’s usually a stray banana in the Hilton Garden Buffet.
Rundown
Alphabet Shares Fall After Search Revenue Misses Estimates (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/alphabet-search-revenue-misses-estimates-shares-fall)
Microsoft beats Q2 earnings on AI, cloud strength, shares flat (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-beats-q2-earnings-on-ai-cloud-strength-shares-flat-185023451.html)
The CEO and the Three Envelopes - Kevin Kruse (https://kevinkruse.com/the-ceo-and-the-three-envelopes/)
Direct File | Internal Revenue Service (https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/strategic-plan/direct-file)
DX: Developer Experience Insights Platform (https://getdx.com/)
Relevant to your Interests
Google to Team Up With Startup Hugging Face to Host AI Software (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/google-to-team-up-with-startup-hugging-face-to-host-ai-software)
Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/chrome-updates-incognito-warning-to-admit-google-tracks-users-in-private-mode/)
IBM shares soar to more than 10-year high on rosy AI outlook (https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-shares-soar-over-10-year-high-rosy-ai-outlook-2024-01-25/)
Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-browser-engines-eu)
Michael Leonard on LinkedIn: r/vmware (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mcleonard_rvmware-activity-7156387151335583744-y6sT)
A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show (https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/austin-loses-tech-companies-18541636.php)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux scalable pricing to cloud partners announcement (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-scalable-pricing-cloud-partners-announcement)
Info-stealers can steal cookies for permanent access to your Google account (https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/01/info-stealers-can-steal-cookies-for-permanent-access-to-your-google-account)
A brief history of Dell UNIX (https://technologists.com/notes/2008/01/10/a-brief-history-of-dell-unix/)
OpenNebula Systems welcomes the EU decision to approve the €1.2B IPCEI-CIS (https://opennebula.io/blog/announcements/opennebula-systems-welcomes-the-eu-decision-to-approve-the-e1-2b-ipcei-cis/)
Apple Home Devices, Car Veteran Exits for Top Rivian Product Role (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-28/apple-home-devices-car-veteran-exits-for-top-rivian-product-role?srnd=undefined&sref=9hGJlFio)
Canon aims to ship low-cost ‘stamp’ machine this year to disrupt chipmaking (https://www.ft.com/content/2643ed31-8b8c-4d3d-a7a8-c4383d06e8a6?shareType=nongift)
#446: Python in Excel — Talk Python To Me (https://overcast.fm/+F4RDQLYqc)
Truly shocks me how many people use Apple Mail (https://www.threads.net/@mkarolian/post/C2psXiBLCAU/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/29/amazons-1-4b-irobot-deal-is-dead-now-what/)
Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/28/24053882/arc-search-browser-web-app-ios)
Startup Funding Simulator (https://www.fundingsimulator.com/)
Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/29/streaming-media-company-plex-raises-new-funds-as-it-nears-profitability/?guccounter=1)
Porsche Hands Infotainment Keys To Apple, iPhone Can Now Rule The Cockpit (https://www.carscoops.com/2024/01/porsche-owners-can-now-control-more-of-their-car-from-their-phone-and-their-watch/)
Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI's ChatGPT (https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/25/kids-spent-60-more-time-on-tiktok-than-youtube-last-year-20-tried-openais-chatgpt/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9tYWlsLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHUFVfBqHjfrzvj78nV4pd013t4qGTZkbjj8VrFNi7p2wfe-VHyVFiYib--w35RbY9v9xf8QAvVUDICR-85tA8cVzmVp9ivn652tXrsoKk333WtxmwlP2f8sryDOS-eL0XsJ2xcuhUuvc8Ypz-KJ--p59pvO9ZRXl3j-hk0Zru9s)
ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says (https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-chatgpt-is-sending-him-conversations-from-unrelated-ai-users/)
Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title After Pay Package Voided (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/elon-musk-s-55-billion-tesla-pay-package-voided-by-judge)
Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2024 (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/01/30/inside-the-numbers-the-kubecon-cloudnativecon-selection-process-for-europe-2024/)
Delaware Tells Musk ‘No’; Alphabet and Microsoft’s AI-Driven Earnings (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/delaware-tells-musk-no-alphabet-and-microsofts-ai-driven-earnings?utm_source=ti_app&rc=giqjaz)
But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand. (https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1751831764207612357)
Nonsense
Fifty Years Ago Today (https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2024/01/fifty-years-ago-today.html?m=1) (D&D)
I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU)
More things that blow my American mind about living in Australia (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8tvAr5K/)
Make it Taylors Version (https://github.com/ipc103/make-it-taylors-version)
Conferences
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) — Coté speaking.
The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 (https://stateofopencon.com)
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
Exe (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)cutive dinner in Dallas that Coté’s hosting on March 31st, 2024 (https://ismg.events/roundtable-event/dallas-robust-security-java-applications/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)
If you’re an “executive” who might want to buy stuff from Tanzu to get better at your apps, than register. There is also a Tanzu exec event coming up in the next few months, email Coté (mailto:[email protected]) if you want to hear more about it.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Stanley Cups Are Just Water Bottles. How Did They Get So Popular? (https://overcast.fm/+1LeeZEfKE)
Coté: Mythic Game Master Emulator, version 2 (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gs6-SDXiSjo) (I don’t think the version matters, really).
Photo Credits
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2/2/2024 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 9 seconds
Episode 451: How does anyone use the Internet?
This week, we discuss what “enshittification” is, what causes it, and whether it can be prevented. Plus, stay tuned until the end to hear the Software Defined Talk origin story.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 451 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CnW_RciZ4)
Runner-up Titles
Enshittification
The Fahrenheit 451 Reorganization
Wait for Wifi
Taxes by beef rib
It’s actually not fine
Smoking crack in Disneyland
AI is accelerating the crappiness.
Why don’t you just sell more cloud?
Generated Garbage
I can’t tell if it’s a coffee mug or a ballistic missile.
Accidentally upgraded
Jury duty…”pretty cool.”
Rundown
Airalo (https://www.airalo.com/spain-esim) for mobile cell phones plans when traveling.
How Google perfected the web (https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization)
AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To (https://adnauseam.io/)
Subprime Attention Crisis (https://www.audible.com/pd/Subprime-Attention-Crisis-Audiobook/0593454103?ref_pageloadid=Dsqv0n17FOwUqOpK&ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_0593454103_0&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=7C4TQFGZXK856S6W40BH&pageLoadId=Fo0QcV8X3KEf9ys4&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225)
2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification” (https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/#:~:text=Sheraton%20New%20York%20Times%20Square,of%20the%20Year%20for%202023)
Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036539/artifact-shutting-down-kevin-systrom)
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find (https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/)
Relevant to your Interests
Tens of thousands of GPUs go under-utilized in the cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/15/cloud_providers_gpu_analysis/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_reshare_feed-article-content)
Creating a Sales Commission Plan (https://open.substack.com/pub/onlycfo/p/creating-a-sales-commission-plan?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)
The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org (https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/)
Nutanix set to benefit most from Broadcom's VMware upheaval (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/broadcom_vmware_channel_disruption/)
VMware is killing off 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift (https://www.thestack.technology/vmware-is-killing-off-56-products-including-vsphere-hypervisor-and-nsx/?ref=the-stack-newsletter)
Taming the dragon - Chinese and US Semiconductor competition (https://kitsonjonathon.substack.com/p/taming-the-dragon-chinese-and-us)
‘I dreamed of blocky pixels’: the strange, sweaty, sociable early days of gaming – in pictures (https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/jan/20/strange-sweaty-sociable-early-days-of-gaming-in-pictures)
Lofree Flow (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/20/Lofree-Flow) — Keyboard Review via Tim Bray
Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home (https://www.nj.com/essex/2024/01/remembering-bell-labs-as-legendary-idea-factory-prepares-to-leave-nj-home.html)
IBM Consulting orders a return to office - and means it (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/ibm_consulting_office/)
Apple Dials Back Car’s Self-Driving Features and Delays Launch to 2028 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-23/apple-car-ev-set-to-debut-in-2028-with-limited-autonomous-driving)
Introducing Docker Build Cloud (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxPwXfmwHU)
It's time to build (https://open.substack.com/pub/benn/p/its-time-to-build?selection=0c874398-fde8-45be-b547-f51d3c6a7c93&r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios)
"And we call it... the Vision Pro holster. We think you're going to love it." (https://x.com/JoannaStern/status/1748354349116301487?s=20)
For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/remembering_lotus_notes/)
Campfire is ONCE #1 (https://world.hey.com/dhh/campfire-is-once-1-d2cebd12)
Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian (https://www.atlassian.com/blog/distributed-work/distributed-work-report)
Bosses want to work from home more than employees do, says new survey—but they're still pushing RTO requirements (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/10/bosses-want-to-work-remote-more-than-employees-but-still-push-return-to-office.html)
Nvidia, a $1 trillion AI powerhouse, is fine with remote work (https://fortune-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/fortune.com/2023/10/14/nvidia-skips-return-to-office-sticks-to-remote-work-among-hottest-tech-companies/amp/)
Why constant job cuts could be the new normal for Big Tech (https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-new-normal-constant-layoffs-job-cuts-google-amazon-meta-2024-1)
Culture Change at Google (https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/)
Frustrated Googlers are speaking out on the corporate dysfunction (https://www.threads.net/@marcslove/post/C2Y7qCPu6Gz/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Bell Labs & Google: bookends of the same sad story? (https://om.co/2024/01/22/bell-labs-google-same-sad-story/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Mourning Google (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024)
Nonsense
We lost some real stars this past year (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8p6Tsv6/)
Startups Are Shutting Down! (https://youtu.be/-V9yPGdubHQ)
It’s Just a Water Bottle (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/stanley-cups-valentines-day-target-starbucks/677190/)
Listener Feedback
Robert recomends the Zojirushi SM-SR48E Stainless Mug (https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/smsre)
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8)
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5–7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) — Coté speaking.
The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6–7 (https://stateofopencon.com)
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)– (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) — Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), sponsorship slots available.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)– (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) — Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17–18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Travis County Jury Duty (https://www.traviscountytx.gov/district-clerk/jury-duty)
Matt: Perplexity.AI (https://www.perplexity.ai)
Coté: Kantjil & De Tijger (https://maps.app.goo.gl/GC11U6FpGsoQ9A1b8?g_st=ic) or Kartika (https://maps.app.goo.gl/VqSxkb5m2zVdugLz7?g_st=ic) — which is also good and less fancy in a good way.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/flat-screen-monitor-z1aLTzG2VGU)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/flat-screen-monitor-z1aLTzG2VGU)
1/26/2024 • 52 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 450: Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness
This week, we discuss the role of DevRel, Remote Work and Layoffs. Plus, Matt reveals his latest keyboard recommendation.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzqV99Hc4U) 450 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzqV99Hc4U)
Runner-up Titles
Life is a series of (shitty) cliffhangers
Sales is crazy
Donut over-eating avoidance
Fundamentals don’t change
Do you have good recipes for golden geese?
We need better Dungeons and Dragons
The AI has been prompted beyond its level of competence.
Peter Pan as DevRel
Hard stop goes soft
HR in volume feels dehumanizing
Mad Libs for layoffs
Workers of the world, don’t let HR hide in darkness.
We’ve had a great time, that other keyboard and I, but we’ve made a decision…
Status quo wins again
The Strangler Pattern for password management
Schwag cannot be stolen.
Rundown
2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2024/01/2024-look-ahead-surviving-q1-kickoff.html) (Podcast)
DevRel
The trouble with DevRel (https://jicowan.medium.com/the-trouble-with-devrel-80ebcd0f5b36)
Amazon’s silent sacking (https://overcast.fm/+HZUfHNb-M) (Podcast)
Work, RTO and Layoffs
WebMD’s RTO Video (https://x.com/maxwellstrachan/status/1745446449343795506?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg)
Brittany Pietsch on LinkedIn: TikTok (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brittany-pietsch-237893173_tiktok-britt-activity-7151621500440104960-cTtw?utm_source=combined_share_message&utm_medium=member_ios)
Brittany Peach cloudflare layoff TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanypeachhh/video/7323004085043612959)
Cloudflare CEO responds to viral layoff video (https://www.threads.net/@jonathangarelick/post/C2BgfIpLUup/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Signs that it’s time to leave a company… (https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-company-5f8759ad018e)
A tool to algorithmically estimate fair compensation (https://www.fairoffer.ai)
Remote Workers Are Losing Out on Promotions, New Data Shows (https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/remote-workers-are-losing-out-on-promotions-8219ec63)
Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees?ueid=3d6a2c800561880c901963d51e644d95)
Citi layoffs hit 20,000 -- as the bank spends big on tech (https://www.thestack.technology/citi-layoffs-tech-spend/)
Infosys co-founder repeats call for 70-hour working weeks (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/15/narayana_murthy_long_work_comments/)
Passwords and Keyboards
Microsoft Copilot keyboard keys are coming to Windows 11 PCs at CES 2024 (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-copilot-keyboard-keys-are-coming-to-windows-11-pcs-at-ces-2024-080126519.html)
Microsoft’s keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/5/24026323/microsoft-incase-partnership-keyboards-accessories-partnership)
Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain (https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/12/migrating-from-1password-to-apple-keychain/)
Now in beta: Create and unlock a 1Password account with a passkey (https://blog.1password.com/unlock-1password-individual-passkey-beta/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=beyond-passwords-newsletter-december&utm_campaign=passwordless&utm_ref=email-beyond-passwords-newsletter-december)
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Authy is shutting down its desktop app (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030477/authy-desktop-app-shutting-down)
OpenTofu is going GA (https://opentofu.org/blog/opentofu-is-going-ga/)
Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open (https://frame.work/)
Google Cloud removes data transfer fees when clients switch to rivals (https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-cloud-removes-data-transfer-fees-when-clients-switch-rivals-2024-01-11/)
Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M (https://apnews.com/article/ebay-spiders-cockroaches-steiner-newsletter-9ac2c35bcd4c87af181382c71d992343)
Nearly a Thousand People Were Convicted of Stealing Over Decades. It Was a Computer Glitch. (https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/nearly-a-thousand-people-were-convicted-of-stealing-over-decades-it-was-a-computer-glitch-c3290fcf?st=u4lotebs168d5xg&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
How a $300 Million Flop Turned Into an Improbable Hit (https://www.wsj.com/tech/cyberpunk-2077-videogame-flop-to-hit-58ed2741?st=b0umpe50ngp0o87&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
Slack Executives are all gone (https://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison/post/C2Ai8cDJc7C/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
WhatsApp is Finally Starting to Dominate in the United States. Here’s Why. (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/whatsapp-is-finally-starting-to-dominate)
World's R&D spending (https://x.com/emollick/status/1746254000914092480?s=20)
Apple Relocating Siri Evaluation Team in San Diego to Austin (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/14/apple-moving-san-diego-siri-team-to-austin/)
The Worst Devices of CES 2024! (https://youtu.be/NXhmnQzZ7n8?si=RJptIRZQNBlgjgYy)
App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-in-two/)
Red Hat Developer Hub Now Generally Available (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-developer-hub-now-generally-available)
Google Ends Cloud Switching Fees, Pressuring Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-11/google-googl-ends-switching-fees-for-cloud-data-pressuring-amazon-microsoft)
Gartner Says 50% of Critical Enterprise Applications Will Reside Outside of Centralized Public Cloud Locations Through 2027 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-10-30-gartner-says-50-percent-of-critical-enterprise-applications-will-reside-outside-of-centralized-public-cloud-locations-through-2027)
Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99% (https://www.bitsand.cloud/posts/slashing-data-transfer-costs/)
Nonsense
Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China (https://x.com/StockMKTNewz/status/1745837524587561443?s=20)
These Are the World’s Most Powerful Passports in 2024 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-11/world-s-most-powerful-passports-henley-index-sees-europe-catch-japan-singapore)
The Official Passport Index Ranking (https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking)
why stanley is on its way out #stanleycup #stanleytumbler #genztrends #greenscreen (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8qU7AXT/)
These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24032871/ai-binoculars-swarovski-optic-ax-visio-ces-price-release-date)
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Shara recommends the Owala FreeSip (https://www.amazon.com/Owala-Nautical-Twilight-Stainless-Bottle/dp/B09SJY6K4C/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=fUV9t&content-id=amzn1.sym.35cab78c-35e3-4fc1-aab0-27eaa6c86063%3Aamzn1.symc.e5c80209-769f-4ade-a325-2eaec14b8e0e&pf_rd_p=35cab78c-35e3-4fc1-aab0-27eaa6c86063&pf_rd_r=RS0Y267S82H94Q7MKY4W&pd_rd_wg=vVjQj&pd_rd_r=d7373f5b-9016-45be-a120-abd43ab1572a&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m&th=1).
Craig shared a Hacker News link about the Google Dev experience that is called google3 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889691)
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8)
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) - Coté speaking.
The Uk's Open Technology Conference Open Source Software, Open Hardware Feb 6-7 (https://stateofopencon.com)
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) - Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), and there’s still sponsorship slots.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
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Brandon: Carrot Weather App (https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/) (the Netherlands weather app Coté mentioned is Buienradar (https://www.buienradar.nl)).
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1/19/2024 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 449: Magic of Cloud
This week, we delve into the Stack Overflow Survey, compare AWS and Azure, and discuss why everyone loves "Coding at Google." Plus, thoughts on the new Mobile Passport Control App and Global Entry.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9W_WdnDWMg) 449 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9W_WdnDWMg)
Runner-up Titles
That is part of the podcast
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“Buildies”
Of course they are
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The easiest way to make money is to have a lot of money
Gobsmacked
Rundown
Mobile Passport Control (MPC) (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-control)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#ai-sentiment-and-usage)
Amazon's Silent Sacking (https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sacking/)
AWS Overhauls 60,000-Person Sales Team to Fix ‘Fiefdoms,’ Customer Complaints (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aws-overhauls-60-000-person-sales-team-to-fix-fiefdoms-customer-complaints)
Coding at Google (https://textslashplain.com/2024/01/02/coding-at-google/)
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Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/)
Exclusive: GM's Cruise robotaxi unit dismisses nine execs after safety probe (https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gms-cruise-robotaxi-unit-dismisses-nine-people-after-safety-investigation-2023-12-13/)
Apple Makes Security Changes to Protect Users From iPhone Thefts (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-iphone-ios-update-stolen-device-protection-698d760e)
Apple’s new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998665/apple-stolen-device-protection-face-touch-id-icloud-account-vulnerability-ios-17-3-beta)
The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’ (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/ibm-greatest-capitalist-tom-watson/676147/)
Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot (https://apnews.com/article/tesla-autopilot-recall-driver-monitoring-system-8060508627a34e6af889feca46eb3002)
Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000 (https://www.wired.com/story/store-a-message-in-dna/)
Google's GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/duet-ai-for-developers-googles-github-copilot-competitor-is-now-generally-available-and-will-soon-use-the-gemini-model/)
Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available (https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-is-generally-available)
The Besties’ Revenge: How the ‘All-In’ Podcast Captured Silicon Valley (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-besties-revenge-how-the-all-in-podcast-captured-silicon-valley)
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (https://retool.com/pipes)
InfoWorld’s 2023 Technology of the Year Award winners (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3711524/infoworlds-2023-technology-of-the-year-award-winners.html)
DHH on LinkedIn: This is our cloud spend over the last 12 months. Can you tell when we… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-heinemeier-hansson-374b18221_this-is-our-cloud-spend-over-the-last-12-activity-7142603347013844992-MseI/)
Apple Plans Rescue for $17 Billion Watch Business in Face of Ban (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-18/apple-plans-rescue-for-17-billion-watch-business-in-face-of-ban)
Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement (https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-to-pay-700-million-in-play-store-settlement-28bed6b6?st=gof21ww45isoe8a&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
The Rule of X (https://x.com/BessemerVP/status/1736814812292952557?s=20)
Practical Magic: Improving Productivity and Happiness for Software Development Teams (https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2023/practical-magic--improving-productivity-and-happiness-for-softwa)
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010)
Pro Take: The Cloud Isn’t The Answer to All IT Problems—At Least for Now (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pro-take-the-cloud-isnt-the-answer-to-all-it-problemsat-least-for-now-2af43219?st=nwqof55uzxml475&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink)
Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/comcast-xfinity-hackers-36-million-customers/)
Who will buy VMware's end-user compute products? (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/vmware_euc_sale_speculation/)
Deploy web apps anywhere (https://kamal-deploy.org/)
A Look Back at Q3 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q3-23-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=139963148&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
End of Life (https://endoflife.date/)
VMware’s Cheaper New Bundles May Drive Up Costs (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2023/12/21/why-your-costs-may-go-up-with-vmwares-cheaper-new-bundles/?sh=3098f0d61b14)
Intel CEO says Nvidia’s AI dominance is pure luck (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-ceo-says-nvidias-ai-dominance-is-pure-luck-nvidia-vp-fires-back-says-intel-lacked-vision-and-execution)
Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68?st=7ut2w92w2px1b9c&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
Reddit’s CEO takes a victory lap (https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/C1N-ilELo9Y/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/26/the-eternal-struggle-between-open-source-and-proprietary-software/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content)
New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/new-york-times-sues-microsoft-and-openai-alleging-copyright-infringement-fd85e1c4?st=z5d54e5urzlthil&reflink=article_copyURL_share)
Broadcom Hands VMware Partners ‘Termination Notice’ (https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/broadcom-hands-vmware-partners-termination-notice)
Investors Who Amassed The Most Unicorns Stepped Way Back In 2023 (https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/top-unicorn-investors-eoy-2023/)
What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/)
Clouded Judgement 12.29.23 - Year End Review (https://open.substack.com/pub/cloudedjudgement/p/clouded-judgement-122923-year-end?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)
EU CRA: What does it mean for open source? - Bert Hubert's writings (https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/)
OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-annualized-revenue-tops-1-6-billion-as-customers-shrug-off-ceo-drama?utm_source=ti_app&rc=giqjaz)
2023 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights (https://seroter.com/2024/01/01/2023-in-review-reading-and-writing-highlights/)
The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2024 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/540/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html)
Remembering the startups we lost in 2023 (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/30/remembering-the-startups-we-lost-in-2023/)
Windows boss pledges to 'make Start menu great again' (https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/03/windows_11_start_great_again/)
Amazon eliminated his role. Four months later, he's still getting paychecks. (https://www.businessinsider.com/senior-amazon-employee-aws-quiet-firing-remote-work-severance-package-2023-12)
Nearly Half of Companies Plan to Eliminate Bachelor's Degree Requirements in 2024 (https://www.intelligent.com/nearly-half-of-companies-plan-to-eliminate-bachelors-degree-requirements-in-2024/)
Observability in 2024: More OpenTelemetry, Less Confusion (https://thenewstack.io/observability-in-2024-more-opentelemetry-less-confusion/)
LastPass prompting users to set a stronger master password (https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/03/lastpass-stronger-master-password/)
Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store (https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-rejects-the-hey-calendar-from-their-app-store-4316dc03)
This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karrisaarinen_this-might-be-the-end-of-carta-as-the-trusted-activity-7149219878837583873-M2ea)
Command line csv viewer (https://github.com/YS-L/csvlens)
Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/1/24021915/alamo-drafthouse-outage-sony-projector)
Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX (https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1?reflink=share_mobilewebshare)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches first phone service satellites (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/03/spacex-elon-musk-phone-starlink-satellites)
Elon Musk is not understood (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/elon-musk-is-not-understood/)
Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity (https://www.axios.com/2023/12/31/elon-musks-x-fidelity-valuation-cut)
2024 Predictions (https://medium.com/@profgalloway/2024-predictions-a16e3cae1596)
US fines Southwest Airlines $140M for 2022 IT meltdown (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/18/us_fines_southwest_airlines_140m/)
Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scooter-company-bird-global-files-070507154.html)
'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/everything-blocks-devs-from-removing-their-own-npm-packages/)
Office vacancy rate hits record high (https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/economy/office-space-vacancies-hit-a-record-high/index.html)
The robots will make us more human (https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-robots-will-make-us-more-human/)
Amazon’s Twitch plans to slash staff: report (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazons-twitch-plans-to-slash-staff-report-ff30ddeb)
Does kuberbetes make application development and delivery better? (https://newsletter.cote.io/i/140504484/got-java-apps-stay-on-top-of-security-patches-upgrades-and-out-of-support-apps)
Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorp)
Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_quarterly-results-hashicorp-inc-activity-7141026556419682304-BV66?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorp)
Quarterly Results | HashiCorp, Inc. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danlorenc_quarterly-results-hashicorp-inc-activity-7141026556419682304-BV66?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
DocuSign surges amid report it is exploring buyout deal (DOCU) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4046964-docusign-surges-amid-report-it-is-exploring-buyout-deal)
Adobe walks away from its $20 billion Figma acquisition amid regulatory scrutiny (https://www.engadget.com/adobe-walks-away-from-its-20-billion-figma-acquisition-amid-regulatory-scrutiny-132203336.html?guccounter=1)
IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/18/ibm-to-acquire-streamsets-and-webmethods-from-software-ag/)
Thomas Graf on LinkedIn: Cisco to Acquire Cloud Native Networking & Security Leader Isovalent (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas-graf-73104547_cisco-to-acquire-cloud-native-networking-activity-7143601826083356672-jmSP/)
Flexera enters into definitive agreement to acquire Snow Software (https://www.flexera.com/about-us/press-center/flexera-enters-agreement-to-acquire-snow-software)
Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twilio-ceo-lawson-steps-down-after-bruising-activist-battles.html)
Cisco to Acquire Isovalent to Define the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security (https://investor.cisco.com/news/news-details/2023/Cisco-to-Acquire-Isovalent-to-Define-the-Future-of-Multicloud-Networking-and-Security/default.aspx)
HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13 billion (https://x.com/BradCasemore/status/1744522655913357340?s=20)
The companies employees don’t want to leave in 2023 (https://resume.io/blog/the-companies-employees-dont-want-to-leave-in-2023)
Nonsense
‘You didn’t just succeed, you Exceled’: Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator’ wins spreadsheet world championship (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/15/you-didnt-just-succeed-you-exceled-sydney-man-dubbed-the-annihilator-wins-excel-world-championship)
The 52 definitive rules of flying (https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/interactive/2023/flying-airport-etiquette/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAyNzAyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA0MDg1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDI3MDI4MDAsImp0aSI6ImNmM2M2ODZhLTA4MzItNGM0YS1iYWRjLTg0N2M1NzRhNDJkYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90cmF2ZWwvaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMy9mbHlpbmctYWlycG9ydC1ldGlxdWV0dGUvIn0.IdztKBztAJw-CjJhPX2ne2tzRLtA2zP8-YTUfrbwPkg&itid=gfta&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Neither Overhead nor Underground, PG&E Pilot Program Evaluates the Benefits of Putting Powerlines Right on the Ground (https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3901-overhead-underground-pg-e-pilot-program-evaluates-benefits-putting-powerlines-right-ground)
Airline Amenities (https://www.threads.net/@airlineflyer/post/C1fKNbNOfjq/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/iphone-survives-16000-foot-fall-after-door-plug-blows-off-alaska-air-flight-1282/)
Reacting to Blackstone's holiday video (https://twitter.com/goodworkmb/status/1735458629921206521?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
The Generation Gap | 2024 Lamb ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1e0apyGASc)
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8)
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/) - Coté speaking.
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x) - Coté speaking (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/we-fear-change), and there’s still sponsorship slots.
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Coté on the wait list for the platform side conference.
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
The Quick Flip Go Bottle | 24 Oz (https://www.stanley1913.com/products/the-quick-flip-go-bottle-24-oz)
How a 40-ounce cup turned Stanley into a $750 million a year business (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/23/how-a-40-ounce-cup-turned-stanley-into-a-750-million-a-year-business.html)
Cup Fever (https://www.chartr.co/stories/2024-01-10-otc-the-stanley-cup-is-surging)
Matt: Apple Watch 9
Coté: Patagonia 3-in-1 Parka. It is fucking expensive (https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-tres-3-in-1-parka/28389.html) and iPhone 15 Pro Max
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-hand-holding-a-book-YybJHvU-GOQ)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/man-holding-white-ceramic-teacup-QLqNalPe0RA)
1/12/2024 • 57 minutes, 59 seconds
Episode 448: Jorge Castro on Late Stage Linux on the Desktop and Working for the CNCF
Matt Ray interviews Jorge Castro, veteran Community Manager from the CNCF. They discuss Project Bluefin, behind the scenes at the CNCF, and mentoring the next generation of open source contributors. Plus, “you can have anything you want, but the defaults are the best”.
Show Links
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/)
Project (https://projectbluefin.io/) Bluefin (https://projectbluefin.io/)
Bazzite (https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite)
Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.discourse.group)
Prompt terminal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeUH1_fFSUs)
Windows To Go with Rufus (https://www.intowindows.com/rufus-to-create-windows-to-go-usb-drive/)
Contact Jorge Castro
LinkedIn: jorge-castro2112 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-castro2112/)
GitHub: @c (https://github.com/castrojohttps://github.com/castrojo)astrojo (https://github.com/castrojohttps://github.com/castrojo)
Mastodon: @[email protected] (https://hachyderm.io/@jorge)
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1/5/2024 • 43 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 447: 2023 Year in Review
This week, we grade our 2023 predictions, revisit the key trends that shaped the year, and gaze into the crystal ball to anticipate what 2024 might hold. Plus, we answer listener questions.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SHFMhMyK4) 447 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08SHFMhMyK4)
Runner-up Titles
Flat budgets are better then no budget
Applauding as the Titanic goes down
They weren’t going to be patriated
But this is you!
Now we know
The hippies have lost
Keep your head on an open-source swivel
Once it works, it’ll be great
At least we got USB C
Great year for cables
Rundown
2022 Year in Review (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/394) (Last Year’s Recap Episode)
Travel App Recommendations
FlightRadar24 (https://www.flightradar24.com/30.26,-97.75/6)
Flighty (https://www.flightyapp.com)
Final Numbers (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-dbe3d2df-7e47-4bd3-82b9-2e4961b9d190.html?chunk=9&utm_term=emshare#story9)
The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCuLyv6SHo)
Slides Benedict: AI, and everything else’. (https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations)
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8)
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/)
SCaLE 21x/DevOpsDays LA, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)
KubeCon EU Paris, March 19-22 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/)
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
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Recommendations of the Year
Brandon: Pastebot (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/394)
Matt: Vale FLOSS Weekly (https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly) (RIP)
Coté: Google Looker (https://lookerstudio.google.com)
Photo Credits
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12/29/2023 • 54 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 446: The Business B.S. Dictionary
This week, we “define” and decode business jargon and take a look at what it really means. Subscribe to Coté’s “Business BS Dictionary” YouTube Playlist for even more definitions.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTmTNRVcBs) 446 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTmTNRVcBs)
Runner-up Titles
When your early is really on time
Showing up on time is is early for me
We are not going to sell any Kubernetes in TikTok
Rundown
BS Dictionary
What does "bureaucracy" mean? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZvnBPjnv4&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=13)
Politics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxfmZc6f-w&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=12)
Deck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM6h-XyGlXg&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=2)
Let's socialize this deck (https://www.tiktok.com/@drunkandretired/video/7310133775076314400)
Let's have the meeting in the meeting (https://www.tiktok.com/@drunkandretired/video/7310133417381858593)
Parking Lot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCxZlNwY3k&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=6)
Outcomes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6Hr7_oTuo&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT&index=7)
Follow Coté on TikTok for more BS Dictionary Takes (https://www.tiktok.com/@drunkandretired)
Coté’s Business BS Dictionary Playlist on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXBH0mEGNL5YuEEgNvdIloT)
Conferences
That Conference Texas, Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1 (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-Business-BS-Dictionary--CFtt8vL15hIcWTIAgoxIWH6nAg-xCwuOhkOT7Ts26WfLtsX8)
CfgMgmtCamp, Feb 5-7th (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2024/)
SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)
DevOpsDays Birmingham, April 17-18, 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Slow Horses Season 3 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/slow_horses/s03)
Coté: ChatDM with Forgotten Realms.
Photo Credits
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12/22/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 445: It’s my sacred time
This week, we discuss the distribution of cloud revenue, explore who is investing in A.I., and take a look back at Mesosphere DC/OS. Plus, some thoughts on the peacefulness of flying.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX5FY4MJpR0) 445 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX5FY4MJpR0)
Runner-up Titles
I feel very safe on an airplane
We’re one mishap away from Lost
Difference between the right decision and the safe decision
First rule of AI Ethics Team: Don’t fake the demo
“Rice”
They got run over by the Kubernetes Truck
Figure out where all the yaml goes
Rundown
Many Different Kinds Of Cloud, Very Big Piles Of Money - IT Jungle (https://www.itjungle.com/2023/12/11/many-different-kinds-of-cloud-very-big-piles-of-money/)
Software Startup That Rejected Buyout From Microsoft Shuts Down, Sells Assets to Nutanix (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a16z-backed-startup-that-once-rejected-150m-sale-to-microsoft-shuts-down)
Apache Mesos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Mesos)
Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/docker-acquires-atomicjar-a-testing-startup-that-raised-25m-in-january/)
Relevant to your Interests
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/just-about-every-windows-and-linux-device-vulnerable-to-new-logofail-firmware-attack/)
OAI staff deeply did not want to work for Microsoft (https://www.threads.net/@kalihays1/post/C0hUizEJfPV/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/business/dealbook/silicon-valley-artificial-intelligence.html)
The Fastest Growing Brands of 2023 (https://pro.morningconsult.com/analyst-reports/fastest-growing-brands-2023)
Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/vast-data-lands-118m-to-grow-its-data-storage-platform-for-ai-workloads/)
'No one saw this coming': Kevin O’Leary says remote work trend is now hurting sectors other than real estate — here’s why he’s saying certain ‘banks are going to fail’ (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-one-saw-coming-kevin-133000274.html)
The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/helen-toner-openai-board-2e4031ef)
Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/6/23990678/apple-foundation-models-generative-ai-mlx)
Will VMware customers balk as Broadcom transitions them to subscriptions? (https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/insights/will-vmware-customers-balk-broadcom-transitions-them-subscriptions)
Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/07/broadcom_q4_2023/)
Apple Confirms It Shut Down iMessage for Android App Beeper Mini (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/10/apple-confirms-it-shut-down-beeper-mini/)
Tech company VMware slashing 577 jobs in Austin (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/vmware-austin-layoffs/269-c65851d4-54cb-4cf3-a3db-34fb907de932)
The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCuLyv6SHo)
WFH levels have become "flat as a pancake" (https://x.com/I_Am_NickBloom/status/1729557222424731894?s=20)
Broadcom halves sub price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/12/vmware_broadcom_licensing_changes/)
VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model (https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation)
Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloud-engineer-gets-2-years-for-wiping-ex-employers-code-repos/)
The Kubernetes 1.29 release interview (https://open.substack.com/pub/craigbox/p/the-kubernetes-129-release-interview?r=1s6gmq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
HashiCorp Shares Drop 22% After Forecasting Slowing Sales Growth (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hashicorp-shares-drop-22-after-forecasting-slowing-sales-growth-d3dd4d7d)
Oracle shares slide as revenue misses estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/11/oracle-orcl-q2-earnings-report-2024.html)
Platform teams need a delightfully different approach, not one that sucks less (https://www.chkk.io/blog/platform-teams-different-approach)
Nonsense
Nearly Everyone Gets A’s at Yale. Does That Cheapen the Grade? (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/nyregion/yale-grade-inflation.html?searchResultPosition=1)
It’s time for the Excel World Championships! (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/9/23995236/its-time-for-the-excel-world-championships)
Only in Australia: huge snake drops from roof during podcast recording – video (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2023/dec/11/only-in-australia-huge-snake-drops-from-roof-during-podcast-recording-video)
Committing to Costco (https://twitter.com/Wes_nship/status/1734207909137989969)
220-ton Nova Scotia building moved using 700 bars of soap (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/12/08/canada-Halifax-Nova-Scotia-Elmwood-building-moved-soap/2971702059148/)
Conferences
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/)
SCaLE 21x, March 14th to 17th, 2024 (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x)
DevOpsDays Birmingham 2024 (https://talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-birmingham-al-2024/cfp) April 17-18, 2024
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Recommendations
Brandon: The Fund (https://www.amazon.com/Fund-Bridgewater-Associates-Unraveling-Street/dp/1250276934)
Matt: Reese’s minis unwrapped (https://amzn.to/3NoGV9i)
Anti-recommendation: Keychron Acoustic Kit (https://www.keychron.com/collections/keychron-add-on/products/keychron-q10-acoustic-upgrade-kit)
Coté: Sex Education (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Education_(TV_series)), season 3. (some follow-ups: Menewood was good, a bit too Moby Dick w/r/t to wheat and barley in the middle; Descript is still fantastic, getting even better with the AI stuff)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/blue-and-white-airplane-seats-DSOohFTAfno)
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12/15/2023 • 47 minutes
Episode 444: Spicy Autocomplete
This week, we look back at the drama at OpenAI and look forward to the growing A.I. Arms Race. Plus, we talk about calendaring — again!
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxu1D6pfG0) 444 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxu1D6pfG0)
Runner-up Titles
A.I. Arms Race
Table 4 needs pork chops
Run with that
Thanks for not saving us from the AI
The King of Cameos
Rebels going to rebel
Ivory Tower Scruples
The sign of something
Rundown
OpenAI
Sam Altman Out At OpenAI (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/11/17/sam-altman-out-at-openai/)
A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/17/a-statement-from-microsoft-chairman-and-ceo-satya-nadella/)
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23966277/openai-co-founder-greg-brockman-leaving)
Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI — Hard Fork (https://overcast.fm/+m_rrMb92o)
Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after abrupt firing of Sam Altman | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/greg-brockman-quits-openai-after-abrupt-firing-of-sam-altman)
Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo)
OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-investors-scramble-to-reinstate-sam-altman-as-ceo/?sh=18e676bd60da)
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968829/microsoft-hires-sam-altman-greg-brockman-employees-openai)
OpenAI board names a new interim CEO — and it's not Sam Altman (https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/sam-altman-openai-board-emmet-shear)
Who Controls OpenAI? (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-controls-openai?srnd=undefined)
Inside the OpenAI Meltdown — Plain English with Derek Thompson (https://overcast.fm/+1LedZQwsE)
The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy | Semafor (https://www.semafor.com/article/11/21/2023/how-effective-altruism-led-to-a-crisis-at-openai)
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai)
Read Microsoft’s internal memos about the chaos at OpenAI (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972572/microsoft-internal-memo-kevin-scott-openai)
Thrive-Led OpenAI Tender to Continue After Altman Returns (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thrive-led-openai-tender-to-continue-after-altman-returns)
Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn (https://open.substack.com/pub/platformer/p/amazons-q-has-severe-hallucinations?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)
A.I. Arms Race
Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/technology/ai-chatgpt-google-meta.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model (https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/)
Google unveils Gemini (https://www.platformer.news/p/google-unveils-gemini?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7976&post_id=139438103&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
Thomas Kurian On Google Cloud’s AI Differentiators Vs. Rivals AWS, Microsoft (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/thomas-kurian-on-google-cloud-s-ai-differentiators-vs-rivals-aws-microsoft?itc=refresh)
Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn (https://www.platformer.news/p/amazons-q-has-severe-hallucinations)
Confident about safety of AI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67633980)
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman (https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/)
Relevant to Your Interests
Unhinged Elon Musk Tells Advertisers: 'Go F-ck Yourself' (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers-bob-iger-new-york-times-dealbook-summit-1234905549/)
Looking Good, Elon! Feeling Good, Trashcan Man! | Defector (https://defector.com/looking-good-elon-feeling-good-trashcan-man)
New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-myapplications-in-the-aws-management-console-simplifies-managing-your-application-resources/)
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-application-signals-for-automatic-instrumentation-of-your-applications-preview/)
Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/okta-admits-hackers-accessed-data-on-all-customers-during-recent-breach/)
"We have no plans to bring Xbox Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo." Xbox CEO Phil Spencer on console hardware, the future of Activision-Blizzard, and much more (https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/phil-spencer-jez-corden-xbox-interview-2023)
534 startups have failed so far in 2023 (https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/startup-funding-bankruptcies-lower-valuations-2023/)
Why We're Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs (https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/)
Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies (https://fortune.com/2023/12/02/broadcom-ceo-orders-employees-get-butt-back-office-vmware-remote-work/)
Spotify to lay off 17 percent of its workforce in latest round of job cuts (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23987335/spotify-layoffs-17-percent-profitability-cost-cutting)
'Return to Office' declared dead (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/03/return_to_office/)
Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Streaming Services (https://gizmodo.com/apple-tv-paramount-streaming-bundle-might-be-coming-1851065662)
US Commerce Secretary Says Any AI Chips Designed To Circumvent Restrictions On China Will Be Banned The Very Next Day (https://wccftech.com/us-secretary-ai-chips-designed-to-circumvent-china-restrictions-banned-very-next-day/)
Twilio to cut about 5% of total workforce (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twilio-cut-5-total-workforce-144822744.html)
Honey, I shrunk the telemetry - bitdrift Blog (https://blog.bitdrift.io/post/honey-i-shrunk-the-telemetry)
GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/04/gitlab-gtlb-q3-earnings-report-2024.html)
It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan (https://thebaffler.com/latest/its-all-bullshit-tan)
IDC’s first Software Supply Chain Security Market Glance (https://x.com/katiednorton1/status/1668611154338349057?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/01/meta-sees-little-risk-in-risc-v-with-custom-accelerators/?td=rt-3a)
AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/04/david_nalley_interview/)
Nonsense
Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. Here is what they do — and don’t — tell us. (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981468/apple-replay-spotify-wrapped-podcasts-rogan-crime-junkie-alex-cooper)
The Clock of the Long Now (https://longnow.org/clock/)
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Brandon: Bookings with me in Outlook (https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/bookings-with-me-setup-and-sharing-ad2e28c4-4abd-45c7-9439-27a789d254a2)
Matt: ortho-k (https://www.aao.org/eye-health/glasses-contacts/what-is-orthokeratology)
Coté: Descript (https://www.descript.com/) (for finding social clips (https://www.descript.com/ai-actions/find-good-clips)), GMail, D&D in ChatGPT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVO55dxt7lE)
Photo Credits
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12/8/2023 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 443: Everything is maintenance
This week, we review the major announcements from AWS re:Invent and discuss how the hyperscalers are embracing A.I. Plus, a few thoughts on children’s chores.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0xwqUis6xA) 443 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0xwqUis6xA)
Runner-up Titles
No Slack
The Corporate Podcast.
Quality of life stop
Our roads diverge
Eats a bag of llama
Nobody wants to do a bake-off
AI all the time
Rundown
AWS re:Invent
Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2023/)
Salesforce Inks Deal to Sell on Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-27/salesforce-to-sell-software-on-aws-marketplace-in-self-service-purchase-push#xj4y7vzkg)
AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips (https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/11/aws-unveils-next-generation-aws-designed-chips)
Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-for-new-memory-optimized-aws-graviton4-powered-amazon-ec2-instances-r8g/)
Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-express-one-zone-high-performance-storage-class/)
AWS unveils new Trainium AI chip and Graviton 4, extends Nvidia partnership (https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-unveils-new-trainium-ai-chip-and-graviton-4-extends-nvidia-partnership/)
AI Chip - AWS Inferentia - AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/)
DGX Platform (https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/data-center/dgx-platform/)
Foundational Models - Amazon Bedrock - AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/)
Supported models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/models-supported.html#models-supported-meta)
Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/agents-for-amazon-bedrock-is-now-available-with-improved-control-of-orchestration-and-visibility-into-reasoning/)
Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/knowledge-bases-now-delivers-fully-managed-rag-experience-in-amazon-bedrock/)
Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/customize-models-in-amazon-bedrock-with-your-own-data-using-fine-tuning-and-continued-pre-training/)
Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-q-brings-generative-ai-powered-assistance-to-it-pros-and-developers-preview/)
Improve developer productivity with generative-AI powered Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/improve-developer-productivity-with-generative-ai-powered-amazon-q-in-amazon-codecatalyst-preview/)
Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/upgrade-your-java-applications-with-amazon-q-code-transformation-preview/)
Introducing Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-q-a-new-generative-ai-powered-assistant-preview/)
New Amazon Q in QuickSight uses generative AI assistance for quicker, easier data insights (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-q-in-quicksight-uses-generative-ai-assistance-for-quicker-easier-data-insights-preview/)
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-managed-service-for-prometheus-collector-provides-agentless-metric-collection-for-amazon-eks/)
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-logs-now-offers-automated-pattern-analytics-and-anomaly-detection/)
Use Amazon CloudWatch to consolidate hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-amazon-cloudwatch-to-consolidate-hybrid-multi-cloud-and-on-premises-metrics/)
Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-pod-identity-simplifies-iam-permissions-for-applications-on-amazon-eks-clusters/)
Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service is now available (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-zero-etl-integration-with-amazon-opensearch-service-is-now-generally-available/)
Amazon says its first Project Kuiper internet satellites were fully successful in testing (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-fully-successful-in-testing.html)
AWS takes the cheap shots (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/28/aws-takes-the-cheap-shots/)
Here's everything Amazon Web Services announced at AWS re:Invent (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/28/heres-everything-aws-reinvent-2023-so-far/)
Relevant to your Interests
Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 (https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/oracle-cloud-made-all-the-right-moves-in-2022/)
Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gang-files-sec-complaint-over-victims-undisclosed-breach/)
Keynote Highlights: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMlUJqxhdoY)
Thoma Bravo to sell about $500 million in Dynatrace stock (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/thoma-bravo-to-sell-about-500-million-in-dynatrace-stock-9d7bd0e6)
FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification 1.0-preview Released to Demystify Cloud Billing Data (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/finops-open-cost-and-usage-specification-1-0-preview-released-to-demystify-cloud-billing-data-301990559.html?tc=eml_cleartime)
AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle partner to make cloud spend more transparent | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/16/aws-microsoft-google-and-oracle-partner-to-make-cloud-spend-more-transparent/)
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/)
Several popular AI products flagged as unsafe for kids by Common Sense Media | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/16/several-popular-ai-products-flagged-as-unsafe-for-kids-by-common-sense-media/)
Amazon to sell Hyundai vehicles online starting in 2024 (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-sell-hyundai-vehicles-online-180500951.html)
Amazon to launch car sales next year with Hyundai (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiP2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmF4aW9zLmNvbS8yMDIzLzExLzE2L2FtYXpvbi1oeXVuZGFpLWNhcnMtc2FsZS1hbGV4YdIBAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
Canonical Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering (https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/16/canonical_microcloud/)
Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding (https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-source-license-freedom-without-free-riding/)
The Problems with Money In (Open Source) Software | Aneel Lakhani | Monktoberfest 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCuLyv6SHo)
DXC Technology and AWS Take Their Strategic Partnership to the Next Level to Deliver the Future of Cloud for Customers (https://dxc.com/us/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/11202023)
Broadcom and VMware Intend to Close Transaction on November 22, 2023 (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231121379706/en/Broadcom-and-VMware-Intend-to-Close-Transaction-on-November-22-2023)
Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware | Hock Tan (https://www.broadcom.com/blog/broadcom-announces-successful-acquisition-of-vmware)
Broadcom closes $69 billion VMware deal after China approval (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-closes-69-billion-vmware-133704461.html)
VMware is now part of Broadcom | VMware by Broadcom (https://www.broadcom.com/info/vmware)
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law (https://www.wired.com/story/binance-cz-ceo-quits-pleads-guilty-breaking-law/)
Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn’t Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It! (https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/congrats-to-elon-musk-i-didnt-think-you-had-it-in-you-to-file-a-lawsuit-this-stupid-but-you-crazy-bastard-you-did-it/)
Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected (https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/hackers-spent-2-years-looting-secrets-of-chipmaker-nxp-before-being-detected/)
Meet ‘Anna Boyko’: How a Fake Speaker Blew up DevTernity (https://thenewstack.io/meet-anna-boyko-how-a-fake-speaker-blew-up-devternity/)
IBM's Db2 database dinosaur comes to AWS (https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/29/aws_launch_ibms_db2_database/)
Reports of AI ending human labour may be greatly exaggerated (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-research/resbull/2023/html/ecb.rb231128~0a16e73d87.es.html)
New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy (https://apnews.com/article/geothermal-energy-heat-renewable-power-climate-5c97f86e62263d3a63d7c92c40f1330d)
VMware’s $92bn sale showers cash on Michael Dell and Silver Lake (https://www.ft.com/content/d01901a2-db4b-45df-8ce5-f57ff46d463e)
Gartner Says Cloud Will Become a Business Necessity by 2028 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-11-29-gartner-says-cloud-will-become-a-business-necessity-by-2028)
IRS starts the bidding for $1.9B IT services recompete (https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2023/11/irs-starts-bidding-19b-it-services-recompete/392303/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Pulls Plug on Goldman Credit-Card Partnership (https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/apple-pulls-plug-on-goldman-credit-card-partnership-ca1dfb45)
Apple employees most likely to leave to join Google shows LinkedIn (https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/23/apple-employees-next-jobs/)
Ranked: Worst Companies for Employee Retention (U.S. and UK) (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/ranked-worst-companies-for-employee-retention-u-s-and-uk/)
Apple announces RCS support for iMessage (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/apple-announces-rcs-support-for-imessage/)
Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964171/apple-iphone-rcs-support)
Today on The Vergecast: what Apple really means when it talks about RCS. (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965656/today-on-the-vergecast-what-apple-really-means-when-it-talks-about-rcs)
**## Nonsense
Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23977693/ikea-sensors-door-window-water-motion-price-date-specs)
Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023 (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981468/apple-replay-spotify-wrapped-podcasts-rogan-crime-junkie-alex-cooper)
Listener Feedback
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Recommendations
Brandon: The Complete History & Strategy of Visa (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/visa)
Matt: Markdown in Google Docs (https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036)
Google Docs to Markdown (https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/docs_to_markdown/700168918607)
Coté: pork chops, preferably thin sliced.
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12/1/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 54 seconds
Episode 442: Dustin Kirkland on Securing Open Source Software
Brandon interviews Dustin Kirkland, VP of Engineering at Chainguard. They delve into Dustin’s experience as a part-time analyst, explore how Chainguard secures open-source software, and Dustin shares his hiking experience on the Camino de Santiago. Plus, some thoughts on men’s fashion and the timeless three-piece suit.
Show Links
theCUBE (https://www.thecube.net/)
SiliconANGLE (https://siliconangle.com)
Chainguard: Fortified Software Delivery (https://www.chainguard.dev/)
Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software (https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/series-b-funding)
Battling the Trojan Horse in Open Source (https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/dan-lorenc-chainguard-spotlight/)
Our Open Source focus: Securing OSS is not optional (https://www.chainguard.dev/open-source)
Octopus wolfi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_wolfi)
Camino de Santiago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago)
My Walk on the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, 2023 (https://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2023/04/camino-de-santiago-2023.html)
Contact Dustin
@DustinKirkland (https://twitter.com/DustinKirkland)
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinkirkland/)
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Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.
11/24/2023 • 52 minutes, 59 seconds
Episode 441: The whole point of AI is laziness
This week, we recap the key announcements from Microsoft Ignite, ponder the broader implications of A.I., provide an update on OpenCost, and share some thoughts on migrating child accounts to teen accounts.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episod (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YXzBJr6Plw)e 441 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YXzBJr6Plw)
Runner-up Titles
I just want to do less
Kill all the humans
Madlibbing his keynotes
They perked up and turned it off
Legs are the difficult thing
Everyone gets turned into a barnyard animal
Rundown
MSFT Ignite
With a systems approach to chips, Microsoft aims to tailor everything ‘from silicon to service’ to meet AI demand - Source (https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/in-house-chips-silicon-to-service-to-meet-ai-demand/)
Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event (https://www.theverge.com/23961007/microsoft-ignite-2023-news-ai-announcements-copilot-windows-azure-office#stream-entry-79ea5641-4d45-4067-a4d0-824c3e9a9297)
Microsoft and Photonic join forces on the path to quantum at scale - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2023/11/08/microsoft-and-photonic-join-forces-on-the-path-to-quantum-at-scale/)
Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides - Microsoft Industry Blogs (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/blog/industrial-metaverse/2023/11/15/introducing-copilot-in-microsoft-dynamics-365-guides-bringing-generative-ai-in-mixed-reality-to-frontline-workers/)
Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960517/microsoft-copilot-bing-chat-rebranding-chatgpt-ai)
OpenCost and Azure
Announcing OpenCost Integration with Microsoft AKS Cost Analysis (https://www.opencost.io/blog/aks-cost-analysis)
Export cost details using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/export-cost-using-focus/)
Relevant to your Interests
Microsoft restricts employee access to OpenAI's ChatGPT (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/09/microsoft-restricts-employee-access-to-openais-chatgpt.html)
Scoop: Amazon is ditching Android for Fire TVs, smart displays (https://www.lowpass.cc/p/amazon-vega-os-fire-tv-android)
Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023 (https://github.blog/2023-11-08-the-state-of-open-source-and-ai/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content)
Clouded Judgement 11.10.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-111023?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=138676070&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
Keycaps » Special Edition Drop » dbrand (https://dbrand.com/shop/special-edition/keycaps)
In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack (https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/hackers-can-steal-ssh-cryptographic-keys-in-new-cutting-edge-attack/)
Linux Foundation Creating The High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) (https://www.phoronix.com/news/High-Performance-Software-HPSF)
2023: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise - Menlo Ventures (https://menlovc.com/2023-the-state-of-generative-ai-in-the-enterprise-report/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Threat Spotlight: Reported ransomware attacks double as AI tactics take hold (https://blog.barracuda.com/2023/08/02/threat-spotlight-ransomware-attacks-double-ai-tactics)
YouTube, Ad Blockers & the Advertising "Tax" (https://thisisunpacked.substack.com/p/youtube-ad-blockers-and-advertising-tax)
Google sues scammers that allegedly released a malware-filled Bard knockoff (https://www.engadget.com/google-sues-scammers-that-allegedly-released-a-malware-filled-bard-knockoff-162222150.html)
Apple gets 36% of Google search revenue from Safari, Alphabet witness says (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/apple-gets-36percent-of-google-search-revenue-from-safari-alphabet-witness.html)
RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 released (https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/15/rhel_and_alma_linux_93/)
Amazon will officially merge Comixology with Kindle in December (https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-will-officially-merge-comixology-with-kindle-in-december/)
Nonsense
AWS staffer shows off former-prison offices on social media (https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/aws_prison_offices/)
Buc-ee’s and Mercedes-Benz are partnering to add high-speed chargers (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/buc-ees-and-mercedes-benz-are-partnering-to-add-high-speed-chargers)
In the Office Auto-Reply Emails for a Hybrid Work Schedule (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-the-office-auto-reply-emails-for-a-hybrid-work-schedule)
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Brandon: The Killer (https://www.netflix.com/title/80234448)
Matt: Keychron Q10 (Alice Layout) (https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q10-alice-layout-qmk-custom-mechanical-keyboard?variant=40247689543769) with Gateron G Brown Pro switches and a wooden palm rest
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11/17/2023 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 36 seconds
Episode 440: KubeCon Chicago Recap
This week, we recap Matt's experience at KubeCon Chicago, provide some hot takes on OpenAI's impending App Store, and delve into Apple's claim that 8 GB is all you need.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK4tldNTIOk) 440 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK4tldNTIOk)
Runner-up Titles
Keep on keeping on
They’re not sandbox projects they’re litterbox projects
It was USB thing
If you spent all week in the OpenCost kiosk, this is the report
The platter days
Wait a second, I’m a pro
Microsoft Benchmark Home Edition
Vanity Metrics are for Vanity
Rub some A.I. on it
Rubbing A.I. on all of it
Of course this is the way you’re going to do it
Rundown
Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM (https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/08/apple-insists-8gb-unified-memory-equals-16gb-regular-ram)
CNCF
October 2023: where we are with velocity of CNCF, LF, and top 30 open source projects | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/10/27/october-2023-where-we-are-with-velocity-of-cncf-lf-and-top-30-open-source-projects/)
AKS Cost Analysis: an Azure-native cost visibility experience built on the OpenCost project (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/aks-cost-analysis-an-azure-native-cost-visibility-experience/ba-p/3973401)
Buoyant and SUSE Expand Partnership to Provide Secure Edge Computing Deployments (https://www.prweb.com/releases/buoyant-and-suse-expand-partnership-to-provide-secure-edge-computing-deployments-301978286.html)
OpenAI
OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948957/openai-chatgpt-gpt-custom-developer-platform)
All the news from OpenAI’s first developer conference (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948619/openai-chatgpt-devday-developer-conference-news)
ChatCSV (https://x.com/SteveMoraco/status/1721683288576737612?s=20)
How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents (https://www.platformer.news/p/how-openai-is-building-a-path-toward?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7976&post_id=138646378&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo and fine-tuning program for GPT-4 | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/openai-launches-gpt-4-turbo-and-launches-fine-tuning-program-for-gpt-4/)
CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ciq-oracle-and-suse-unite-behind-openela-to-take-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux/)
Matt Ray’s Keyboard Quest
Andrew says gets switch tester (https://www.thockking.com/collections/switch-tester/products/custom-keyboard-switch-tester-fidget-toy)
Relevant to your Interests
Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community (https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38_of_bug/)
IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer alternative benefit (https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/ibm_401k_changes/)
AWS to Azure services comparison - Azure Architecture Center (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/services)
PagerDuty To Acquire Jeli, Bolstering its End-to-End, Automated Incident Management Solution for the Enterprise (https://www.pagerduty.com/newsroom/pagerduty-to-acquire-jeli/)
Verdict reached in Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial (https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/business/ftx-sbf-fraud-trial-verdict/index.html)
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud (https://www.theverge.com/policy/2023/11/2/23943236/sam-bankman-fried-trial-sbf-fraud-guilty)
The GPU Math", AI's impact on Cloud Rev and Capex (https://x.com/fredaduan/status/1720239195699269903?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Developer Productivity Engineering at Netflix (https://thenewstack.io/developer-productivity-engineering-at-netflix/)
Europe is in Decline: A Concerning Future Ahead (https://x.com/sabben/status/1709105432193650726?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Data observability platform Kloudfuse launches out of stealth with $23M (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/data-observability-platform-kloudfuse-launches-out-of-stealth-with-23m/)
Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/05/elon-musk-debuts-grok-ai-bot-to-rival-chatgpt-others-.html)
Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage (https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/)
Datadog stock surges 30% after cloud company beats estimates, revises guidance up (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/07/datadog-stock-surges-after-earnings-strong-guidance.html)
Elevating Cloud-Native Innovation: Craig Box joins the Solo.io Team! (https://www.solo.io/blog/cloud-native-innovation-craig-box-solo/)
Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft's GitHub • DEVCLASS (https://devclass.com/2023/11/07/mozilla-will-move-firefox-development-from-mercurial-to-microsofts-github/?td=rt-3a)
Understanding Open Source Adoption: Insights from the 9th State of the Software Supply Chain Report. (https://www.sonatype.com/state-of-the-software-supply-chain/Introduction)
New Report Shows Disconnect Between Developers and Security Teams on Software Supply Chain Security Priorities and Responsibilities (https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/new-report-shows-disconnect-between-developers-and-security-teams-on-software-supply-chain-security-priorities-and-responsibilities)
Nvidia announces January event after rumors of an RTX 4080 Super launch (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23953641/nvidia-ces-2024-event-rtx-4070-4080-super-rumors)
Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/09/former-apple-designers-at-humane-launch-hands-free-ai-powered-pin.html)
Big Blue Can Still Catch The AI Wave If It Hurries - The Next Platform (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/06/big-blue-can-still-catch-the-ai-wave-if-it-hurries/)
Nonsense
Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma (https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23943254/mint-intuit-shutting-down-credit-karma)
Jeff Bezos Says He Is Leaving Seattle for Miami (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/business/jeff-bezos-amazon-miami-seattle.html)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Same as Ever (https://www.audible.com/pd/Same-as-Ever-Audiobook/B0C1HS5WG1#:~:text=Same%20as%20Ever%20reverses%20the,and%20living%20your%20best%20life.)
Morgan Housel | Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/morgan-housel)
The Morgan Housel Podcast: My New Book, Same As Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-new-book-same-as-ever-a-guide-to-what-never-changes/id1675310669?i=1000633970682)
Matt:
DisplayLink (https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics) for multiple external monitors on M1 Macs (Asahi Linux discussion (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/asahi-creator-1-monitor-support-is-because-of-hardware-limitation.2351766/))
Photo Credits
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11/10/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 48 seconds
Episode 439: You’re always going to be mad
This week, we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost, the Free Software Product License, paying for Social Media, and Apple's latest announcements. Plus, Matt begins the search for a new keyboard.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://youtube.com/live/Vlh62UkQDrI?feature=share) 439 (https://youtube.com/live/Vlh62UkQDrI?feature=share)
Runner-up Titles
Costservability
Just a second
439 episodes of podcasting nirvana
We’ve never made a mistake
A million Amazon users of Copilot
Chrome exists to serve RAM sales
Two Turntables and a Microphone
Default Search Engines
Rundown
Cloud Earnings Review
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Q3 2023 Earnings Analysis (https://open.substack.com/pub/johnfurrier/p/amazon-web-services-aws-q3-2023-earnings?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)
Amazon's Jassy: We're 'surprised' at growth of our generative AI business (https://www.axios.com/2023/10/27/amazon-earnings-q3-cloud-ai-growth)
Clouded Judgement 10.27.23 - Cloud Giants Report Q3 '23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-102723-cloud-giants?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=138282964&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
OpenCost Expands Its Horizon: Introducing Multi-Cloud Cost Monitoring (https://www.opencost.io/blog/cloud-costs)
Free Software Product
Open Source in Numbers: The Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution (https://thenewstack.io/open-source-in-numbers-the-terraform-license-change-impact-on-contribution/)
Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob / Oxide (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1564203)
Business Models (https://sfosc.org/docs/book/business-models/)
Default Search Engine
Google reportedly pays $18 billion a year to be Apple’s default search engine (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933206/google-apple-search-deal-safari-18-billion)
Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934961/google-antitrust-trial-defaults-search-deal-26-3-billion)
“Chrome exists to serve Google search.” - The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934575/chrome-exists-to-serve-google-search)
Paid Social
Elon Musk will charge you more to avoid ads than Disney and Netflix (https://fortune.com/2023/10/30/twitter-x-ad-free-16-per-month-elon-musk/)
Facebook and Instagram launch a paid ad-free subscription (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23938283/facebook-instagram-ad-free-subscription-eu)
YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs (https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/11/youtube-tries-to-kill-ad-blockers-in-push-for-ad-dollars-premium-subs/)
SolarWinds
SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sec-sues-solarwinds-for-misleading-investors-before-2020-hack/)
Observability provider SolarWinds reportedly exploring a sale (https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/27/observability-provider-solarwinds-reportedly-exploring-sale/)
Bad Passwords Are Securities Fraud (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-31/bad-passwords-are-securities-fraud?srnd=undefined#xj4y7vzkg)
Apple
Apple unveils new MacBook Pro featuring M3 chips (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-new-macbook-pro-featuring-m3-chips/)
Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/behind-the-scenes-at-scary-fast-apples-keynote-event-shot-on-iphone/)
Relevant to your Interests
The Cloud Computer (https://oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud-computer)
Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO (https://thenewstack.io/linux-foundation-adopting-terraform-fork-provokes-ire-of-hashicorp-ceo/)
12-inch MacBook could return as a budget model, suggests leaker (https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/26/12-inch-macbook/)
X usage plummets in Musk's first year as owner (https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/x-twitter-usage-statistics-elon-musk-owner)
Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/25/23932473/mark-zuckerberg-threads-100-million-monthly-users-earnings)
Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/google-fiber-is-getting-outrageously-fast-20gbps-service/)
Alphabet sees $165 billion in market cap wiped after cloud business growth disappoints Wall Street (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-sees-165-billion-market-033038799.html)
VMware closes its home for experimental software (https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/vmware_flings_broadcom_deal_close/)
Samsung adds DisplayPort and more Multi View options to second massive Ark monitor (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23938589/samsung-55-inch-odyssey-ark-2nd-gen-g97nc-gaming-monitor-price-release-date-specs-features)
Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-consumer-dna-data)
What's new in Red Hat OpenShift (https://www.redhat.com/en/whats-new-red-hat-openshift)
Announcing the Platform Engineering Maturity Model (https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/blog/announcing-the-platform-engineering-maturity-model/)
Welcoming Clearbit to the HubSpot Team (https://www.hubspot.com/company-news/welcoming-clearbit-to-hubspot)
Broadcom and VMWare Say $61 Billion Deal Will Close 'Soon' (https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/broadcom-and-vmware-say-61-billion-deal-will-close-soon)
Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round as Enterprises Move to Fortify Open Source Software (https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/series-b-funding)
Nonsense
Toyota’s Chairman Is Having His ‘I Told You So Moment’ About EVs (https://jalopnik.com/toyota-s-chairman-is-having-his-i-told-you-so-moment-1850958887)
Why Is Apple's USB-C Cable $130? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5aAd8Oy84)
The restaurant nearest Google (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23931825/google-search-local-seo-thai-food-near-me-maps)
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933213/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-spot-top-hat)
Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club to private equity (https://www.axios.com/2023/10/27/dollar-shave-club-unilever-private-equity)
WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week WSJ (https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-10-31/wework-plans-to-file-for-bankruptcy-as-early-as-next-week-wsj)
Listener Feedback
Sudesh from Akami is hosting a happy hour at KubeCon (https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=bOKK9sqybUqtA5Vl5gESv9vr1eHwpWlNpikyJkP2Z9xUQTdYNk9GUThQNEgxUTRaQktCWFZINUFMRy4u)
Conferences
Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there.
20% off with VMware discount code: KCNA23VMWEO20.
Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit | Linux Foundation Events (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/riscv-summit/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Bodies (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjp4oGWiaSCAxUGm2oFHdwCCmIQFnoECCkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2Ftitle%2F81252916&usg=AOvVaw2PDqR67wZ7e4OADELL1yMS&opi=89978449)
Matt: Anti-recommendation: Lenovo Go (https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyboards-and-mice/keyboards/4y41c33748) wireless ergonomic keyboard
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/two-lighted-jack-o-lanterns-during-night-time-ed5KySP1tfQ)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/black-and-white-computer-keyboard-c4a_0kycTUE)
11/3/2023 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 438: This is a 20-year bug
This week, we discuss Microsoft and Google Cloud earnings, the future of passwords, the validity of DORA Metrics, and share some thoughts on esoteric Excel bug fixes.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Simz8R9GfmM) 438 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Simz8R9GfmM)
Runner-up Titles
Spicy takes and f-bombs
Not pants
Real scientists don’t use Excel
We fixed it
Private equity is coming for you
Jerks on the phone… go!
They’re going to steal our eyes and thumbs
Rundown
Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/21/23926585/microsoft-excel-misreading-dates-human-genes-conversion-fixed)
Control data conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac (https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/control-data-conversions-in-excel-for-windows-and-mac)
Cloud News and Earnings
Clouded Judgement 10.20.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-102023?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=138111723&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
Microsoft blows past earnings estimates as cloud growth comes in hot (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-earnings-what-to-expect-c89603b0)
Microsoft has over a million paying Git (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-has-over-a-million-paying-github-copilot-users-ceo-nadella/)H (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-has-over-a-million-paying-github-copilot-users-ceo-nadella/)ub Copilot users: CEO Nadella (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-has-over-a-million-paying-github-copilot-users-ceo-nadella/)
Jamin Ball on LinkedIn: On the Microsoft earnings call (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jamin-ball-49366137_on-the-microsoft-earnings-call-satya-said-activity-7122700696809840640-WdmD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
Google-parent Alphabet's cloud division misses revenue estimates, as Microsoft’s cloud booms (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-google-parent-alphabets-cloud-220048271.html)
How AI-driven software creation tools speed up your development (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/how-ai-driven-software-creation-tools-speed-up-your-development)
Amazon launches European 'sovereign' cloud as EU data debate rages (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/25/amazon-launches-european-sovereign-cloud-as-eu-data-debate-rages.html)
Passwords
Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/hackers-stole-access-tokens-from-oktas-support-unit/)
1Password is the latest victim of Okta’s compromise (https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/1password_confirms_all_logins_are/)
Passkeys (Passkey Authentication (https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys/#faq))
Apple may be planning a surprise October iMac announcement (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/22/23927184/apple-m3-imac-13-inch-macbook-pro-rumored-october-announcement)
Despite the Hype, Engineers Not Impressed with DORA Metrics (https://thenewstack.io/despite-the-hype-engineers-not-impressed-with-dora-metrics/)
Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal (https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/291153/amazon-could-reportedly-sign-billion-dollar-microsoft-365-deal)
Relevant to your Interests
Broadcom and VMware Announce Election Deadline for VMware Stockholders to Elect Merger Consideration (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/broadcom-and-vmware-announce-election-deadline-for-vmware-stockholders-to-elect-merger-consideration-301960548.html)
Beijing weighs delaying approval of $69bn Broadcom-VMware deal (https://www.ft.com/content/b23d2a9f-d873-43e4-9032-632d4e9d438c)
Announcing Neptyne for Google Sheets (https://www.neptyne.com/blog/announcing-neptyne-for-google-sheets)
Discord expands online marketplace as it tries to justify $15 billion valuation (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/19/discord-expands-online-marketplace-to-justify-15-billion-valuation.html)
Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/18/top-apple-analyst-says-macbook-demand-has-fallen-significantly.html)
Amazon managers can now sack employees who won’t work from the office 3 days a week (https://fortune.com/2023/10/20/amazon-return-to-office-mandate-manager-guidelines/)
Amazon’s Andy Jassy Plans to Crash the AI Party (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazons-andy-jassy-plans-to-crash-the-ai-party)
US v Google Antitrust Trial Transcripts I The Capitol Forum (https://thecapitolforum.com/google_antitrust_trial_2023/)
Crane Venture Partners Flight 2023 (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/calfonsorico_this-week-was-crane-venture-partners-flight-activity-7121116480242393089-fLTn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') (https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-ubuntu-linux-snuck-into-high-end-dell-laptops-and-why-its-called-project-sputnik/)
What’s inside Apple’s $129 Thunderbolt cable? (https://x.com/jonbruner/status/1714696044356005949?s=46&t=xWDA0HNEXsT6JoDfqArKvw)
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? (https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn)
Amazon Could Reportedly Sign Billion Dollar Microsoft 365 Deal (https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/291153/amazon-could-reportedly-sign-billion-dollar-microsoft-365-deal)
Stay in EU, comply with EU law: EU’s digital chief warns X’s Musk (https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-vera-jourova-x-european-union-law/)
Meta sued by 42 attorneys general for addictive features targeting kids (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/24/bipartisan-group-of-ags-sue-meta-for-addictive-features.html)
Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs Chrome (https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-video-power-consumption-pt-1/)
Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23928685/automattic-texts-acquisition-universal-messaging)
The founder of startup Bonobos hid a bipolar diagnosis for decades. Now he’s on a mission to destigmatize mental health at work (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/founder-startup-bonobos-hid-bipolar-114401987.html)
Sam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify at His Fraud Trial (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/technology/sam-bankman-fried-testify-fraud-trial.html)
Fed wants to lower 'swipe fees,' a potential blow to banks and credit card giants (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-wants-to-lower-swipe-fees-a-potential-blow-to-banks-and-credit-card-giants-165923447.html)
Nonsense
Costco CEO Craig Jelinek to step down Jan. 1. COO Ron Vachris will take over (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/18/costco-ceo-craig-jelinek-to-step-down-jan-1-coo-ron-vachris-will-take-over.html)
McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (https://youtu.be/AiOUojVd6xQ?si=E35OdQll94AhTgre)
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Omnivore (https://omnivore.app/)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Asciicinema (https://asciinema.org)
Coming to asciinema near you with Marcin Kulik, creator of asciinema (Changelog Interviews #561) (https://changelog.com/podcast/561)
Matt:
uBlock Origin (https://ublockorigin.com/)
Photo Credits
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10/27/2023 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 437: The Let it Ride Lifestyle
This week, we discuss Amazon embracing Microsoft Office 365, offer some SBF hot takes, and review the lessons Docker learned when building an open-source business. Plus, we share thoughts on the new Apple Pencil, USB-C, and some Tim Cook fan fiction.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/FR4HLs-xTOE?si=HsavpdEHYVF_FhYP) 437 (https://www.youtube.com/live/FR4HLs-xTOE?si=HsavpdEHYVF_FhYP)
Runner-up Titles
My enemy’s Word Processor is my friend.
You know what we should do, we should just meet about it.
A downgrade would be an upgrade.
Megadeal’s a great word.
It worked for Shingy
Use my template.
Rundown
Amazon moves to the cloud
Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document (https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-prepares-amazon-customer-365-cloud-tools-2023-10)
Report: Amazon will use Microsoft 365 cloud productivity tools in $1B ‘megadeal’ (https://www.geekwire.com/2023/report-amazon-will-use-microsoft-365-cloud-productivity-tools-in-1b-megadeal/)
SBF
Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal peril deepens as his defense comes up short (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/17/bankman-fried-trial/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most)
Number Goes Up (https://www.amazon.com/Number-Go-Up-Cryptos-Staggering/dp/0593443810)
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon (https://www.amazon.com/Going-Infinite-Rise-Fall-Tycoon/dp/B0CD8V9SHD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YTBDKGIG9B2Y&keywords=going+infinity+michael+lewis&qid=1697580041&s=books&sprefix=Michael+Lewis+Infi%2Cstripbooks%2C156&sr=1-1)
OSS
Business Success with Open Source (https://pragprog.com/titles/vbfoss/business-success-with-open-source/)
HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless... (https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/)
Docker at 10 — 3 Things We Got Right, 3 Things We Got Wrong (https://thenewstack.io/docker-at-10-3-things-we-got-right-3-things-we-got-wrong/)
How open source foundations protect the licensing integrity of open source projects (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/how-open-source-foundations-protect-the-licensing-integrity-of-open-source-projects)
VMware: What China Might Ask Of Broadcom Is Concerning Markets (NYSE:VMW) (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4641336-vmware-what-china-might-ask-broadcom-concerning-markets)
Relevant to your Interests
So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off (https://gizmodo.com/github-copilot-ai-microsoft-openai-chatgpt-1850915549)
IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $29 billion in back taxes (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/11/irs-says-microsoft-owes-an-additional-29-billion-in-back-taxes.html)
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports (https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/)
Data transformation startup Prophecy lands $35M investment | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/data-transformation-startup-prophecy-lands-35m-investment/)
Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/google-turns-up-the-heat-on-aws-claims-cloud-spanner-is-half-the-cost-of-dynamodb/)
Apple reaches settlement with Caltech in $1 billion patent lawsuit - 9to5Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/12/apple-reaches-settlement-with-caltech-in-1-billion-patent-lawsuit/)
We tried that, didn’t work (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-tried-that-didn-t-work-d9c42fe1)
Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com (https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/)
Apple wants to update iPhones in-store without opening the packaging (https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/10/15/apple-plans-to-update-iphones-in-store-without-opening-the-boxes)
Atlassian content cloud migration will work. Users, less so (https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/16/atlassian_cloud_migration_server_deprecation/)
Opinion | The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/opinion/office-work-home-remote.html)
Minecraft becomes first video game to hit 300m sales (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67105983)
Marc Andreessen -- e/acc on X (https://x.com/pmarca/status/1713930459779129358?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 employees — read the memo here (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/microsoft-owned-linkedin-lays-off-nearly-700-read-the-memo-here.html)
Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup (https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2023/10/apple-introduces-new-apple-pencil-bringing-more-value-and-choice-to-the-lineup/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML (https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/sifive-rolls-out-risc-v-cores-aimed-at-generative-ai-and-ml/)
Apple introduces new Apple Pencil, bringing more value and choice to the lineup (https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2023/10/apple-introduces-new-apple-pencil-bringing-more-value-and-choice-to-the-lineup/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Amazon quietly rolls out support for passkeys, with a catch | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/amazon-passkey-sign-in/)
The price of managed cloud services (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-price-of-managed-cloud-services-4f33d67e)
Microsoft launches Radius, an open-source application platform for the cloud-native era (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/microsoft-launches-radius-an-open-source-application-platform-for-the-cloud/?guccounter=1)
UK Atlassian users complain of migration dead end (https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/18/atlassian_server_imgration_deadend/)
Passwordless authentication startup SecureW2 raises $80M from Insight Partners (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/passwordless-authentication-startup-securew2-raises-80m-from-insight-partners/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEg5u3LvXY_CzdVG2zQM-BixvZEUGH7W4PyZHAEyHEsInAVRmaxLjTPXHrs4ANq38SKj2Siv_yRyw2U4yR8SXfSjusCwmdqRjjscKA_XjYDMQrpLT0MhenCQfOiqmhCSCcx5PyfuW0Ga8dH4R8blCLZ8v176Pt-4IKPwZ1oQ54ph)
Convicted Fugees rapper Pras Michel's lawyer used AI to draft bungled closing argument (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/convicted-fugees-rapper-pras-michels-lawyer-used-ai-draft-bungled-clos-rcna120992)
IRS to offer a new option to file your tax return (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/17/irs-free-tax-filing-eligibility/)
Welcoming Loom to the Atlassian team (https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-acquires-loom)
Nonsense
Costco sold $9B of clothing in 2022 (https://x.com/trungtphan/status/1712581893886181863?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
United's new boarding system prioritizes window seats (https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/uniteds-boarding-system-prioritizes-window-211759965.html)
Listener Feedback
Software Engineering at Google (https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book)
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Platform Engineering (https://boards.greenhouse.io/harnessinc/jobs/4102778007)
Conferences
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Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit | Linux Foundation Events (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/riscv-summit/)
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Sign up for Installer - The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/pages/installer-newsletter-sign-up)
Matt: Dell customer support
Coté: Evil Dead Rises (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead_Rise). Also, this picture of Bruce Campbell (https://ew.com/thmb/Z-6NqxZMtIassHzw1Wgcs4LuntA=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Bruce-Campbell-Evil-Dead-Rise-031623-392c8a22d985493583a1ccdcb11f1618.jpg), from here (https://ew.com/movies/bruce-campbell-shuts-down-evil-dead-rise-heckler-sxsw/).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/black-tablet-computer-on-brown-wooden-table-aVP3ryIQKpM)
10/20/2023 • 48 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 436: Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements
This week, we discuss measuring developer productivity, Unity licensing backlash, and some follow-up on Wireless Emergency Alerts. Plus, thoughts on coconuts.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtDvRPqXFs) 436 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtDvRPqXFs)
Runner-up Titles
One day an ice machine will run on RISC-V
Mo Developers Mo Problems
W3C my ass.
That’s almost an aggressive blue.
Wait. Do I live in an office complex?
You pay the same
Quarantine Quarters
Maybe I have too much mindlessness
Out of my way Costco, I’m going direct.
Candy Corn
Have you tried a bubble-sort?
Omerta for developers
Understand what you’re measuring, or you’ll just get measurements.
KCNA23VMWEO20
Just make the bed
Rundown
Developer Productivity
McKinsey Developer Productivity Review (https://dannorth.net/mckinsey-review/)
Even longer rebuttal (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity).
The only people who don’t like metrics are the people being measured, or, developer productivity metrics quicksand (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/the-only-people-who-dont-like-metrics)
Reports
Kubernetes at Scale: Challenges, Priorities, Adoption Patterns, and Solutions (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/analyst-reports/kubernetes-at-scale)
Announcing the 2023 State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/announcing-the-2023-state-of-devops-report)
John Riccitiello is out at Unity, effective immediately (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23910441/unity-ceo-president-john-riccitiello-out-retire)
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) (https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea)
Relevant to your Interests
Why companies still want in-house data centres (https://www.economist.com/business/2023/10/05/why-companies-still-want-in-house-data-centres)
Understanding the Cyber Resilience Act: What Everyone involved in Open Source Development Should Know (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber-resilience-act)
PayPal faces new antitrust lawsuit claiming it unfairly stifles competition with Stripe, Shopify and more (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/05/paypal-faces-new-antitrust-lawsuit-claiming-it-unfairly-stifles-competition-with-stripe-shopify-and-more/)
DuckDB Labs puts limit on free support, rules out VC funding (https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/duckdb_labs_puts_limit_on_vc_funds/)
Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/genetics-firm-23andme-says-user-data-stolen-in-credential-stuffing-attack/)
Hackers are selling the data of millions lifted from 23andMe’s genetic database (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/7/23907330/23andme-leak-hackers-selling-user-dna-data)
Datadog stumbles as Bank of America downgrades, citing recent checks (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4019064-datadog-stumbles-bank-of-america-downgrades-recent-checks)
IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments (https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ibm-ceo-in-damage-control-mode-after-ai-job-loss-comments)
Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/09/google-announces-new-generative-ai-search-capabilities-for-doctors-.html)
Be an Open Source Absolutist! (https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1711737838889242880)
Google Cloud mitigated largest DDoS attack, peaking above 398 million rps (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/)
Nonsense
Ice Is Not Necessary. So Why Do Hotels Provide It for Free? (https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/why-are-there-ice-machines-in-so-many-hotels.html)
Listener Feedback
Biogen hiring Senior Manager, Solution Architecture, Global Commercial and Medical IT (hybrid work) (https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Biogen/743999935046183-senior-manager-solution-architecture-global-commercial-and-medical-it-hybrid-work-)
RedHat hiring Principal Product Marketing Manager, OpenShift in Remote (https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/100399/principal-product-marketing-manager%2c-openshift/job?mode=view&mobile=true&width=428&height=739&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240)
Conferences
Oct 17th SpringOne Tour Online (free!) (https://springonetour.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming) - Coté talking about platform engineering.
Oct 17th and 24th **talk series (yes, a “webinar”): Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering (https://series.brighttalk.com/series/6011/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming). Coté’s doing this.
Nov 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there. Use this VMware discount code for 20% off: KCNA23VMWEO20.
Nov 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
Nov 7–8, 2023 RISC-V Summit | Linux Foundation Events (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/riscv-summit/)
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: macOS Sonoma (https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma/)
Matt: HomeSeek (https://www.homeseekgame.com/) - post apocalyptic SimCity
Coté: Menewood (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60784675), finally out! Over 700 subscribers for my newsletter - are you subscribed (https://newsletter.cote.io)?!
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/dFoOWRT97_0)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/umixjcVd0Ws)
10/13/2023 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 59 seconds
Episode 435: SSH in a for loop but faster
This week, we discuss paying ransom to cyberattackers, an overview of the "Infrastructure as Code" market, and remote worker productivity. Plus, Matt provides a review of the Raspberry 5 and shares his reasons for refusing to install the Global Entry Mobile App.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/6vmdE20_Eak?si=qcONahAxeLtl2Fc5) 435 (https://www.youtube.com/live/6vmdE20_Eak?si=qcONahAxeLtl2Fc5)
Runner-up Titles
All my takes are spicy, once I get enough caffeine
We’re doing this for science
No, just no, Dad
No exceeding expectations in that role
I will do horrible things with YAML
My business is my business
They don’t have room for purity
Rundown
Emergency broadcast (https://apnews.com/article/ee3a3039a5cf452a8f307c8f6f8dcbf3) not (https://apnews.com/article/ee3a3039a5cf452a8f307c8f6f8dcbf3) used by Trump (https://apnews.com/article/ee3a3039a5cf452a8f307c8f6f8dcbf3)
CBP announces new (https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-announces-new-global-entry-mobile-app)
MGM, Caesars Cyberattack Responses Required Brutal Choices (https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/mgm-caesars-incident-responses-required-brutal-choices)
Creator of Ansible ships "Jetporch" (https://github.com/jetporch/jetporch)
Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform (https://www.geekwire.com/2023/cloud-startup-pulumi-raises-41m-from-madrona-nea-to-grow-infrastructure-as-code-platform/)
Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/red_hat_bugzilla_jira_migration/)
Work From Home Works - Marginal REVOLUTION (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/10/work-from-home-works.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=work-from-home-works)
The Raspberry Pi 5 is finally here (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23889238/raspberry-pi-5-specs-availability-pricing)
Relevant to your Interests
OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-seeks-new-valuation-of-up-to-90-billion-in-sale-of-existing-shares-ed6229e0)
Epic Games Asks Supreme Court to Hear Apple Case (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/27/epic-games-supreme-court/)
FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/fcc-announces-plans-to-reinstate-net-neutrality/)
Mark Zuckerberg reveals Meta AI chatbot, his answer to ChatGPT (https://cointelegraph.com/news/meta-ai-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-unveil-chatbot-rayban-metaverse)
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894266/epic-games-layoffs-fortnite-unreal-engine)
How Swiggy migrated its k8s workload to Graviton (https://bytes.swiggy.com/how-swiggy-migrated-its-k8s-workload-to-graviton-d2643bbc7871)
Passkeys: all the news and updates around passwordless sign-on (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/29/23895518/passkey-passwordless-login-announcements-news-updates)
The potential gap (https://open.substack.com/pub/benn/p/the-potential-gap?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)
Apple acknowledges hot iPhone 15 Pros, says software fixes are coming (https://www.yahoo.com/news/apple-acknowledges-hot-iphone-15-215031767.html)
What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers opine (https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/02/vmware_broadcom_pundit_predictions/)
Bill Ackman reportedly said he would 'absolutely' do a deal with X with his new SPARC funding vehicle (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/01/bill-ackman-would-absolutely-do-a-deal-with-x-with-his-new-sparc.html)
Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/28/open-source-datadog-rival-signoz-lands-on-the-cloud-with-6-5m-investment/)
Okta acquires a16z-backed password manager Uno to develop a personal tier (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/okta-acquires-a16z-backed-password-manager-uno-to-develop-a-personal-tier/)
Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices (https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-used-secret-project-nessie-algorithm-to-raise-prices-6c593706?st=9ubhqeyjqgu0b2x&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink)
Look what ChatGPT vision can do. (https://twitter.com/_borriss_/status/1707412406048063788)
Voice and Video Demos with ChatGPT, How AI Could Redeem Meta’s Mixed Reality Bets, OpenAI Explores Hardware (https://overcast.fm/+8XV3Zc4Pg)
AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality (https://stratechery.com/2023/ai-hardware-and-virtual-reality/)
The Senate’s email system melted down in the face of security test and reply-all chaos. (https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-8-2023/senate-reply-all-mess/)
Nonsense
Costco is selling gold bars and they are selling out within a few hours (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/27/costco-is-selling-gold-bars-and-they-are-selling-out-within-a-few-hours.html)
Costco Offers Members $29 Online Health Care Visits (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-25/costco-offers-health-care-to-members-in-deal-with-sesame-cost?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic)
Conferences
Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/EMEA_P7_DG_FE_Q324_Event_S1TourAmsterdam_TanzuLP-AltS1TBanner.html?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)
Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering (https://series.brighttalk.com/series/6011/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dental Monitoring (https://dentalmonitoring.com) and Anker Magsafe Battery (https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerCore-Magnetic-Slim-B2C/dp/B099284SRR/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=3JIBPD0L930O5&keywords=anker+magsafe+charger&qid=1696440885&sprefix=anker+mag%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1)
Matt: Search Engine podcast: Wait, should I not be drinking airplane coffee? (https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wait-should-i-not-be-drinking-airplane-coffee/id1614253637?i=1000619792437)
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10/6/2023 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 434: Slides Benedict
This week, we discuss Cisco's acquisition of Splunk, AWS's investment in Anthropic, and VC Market Overview Presentations. Plus, we share some thoughts on Dungeons and Dragons, as well as standardized testing.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyPzGCpfT0) 434 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyPzGCpfT0)
Runner-up Titles
So much about sheep
Maybe Ten
Middle mega-cap
The data stays the same, only the story changes
Ribbon Wall
Rundown
Splunk
Cisco acquires cybersecurity company Splunk in cash deal worth $28 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/21/cisco-acquiring-splunk-for-157-a-share-in-cash.html)
Splunk Is Good For Cisco, But Cisco Needs To Convince Splunk Customers That Cisco Is Good For Them (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/splunk-is-good-for-cisco-but-cisco-needs-to-convince-splunk-customers-that-cisco-is-good-for-them/)
AWS to invest up to $4B in Anthropic
Google invested $300 million in AI firm founded by former OpenAI researchers (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584540/google-anthropic-investment-300-million-openai-chatgpt-rival-claude)
Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion into Anthropic (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-e50e38f2-cb3f-4ec6-ab85-a758a8daf33e.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
I’s $240B Question (https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/follow-the-gpus-perspective)
Anti Portfolio (https://www.bvp.com/anti-portfolio)
Relevant to your Interests
Upbound Contributes Control Plane Provider Technology to Crossplane (https://blog.upbound.io/donate-upjet-provider-project-to-cncf)
Your iPhone can now restore your Apple TV if the streaming box has problems (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880671/apple-tv-4k-hd-iphone-restore-recovery)
Elon Musk's Neuralink is recruiting patients for its first human trial (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/elon-musks-neuralink-is-recruiting-patients-for-its-first-human-trial.html)
Roblox acquires voice moderation startup Speechly | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/20/roblox-acquires-voice-moderation-startup-speechly/?guccounter=1)
Harness launches Gitness, an open source GitHub competitor | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/oh-gitness-harness-launches-gitness-an-open-source-github-competitor/?guccounter=1)
Broadcom-VMware Deal Inches Closer In China: Report | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/broadcom-vmware-deal-inches-closer-in-china-report)
1Password rolls out public passkey support to its mobile apps and web extensions (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23880714/1password-mobile-passkey-support-web-browser-extension-release-date)
Intel Unveils Industry-Leading Glass Substrates (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-unveils-industry-leading-glass-substrates.html)
Amazon's Prime Video will show ads unless you pay $3 more per month (https://www.engadget.com/amazons-prime-video-will-show-ads-unless-you-pay-3-more-per-month-111709384.html)
Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/salesforce-airkit/)
Spreadsheets are the long tail of datasets that don’t have their own SaaS tool yet (https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1078755080478715904?s=46&t=zgzybiDdIcGuQ_7WuoOX0A)
Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-cloud-hiring-to-implement-global-small-modular-reactor-and-microreactor-strategy-to-power-data-centers/)
Demand for Software Developers will STILL outweigh the supply. (https://x.com/DThompsonDev/status/1706015535861768404?s=20)
No sacred masterpieces (https://basta.substack.com/p/no-sacred-masterpieces)
Vista Equity Partners has quietly topped $100 billion in assets under management (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-e50e38f2-cb3f-4ec6-ab85-a758a8daf33e.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
ll iPhone 15 Models Can Be Connected To An Ethernet Cable Through The USB-C Port Via Dongle To Enable Incredibly Fast Wired Speeds (https://wccftech.com/all-iphone-15-models-can-connect-to-ethernet-cable-with-usb-c-cable/)
U.S. Accuses Amazon of Illegally Protecting Monopoly in Online Retail (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/technology/ftc-amazon.html)
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/google-podcasts-to-shut-down-in-2024-with-listeners-migrated-to-youtube-music/)
Tech layoffs are all but a thing of the past (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/tech-layoffs-are-all-but-a-thing-of-the-past/)
Terraform fork OpenTF gets renamed to OpenTofu (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/20/terraform_fork_opentf_opentofu/)
What’s Up With Open Terraform? — Arrested DevOps (https://overcast.fm/+BvUXjLzWQ)
Open source is at a crossroads with Steve O'Grady from RedMonk (Changelog Interviews #558) (https://changelog.com/podcast/558)
Ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video, unless you pay more (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23885242/amazon-prime-tv-movies-streaming-ads-subscription-date)
Airlines Are Just Banks Now (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-banks-mileage-programs/675374/)
(https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-cloud-hiring-to-implement-global-small-modular-reactor-and-microreactor-strategy-to-power-data-centers/)## Nonsense
F-35 crash: Pilot called 911 after parachuting into backyard (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66890941)
You can find love on Tinder for $500 a month, if you qualify for its elite tier (https://www.engadget.com/you-can-find-love-on-tinder-for-500-a-month-if-you-qualify-for-its-elite-tier-213159522.html)
Apple Podcasts adds original programming from Apple Music, Apple News+ and other apps | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/apple-podcasts-adds-original-programming-from-apple-music-apple-news-and-other-apps/)
Listener Feedback
Slack's revamped UI feels like a step in the wrong direction (https://www.androidpolice.com/slack-revamped-ui-wrong-direction/)
Brett’s Slack Tip: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+S when the new Slack design lands on you. It’ll give you your Slack community sidebar back.
Conferences
Oct 3rd Enterprise DevOps Techcon (https://enterprisedevopstechcon.nl/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), Utrecht.
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
October 5 - 6, 2023, Devopsdays Indianapolis 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-indianapolis/welcome/)
Oct 9th Spring Tour Amsterdam (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/EMEA_P7_DG_FE_Q324_Event_S1TourAmsterdam_TanzuLP-AltS1TBanner.html?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)
Oct 10th, 17th, 24th talk series: Building a Path to Production: A Guide for Managers and Leaders in Platform Engineering (https://series.brighttalk.com/series/6011/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: iPhone Messages Stickers (https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/23/how-to-make-use-iphone-messages-stickers-ios-17/)
Coté: Notes.app: iOS 17 Notes and Reminders Features (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-17-notes-reminders/).
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9/29/2023 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 433: Are you telling me GitHub is a good name
This week, we discuss why everyone is envious of Google’s Internal Dev Tools, examine the state of Git, speculate about how 37 Signals plans to reinvent software licensing with ONCE, and share a few thoughts on the Salesforce CEO’s recent comments about work from home.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaX-PgF86bY) 433 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaX-PgF86bY)
Runner-up Titles
Lost in an acquisition hole.
Headless Robot Dog.
It’s not better enough.
GoogHub
Why are you on the sad path
Once version 2 is a paid upgrade
You win interesting bingo
Rundown
The Full Circle on Developer Productivity with Steve Yegge (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/steve-yegge)
Git is awful. GitHub isn't good enough. It's killing us! (Steve Yegge) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EReooAZoMO0)
Introducing ONCE (https://once.com/)
Salesforce CEO takes a bold stand on remote work (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/salesforce-ceo-bold-stand-on-remote-work)
Salesforce to Hire 3,300 People After Layoffs Earlier This Year (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/salesforce-to-hire-3-300-in-sales-engineering-data-after-earlier-job-cuts#xj4y7vzkg)
Relevant to your Interests
David Sacks has a new SaaS startup for other SaaS startups (https://www.axios.com/2023/09/06/david-sacks-has-a-new-saas-startup-for-other-saas-startups)
Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition (https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/)
Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE (https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/now-postgresqls-turn-bogus-cve)
HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business - The Next Platform (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/05/hashicorp-retools-licenses-and-software-to-grow-its-business/)
Clouded Judgement 9.8.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-9823?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=136822157&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
Inside Hollywood's SBF Mad Scramble (https://theankler.com/p/inside-hollywoods-sbf-mad-scramble-c04?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Tubi The Free Streaming Service, Hits 74 Million Monthly Active Users & Almost 250 Free Live Channels As Cord Cutting Grows | Cord Cutters News (https://cordcuttersnews.com/tubi-the-free-streaming-service-hits-74-million-monthly-active-users-almost-250-free-live-channels-as-cord-cutting-grows/)
IBM Software mandates return to office for those within 80km (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/11/ibm_software_tells_workers_to/)
Cloud is here to stay, but at what cost, ask customers (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/11/cloud_costs_feature/)
Disney and Charter reach deal to end cable blackout in time for 'Monday Night Football' (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/disney-charter-near-carriage-deal-that-would-end-cable-blackout-sources-say.html)
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/11/go_native_or_go_home/)
Oracle revenue misses estimates as tough economy hurts cloud spending (https://www.reuters.com/technology/oracle-reports-quarterly-revenue-narrowly-below-estimates-2023-09-11/)
No privacy in cars (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/)
Former CEO of China's Alibaba quits cloud business in surprise move during its leadership reshuffle (https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/former-ceo-chinas-alibaba-quits-cloud-business-surprise-103078368)
A Look Back at Q2 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q2-23-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=136950716&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&utm_medium=email)
1 big thing: A long-term plan to secure open-source software (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-codebook-8200e5c5-aed7-4f42-a40e-117a390b57e3.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
MGM takes systems offline after cyberattack (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-codebook-8200e5c5-aed7-4f42-a40e-117a390b57e3.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Disney-Charter deal represents new era for TV bundles (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-fe1295c8-9b83-4403-bae2-06de14fede11.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/12/salesforce-introduces-einstein-copilot-studio-to-customers-customize-their-ai/)
Arm prices IPO at $51 per share, valuing company at over $54 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/13/arm-prices-ipo-at-51-per-share.html)
Tim Gurner’s spray about ‘arrogant’ workers lays bare the economic sadism of our time (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/14/tim-gurner-ceo-comments-more-unemployment-millionaire-property-developer-workers-neoliberals)
Cisco discontinues Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/14/cisco_discontinues_hyperflex_hci/)
CloudBees Announces New Cloud Native DevSecOps Platform (https://www.cloudbees.com/newsroom/cloudbees-announces-new-cloud-native-devsecops-platform)
Jet: Prepare For Liftoff (https://www.jetporch.com/)
Artifact’s new Links feature makes it much more than a news app (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871561/artifact-links-news-reading-app-tiktok)
TriggerMesh, RIP (https://triggermesh-community.slack.com/archives/C02GHUAQDCH/p1695048539668859)
Clorox says last month's cyberattack is still disrupting production (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/18/clorox-says-last-months-cyberattack-is-still-disrupting-production.html)
Excel clone built for Uber China exposed Microsoft mistake (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/19/matt_uber_china_excel_clone/)
Seattle startup MotherDuck raises $52.5M at a $400M valuation to fuel DuckDB analytics platform (https://www.geekwire.com/2023/seattle-startup-motherduck-raises-52-5m-at-a-400m-valuation-to-fuel-duckdb-analytics-platform/)
Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23878999/google-bard-ai-chatbot-gmail-docs-drive-extensions)
Elon Musk says X may go behind a paywall for everyone so he can 'combat vast armies of bots' (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-paywall-for-everyone-2023-9)
Restricted Source Licensing Is Here (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/restricted-source-licensing-is-here/)
OpenTofu (https://opentofu.org/)
RoboFab is ready to build 10,000 humanoid robots per year | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/the-robots-are-coming/)
Unified Acceleration Foundation Forms to Drive Open Accelerated Compute and Cross-Platform Performance (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-unified-acceleration-foundation-uxl)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/)
What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh? (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/what-is-a-service-mesh-why-do-you)
Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo? (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/did-i-make-a-mistake-selling-del-icio-us-to-yahoo.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
A new way of thinking about open source sustainability (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3706508/a-new-way-of-thinking-about-open-source-sustainability.html)
Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his 'maniacal sense of urgency' at X, formerly Twitter (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself-in-the-night-new-biography-details-his-maniacal-sense-of-urgency.html)
Cable TV Is on Life Support, but a New Bundle Is Coming Alive (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/business/media/cable-tv-bundle-streaming.html)
Nonsense
McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve soda machines | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/business/mcdonalds-self-serve-soda-machines/index.html)
Delta SkyMiles changes: Delta overhauls how you earn Medallion status in biggest change yet (https://thepointsguy.com/news/delta-skymiles-changes/)
Australian baby named Methamphetamine Rules (https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/20/australian-baby-named-methamphetamine-rules/)
‘Take the Money and Run’ Artist Must Repay Danish Museum (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/arts/design/jens-haaning-take-the-money-and-run.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Listener Feedback
Jan recommends this Rich Roll interview: Mindset SECRETS From The World's Best Ultrarunner: Courtney Dauwalter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOtSvYSnzNk)
Conferences
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
YouTube TV (https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/) and NFL Sunday Ticket (https://tv.youtube.com/learn/nflsundayticket/)
An Endgame for YouTube TV, Big Disney Decisions (And Whether Bob Iger Should Make Them), The Era Beyond Peak TV (https://sharptech.fm/member/episode/an-endgame-for-you-tube-tv-big-disney-decisions-and-whether-bob-iger-should-make-them-the-era-beyond-peak-tv)
Matt: Airline wifi chat with Support
Coté: Do Interesting (https://thedobook.co/products/do-interesting-notice-collect-share) book by Russel Davis.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/m-Yot4dUd6s)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/I7iJOE4fsYo)
9/22/2023 • 50 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 432: Richard Seroter on Google Cloud Next ’23, Tech Newsletters and VMware
Brandon is joined by Richard Seroter, Director of Developer Relations and Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud. They discuss the key announcements from Google Cloud Next ’23, Richard's recommendations for a successful tech newsletter and VMware's impending acquisition.
Show Links
Google Cloud Next ‘23 (https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next)
Code with Duet AI assistance (https://cloud.google.com/code/docs/vscode/write-code-duet-ai)
Google Cloud Jump Start Solutions (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-modernization/introducing-google-cloud-jump-start-solutions)
Richard’s Website and Newsletter (https://seroter.com/)
Richard Seroter on App Modernization (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/247)
Contact Richard
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/seroter/)
Twitter: @rseroter (https://twitter.com/rseroter)
SDT News & Hype
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9/15/2023 • 46 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 431: CEO Therapy Session
This week, we discuss Netflix's DVD deprecation, the remote work debate, and how to fork an open-source project. Plus, thoughts on why Europe needs more ice.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFr-ysPYxnA) 431 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFr-ysPYxnA)
Runner-up Titles
Try Harder
It’s a necessary luxury
Someone’s drinking too much water here
A culture of ice
Where are the high performers, at home or at work
Quit using your Gmail address
Thou shalt export to CSV
Rundown
Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs (and Request More, Too) (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/arts/netflix-dvds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/leaked-audio-reveals-zoom-ceo-believes-its-hard-to-build-trust-on-zoom/)
Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die (https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23860073/meta-return-to-office-three-days-wfh-work-from-home)
Can you trust 'open source' companies? (https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/opinion_column/)
OpenTF created a fork of Terraform! (https://opentf.org/announcement)
OpenTF pulls the trigger on its open-source Terraform fork (https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/opentf-pulls-trigger-opensource-terraform-fork)
Relevant to your Interests
VMware’s future: Navigating multicloud complexity and generative AI (https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/19/vmwares-future-navigating-multicloud-complexity-generative-ai-broadcoms-wing/)
VMware Tanzu portfolio reshuffled ahead of Broadcom close | TechTarget (https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366549332/VMware-Tanzu-portfolio-reshuffled-ahead-of-Broadcom-close)
Nvidia's blowout offers a giddy whiff of 1995 (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-ai-plus-937b329c-8072-4f8a-a5d6-1039a0e794a5.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Announcing AWS Dedicated Local Zones (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/aws-dedicated-local-zones/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Top Ten social media platforms we spend the most time on (https://www.traveldailymedia.com/top-ten-social-media-platforms-we-spend-the-most-time-on/)
Max will launch a 24/7 CNN stream for all subscribers next month (https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/24/23844121/cnn-max-warnerbros-discovery-news)
Meta launches own AI code-writing tool: Code Llama (https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/24/23843487/meta-llama-code-generation-generative-ai-llm?stream=top)
As TikTok Ban Looms, ByteDance Battles Oracle For Control Of Its Algorithm (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/08/24/tiktok-ban-oracle-bytedance-algorithm-fight/?sh=6cf5105e3ef0)
Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture - Slack Engineering (https://slack.engineering/slacks-migration-to-a-cellular-architecture/)
The Cloud 100 2023 (https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/)
Data isn’t everything. Judgement counts too. (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8YFUFju/)
Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years (https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2023/08/amazon-elastic-block-store-at-15-years/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Instacart is the Best and Worst Grocery Business Imaginable (https://www.thediff.co/archive/instacart-is-the-best-and-worst-grocery-business-imaginable/)
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells employees it's 'past' time to commit to the company's RTO mandate and their jobs are at stake (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-rto-office-policy-employee-jobs-2023-8?op=1)
Duet AI, Google's AI assistant suite, expands across Google Cloud (https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/duet-ai-googles-ai-assistant-suite-expands-across-google-cloud/)
Halloween creeps a little closer: Seasonal supply chains accelerate (https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/mi/research-analysis/halloween-creeps-closer-seasonal-supply-chains-accelerate.html)
What’s new with GKE at Google Cloud Next | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/whats-new-with-gke-at-google-cloud-next)
Duet AI in Google Cloud Preview | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/duet-ai-in-google-cloud-preview)
What’s new in Oracle to PostgreSQL database migrations with DMS | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/whats-new-in-oracle-to-postgresql-database-migrations-with-dms)
US AI startup Poolside raises $126m seed round and relocates to France (https://sifted.eu/articles/poolside-raises-126m-relocated-france-news)
Ping, ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo, the power of open source, and the madness of IAM (https://callmeleach.substack.com/p/ping-forgerock-thoma-bravo-the-power?utm_medium=web)
Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of ForgeRock; Combines ForgeRock into Ping Identity (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thoma-bravo-completes-acquisition-of-forgerock-combines-forgerock-into-ping-identity-301908059.html)
Interoperability between Google Chat and other messaging platforms — powered by Mio (https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/08/goolge-chat-slack-interoperability-mio.html)
Broadcom boss dismisses notion China could derail VMware buy (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/01/broadcom_vmware_nutanix_results/)
Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/04/microsoft_australia_outage_incident_report/)
Amazon QuickSight adds scheduled and programmatic export to Excel format (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/amazon-quicksight-scheduled-programmatic-export-excel-format/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Google unveils AI tools for enterprise customers at $30 a month (https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-unveil-ai-tools-corporate-gmail-customers-30-month-wsj-2023-08-29/)
Chip design firm Arm seeks up to $52 billion valuation in blockbuster U.S. IPO (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/05/chip-design-firm-arm-sets-share-price-between-47-and-51-for-blockbuster-us-ipo.html)
Birmingham City Council goes under after Oracle disaster (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/birmingham_city_council_oracle/?s=08)
IBM Introduces 'Watsonx Your Business' (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-introduces-watsonx-business-160000392.html)
Meta May Allow Instagram, Facebook Users in Europe to Pay and Avoid Ads (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/technology/meta-instagram-facebook-ads-europe.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Announcing Kubecost Cloud in General Availability: The Easiest Way to Optimize Your Kubernetes Costs (https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/kubecost-cloud-general-availability/)
Platform Engineering - What You Need To Know Now (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/platformengineering-whatyouneedtoknownow?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletter20230830)
The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US (http://www.asymco.com/2022/01/10/the-lifespans-of-technological-adoptions-in-the-us/)
Introducing ONCE (https://once.com/)
Nonsense
The fight for the right to repair McFlurry machines (https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/08/31/the-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-mcflurry-machines)
Delta Airlines Offers Woman $1,800 After Losing Her Dog (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/delta-airlines-offers-woman-1-142849291.html)
Conferences
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/)
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: JUST ONE MILE | Official Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80V5o06yEZ4)
Matt: Deadloch (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14671678/)
Coté: Rick Rubin interviews Rory Sutherland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnYlChfORRw). I doubt much of the airport business book stuff in here is “true,” but that’s sort of the whole point, and it’s fantastic listening. His book (https://amzn.to/462Mvov) Alchemy (https://amzn.to/462Mvov) has a great one word review right there in the title. But, again: it’s fun! When you’ve listened to too much If Books Could Kill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Books_Could_Kill) you can check in on Rory if you need to take the cure (https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+the+cure).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/PsBTqRHVilU)
Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/bKjqW8kPJyI2wuzBA0FogiKb/UJeLhuIFmvkrNFbfcCc4jE29)
9/8/2023 • 47 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 430: Exploring Governance and Compliance with Mike Long
Brandon interviews Mike Long, the CEO and Co-founder of Kosli. They discuss Mike's background, his experience as a DevOps Consultant, and the reasons behind starting Kosli. Plus, Mike offers a few tips about visiting Oslo.
Show Links
Kosli (https://www.kosli.com/)
Contact Mike Long
LinkedIn: mikelongoslo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelongoslo/)
Twitter: meekrosoft (https://twitter.com/meekrosoft)
SDT News & Hype
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Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Special Guest: Mike Long.
9/1/2023 • 53 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 429: This is peak VMware
This week, we discuss VMware’s Announcements, SUSE goes private and some thoughts on streaming services. Plus, Matt provides an update on the repercussions of spilled Orange Juice.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/live/U-2FKuo7Rdo?si=pSW288no0k5R6E_l) 429 (https://www.youtube.com/live/U-2FKuo7Rdo?si=pSW288no0k5R6E_l)
Runner-up Titles
Matt Ray Vibe
Ethically flexible
And one more thing me
Is it new?
You’re gold plating your gold.
Hello World and my Mom’s Blog
SAP known for being nimble
I guess I am excited
There’s no way you sold 50,000 Chinese knock off water piks in Australia.
Rundown
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable (https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-broken-promises-streaming-ride-hailing-cloud-computing-2023-8?utm_source=reddit.com)
VMware
Broadcom's $61B planned VMware purchase clears U.S., UK (https://seekingalpha.com/news/4004614-broadcoms-61b-planned-vmware-purchase-clears-us-uk)
Introducing vSAN Max | VMware (https://core.vmware.com/blog/introducing-vsan-max)
VMware Expands Tanzu to Accelerate App Delivery at Enterprise Scale (https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2023-tanzu)
VMware Explore 2023 Media Kit - VMware News and Stories (https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore-vegas-2023-media-kit)
VMware edges towards multi-cloud, adds AI side quest (https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/22/vmware_explore_2023_ai_news/)
SUSE
EQT Private Equity Announces Voluntary Public Purchase Offer and Intention to Delist SUSE (https://www.suse.com/news/EQT-announces-voluntary-public-purchase-offer-and-intention-to-delist-SUSE/)
SUSE Manager Ansible Integration Becomes Fully Supported (https://www.suse.com/c/suse-manager-ansible-integration-becomes-fully-supported/)
Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy (https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/10/oracle-suse-and-ciq-launch-the-open-enterprise-linux-association-amid-red-hat-controversy/)
Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel (https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23841167/microsoft-excel-python-integration-support)
What Happened to Wirecutter? (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-happened-to-wirecutter/ar-AA1fCoQs?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Relevant to your Interests
YouTube is adding chat, highlights, and Shorts to NFL Sunday Ticket (https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834242/youtube-nfl-sunday-ticket-tv-shorts-highlights-chat)
Hopin Events and Session Products Sold for $15 Million (https://meetings.skift.com/hopin-events-and-session-products-sold-for-15-million/)
80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office (https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/return_to_office_survey/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x (https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/)
Will Broadcom’s pending purchase overhang VMware Explore? (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/analysis/will-broadcoms-pending-purchase-overhang-vmware-explore/2023/08/)
VMware’s future: Navigating multicloud complexity and generative AI under Broadcom’s wing (https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/19/vmwares-future-navigating-multicloud-complexity-generative-ai-broadcoms-wing/)
System Initiative Code Now Open Source (https://thenewstack.io/system-initiative-code-now-open-source/)
How Amazon is racing to catch Microsoft and Google in generative A.I. with custom AWS chips (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/12/amazon-is-racing-to-catch-up-in-generative-ai-with-custom-aws-chips.html?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Report: Threads app to launch website version this week - 9to5Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/21/report-threads-app-to-launch-website-version-this-week/)
Cisco's Duo Security suffers major authentication outage (https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/21/ciscos_duo_outage/)
If I were you: Here are the the Google Cloud Next ’23 talks for six different audiences (https://seroter.com/2023/08/22/if-i-were-you-here-are-the-the-google-cloud-next-23-talks-for-six-different-audiences/)
Amazon Worker Has A Witty Take On Return-To-Office Policy (https://www.benzinga.com/news/23/08/33931883/amazon-employee-crafts-satirical-leadership-principles-amid-return-to-office-uproar-fire-and-demote)
Mark Zuckerberg’s new ‘in-person time policy’ will crack down on Meta’s remote work rebels (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-person-time-policy-115713318.html)
Nonsense
All signs point to a late summer COVID wave (https://www.axios.com/2023/08/17/covid-19-cases-2023-uptick-where-why)
American States As Real People Generated by AI (https://www.travlerz.com/en/american-states-real-people-generated-ai)
LG now sells this bizarre TV in a suitcase, and I must have it (https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/15/23832712/lg-stanbyme-go-suitcase-tv-announced-pricing-features)
Listener Feedback
What is AWS after the Chasm? (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/08/what-is-aws-after-chasm.html)
Conferences
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco (https://qconsf.com/workshop/oct2023/open-source-kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost), Matt’s doing a workshop, sign up!
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
November 6-9, 2023 VMware Explore Barcelona (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html), Coté’s attending
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2024/schedule/)
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Costco | Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco)
Matt: Lenovo Go Wireless Split Keyboard (https://amzn.to/3smvHdP), decent clone of Microsoft Sculpt keyboard
Photo Credits
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/CLFveFXjwyk)
8/25/2023 • 48 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 428: Three steps into a 10k race
This week, Brandon and Coté are joined by a special guest host, Brian Gracely. We discuss HashiCorp's transition to BSL and break down the recent interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Plus, some thoughts on the use of the word "orthogonal."
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7eM-EO8Lo) 428 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7eM-EO8Lo)
Runner-up Titles
I like T-Bone
Re:invent the T-Bone
Byzantine Bramble Path
This show isn’t three hours, but it could be
Those who are satisfied do not speak.
Rundown
BSL
As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending (https://www.runtime.news/as-hashicorp-adopts-the-bsl-an-era-of-open-source-software-might-be-ending/)
HashiCorp changes its source licence to BSL (https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/hashicorp_bsl_licence/)
HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License (https://thenewstack.io/hashicorp-abandons-open-source-for-business-source-license/)
Craig Box on LinkedIn: Hashicorp did a thing, and many people are responding with a variant of… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crbnz_hashicorp-did-a-thing-and-many-people-are-activity-7096055691773124608-BtQz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
There’s no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky — Decoder with Nilay Patel (https://overcast.fm/+QLdsFX2X0)
Relevant to your Interests
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Three: Uber Isn’t Really Profitable Yet But is Getting Closer; The Antitrust Case Against Uber (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/08/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-thirty-three-uber-isnt-really-profitable-yet-but-is-getting-closer-the-antitrust-case-against-uber.html)
Why our vacation days have been vanishing (https://thehustle.co/why-our-vacation-days-have-been-vanishing/)
BlueJeans, Verizon's Google Meet competitor you've never heard of, is shutting down (https://9to5google.com/2023/08/08/verizon-bluejeans-shutting-down/)
Clouded Judgement 8.11.23 - Datadog Consumption Trends (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-81123-datadog-consumption?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=135867835&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
Check Point buys Perimeter 81 for $490M to enhance its security tools for hybrid and remote workers (https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/10/check-point-buys-perimeter-81-for-490m-to-enhance-its-security-tools-for-hybrid-and-remote-workers/)
Open Source Canvas (https://opensource-canvas.org/)
Amazon warns workers to come back into the office (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66472280?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Millions of Americans' health data stolen after MOVEit hackers targeted IBM (https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/14/millions-americans-health-data-moveit-hackers-clop-ibm/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJAa2W94DiGgNgW_6JYJlL5YfxUkrkPKqhok-JRQ7R9oVhR7RfppOcMzOmGT0a9ZAz5-Azv2dqgLtpchPjtcXX3gaH4jAqpgDPgaiAqQDjl2tqZwK5VnxICubA-JYISytIETZIZAiYbkVvkABjxuyQirthfmyE46rL3XWXEk94rv)
Dynatrace to Acquire Rookout to Deliver Code Debugging in Production Environments (https://www.dynatrace.com/news/press-release/dynatrace-to-acquire-rookout/)
FOSSY panelists talk rights; what about responsibilities? (https://medium.com/@gordon.messmer/fossy-panelists-talk-rights-what-about-responsibilities-8b2bb2ae95f5)
Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association amid Red Hat controversy | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/10/oracle-suse-and-ciq-launch-the-open-enterprise-linux-association-amid-red-hat-controversy/)
Nonsense
Why Taco Bell's free taco giveaway is happening everywhere but New Jersey | CNN Business (https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/business/taco-bell-giveaway-new-jersey/index.html)
Mike Young, co-founder of Chuy’s, has died (https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/mike-young-co-founder-of-chuys-has-died/)
Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads (https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/Cv5CV3-rMKb/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Hitler Reacts to HashiCorp Transitioning to BSL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J10xyPTE4I)
Man eats nothing but Whataburger for a week to unlock the secrets of Texan identity | Boing Boing (https://boingboing.net/2023/08/10/man-eats-nothing-but-whataburger-for-a-week-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-texan-identity.html)
Conferences
Aug 21 - 22, Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/) in Sydney, Matt attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco (https://qconsf.com/workshop/oct2023/open-source-kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost), Matt’s doing a workshop
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2024/)
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SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Oppenheimer (https://www.oppenheimermovie.com)
Brian: The Rundown (https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe) (newsletter), Prompts Daily (https://www.neatprompts.com/subscribe?utm_source=promptsdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=top) (newsletter), The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net) (podcast)
Coté: Marriott Elements (https://element-hotels.marriott.com) H (https://element-hotels.marriott.com)otels (https://element-hotels.marriott.com)
Photo Credits
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8/18/2023 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 427: You must be this tall to be a customer
This week, we discuss Open Source licensing, Cloud Earnings and presentations without slides. Plus, Coté shares his minimal-tech vacation strategy and Matt Ray spills Orange Juice on his keyboard.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 427 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yES4tXM1lKs) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yES4tXM1lKs)
Runner-up Titles
Girl do you need some Squirrel
Kinky Friedman would be proud
Stallman would be spinning in his grave
What does this guy like?
I’ve got plenty of beer
That’s not a feature, it’s a bug
Never a Marketplace
Rundown
The open source licensing war is over (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3703768/the-open-source-licensing-war-is-over.html)
Clouded Judgement 8.4.23 - Cloud Giants Q2 Update (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-8423-cloud-giants)
Amazon reports blowout profit, beats on sales and issues optimistic guidance (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/amazon-amzn-q2-earnings-report-2023.html)
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon to invest $7.2b in Israel as it rolls out local cloud data region (https://www.timesofisrael.com/amazon-to-invest-7-2b-in-israel-as-tech-giant-rolls-out-local-cloud-data-region/)
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/linux-surpasses-the-mac-among-steam-gamers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social)
As Cruise Expands To Los Angeles, Self-Driving's Breakout Moment Has Arrived (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/as-cruise-expands-to-los-angeles)
Billionaire Larry Ellison plotted with Trump aides on call about overturning election (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/larry-ellison-trump-2020-call-b2084757.html)
Dell Confirms Sales Layoffs As Part Of New Partner-Led Storage Strategy | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/dell-confirms-sales-layoffs-as-part-of-new-partner-led-storage-strategy)
For Meta, the big AI play is shoring up its ad business (https://www.axios.com/2023/08/07/meta-ai-ad-business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top)
Corey Quinn on Gartner MQ (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1688945231356624896?s=20)
Slack's latest redesign has a dedicated DM tab and a Discord-style Activity view (https://www.engadget.com/slacks-latest-redesign-has-a-dedicated-dm-tab-and-a-discord-style-activity-view-130032154.html?src=rss&guccounter=1)
Downfall (https://downfall.page/)
Google is offering an on-campus hotel 'special' to help lure workers back to the office (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/google-offers-on-campus-hotel-special-to-lure-workers-back-in.html)
Even Zoom is making staff return to the office now (https://mashable.com/article/zoom-remote-work-hybrid-return-office-ai)
Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates (https://www.fastcompany.com/90933648/venture-backed-startups-are-failing-at-record-rates)
Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out (https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/)
Zoom CEO admits mistake as terms-of-service changes raise AI fears (https://www.axios.com/2023/08/09/zooms-terms-service-changes-ai-fears)
WeWork warns of bankruptcy risk after years of losses (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/09/wework-bankruptcy-sec-filing/)
Python moves to remove the GIL and boost concurrency (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3704248/python-moves-to-remove-the-gil-and-boost-concurrency.html)
Exclusive: Amazon in talks to become anchor investor in Arm ahead of IPO (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/amazon-talks-become-anchor-investor-arm-ahead-ipo-sources-2023-08-08/)
Nonsense
Analysis | LK-99 and the Desperation for Scientific Discovery (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/08/02/lk-99-and-the-desperation-for-scientific-discovery/74c4f774-317a-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html)
Disney discontinues DVD and Blu-ray production in Australia effective immediately (https://www.whathifi.com/news/disney-discontinues-dvd-and-blu-ray-production-in-australia-effective-immediately)
Google Web Environment Integrity draft draws developer rage (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environment_integrity/)
Google Meet plays (https://twitter.com/soren_iverson/status/1688188951637692416?s=20) O (https://twitter.com/soren_iverson/status/1688188951637692416?s=20)scars music and credits roll as meeting ends (https://twitter.com/soren_iverson/status/1688188951637692416?s=20)
Conferences
Aug 21 - 22, Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/) in Sydney, Matt attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco (https://qconsf.com/workshop/oct2023/open-source-kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost), Matt’s doing a workshop
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor, Matt’s there
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2024/)
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
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Brandon:
What to Know About Scleral Contact Lenses (https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/what-to-know-about-scleral-contact-lenses)
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The Keratoconus Specialist List (https://nkcf.org/keratoconus-referrals/)
Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) (https://www.costco.com/apple-airpods-pro-2nd-generation.product.100815258.html)
Why is Lala's Little Nugget in Austin always decorated for Christmas? (https://www.kut.org/life-arts/2023-07-20/why-is-lalas-little-nugget-in-austin-always-decorated-for-christmas)
Matt: Rechargeable cordless Waterpik (https://amzn.to/3OtA2TP)
Coté: “How to Draw Fantasy Map Trees and Forests - 5 easy styles to make your maps look awesome,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dXymefWOuc) and playlist of related how to videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2W3HzTBDbCa4dYZodolS1MVUKhLkRIby).
Photo Credits
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8/11/2023 • 52 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 426: There’s no more backpacks to buy
This week, we discuss New Relic going private, Dell buying Moogsoft and digital transformation comes to Border Control. Plus, ideas for a last minute family vacation.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M31eD5nVy0) 426 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M31eD5nVy0)
Runner-up Titles
The Paris economy is all croissants.
The Euphoria of the Buffet
All that firing people gave us a soft landing.
Is it going to be New Logic, or SumoRelic?
You drive a hard bargain, now we’re billionaires
The tinfoil hat of complexity
Just buy more backpacks
Here in the United States, we have a lot of banks.
Can Americans use it?
Bigger numbers are smaller numbers.
It’s pretty easy to quarantine with Internet.
Rundown
More Monitoring, More Money
Dell Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire Moogsoft (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dell-technologies-announces-intent-to-acquire-moogsoft-301881557.html)
What the New Relic Sale Means for SaaS by @ttunguz (https://www.tomtunguz.com/newr_acquisition/)
Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/francisco-partners-tpg-end-talks-buy-new-relic-sources-2023-05-26/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Francisco Partners & TPG to take New Relic private in $6 billion all-cash deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/31/francisco-partners-tpg-to-take-new-relic-private-in-6-billion-deal.html)
Inside the $6.5 billion buyout of New Relic (https://www.axios.com/2023/08/01/inside-the-65-billion-buyout-of-new-relic)
Government IT
Federal Reserve announces that its new system for instant payments, the FedNow® Service, is now live (https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20230720a.htm)
CBP Goes Paperless with Global Entry (https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-goes-paperless-global-entry)
Mexico Phasing Out Use of Paper Visitor Permits (FMM) (https://www.mexperience.com/mexico-begins-to-phase-out-paper-versions-of-the-fmm/#:~:text=Mexico%27s%20paper%20FMM%20forms%20being,Mexico%20no%20longer%20use%20them)
New requirements coming in 2024 for Americans traveling to Europe (https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/new-requirements-coming-2024-americans-traveling-europe/story?id=101546203)
Passport Palooza (https://markcathcart.com/2023/07/24/passport-palooza/)
Relevant to your Interests
Broadcom's $61 billion VMware deal wins conditional EU antitrust OK (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/broadcom-wins-conditional-eu-antitrust-approval-buy-vmware-2023-07-12/)
Broadcom claims VMware's strategy isn’t succeeding (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/14/broadcom_vmware_cma_response/)
Moderation actions (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/moderation/)
Shopify's anti-meeting crusade is failing and it's taken to shaming employees instead: 'Most of the modern work environment is broken' (https://fortune.com/2023/07/12/remote-work-zoom-meeting-shopify-cost-calculator-modern-work-broken/)
Investors and business owners for 3x more likely to invest after reading a GPT-4 pitch deck (https://twitter.com/mrhinkle/status/1670431487621996547?s=20)
3 tax prep firms shared 'extraordinarily sensitive' data about taxpayers with Meta (https://apnews.com/article/irs-taxpayer-tax-preparation-meta-congress-9315cfca7a0942ab89f765d183fbf822)
macOS Sonoma lets Chrome use passwords stored in iCloud (https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23793532/apple-icloud-passwords-chrome-extension-mac-sonoma-beta)
Passkeys in iOS 17: Watch a sneak peek at what's coming to 1Password for iOS | 1Password (https://blog.1password.com/apple-passkey-api-wwdc/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=beyond-passwords-newsletter-july&utm_campaign=passwordless&utm_ref=email-beyond-passwords-newsletter-july)
Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud (https://www.geekwire.com/2023/former-amazon-web-services-data-center-leader-chris-vonderhaar-joins-google-cloud/)
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System (https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/)
Amazon Shares Jump 2% After Reporting Record Prime Day Sales (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-13/amazon-shares-jump-2-after-reporting-record-prime-day-sales)
Threads Is About to Make All the Money That Twitter Isn’t (https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/meta-threads-advertising-twitter-musk-zuckerberg.html)
Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads (https://www.threads.net/t/Cu0BgHESnwF/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Jamin Ball (@jaminball) on Threads (https://www.threads.net/t/Cu3WuVGsWgy/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Introducing NotebookLM (https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-google-ai/)
Ford CEO explains why legacy car manufacturers cannot compete with Tesla in software (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7084904611349757952?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop> linkedin.comlinkedin.com)
Cloudflare as an AI play. An interview with CEO Matthew Prince. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/07/17/cloudflare-as-an-ai-play-an-interview-with-ceo-matthew-prince/)
This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! (http://ttps://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1681336284453781505?s=20)
The Rise Of DIY In FinOps (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-rise-of-diy-in-finops/)
Announcing Akita Has Joined Postman — Akita Software (https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/announcing-akita-has-joined-postman)
Announcing the New Lightweight Postman API Client | Postman Blog (https://blog.postman.com/announcing-new-lightweight-postman-api-client/#:~:text=Starting%20May%2015%2C%202023%2C%20Scratch,calls%20through%20the%20Postman%20UI.)
Does ‘Buy American’ Policy Make Sense? The Answer Is Key for Your AI Portfolio Too (https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-buy-american-policy-make-sense-the-answer-is-key-for-your-ai-portfolio-too-562825af?st=zwct83dpy1hrssv)
AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/almalinux-says-red-hat-source-changes-wont-kill-its-rhel-compatible-distro/)
Twitter becomes X (https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
The problem with X? Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name (https://www.reuters.com/technology/problem-with-x-meta-microsoft-hundreds-more-own-trademarks-new-twitter-name-2023-07-25/)
Meta Profit Is Up 16% to $7.8 Billion in Recent Quarter (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/technology/meta-earnings-second-quarter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2023 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-the-aws-summit-in-new-york-2023/?trk=d73defd9-9fc4-45cf-99f9-433b69146fbb&sc_channel=el)
AWS Easily Beats Microsoft In $120B IaaS Cloud Market: Gartner (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-easily-beats-microsoft-in-120b-iaas-cloud-market-gartner)
Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/technology/russia-propaganda-video-games.html)
Breaking: AWS Begins Charging For Public IPv4 Addresses (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/breaking-aws-begins-charging-for-public-ipv4-addresses/)
The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem (https://blog.vlt.sh/blog/the-massive-hole-in-the-npm-ecosystem)
Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more (https://www.geekwire.com/2023/tech-moves-ex-microsoft-president-joins-google-cloud-as-vp-ispot-hires-research-chief-and-more/)
A Day in the Life of a Senior Manager at Amazon (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-senior-manager)
7 generative AI innovations from AWS Summit New York 2023 (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-summit-new-york-generative-ai)
TikTok is adding text posts (https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805530/tiktok-text-posts-micro-blogging-twitter-threads)
Prime Day 2023 Powered by AWS – All the Numbers (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prime-day-2023-powered-by-aws-all-the-numbers/)
AWS Launches Infrastructure Region in Israel (https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/8/aws-launches-infrastructure-region-in-israel)
AMD revenue falls 18% as PC market shows continued weakness (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/01/amd-earnings-report-q2-2023.html)
From Docker to Dagger with Solomon Hykes (Changelog Interviews #550) (https://changelog.com/podcast/550)
A New IT Automation Project? Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit (https://laserllama.substack.com/p/a-new-it-automation-project-moving)
Google Docs can now automatically add line numbers (https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23805822/google-docs-line-numbers-support)
Q2 2023 is the largest quarter ever in the number of startup closures. (https://twitter.com/mahaniok/status/1682375196764717056)
VCs Face an Existential Threat: There Are Too Many of Them (https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3az9/venture-capital-vcs-existential-too-many)
VC firm says their companies are good/leading, and you should invest in them too (https://twitter.com/Machiz/status/1680975185808171008)
Nonsense
FIGHTING (https://open.substack.com/pub/pmarca/p/fighting?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)
The Best Buy It for Life Backpack (Please Don’t Call It Tactical) (Published 2020) (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/buy-for-life-backpack/)
Convicted felon gets DC contract to install car battery tech called impossible by experts (https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/investigations/lawrence-hardge-dc-battery-rejuvenation-contract/65-93a48463-e2fd-43e4-9a1b-9f727036ce0c)
Americans spark backlash after claiming that Europeans ‘don’t believe in water’ (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/europe-travel-americans-water-bottles-b2377078.html)
The Spongmonkeys, Fast Food’s Most Unhinged Mascots, Are Back (https://www.eater.com/23797910/quiznos-spongmonkeys-unhinged-mascots-are-back)
Here's why Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to 'X' is good, actually (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/heres-why-elon-musks-rebranding-of-twitter-to-x-is-good-actually/)
The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008)
Conferences
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/) in Sydney, Matt attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 2-6, 2023, QCon San Francisco (https://qconsf.com/workshop/oct2023/open-source-kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost), Matt’s doing a workshop
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
November 6-9, 2023, KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), SDT’s a sponsor
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2024/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Full Circle (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/full_circle_2023/s01)
Matt: Amtrak Pacific Surfliner (https://www.amtrak.com/pacific-surfliner-train).
Coté: A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City (https://amzn.to/47eBRws).
Coté’s Newsletter (https://cote.io/newsletter/)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/ELf8M_YWRTY)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/IOffoLkBmig)
8/4/2023 • 57 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 425: Michael Kennedy on Python
Brandon interviews Michael Kennedy, host of Talk Python to Me and founder of Talk Python Training. They discuss Python’s rapid growth, replacing Excel Worksheets with Jypter Notebooks and why Python is the preferred language for AI. Plus, a few thoughts on podcasting and motorcycles.
Show Links
Talk Python to Me (https://talkpython.fm/home)
Python Bytes (https://pythonbytes.fm)
Talk Python Training - Python courses and tutorials for developers (https://training.talkpython.fm/)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/)
Stack Overflow Trends (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=java%2Cc%2Cc%2B%2B%2Cpython%2Cc%23%2Cvb.net%2Cjavascript%2Cassembly%2Cphp%2Cperl%2Cruby%2Cswift%2Cr%2Cobjective-c)
YouTube vs. Google Video (https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/156/python-history-and-perspectives#transcript_at_3056)
The 7 Biggest Excel Mistakes of All Time (https://www.teampay.co/blog/biggest-excel-mistakes-of-all-time)
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates)
Discovering exoplanets with Python (https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/289/discovering-exoplanets-with-python)
Python Interviews: Discussions with Python Experts (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1788399080/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mickensblo-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1788399080&linkId=6033f85abee7932145b302638e14bddc)
Mojo 🔥 — a new programming language for all AI developers. (https://www.modular.com/mojo)
Contact Michael
LinkedIn: mkennedy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkennedy/)
Twitter: @mkennedy (https://twitter.com/mkennedy?lang=en)
Mastodon: @[email protected] (https://fosstodon.org/@mkennedy)
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Special Guest: Michael Kennedy.
7/28/2023 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 9 seconds
Episode 424: William Morgan on Service Mesh, Linkerd and eBPF
Brandon interviews William Morgan, Buoyant CEO and creator of Linkerd. They discuss building cloud native platforms, the need for Service Mesh, Linkerd and eBPF. Plus, some thoughts on the rise of Rust as the preferred systems programming language.
Show Links
Linkerd (https://linkerd.io)
Buoyant (https://buoyant.io)
eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh (https://buoyant.io/blog/ebpf-sidecars-and-the-future-of-the-service-mesh)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms Istio Maturity with Project Graduation (https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2023/07/12/cloud-native-computing-foundation-reaffirms-istio-maturity-with-project-graduation/)
Contact William
LinkedIn: wmogran (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmorgan/)
Twitter: @wm (https://twitter.com/wm)
SDT news & hype
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Special Guest: William Morgan.
7/21/2023 • 53 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 423: Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?
This week we discuss the launch of Threads, the battle for Enterprise Linux and Coté tries HEY again. Plus, plenty of thoughts on packing for a long weekend.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aW-9Zv1maQ) 423 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aW-9Zv1maQ)
Runner-up Titles
Capitalizing on Competitors
Bring the Go Bag
There are no backpacks in Gucci ads
No bad vibes
Rundown
Threads
Threads, Instagram’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Has Arrived (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/technology/threads-app-meta-twitter-killer.html)
Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter Rival Arrives, with Adam Mosseri (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-metas-twitter-rival-arrives-with-adam-mosseri.html)
Facebook's Threads is so depressing (https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing)
Twitter, Threads, and the Great Social Implosion (https://staysaasy.com/product/2023/07/07/twitter-threads-social-implosion.html)
Instagram's Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/10/instagrams-threads-app-reaches-100-million-users-in-just-five-days/)
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) (https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/how-threads-privacy-policy-compares-to-twitters-and-its-rivals/)
Instagram's Twitter rival is the latest in Meta's parade of copycat apps (https://www.axios.com/2023/07/06/metas-copycat-machine-threads?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top)
Linux
Red Hat's open source rot began when IBM walked (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/07/red_hat_open_source/)
Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To (https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/)
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment (https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/)
History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes. (https://ciq.com/blog/history-never-repeats-but-sometimes-it-rhymes/)
Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall (https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/oracle_ibm_rhel_code/?td=rt-3a)
Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9 (https://engineering.salesforce.com/automation-at-scale-migrating-200000-machines-from-centos-7-to-rhel-9/)
Shifting
"Shift Left (and leave)" versus "Shift Left (and stay)" (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/shift-left-and-leave-versus-shift?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=134452721&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
Richard Seroter on shifting down vs. shifting left (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/richard-seroter-on-shifting-down-vs-shifting-left)
Matt’s packing list (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VTSZKJ9FQsW70spJtSHwN7TkuFqQdEux/view?usp=share_link)
Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/12/gmail-brings-in-calendly-style-availability-sharing-from-google-calendar/)
Relevant to your Interests
DigitalOcean acquires cloud computing startup Paperspace for $111M in cash (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/digitalocean-acquires-cloud-computing-startup-paperspace-for-111m-in-cash/)
Snowflake vs. Databricks (https://open.substack.com/pub/aspiringforintelligence/p/snowflake-vs-databricks?r=2l9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030 (https://changelog.com/posts/webassembly-runtimes-will-replace-container-runtimes-by-2030)
Jordan Schneider is at SEMICON JULY 11-12 on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanschnyc/status/1678128857763950593?s=46&t=-2GRjYw3L96Jh3hL9tDPcg)
Court filing shows Microsoft Azure generated lower-than-expected $34B in revenue in 2022 (https://siliconangle.com/2023/06/29/court-filing-shows-microsoft-azure-generated-lower-expected-34b-revenue-2022/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Smart guy from Google decides not to compete with Apple Vision (https://twitter.com/marklucovsky/status/1678465552988381185)
87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation (https://gamehistory.org/87percent/)
IBM watsonx (https://www.ibm.com/watsonx)
ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch (https://www.reuters.com/technology/booming-traffic-openais-chatgpt-posts-first-ever-monthly-dip-june-similarweb-2023-07-05/)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms #Istio Maturity with Project (https://twitter.com/CloudNativeFdn/status/1679143862256951297?s=20)
Early Google exec Urs Holzle to step down from executive management role amid cloud shakeup (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/google-cloud-shakeup-urs-holzle-to-step-down-from-executive-management.html)
Being acquired from a smallish start-up into VMware (https://apps-cloudmgmt.techzone.vmware.com/blog/being-acquired-smallish-start-vmware)
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 16.6% in Second Quarter of 2023 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-07-11-gartner-says-worldwide--pc-shipments-declined-16-percent-in-second-quarter-of-2023)
Microsoft’s Cloud Server Business in 2022 Was Less Than Half of AWS, New Document Reveals (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-cloud-server-business-in-2022-was-less-than-half-of-aws-new-document-reveals)
Microsoft confirms more job cuts on top of 10,000 layoffs announced in January (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/10/microsoft-confirms-more-job-cuts-on-top-of-10000-layoffs-in-january.html)
Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year. (https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1679130177819881475?s=20)
Nonsense
If you don’t buy Jony Ive’s $60,000 turntable, are you really a music fan? (https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/07/if-you-dont-buy-jony-ives-60000-turntable-are-you-really-a-music-fan/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJAa2W94DiGgNgW_6JYJlL5YfxUkrkPKqhok-JRQ7R9oVhR7RfppOcMzOmGT0a9ZAz5-Azv2dqgLtpchPjtcXX3gaH4jAqpgDPgaiAqQDjl2tqZwK5VnxICubA-JYISytIETZIZAiYbkVvkABjxuyQirthfmyE46rL3XWXEk94rv)
Conferences
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/) in Sydney, Matt attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2024/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Hijack (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/hijack/umc.cmc.1dg08zn0g3zx52hs8npoj5qe3)
Matt: Murderbot Diaries (https://www.goodreads.com/series/191900-the-murderbot-diaries)
Coté: Fantastical (https://flexibits.com/fantastical), read-out of second HEY try.
Photo Credits
Header (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Is-the-enemy-of-my-enemy-my-friend--B78kG9125I6L26iQ7ANBrxDaAg-AymUiXqVRaytqe3gqMPDv)
Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/MlTLNTDx8VvoCaCEiMc16oDi/oFNRSDbXIEng8pevJZCfCYnE)
7/14/2023 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 422: Corporation vs. Community
This week we discuss RHEL licensing changes, check the vibe of DevOps and some thoughts on programing language. Plus, has ChatGPT already become boring?
Runner-up Titles
I don’t like listening to fellow thought leaders. I listen to myself enough.
Dammit, alarm was set for PM
A massive failure of one
The end of free
It’s not all smiles and thumbs
Goose-cow
“I used to, but I don’t anymore.”
The Podcast Review podcast.
Rundown
RHEL
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream)
Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams (https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/)
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up (https://devops.com/rhel-gpl-richixbw/)
Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/30/rocky-strikes-back-at-red-hat/)
The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion] (https://news.itsfoss.com/red-hat-fiasco/)
Rant about Red Hat's Licensing Change for REHL (https://youtube.com/watch?v=4fAq6AphRn0&feature=share)
Reddit
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman)
Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-private-apollo-christian-selig-subreddit)
Reddit doubles down (https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-doubles-down?utm_medium=email)
Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/19/hackers-threaten-to-leak-80gb-of-confidential-data-stolen-from-reddit)
DevOps
Second Wave DevOps (https://www.systeminit.com/blog-second-wave-devops/)
Kelsey Hightower Predicts How the Kubernetes Community Will Evolve (https://thenewstack.io/kelsey-hightower-predicts-how-the-kubernetes-community-will-evolve/)
Kelsey Hightower Retires (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1673366087541600256?s=20)
Even the best rides come to an end featuring Kelsey Hightower (https://changelog.com/friends/6) (Podcast)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/)
Relevant to your Interests
AWS teases mysterious mil-spec ‘Snowblade’ server (https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/07/aws_snowblade_military_edge_server/)
To fill offices, Google issues ultimatum while Salesforce tries charity (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/08/google-salesforce-return-to-office/)
Amazon is pursuing 'too many ideas' and needs to focus on best opportunities (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/07/amazon-is-pursuing-too-many-ideas-bernstein-says-in-open-letter.html)
There are better places for Amazon to put their capital to work, says Bernstein's Mark Shmulik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Z2HeYkl4c)
The best password managers for 2023 | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/best-password-manager-134639599.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIYHiHrsIv_lVu8RNqY46BjFzlgU4pFDBXmk1gQxq2wlQOz02b5tuepColb1KJFoYYwQVWy2SjTUKWVY2oAEMzfkYXlXs97_PE0gpwNUA4RjnDwE_YEm7FB323M9oOBQJNHboj1t77QC9HriDL8cJP-VcplJ5UlJvvwHZRzMn9PC)
After a Rocky Year, Zuckerberg Lays Out Meta’s Road Map to Employees (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta.html)
Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work (https://world.hey.com/dhh/hybrid-combines-the-worst-of-office-and-remote-work-d3174e50)
Twilio to sell ValueFirst business to Tanla (NYSE:TWLO) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3978773-twilio-to-sell-valuefirst-business-to-tanla)
Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-09/billionaire-jeff-bezos-just-bought-one-share-of-amazon-and-no-one-knows-why#xj4y7vzkg)
Jeff Bezos Has Gained $10 on Mystery Purchase of One Amazon Share (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-09/billionaire-jeff-bezos-just-bought-one-share-of-amazon-and-no-one-knows-why#xj4y7vzkg)
CNET's Free Shopping Extension Saves You Time and Money. Give It a Try Today (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/use-cnet-shopping-to-seek-out-the-best-deals/)
Modular: Our launch & what's next (https://www.modular.com/blog/our-launch-whats-next)
Exclusive-Broadcom set to win EU nod for $61 billion VMware deal, sources say (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-eu-antitrust-regulators-okay-091426470.html)
Amazon is reportedly trying to offer Prime subscribers free cell phone service | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-is-reportedly-trying-to-offer-prime-subscribers-free-cell-phone-service-140026387.html)
Cloud cost management startup CloudZero lands $32M investment (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/cloud-cost-management-startup-cloudzero-lands-32m-investment/)
Twitter stiffs Google (https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google)
Open Sourcing AWS Cedar Is a Game Changer for IAM (https://thenewstack.io/open-sourcing-aws-cedar-is-a-game-changer-for-iam/)
Oracle beats on top and bottom lines as cloud revenue jumps (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/12/oracle-orcl-q4-earnings-report-2023.html)
America to halt $68.7bn Microsoft takeover of Activision Blizzard (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/america-to-halt-68-7bn-microsoft-takeover-of-activision-blizzard-d80jvxm6f)
Meta's Open-Source 'MusicGen' AI Is Like ChatGPT for Tunes (https://gizmodo.com/meta-open-source-musicgen-ai-like-chatgpt-for-music-1850528986)
Google's return-to-office crackdown gets backlash from some employees: (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/13/google-rto-crackdown-gets-backlash-check-my-work-not-my-badge.html)
Forrester Wave Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023 (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-forrester-wave-integrated-software-delivery-platforms-q2-2023-say-goodbye-to-the-devops-tax/)
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier (https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
1 big thing: Where AI's productivity revolution will strike first (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-da50d8f4-fb10-4952-af38-01163b9acbd3.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
For the first time in almost 30 years, a company other than IBM received the most US patents (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-time-almost-30-years-192900742.html)
AMD stock pops on potential Amazon superchip deal, CEO bullishness (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-stock-pops-on-potential-amazon-superchip-deal-ceo-bullishness-112819279.html)
Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users (https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-says-multiple-cloud-services-down-users-2023-06-13/)
Proven Practices for Developing a Multicloud Strategy | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/proven-practices-for-developing-a-multicloud-strategy/)
40 photos from inside Metropolitan Park—the first phase of Amazon's HQ2 (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/amazon-offices/amazon-headquarters-hq2-arlington-virginia-photos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The Forrester Wave™: Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023 (https://page.gitlab.com/forrester-wave-integrated-software-delivery-platforms-2023.html?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter20230615&utm_medium=email)
AWS US-EAST-1 wobbled after Lambda management issues spread (https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/14/aws_us_east_1_brownout/)
The store is for people, but the storefront is for robots (https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai)
A Look Back at Q1 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q1-23-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=128805971&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle (https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle/)
Apple Watch alerts 29-year-old Cincinnati woman to blood clot in lungs while sleeping (https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/19/apple-watch-blood-clot-sleeping/)
Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/business/return-to-office-remote-work.html)
Critical 'nOAuth' Flaw in Microsoft Azure AD Enabled Complete Account Takeover (https://thehackernews.com/2023/06/critical-noauth-flaw-in-microsoft-azure.html)
What happened to Oracle? Why do they keep acquiring companies? (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8JH8X5Y/)
How an ex-Googler is reimagining the oldest computing interface of all (https://www.fastcompany.com/90907013/warp-terminal-command-line)
WFH 4 ever (https://www.axios.com/2023/06/23/work-from-home-remote-workplace-trend)
Databricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/26/databricks-picks-up-mosaicml-an-openai-competitor-for-1-3b/)
Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter language model (https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
AI's next conflict is between open and closed (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-e2a8f546-c6e2-421c-a7dc-0996d64bf312.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Amazon is investing another $7.8B in Ohio-based cloud computing operations, (https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-ohio-data-center-investment-e35c8b726269b6b78ce05854f9f31d27)
A new law protecting pregnant workers is about to take effect (https://www.axios.com/2023/06/22/pregnant-workers-fairness-act-2023-explain)
Amazon launches AWS AppFabric to help customers connect their SaaS apps (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/amazon-launches-aws-appfabric-to-help-customers-connect-their-saas-apps/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGcA6HN4Zti_4dKCpuMURoiAkkQ_uR0GBWFOG215KnmRsvryBDclj9SjWv-95R0yA0wFRXevcP-HUdwk-E3ZyR3d23rc5VGVCNXFGK5L3mAPvoEOJxRs6WZFKQvDUBIyw5V3NpdWGkkQ-fXDh4Rijfdp2l_ekJTxepVJjoYJSyKz)
State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization Report (https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/state-of-kubernetes-cost-optimization-report/dl-cd.html)
FTC Request, Answered: How Cloud Providers Do Business (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/ftc-request-answered-how-cloud-providers-do-business/)
OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS (https://orbstack.dev/?ref=console.dev)
Surprise! You Work for Amazon. (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/amazon-hub-delivery-last-mile/674559/)
btop - the htop alternative (https://haydenjames.io/btop-the-htop-alternative/)
We Raised A Bunch Of Money (https://fly.io/blog/we-raised-a-bunch-of-money/)
Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-stopped-paying-google-cloud-bills-money-platformer-2023-6)
Report: 2022 Microsoft Azure Revenue Less Than Estimated, Half That Of AWS | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/report-2022-microsoft-azure-revenue-less-than-estimated-half-that-of-aws)
Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace (https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/)
Is Waze next? (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23776329/google-waze-layoffs-ads)
The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google (https://post.news/@/noam/2RTRvTNNxSCQb3yNjqa0DPfr1Yk)
Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ar-iris-augmented-reality-smart-glasses-2023-6)
Who killed Google Reader? (https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social)
Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/21/23769263/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-fight-cage-match-worldstar)
IBM to Acquire Apptio Inc., (https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-06-26-IBM-to-Acquire-Apptio-Inc-,-Providing-Actionable-Financial-and-Operational-Insights-Across-Enterprise-IT)
IBM Re-ups On FinOps With Its Apptio Acquisition (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/ibm-re-ups-on-finops-with-its-apptio-acquisition/)
Nonsense
Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Mom and Dad's Ok (https://gizmodo.com/texas-law-kids-social-media-ban-without-parents-consent-1850540419)
Summer intern's commute goes viral: She flies from South Carolina to New Jersey (https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/business/tiktok-summer-intern-commute/index.html)
Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/)
Fishing crew denied $3.5M in prize money after 600-pound marlin DQ’d in tournament (https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/massive-marlin-dqd-in-big-rock-blue-marlin-tournament-over-mutilation/)
'World's Largest' Buc-ee's store opens (https://www.wyff4.com/article/bucees-world-largest-tennessee/44343171) now on Bus-ee’s Map (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjgoKnr-vX_AhVslGoFHeeBBREQFnoECBgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fmymaps%2Fviewer%3Fmid%3D1IBCXZDU73Q5pjsDWVkoQ5O0GLoUd-bg%26hl%3Den&usg=AOvVaw3joznC0GgnH9dU-z_XGEw5&opi=89978449)
Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-microdosing-ketamine-lsd-magic-mushrooms-d381e214)
'Fueled by inflation': USPS stamp prices are increasing soon. Here's what to know. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/06/28/stamp-price-increase-usps/70363626007/)
At least a year younger on paper: South Korea makes changes to age-counting law (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/06/28/south-korea-changes-age-counting-law/70363453007/)
Sony just spilled confidential PlayStation information because of a Sharpie (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/28/23777298/sony-ftc-microsoft-confidential-documents-marker-pen-scanner-oops)
Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-66072427)
Listener Feedback
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Conferences
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/) in Sydney, Matt attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), Coté speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, Coté speaking.
October 6, 2023, KCD Texas 2023 (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-texas-presents-kcd-texas-2023/), CFP Closes: August 30, 2023
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2024/)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Cloudcast: MidYear 2023 Update (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/07/midyear-2023-update.html)
Governments Building Software
This Is What Happens When Governments Build Software - Odd Lots (https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/this-is-what-happens-when-governments-build-softwa)
The Book I Wish Every Policymaker Would Read (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jennifer-pahlka.html)
Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/tony-hsieh-and-the-emptiness-of-the-tech-mogul-myth) (via Coté’s newsletter)
Coté: Hand Mirror app (https://handmirror.app), also in Setapp (https://setapp.com) if you have that.
If Books could Kill (https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/5yuRImxKOcU)
Artwork (https://www.freepnglogos.com/images/linux-22615.html)
7/7/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 421: The Not Kubernetes Podcast, with David Heinemeier Hansson
Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet.
Nonsense
ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers (https://www.armosec.io/blog/kubernetes-vulnerability-relevancy-and-prioritization/)
If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet
Glastonbury 2023
Guns N’ Roses
UK: the full set on iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001nbyk/glastonbury-guns-n-roses)
Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHZTOvcElng)
Appetite for Destruction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetite_for_Destruction)
Rick Astley
UK: the full set on iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0ft6dj2/glastonbury-rick-astley)
Rest of the world (https://youtu.be/nsCIeklgp1M) (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll)
Interview links
Basecamp (https://basecamp.com/)
HEY! (https://hey.com/)
Daily Rush (https://www.dailyrush.dk/https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1351124987084746755)
Quake III Arena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_III_Arena)
PHP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP) and Ruby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language))
37signals (https://37signals.com/) and Jason Fried (https://world.hey.com/jason)
Martin Fowler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fowler_(software_engineer)) and Dave Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(programmer))
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (https://martinfowler.com/books/eaa.html)
Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org/)
“Groovy on Grails” (https://grails.org/)
1000 true fans (https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/)
DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts (https://m.signalvnoise.com/exponential-growth-devours-and-corrupts/)”
Backpack (https://basecamp.com/handbook/05-product-histories#backpack) and Campfire (https://basecamp.com/handbook/05-product-histories#campfire)
Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals (https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests_in_37signals.php)
Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire (https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8jyx/burn-away-2020-with-this-interactive-dumpster-fire)
A podcast explaining it (https://37signals.com/podcast/a-dumpster-fire-of-a-year/)
“The Building of Basecamp” (http://web.archive.org/web/20040618212122/http://www.37signals.com/workshop-062504.php) (and review (http://web.archive.org/web/20040703072150/https://gadgetopia.com/2004/06/29/TheBuildingOfBasecampReview.html))
David’s books:
Getting Real (https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real)
Rework (https://basecamp.com/books/rework)
Remote (https://basecamp.com/books/remote)
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work (https://basecamp.com/books/calm)
The programming books that meant the most to David (https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3375-the-five-programming-books-that-meant-most-to-me)
Fast inverse square root (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root)
David’s best tweet (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/834146806594433025)
AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway (https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sorting-algorithms)
The Celeron 4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron#Willamette-128)
David’s writing on leaving the cloud:
“Why we’re leaving the cloud (https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0)”
"The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-only-thing-worse-than-cloud-pricing-is-the-enterprisey-alternatives-854e98f3)"
“Five values guiding our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/five-values-guiding-our-cloud-exit-638add47)”
“We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-years-from-our-cloud-exit-53996caa)”
"Cloud exit pays off in performance too (https://world.hey.com/dhh/cloud-exit-pays-off-in-performance-too-4c53b697)”
“We have left the cloud (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb)”
HEY vs the App Store (https://www.hey.com/apple/)
Deft and Dell (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1661986828562444290)
MRSK (https://mrsk.dev/)
Capistrano (https://capistranorb.com/)
GitHub (https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk) contributor community
Maersk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk)
Harmony remotes discontinued (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/10/22377015/logitech-discontinues-harmony-universal-remotes)
The continuing demise of Reddit (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-updates-changes-news-announcements)
Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars? (https://observer.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/08/kevin-rose-business-week.jpeg)
24 Hours of Le Mans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans)
2023 writeup: (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-le-mans-centenary-a0802694) “The Le Mans Centenary (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-le-mans-centenary-a0802694)“
Result table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson#24_Hours_of_Le_Mans_results)
David Heinemeier Hansson
https://dhh.dk/
@dhh (https://twitter.com/dhh) on Twitter
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-heinemeier-hansson-374b18221/)
David’s blog (https://world.hey.com/dhh) on HEY
Guest hosts
Craig Box (https://twitter.com/craigbox)
Subscribe to “Let’s Get To The News” (https://craigbox.substack.com/)
Adam Glick (https://linkedin.com/in/mradamglick)
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Special Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).
6/30/2023 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 420: Adam Jacob on System Initiative and DevOps
Matt Ray interviews Adam Jacob, CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative. Adam explains what led him to create System Initiative and why he believes it’s time for a fresh look at DevOps. Plus, plenty of discussion about monetization and open source.
Show Links
System Initiative (https://www.systeminit.com/)
Cue language (https://cuelang.org/)
Dagger (https://dagger.io/)
Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (https://sfosc.org/)
Contact Adam
Twitter: adamhjk (https://twitter.com/adamhjk)
Linkedin: adamjacob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjacob/)
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Special Guest: Adam Jacob.
6/23/2023 • 45 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 419: Dotan Horovits on DevRel and OpenTelemetry
Matt Ray interviews CNCF Ambassador and Logz.io Principal Developer Advocate Dotan Horovits. They discuss the Israel tech scene, getting started with OpenTelemetry, and working in developer relations.
Show Links
KubeDay Israel (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubeday-israel/)
OpenObservability Talks (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability)
Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron? (https://horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6)
OpenTelemetry (https://opentelemetry.io)
CNCF Ambassadors (https://www.cncf.io/people/ambassadors/)
Logz.io (https://logz.io)
FinOps X (https://x.finops.org)
KubeCon NA (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
Contact Dotan
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/?originalSubdomain=il)
Twitter: @horovits (https://twitter.com/horovits)
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Special Guest: Dotan Horovits.
6/16/2023 • 39 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 418: I don’t like Anime
This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for DevOps platforms, Apple’s announcements and Cisco’s attempt to simplify. Plus, some thoughts on Meatloaf and Anime.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 418 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8vwqe9rLk&t=1s)
Runner-up Titles
The best engineers in Canada.
Runny Eggs
My tabs closed
I got a whole bowl here.
Pokémon back in the playlist
Some people don’t want any sauce
Are you still talking about meatloaf?
The meatloaf zone
The intestines of the Magic Quadrant
He was probably a regular-sized human
Everyone knows you’re a dork, a dork with disposal income
What else are you going to do?
Rundown
2023 Magic Quadrant for DevOps platforms (https://www.gartner.com/document/4416199) (RedHat lead-gen (https://www.redhat.com/en/engage/quadrant-devops-platforms-20230531)).
Link to picture in Slack (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1686063039809609)
Nvidia's 'iPhone moment' in AI signals tons of future growth. Here's our new price target (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/25/nvidia-iphone-moment-in-ai-signals-tons-of-future-growth-new-price-target.html)
Cisco simplifies its product portfolio with new Cisco Networking Cloud platform (https://siliconangle.com/2023/06/06/cisco-simplifies-product-portfolio-new-cisco-networking-cloud-platform/)
Apple’s 10 biggest announcements from WWDC 2023 (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23749243/apple-wwdc-2023-biggest-announcements-vision-pro-macbook-air-15-inch-ios-17)
'Ducking hell' to disappear from Apple autocorrect (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65823482)
iPad OS 17's Live Collaboration on PDFs could challenge Google Docs (https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/05/ipad-os-17s-live-collaboration-on-pdfs-could-challenge-google-docs/)
Apple Announces New 'NameDrop' Feature for Sharing Between iPhones (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/05/namedrop-apple-ios-17/)
TVOS 17 Will Let You Download a VPN to Apple TV (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/finally-tvos-17-will-let-you-download-a-vpn-to-apple-tv/)
Apple Vision (https://stratechery.com/2023/apple-vision/)
Relevant to your Interests
Operation Bletchley (https://events.soldierscharity.org/operation-bletchley)
Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar (https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-confirms-abrupt-departure-of-aws-data-center-chief-chris-vonderhaar/)
Salesforce is luring workers back to office with $10 per day to local charities (https://fortune.com/2023/06/06/salesforce-return-to-office-charity-incentive/)
Google created FREE comprehensive training on Generative AI (https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118)
Nonsense
Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino (https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3xe9/maryland-license-plates-now-inadvertently-advertising-filipino-online-casino)
Related, Coté learned a new Austalianism from Tasty Meats Paul this week: “In Australia the term ‘Chicken Maryland’ simply refers to a butcher's cut for a whole leg consisting of the thigh and drumstick” (Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Maryland)).
How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/how-to-hire-a-pop-star-for-your-private-party)
Listener Feedback
SDT Sticker in the wild by Eric De Witte (https://twitter.com/vEDW/status/1664235077537001472?s=20)
Conferences
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online.
June 21st Cloud Foundry Day (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-foundry-day/), Germany, Coté speaking.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/), attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking.
Jan 29, 2024 to Feb 1, 2024 That Conference Texas CFP Open 6/1 - 8/21 (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2024/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Blackberry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXL_HDzBQsM)
Matt: Because Internet (https://amzn.to/3MYvzbb).
Coté: KESSER® Ice Cube Maker | Ice Cube Machine Stainless Steel | 150 W Ice Maker | 12 kg 24 h | 3 Cube Sizes | Preparation in 6 min | 2.2 Litre Water Tank | Timer | LCD Display | Self-Cleaning Function (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B07QQ37Q9D?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/yXiJy7zfdzU)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/tvD7W6yXI1I)
6/9/2023 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 417: Every Salesforce is a Snowflake
The week we discuss Enterprise Software hiding data, corporate status reports and a quick update on New Relic. Plus, Coté records using an ironing board from a Renaissance Hotel in Brussels.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 417 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEs8SG2T8XU)
Runner-up Titles
The MacGyver of podcasting
Scooping up The Tube tickets
Buy some velcro
This email could have been a PR
Who the hell is Brian?
Perverse incentives
What SalesForce should do from 3 guys who don’t have seats
Rundown
Snowflake consumption trends (mentioned on earnings call) (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1661486022239322112?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg)
Clouded Judgement 5.26.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-52623?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=123821962&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
Neptyne is building a Python-powered spreadsheet for data scientists (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/27/y-combinator-backed-neptyne-is-building-a-python-powered-spreadsheet-for-data-scientists/)
Erica Brescia on Weekly Updates (https://twitter.com/ericabrescia/status/1661486363420798976)
Exclusive: Francisco Partners, TPG end talks to buy New Relic (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/francisco-partners-tpg-end-talks-buy-new-relic-sources-2023-05-26/)
Relevant to your Interests
Ivory for Mac (https://tapbots.com/ivory/mac/)
The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.06590.pdf)
Snowflake acquires Neeva to bring intelligent search to its cloud data management solution (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/24/snowflake-acquires-neeva-to-bring-intelligent-search-to-its-cloud-data-management-solution/?guccounter=1)
AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/stacks-eol-faqs.html)
1Password is rolling out passkey management next month (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/16/23725223/1password-passkey-date-password-manager)
Elon Musk's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants (https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/)
Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) - GigaOm (https://gigaom.com/2023/03/17/thinking-strategically-about-software-bills-of-materials-sboms/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? (https://redmonk.com/kholterhoff/2023/05/18/can-watsonx-rebuild-ibms-ai-relevance/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 - GigaOm (https://gigaom.com/2023/05/03/touchpoints-coalescence-and-multi-platform-engineering-thoughts-from-kubecon-2023/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/twitter-value-keeps-falling-under-musk-now-worth-a-third-of-what-he-paid/)
Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp (https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2)
The Leak That Has Big Tech and Regulators Panicked (https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/ai-regulation-open-source-meta.html)
Nvidia shares spike 26% on huge forecast beat driven by A.I. chip demand (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q1-2024.html)
Cathie Wood’s ARKK Dumped Nvidia Stock Before $560 Billion Surge (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-25/cathie-wood-s-arkk-dumped-nvidia-stock-before-560-billion-surge?srnd=premium)
Nvidia unveils more AI products after $184 billion rally (https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/nvidia-unveils-more-ai-products-after-184-billion-rally-11685385380208.html)
xrOS: What to Expect From the Software Designed for Apple's AR/VR Headset (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/xros-apple-headset-software-rumors/)
AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs - AWS OpsWorks (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/stacks-eol-faqs.html)
Nonsense
HP Is Selling a 40-Year-Old Calculator Again—For $120 (https://gizmodo.com/hp-15c-scientific-calculator-collectors-edition-price-r-1850464801)
Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/a-decade-after-it-mattered-windows-xps-activation-algorithm-is-cracked/)
Conferences
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/), attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking.
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: YouTube will allow unlimited simultaneous streams for NFL Sunday Ticket (https://www.engadget.com/youtube-will-allow-unlimited-simultaneous-streams-for-nfl-sunday-ticket-142049241.html)
Matt: Spotify Remastered/Deluxe albums
The Cure Disintegration (Deluxe Edition) (https://open.spotify.com/album/0H6TddUF2M63ZSHGvhk5yy?si=liZmNJnKTtaYMkrJuiSr5Q)
Underworld Second Toughest In The Infants (Super Deluxe/Remastered) (https://open.spotify.com/album/5lATS8kbZZub29Q3mGyNiB?si=RaO6u8i-Slm2eaxXw1pGAA)
Coté: Bobby Fingers (https://www.youtube.com/@bobbyfingers)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/suTr28QV4wU)
Artwork (https://www.craiyon.com)
6/2/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 30 seconds
Episode 416: Exchange your “Buddy Bucks” for Nagios
This week we discuss Private Equity buying New Relic and review the Gartner MQ for APM like no one else. Plus, some thoughts on yogurt, fruit and almonds…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 416 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxODnsIekJo)
Runner-up Titles
How big are your almonds?
It’s under consideration
The Olympics of Monitoring
Putting Hats on Cats
Stanley Nickels for Monitoring
The 3 Fines
It’s just crazy enough [that] it might work
I was told the test was log management
IDC is the thin balogna
Rundown
New Relic is getting bought so let’s overanalyze the APM MQ
WSJ News Exclusive | Software Company New Relic in Talks to Be Sold (https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-company-new-relic-in-talks-to-be-sold-8079db4e)
2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - For APM and Observability (https://www.dynatrace.com/monitoring/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-application-performance-monitoring-observability/)
IDC APM marketshare from 2021 (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US49596822&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY)
Relevant to your Interests
Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/kustomer-meta-spin-out/)
Harvard’s Famous Study on Happiness Might Surprise You - Meetup Blog (https://www.meetup.com/blog/harvards-famous-study-on-happiness-might-surprise-you/)
Historical software multiples at IPO (https://twitter.com/glennsolomon/status/1658873511233093632)
Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS (https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-chatgpt-app-for-ios)
Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/luxottica-confirms-2021-data-breach-after-info-of-70m-leaks-online/)
Redpanda CEO on business source (BSL) over open source (https://youtu.be/Yp2KtNRAzxA)
Australian stock exchange says software overhaul won't involve blockchain (https://www.reuters.com/markets/australian-stock-exchange-says-software-overhaul-wont-involve-blockchain-2023-05-19/)
Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) agreed to buy Giphy (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-fba83bc3-5b15-4374-8a3d-8d2829b1d001.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023 (https://www.theverge.com/23734104/microsoft-build-2023-ai-bing-copilot)
Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/microsoft-launches-fabric-a-new-end-to-end-data-and-analytics-platform/)
Alibaba misses revenue estimate, approves cloud unit spinoff (https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alibaba-fourth-quarter-revenue-rises-2-2023-05-18/)
Laid-off Big Tech workers are getting invited to return—on unfavorable terms (https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2023/05/12/laid-off-big-tech-workers-are-getting-invited-to-return-on-unfavorable-terms?cid=31524316.162675&mblid=bfd7ff44f422&mid=eb84400822928b8efbb6c2dcb0460be6&utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew)
Nonsense
A Texas A&M-Commerce Rodeo Instructor failed his entire class due to a basic misunderstanding of how "Chat GTP" works (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04GSN7U5S9/p1684426841082349)
The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World will take its final voyage (https://twitter.com/ScottGustin/status/1659276676889473050)
Opening 100 pppts at once? Challenge accepted! (https://youtu.be/xRZM-EDsmuI)
The Latest Sriracha Shortage Looks Worse Than The First One (https://www.delish.com/food-news/a43578818/sriracha-shortage-again/)
Conferences
June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending.
August 8th Kubernetes Community Day Australia (https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-australia-presents-kubernetes-community-day-australia-2023/), attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking.
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: What’s new in Mimestream 1.0? (https://mimestream.com/blog/whats-new-in-1.0)
Matt: Have a picnic
Coté: Hoodie and shorts for the spring; the “web browsing” plugin in ChatGPT does not work well.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/FhroWi5pP20)
Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/e/yvzRVBom4tqYBbLZKpY7sp02/O3MXdgOZ37BRYs2JsOhXFy44)
5/26/2023 • 47 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 415: You can buy a lot of Nagios with that
This week we discuss Coinbase's $65 million DataDog bill, the factors that drive developer experience, and Google Bard. Plus, some tips on London Airports and the ideal airport arrival time.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 415 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysNsrYSkYsY&t=4s)
Runner-up Titles
Two hours before boarding
$65 million is a lot of nines
You can buy a lot of Nagios with that
Just write the check for $65 million
Boxes
Inciting chaos
Steady state is stopped
Developers are just like the rest of us
Unsummarizable
AI in the Streets
Rundown
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/datadogs-65myear-customer-mystery)
Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23718066/google-bard-ai-features-waitlist-dark-mode-visual-search-io)
DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878)
Relevant to your Interests
Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/10/google-launches-a-github-copilot-competitor/)
IBM Watson missed the AI revolution, but Watsonx could become the heartbeat of the Generative Enterprise - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries (https://www.horsesforsources.com/ibm-watsonx_051023/)
It's not just cloud costs that are out of control (https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-not-just-cloud-costs-that-are-out-of-control-efcd098c)
Microsoft just made a huge, far-from-certain bet on nuclear fusion (https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/10/23717332/microsoft-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-helion-purchase-agreement?_hsmi=257843304)
Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims (https://crnkovic.dev/testing-converso/)
Adrian Cockcroft (@[email protected]) (https://mastodon.social/@adrianco/110327883488321584)
Goldman Sachs downgrades Twilio, other software names on 'limited catalyst' path (TWLO) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3970029-goldman-sachs-downgrades-twilio-other-software-names-on-limited-catalyst-path)
Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/meta-announces-generative-ai-features-for-advertisers/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. (https://financialstatement.zip/)
Netflix Reportedly Cutting Spending By $300 Million After Delay On Password Sharing Crackdown (https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/12/netflix-reportedly-cutting-spending-by-300-million-after-delay-on-password-sharing-crackdown/?sh=4c6e2a1eaee2)
Thank you, Enterprisers! (https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2023/5/thank-you-enterprisers)
Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3695576/somehow-opensearch-has-succeeded.html)
Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reaching-over-50m-in-arr/)
Calendly Welcomes Former Salesforce Product Executive Stephen Hsu as CPO (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230509005168/en/Calendly-Welcomes-Former-Salesforce-Product-Executive-Stephen-Hsu-as-CPO?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances | Eric Pauley (https://pauley.me/post/2023/spot-price-trends/)
The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked. (https://financialstatement.zip/)
The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD (https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5)
Conferences
June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending.
June 27th to 30th FinOps X (https://x.finops.org/) San Diego, attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Explore EU CFP is open.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking.
If you want your conference mentioned, let’s talk media sponsorships.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/), TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@softwaredefinedtalk) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured).
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: POLAR H9 Heart Rate Sensor (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08411DQ96?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details)
Matt: Critical Mass (https://amzn.to/42MCaMg)
Sydney Half Marathon (https://runawaysydneyhalf.com.au/)
Coté: Pipers Great Berwick Longhorn Beef “crisps.” (https://www.piperscrisps.com/en/great-berwick-longhorn-beef)
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5/19/2023 • 53 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 414: Monolith vs. Microservices
This week we discuss Monolith vs. Microservices , PassKeys replacing passwords and the return of Watson(x). Plus, some thoughts on the media and BlueSky.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 414 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoL0gxUCHwk)
Runner-up Titles
All the takes you’ve heard, are probably true
Links Only
An Ombudsman of Tech Hype
I’ve programmed before
Rundown
Monoliths are not dinosaurs (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/monoliths-are-not-dinosaurs.html)
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611)
US DoL considers replacing monolithic IT with modular design (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/08/dol_modular_code/)
Ford CEO Says It Will Keep Apple CarPlay, Android Auto: ‘We Lost That Battle 10 Years Ago’ (https://www.thedrive.com/news/ford-ceo-says-it-will-keep-apple-carplay-android-auto-we-lost-that-battle-10-years-ago)
IBM enters the generative-AI fray with Watsonx (https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/watsonx-ibm-generative-ai-chatgpt)
Estimated that they could reduce back-office people by 30%. But, said this would be done through attrition, not firing (https://staging.bsky.app/profile/cote.io/post/3jvezw745ao2n).
RIP passwords: Google accounts now support passkeys (https://www.pcworld.com/article/1806627/rip-passwords-google-accounts-now-support-passkeys.html)
Relevant to your Interests
Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” (https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/)
Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/08/go1-snaps-up-speed-reading-app-blinkist-to-expand-in-enterprise-learning/)
Miracle working product manager was stuck in Lotus position (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/08/who_me/)
Broadcom CEO Seeks to Persuade EU on USD 61 Billion VMware Deal (https://enterprisetalk.com/quick-bytes/broadcom-ceo-seeks-to-persuade-eu-on-usd-61-billion-vmware-deal/)
GitHub replaces code search engine with Rust-based Blackbird (https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/09/blackbird_github_search/)
Clouded Judgement 5.5.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-5523)
Nonsense
Tall poppy syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome)
Short Poppies (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Poppies)
Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in Australian bush (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65524218)
Mark Zuckerberg Wins Gold, Silver Medals in 1st-Ever Jiu-Jitsu Tournament (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10075360-mark-zuckerberg-wins-gold-silver-medals-in-1st-ever-jiu-jitsu-tournament)
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June 1st VMUG Belgium in Brussels (https://vmug.be/) , free.
June 7th State of Kubernetes overview (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/jun-7-emea-state-of-kubernetes-2023-solving-kubernetes-challenges?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=newsletter), online.
June 8th to 9th PlatformCon (https://platformcon.com/), online.
June 22nd to 23rd DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-amsterdam/welcome/), attending.
August 21st to 24th SpringOne (https://springone.io/) & VMware Explore US (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html), in Las Vegas.
Sep 6th to 7th DevOpsDays Des Moines (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-des-moines/welcome/), speaking.
Sep 18th to 19th SHIFT (https://shift.infobip.com/) in Zadar, speaking.
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Coté: How to Idle (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/623922).
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5/12/2023 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 413: Swim between the flags
This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenCost and Opensource Redflags. Plus, Matt recounts his epic return trip home from Amsterdam.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 413 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUMH3L0iLqs)
Runner-up Titles
Airplane Ghost
No Hashtag for That
Sorry Fellow Travelers
That’s what they said about Google Reader
That’s the beauty of nonsense stories
How do you really feel Brandon?
Nobody wants monitoring data
Airport Hotels
I don’t remember
Security Line Sick
Rundown
Checking in on Cloud Earnings
Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1651679974548738048?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg)
Clouded Judgement 4.28.23 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-42823?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=117470069&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends 2022 (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2023/04/11/iaaspricing2022/)
Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/04/28/of-course-aws-revenues-are-slowing-and-profits-are-pinched/)
Don’t be fooled by slowing cloud growth: Cost optimization is a feature, not a bug (https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/29/dont-fooled-slowing-cloud-growth-cost-optimization-feature-not-bug/)
Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Cloud Services Division (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-26/amazon-starts-round-of-layoffs-in-aws-cloud-services-division?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230426&utm_campaign=author_20879664&leadSource=uverify%20wall)
Amazon’s cloud business is clamping down on managers’ freedom to hire in latest cost control—leaked memo (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-cloud-business-clamping-down-191234361.html)
Google's cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/googles-cloud-business-turns-profitable-for-the-first-time-on-record.html)
Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/microsoft-msft-q3-earnings-report-2023.html)
Navigating the High Cost of AI Compute | Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2023/04/27/navigating-the-high-cost-of-ai-compute/)
OpenCost (https://www.opencost.io)
Kubecost’s Path to Product-Market Fit (https://review.firstround.com/kubecosts-path-to-product-market-fit-how-the-co-founders-validated-their-idea-with-100-customer-conversations)
MariaDB.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org (https://medium.com/@imashadowphantom/mariadb-com-is-dead-long-live-mariadb-org-b8a0ca50a637)
Relevant to your Interests
FBI seizes Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace for stolen logins (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/fbi-genesis-market-seized-stolen-logins/?_hsmi=253259905)
Google Stadia head Phil Harrison has left the company (https://9to5google.com/2023/04/05/stadia-phil-harrison-departs/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding (https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/06/observability-platform-honeycomb-pockets-50m-new-funding/)
Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/)
The Six Five Insider Edition with Ram Velaga, Broadcom - Moor Insights & Strategy (https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/webcasts/the-six-five-insider-edition-with-ram-velaga-broadcom/)
Clubhouse ↓ (https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1644037829180239873?s=46&t=-2GRjYw3L96Jh3hL9tDPcg)
Oops: Samsung Employees Leaked Confidential Data to ChatGPT (https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-samsung-employees-leak-data-1850307376)
How SQLite helps you do ACID (https://fly.io/blog/sqlite-internals-rollback-journal/)
On-prem still cheaper but don't rule out the cloud yet (https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/11/cloud_dc_costs/)
Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy Against Card Skimming Devices (https://gizmodo.com/amazon-bans-flipper-zero-card-skimming-on-tiktok-1850313284?_hsmi=253770930)
Today in Apple history: Apple-1 starts a revolution (https://www.cultofmac.com/475761/apple-1-launch/)
How Incumbents Survive and Thrive (https://hbr.org/2022/01/how-incumbents-survive-and-thrive?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
Announcing Linkerd 2.13 with circuit breaking, dynamic request routing, FIPS, health monitoring, and more (https://buoyant.io/blog/announcing-linkerd-2-13-circuit-breaking-dynamic-request-routing-fips)
Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/pentagon-leak-traced-to-video-game-chat-group-users-arguing-over-war-in-ukraine)
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' (https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label)
Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/technology/meta-layoffs-employees-management.html)
Announcing the deps.dev API: critical dependency data for secure supply chains (https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/announcing-depsdev-api-critical.html?m=1)
Futurepedia - The Largest AI Tools Directory | Home (https://www.futurepedia.io/?_hsmi=254110070)
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2022 Pay Falls to $1.3M, Touts Ad Business in Annual Letter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-2022-compensation-jeff-bezos-pay-1235373272/)
Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-new-tools-for-building-with-generative-ai-on-aws/)
Venture Capital Deals (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-94b71804-0a2d-45a5-b53e-dc667b154016.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
Zoom to acquire Workvivo to bolster employee experience offering (https://www.workvivo.com/newsroom/workvivo-zoom/)
WSJ News Exclusive | IBM Explores Sale of Weather Business (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-explores-sale-of-weather-business-c174f75c)
Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet (The Verge) (https://artifact.news/s/aIEifcBqhS0=)
Keith White On Why He Is Leaving HPE, Dell Apex And Why The ‘Sky Is The Limit’ For The HPE GreenLake Ecosystem (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/keith-white-on-why-he-is-leaving-hpe-dell-apex-and-why-the-sky-is-the-limit-for-the-hpe-greenlake-ecosystem)
Apple's batteries will use 100 percent recycled cobalt by 2025 (https://www.engadget.com/apples-batteries-will-use-100-percent-recycled-cobalt-by-2025-132837439.html?_hsmi=254528948)
Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-cards-new-high-yield-savings-account-is-now-available-offering-a-4-point-15-percent-apy/)
Introducing Gloo Fabric (https://www.solo.io/blog/introducing-solo-gloo-fabric/)
MillerKnoll CEO sparks backlash after telling employees to "leave Pity City" over lack of bonuses (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/millerknoll-ceo-andi-owen-backlash-pity-city/)
Netflix Gains 1.75 Million Subscribers, Axes DVD-Rental Business (https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-nflx-q1-earnings-report-2023-8460b7e4)
Uniquely Austin: Stewarding growth in America’s boomtown (https://mckinsey.dsmn8.com/s3GcM4Y-Wx)
A 12% decline in global smartphone shipments is what passes for stability these days (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/a-12-decline-in-global-smartphone-shipments-is-what-passes-for-stability-these-days/)
Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data (https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/)
Build Your Own Bootable Emacs Environment (https://hackaday.com/2023/04/22/build-your-own-bootable-emacs-environment/)
Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23691840/us-pirg-education-fund-report-investigation-chromebook-churn)
Silver Lake to buy Germany's Software AG in $2.42 billion deal (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/silver-lake-buy-germanys-software-ag-242-bln-deal-2023-04-21/)
"Verified" becomes a badge of dishonor (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-4fc52afb-3c90-4bea-ad37-35b90c77ed9f.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Apple throws VR spaghetti against the wall (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-4fc52afb-3c90-4bea-ad37-35b90c77ed9f.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
GitLab Survey Reveals DevSecOps Gains (https://devops.com/gitlab-survey-reveals-devsecops-gains/)
Zed - Code at the speed of thought (https://zed.dev/)
U.S. appeals court upholds lower court order forcing Apple to allow third-party App Store payments (https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-upholds-lower-court-order-forcing-apple-allow-third-party-app-2023-04-24/)
Red Hat cutting hundreds of jobs, CEO says in letter to employees (https://wraltechwire.com/2023/04/24/red-hat-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-ceo-says-in-letter-to-employees/)
Replit ⠕ on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Replit/status/1650900629521596421)
Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With (https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2023/smartphones-popular-qualcomm-chip-secretly-share-private-information-us-chip-maker)
Red Hat lays off 4% of its global workforce (https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2023/04/24/red-hat-lays-off-4-of-its-workforce?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
There’s a new AI unicorn that will make coders faster | Semafor (https://www.semafor.com/article/04/25/2023/theres-a-new-ai-unicorn-that-will-make-coders-faster)
BMC to Acquire Model9 - BMC Software (https://www.bmc.com/newsroom/releases/bmc-to-acquire-model9.html)
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/04/26/broadcom-takes-on-infiniband-with-jericho3-ai-switch-chips/)
ChatGPT could cost over $700,000 per day to operate. Microsoft is reportedly trying to make it cheaper. (https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-chatgpt-costs-openai-to-run-estimate-report-2023-4)
Google Cloud suffers outage in Europe amid water leak, fire (https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/26/google_cloud_outage/)
Automate Your Meetings - Magical (https://magical.so/?utm_source=futurepedia&utm_medium=marketplace&utm_campaign=futurepedia)
Web3 Funding Continues To Crater — Drops 82% Year To Year (https://news.crunchbase.com/web3/vc-backed-funding-drops-q1-2023/)
‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html)
IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says | WRAL TechWire (https://wraltechwire.com/2023/05/02/ibm-looks-to-turn-nearly-8000-jobs-over-to-artificial-intelligence-ceo-says/)
The hardware we need for our cloud exit has arrived (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-hardware-we-need-for-our-cloud-exit-has-arrived-99d66966)
Cloud exit pays off in performance too (https://world.hey.com/dhh/cloud-exit-pays-off-in-performance-too-4c53b697)
So, You Want To Build A DBaaS (https://matt.blwt.io/post/so-you-want-to-build-a-dbaas/)
State of Kubernetes 2023 (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/stateofkubernetes-2023)
Survey Shows Companies Moving away from DIY Kubernetes (https://thenewstack.io/survey-shows-companies-moving-away-from-diy-kubernetes/)
The end of Microsoft-brand peripherals is only Surface deep (https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/28/the_end_of_microsoft_peripherals/)
Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/technology/google-search-engine-ai.html)
Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine on Galaxy phones (https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-galaxy-phones-tablets-bing-search-replace-google-default-search-engine/)
Netflix cancels 'Love is Blind' livestream after technical issues and hour delay (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/16/netflix-issues-love-is-blind-livestream-reunion/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top&guccounter=1)
Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/27/intel-intc-earnings-report-q1-2023.html)
Citigroup technology expenses grow as it pushes transformation (https://www.ciodive.com/news/Citigroup-hires-8K-technologists-Q1-IT-modernization/648204/)
Ask Axios: What's the deal with "cashless" businesses in Columbus? (https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2022/01/11/columbus-cashless-businesses-2021?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Opinion | Why does the IRS need $80 billion? Just look at its cafeteria. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/irs-pipeline-tax-return-delays/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=topic+optin&utm_campaign=awareness&utm_content=20230414+econ+nl)
Kroger Begins Accepting Apple Pay After Years of Holding Out (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/15/kroger-fred-meyer-apple-pay/)
Nonsense
The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS (https://waxy.org/2023/04/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos/)
Map of Buc-ees Locations (http://buc-eesmap.com/)
The Gambler Who Beat Roulette (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-how-to-beat-roulette-gambler-figures-it-out/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Tech companies are hiring — a lot — despite recent wave of layoffs (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tech-companies-are-hiring-a-lot-despite-recent-wave-of-layoffs-7d586b62)
Elon Musk Painted Over the ‘W’ on the Twitter Headquarters Sign (https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-headquarters-sign-painted-w-titter-1850318181)
Postage stamp prices expected to increase again in July (https://www.axios.com/2023/04/12/usps-stamp-price-increase-july-2023-inflation)
Why pull weeds when you can zap them with AI-powered lasers? (https://thehustle.co/04132023-AI-powered-lasers/)
Texas dairy farm explosion kills 18,000 cows (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65258108)
Americans Have Nearly $1 Trillion in Credit Card Debt (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/credit-card-debt-americans-have-racked-up-nearly-1-trillion-in-balances?srnd=premium&sref=3Ac2yX40&_hsmi=254863063&leadSource=uverify%20wall)
FTX Founder Suffers Personal Nightmare as Courts Cut Him Off From League of Legends (https://futurism.com/the-byte/sbf-ftx-courts-cut-off-league-of-legends)
Google gives Bard the ability to generate and debug code | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/google-gives-bard-the-ability-to-generate-and-debug-code-130024663.html?_hsmi=255452821)
Jekkmaster of Drip on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Jekkus/status/1651074439180582913)
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YouTube TV Announces New Details About NFL Sunday Ticket Including Multiview, Family Plans, DVR, & More (https://cordcuttersnews.com/youtube-tv-announces-new-details-about-nfl-sunday-ticket-including-multiview-family-plans-dvr-more/)
Huddle up football fans, the NFL Sunday Ticket presale kicks off today (https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/nfl-sunday-ticket-presale-2023/)
Matt: Prometheus: Up & Running Second Edition (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/prometheus-up/9781098131135/)
Schipol Airport Sheraton / Abu Dhabi Airport Hotel
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/CkrrWXHzYFY)
Artwork (https://labs.openai.com/s/PMx8vMRH7JNLNXDjFifjlbDB)
5/5/2023 • 41 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 412: We’re at a Kubernetes Conference
Matt, Coté and guest host Barton George record live from KubeCon EU. They discuss the Keynotes, Amsterdam grocery stores, A.I. coverage by tech media and reminisce about OpenStack. Plus, some thoughts on the Breakfast Buffet…
Runner-up Titles
The CNCF invades Amsterdam
So nice not to talk to anyone
Kubecon EU 2023 recap
Curve Fits
Rundown
Thanks to developer.dell.com (https://developer.dell.com) team for help with show production.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 (http://KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022)
Self Scanning in Dirk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xraOeYb8po)
Conferences
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5
SDT news & hype
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Photo Credits
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Special Guest: Barton George.
4/28/2023 • 49 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 411: Jamin Ball on Cloud Earnings
Brandon is joined by Jamin Ball, a partner at Altimeter Capital and the author of the "Clouded Judgement" newsletter. Together, they delve into the crucial financial metrics utilized in evaluating cloud-based enterprises and examine the standout performers in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Show Links
A Look Back at Q4 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q4-22-public-cloud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=113895854&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
The Cloudcast, The Evolution of SaaS Business Models, Episode 708 (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/04/the-evolution-of-saas-business-models.html)
Clouded Judgement (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/)
Contact Jamin
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamin-ball-49366137/)
SDT news & hype
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Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)! Special Guest: Jamin Ball.
4/21/2023 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Episode 410: Jordan Tigani on the death of Big Data
This week Brandon talks to Jordan Tigani, the founder of MotherDuck. They explore how faster and cheaper computing is changing the way we handle Big Data and making it easier to analyze. Jordan also shares his insights on DuckDB, and his vision for MotherDuck.
Show Links
Big Data is Dead (https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/)
DuckDB (https://duckdb.org/)
DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5FdqzGT1E)
MotherDuck (https://motherduck.com/)
Google Big Query (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery)
Contact Jordan
LinkedIn: jordantigani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/)
Twitter: @jrdntgn (https://twitter.com/jrdntgn)
SDT news & hype
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Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/iYEyc6GpvGc) Special Guest: Jordan Tigani.
4/14/2023 • 48 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 409: It’s never too early to start a revolution
This week we discuss regulators slowing Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, Nutanix’s delayed earnings, GitHub's origins, Tech Stocks and staplers at Google. Plus, some thoughts on GM and Apple CarPlay.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 409 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8aU8wIrqM)
Runner-up Titles
Why not Linux?
I remain skeptical
Let’s complain about some software
Think of the listeners
Going to need a bigger Post-it Note
We’ve baked too many muffins on a Monday
88.1 on your dial
Rundown
Everybody hates GM’s decision to kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its EVs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23669523/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-ev-restrict-access)
GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664814/gm-ev-restrict-apple-carplay-android-auto-google)
CMA to probe Broadcom and VMware merger more deeply (https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/uk_watchdog_to_give_broadcomvmware/)
Nutanix CIO Exits Amid Software Misuse Probe (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/nutanix-cio-exits-amid-software-misuse-probe)
Origins of GitHub Biz Model (https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/1641138130807058432)
Tom Preston-Werner interview on Kubelist (https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/ep-35-the-open-source-journey-with-tom-preston-werner)
After layoffs, tech stocks boom (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-0f896066-91fa-46f8-b6ab-59e053c6cb02.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Google letting people leave (https://twitter.com/josephjacks_/status/1642719912136429569?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg)
Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for 'multi-year' savings (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/google-to-cut-down-on-employee-laptops-services-and-staplers-to-save.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm)
"authoriselon" (https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala#L225)
Relevant to your Interests
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute (https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/?_hsmi=252346186)
Exclusive: Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive (https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-says-microsofts-cloud-practices-anti-competitive-slams-deals-with-rivals-2023-03-30/)
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23662476/microsoft-bing-chatbot-ads-revenue-sharing?_hsmi=252507726)
Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/chatgpt-blocked-italy/)
State of startup compensation, H2 2022 (https://carta.com/blog/state-of-startup-compensation-h2-2022/)
Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm (https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm)
The Open Letter on AI Doesn't Go Far Enough (https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/)
Ex-Grubhub Driver Wins $65 in 8-Year-Fight to Be Called Employee (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-31/ex-grubhub-driver-wins-65-in-8-year-fight-to-be-called-employee?srnd=technology-vp&sref=3Ac2yX40&_hsmi=252778363)
Saudi Arabia Is Investing $38 Billion to Become a Video-Game Hub (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-03/saudi-arabia-is-investing-38-billion-to-become-a-video-game-hub?sref=3Ac2yX40)
Former Start-up Founder Charged by Prosecutors for Defrauding JPMorgan Chase (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/business/charlie-javice-jpmorgan-fraud.html)
Amazon announced eliminating another 9,000 roles (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1637822962504957952?s=46&t=EoCoteGkQEahPpAJ_HYRpg)
Nonsense
The last O'REILLY book (https://social.heise.de/@vowe/110118878261283573)
3 Pieces of Military Tech From "The Mandalorian" That We're Already Working on (https://sofrep.com/news/3-pieces-of-military-tech-from-the-mandalorian-that-were-already-working-on/?fbclid=IwAR078o8c0RGUb2gPJXNANeiLoAFzwNSq1Cys87_7eD2rd-GDyJCfESjxb3M)
Conferences
KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY)
The Evolution of SaaS Business Models (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/04/the-evolution-of-saas-business-models.html) (Brandon co-hosts The Cloudcast)
Matt: Bernie Worrell: Elevation (The Upper Air) (https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/elevation-the-upper-air)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/kvIAk3J_A1c)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/_1HlXH4LI7A)
4/7/2023 • 58 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 408: Undivided Attention
This week we discuss Docker’s reversal, Amazon's return to office, Apple’s headset, the state of the Metaverse and the rise of LLMs. Plus, Matt shares his sleep study experience and an after-show about Hawaii.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 408 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLRMj8s_Fc)
Runner-up Titles
Tyranny of 16x9
College Sports of Mastodon
Sleep Study
NPS survey at the end
Dependent on Goodwill
This is best for the customer
Worlds greatest employer
Apple, we were counting on you
Mechanized Mansplaining
Rundown
We're no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan (https://www.docker.com/blog/no-longer-sunsetting-the-free-team-plan/)
Amazon’s head of HR rejects employees’ return-to-office petition (Insider) (https://artifact.news/s/-dZrO83ly0Q=)
At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/apple-augmented-reality-dissent.html)
Disney reportedly eliminates metaverse division in first round of layoffs (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659691/disney-metaverse-job-cuts-eliminated?_hsmi=252164574)
Cheating is All You Need (https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need)
Relevant to your Interests
Introducing World ID and SDK (https://worldcoin.org/blog/announcements/introducing-world-id-and-sdk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage (https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_broke_reddit_the_piday_outage/)
De-cloud and de-k8s — bringing our apps back home (https://dev.37signals.com/bringing-our-apps-back-home/)
Venture Firms And Startups Are Returning To Government-Backed SVB In Droves (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilymason/2023/03/19/vc-and-startups-are-returning-to-government-backed-svb-in-droves/?sh=783740c17dfc)
OpenStack starts wrapping around the alphabet to name it's latest release. (https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/1639265814963527680)
51 Tips For Surviving in a BIG Company (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/51-rules-how-survive-big-company-jeremy-connell-waite/)
New York Times touts continued Wordle success (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c755db47-b0d4-471d-9f55-b8cf1218c75c.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
SVB Capital Owned Pieces Of Top VC Firms. With A Sale Ongoing, Their Future Is In Flux. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/03/24/what-happens-to-svb-capital-vc-firm-bets/?sh=596c2bedb7ef)
First Citizens agrees to buy Silicon Valley Bank (https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/first-citizens-silicon-valley-bank-sold-fdic)
Databricks pushes open-source chatbot as cheaper ChatGPT alternative (https://www.reuters.com/technology/databricks-pushes-open-source-chatbot-cheaper-chatgpt-alternative-2023-03-24/)
Let's Get To The News #11: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (https://craigbox.substack.com/p/11-oclock-tick-tock)
Rackspace cutting workforce in response to downturn. Amid string of losses, its stock has plummeted. (https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/rackspace-layoffs-downturn-17859129.php)
Microsoft is testing a redesigned Windows 11 audio mixer (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-is-testing-a-redesigned-windows-11-audio-mixer-224417187.html)
Twilio's IoT business unit to be acquired by KORE to build first 'IoT Hyperscaler' (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3951425-twilios-iot-business-unit-to-be-acquired-by-kore-to-build-first-iot-hyperscaler)
Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 16.4 with New Emoji, Notifications for Web Apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for Cellular Calls, New Shortcuts Actions, and More (https://feed.feedburster.com/macstoriesnet/redirect?url=https://www.macstories.net/news/ios-16-4-overview-emoji-notifications-web-shortcuts/)
The Bank Regulators Are Disappointed (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-28/the-bank-regulators-are-disappointed)
ChatGPT plugins (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
AI changes the software-making game (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-660f9b08-f144-4c7f-9388-fcde9259d5d2.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Google Distributed Cloud Hosted is GA | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/google-distributed-cloud-hosted-is-ga/)
Alibaba to split into 6 units and explore IPOs; shares up 14% in the U.S. (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/28/alibaba-says-it-will-split-into-6-units-that-can-raise-funds-and-ipo.html?_hsmi=252164574)
Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter 'For You' feed (https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/tech/elon-musk-verified-only-for-you-feed?_hsmi=252164574)
Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/zoom-is-adding-new-features-to-compete-with-slack-calendly-google-and-microsoft/)
How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/siri-alexa-google-assistant-artificial-intelligence.html)
Nonsense
Beaver fossil named after Buc-ee's (https://phys.org/news/2023-03-beaver-fossil-buc-ee.html)
The Ultimate Texas Brand Bracket Crowns Its Champion — Texas Monthly (https://apple.news/Aq4TrnlI_Sfq9hziw3ML6oQ)
After Show
Coté’s interview with Barton (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/393)
Conferences
KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Duo Lingo (https://www.duolingo.com)
Matt:
Hardcore History Addendum: Rick Rubin/Dan Carlin Conversation (https://www.dancarlin.com/addendum/)
Kubernetes Cloud Cost Monitoring with OpenCost & Optimization Strategies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiqIqcM1d6o)
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/7ZD_JIwl410)
Artwork (https://unsplash.com/photos/XzVGz2HBtK4)
Special Guest: Barton George.
3/31/2023 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 407: It’s fine, pretty fine, and just fine
This week we discuss Docker’s Business Model, the Stack Overflow’s Sentiment Survey and ChatGPT use cases. Plus, some predictions about VR/AR headsets.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 406 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxvIBIzlmbM)
Runner-up Titles
Free isn’t good enough
I’m not that disconnected
It’s a presentation with yourself
We still hate this
Open Source Continuity
Founder Magic
Syntactic Sugar
How cool do you feel, Tim Cook?
Rundown
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know (https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/)
Docker’s bad week (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3691292/dockers-bad-week.html)
After the buzz fades: What our data tells us about emerging technology sentiment (https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/03/09/after-the-buzz-fades-what-our-data-tells-us-about-emerging-technology-sentiment/)
Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine (https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine)
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/)
Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition (https://9to5google.com/2023/03/15/google-glass-enterprise-edition-discontinued/)
Meta's metaverse is on the back burner (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c7503b12-b371-4a85-86f0-dacb9b3426fc.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html)
Meta announces big price cuts for its VR headsets (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/meta-quest-pro-vr-headset-gets-price-cut.html)
Mark Gurman details Apple's Reality Pro headset (https://www.gsmarena.com/mark_gurman_gives_huge_breakdown_of_apples_reality_pro_headset-news-57314.php)
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Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff (https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific_face_the_cliff)
Salesforce shares jump 16% on better-than-expected forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/01/salesforce-crm-earnings-q4-2023.html)
Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70% and Caps Patient Insulin Out-of-Pocket Costs at $35 Per Month | Eli Lilly and Company (https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-cuts-insulin-prices-70-and-caps-patient-insulin-out-pocket)
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NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages (https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/devops/npm-repository-15000-phishing-packages)
Introducing Service Weaver (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1630995723956412420)
A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-passcode-data-privacya-basic-iphone-feature-helps-criminals-steal-your-digital-life-cbf14b1a)
Ford announces it hired 550 former Argo devs (https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1631485994322239489)
Amazon says it is pausing construction at HQ2 in Arlington (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/amazon-hq2-construction-delay-arlington/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3946bb7%2F64022c3bd8b4d160753c68fc%2F5ed96de79bbc0f3a78a62db3%2F10%2F74%2F64022c3bd8b4d160753c68fc&wp_cu=adfcfd8deaffd0ba2a9ca872039c1c5f%7CA74A34F443CC71B2E0530100007FCBF9)
National Cybersecurity Strategy (https://twitter.com/ENERGY/status/1631412407565180928?s=20)
Richard Seroter’s take on Web Assembly (https://twitter.com/rseroter/status/1631723362371371008?s=20)
VMware’s SaaS Sales Surge As Broadcom Deal Nears (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/vmware-s-saas-sales-surge-as-broadcom-deal-nears)
Technology Chiefs Seek Help Wrangling Cloud Costs (The Wall Street Journal) (https://artifact.news/s/ZAPppeImSUI=)
Top Apple Supplier Foxconn Plans Major India Expansion (https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-apple-supplier-plans-major-india-expansion-f2908b88)
Zoom boss Greg Tomb fired ‘without cause’ (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64835239)
A cloud migration in wartime (https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/a-cloud-migration-in-wartime)
Apple’s VP of Cloud Engineering Michael Abbott Reportedly Leaving Company in April (https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2023/apples-vp-of-cloud-engineering-michael-abbott-reportedly-leaving-company-in-april/)
ARM vs Intel on Amazon’s cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark (https://lemire.me/blog/2023/03/01/arm-vs-intel-on-amazons-cloud/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Microsoft brings an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/06/microsoft-dynamics-copilot/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGcA6HN4Zti_4dKCpuMURoiAkkQ_uR0GBWFOG215KnmRsvryBDclj9SjWv-95R0yA0wFRXevcP-HUdwk-E3ZyR3d23rc5VGVCNXFGK5L3mAPvoEOJxRs6WZFKQvDUBIyw5V3NpdWGkkQ-fXDh4Rijfdp2l_ekJTxepVJjoYJSyKz)
NOSSHJJ talking about 1Password (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfmKwjiVf-U)
Alphabet headcount on Google Cloud (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1632842179281387522)
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday (https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Kubernetes as a platform vs. Kubernetes as an API | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/kubernetes-as-a-platform-vs-kubernetes-as-an-api-2/)
Atlassian to Eliminate 500 Jobs in Latest Software Cutbacks (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-06/atlassian-will-eliminate-500-jobs-in-latest-software-cutbacks?leadSource=uverify%20wall&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top#xj4y7vzkg)
Even Slack has a ChatGPT app now (https://www.engadget.com/even-slack-has-a-chatgpt-app-now-154334452.html)
The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization (https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/research-papers/the-pursuit-of-shareholder-value-ciscos-transformation-from-innovation-to-financialization)
Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10th in front of a 'limited' in-person audience (https://www.engadget.com/google-io-2023-takes-place-on-may-10th-in-front-of-a-limited-in-person-audience-232154501.html)
Datadog’s software is down — and so is its stock (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/datadogs-software-is-down-and-so-is-its-stock-3d0dc2e6)
Southwest lands on AWS as preferred cloud for modernization push (https://www.ciodive.com/news/Southwest-airlines-AWS-cloud-modernization/644510/)
Microsoft says Bing has crossed 100 million daily active users | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-bing-crossed-100-million-daily-active-users-080138371.html)
SCOOP: Stripe Is Raising $6 Billion to Resolve Taxes & Expiring Employee Shares, Delaying Public Listing (https://www.newcomer.co/p/scoop-stripe-is-raising-6-billion)
After Stadia, Google's new gaming roadmap (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-231e8237-d33a-4d1a-b810-5e2e729eff66.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
GM offers buyouts to 'majority' of U.S. salaried workers (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/gm-buyouts-us-salaried-workers.html)
Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network (https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
VMware turns to containerization to improve virtual apps (https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/09/vmware_apps_on_demand/)
Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Oracle shares sink nearly 5% after third-quarter revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/oracle-shares-sink-nearly-5percent-after-third-quarter-revenue-miss.html)
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud (https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-by-not-going-to-the-cloud-8939dd930af8)
U.S. government steps in and says people with funds deposited at SVB will be able to access their money (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/regulators-unveil-plan-to-stem-damage-from-svb-collapse.html)
Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC (https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337)
GitLab loses one-third of its value after software company issues weak revenue forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/gitlab-gtlb-earnings-q4-2023.html)
Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/03/10/hashi-stack-to-break-1-billion-with-profits-in-two-years/)
Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/10/gowalla-location-based-social-app/)
Amazon's New Home Internet Service Announces New Details | Cord Cutters News (https://cordcuttersnews.com/amazons-new-home-internet-service-announces-new-details/)
Grammarly's New AI Tool Can Do More Than Check Your Spelling (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/grammarlys-new-ai-tool-can-do-more-than-check-your-spelling/)
Google Cloud gives developers access to its foundation models (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/google-cloud-gives-developers-access-to-its-foundation-models/)
The inside story on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high-performance open source file client (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/the-inside-story-on-mountpoint-for-amazon-s3-a-high-performance-open-source-file-client/)
Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/meta-facebook-layoffs.html)
Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/zed-code-editor-raises-10m/)
Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/apple-is-reportedly-experimenting-with-language-generating-ai/)
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is stepping down (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/twitch-ceo-emmett-shear-is-stepping-down/)
The Four Domains of Wasm (https://www.fermyon.com/blog/four-domains-wasm)
Navigating SVB's new era (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-3bd96e9e-2dbf-4d32-8008-30800f298ac7.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire OpsRamp, advancing hybrid cloud leadership and expanding HPE GreenLake into IT Operations Management (https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2023/03/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-opsramp-advancing-hybrid-cloud-leadership-and-expanding-hpe-greenlake-into-it-operations-management.html)
Proximus and Google Cloud to Deliver Sovereign Cloud Services in Belgium and Luxembourg (https://www.proximus.com/news/2023/20230315-disconnected-sovereign-cloud-platform.html)
Netflix plans 40 more game releases in 2023 (https://www.axios.com/2023/03/20/netflix-40-video-games)
Dragonfly - Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21m) (https://dragonflydb.io/blog/dragonfly-production-ready)
HPE picks up OpsRamp for Greenlake multi-cloud AIOps (https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/20/hpe_opsramp_acquisition/)
Nutanix To Miss SEC Deadline Amid Internal Software Probe (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/nutanix-to-miss-sec-deadline-amid-internal-software-probe)
Nutanix's latest bumper financials overshadowed by 3rd party evaluation software probe – Blocks and Files (https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/07/terrific-nutanix-results-overshadowed-by-expense-investigation/)
AWS Cost Leaderboard (https://leaderboard.vantage.sh/)
GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/github-releases-blueprint-for-budding-open-source-program-offices/)
Introducing GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-gpt4-in-azure-openai-service/)
Cloud Repatriation Trends: Where Are We Now? (https://blog.container-solutions.com/cloud-repatriation-trends-where-are-we-now)
The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises (https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/20/the-cloud-backlash-has-begun-why-big-data-is-pulling-compute-back-on-premises/)
Nonsense
Goldman Sachs arm among bidders with appetite for $10bn Subway (https://news.sky.com/story/goldman-sachs-arm-among-bidders-with-appetite-for-10bn-subway-12825817)
This smart toaster lets you cook two slices of bread at different temperatures at the same time (Yanko Design) (https://artifact.news/s/Ug-RYHqMfFE=)
A Matt Levine Effect? (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4386256)
Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64939558)
Man Sues Buffalo Wild Wings Over ‘Boneless’ Wings (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/business/buffalo-wild-wings-boneless-wings-lawsuit.html)
Metallica Acquires Furnace, One of America’s Largest Vinyl-Manufacturing Companies (https://variety.com/2023/music/news/metallica-acquires-furnace-vinyl-pressing-plants-1235553683/)
Got a question for Twitter's press team? The answer will be a poop emoji (https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164654551/twitter-poop-emoji-elon-musk?_hsmi=251042455)
Sponsors
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Conferences
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 (https://www.pytexas.org)
KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: YouTube TV Multiview (https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/multiview-on-youtube-tv/)
Matt: Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats its Young (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmoxlUy33A)
Manly Dam 21k (https://www.sydneytrailseries.com.au/course/manly-dam)
Jabulani Challenge 22k (https://jabulanichallenge.com.au/)
Coté: EQPMNT inflight bag, steel grey, toiletry bag (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B091P451DQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details).
Photo Credits
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3/24/2023 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 406: John Willis on Deming, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps
John Willis (https://twitter.com/botchagalupe) joins Matt and Coté for a discussion in this episode. We discuss John's upcoming book on Deming; the progress of automating audit, security; and compliance with DevOps-think, and then the general state of DevOps and platform engineering.
There's Q&A from the live-audience at the end as well.
Thanks to SCaLE 20x for taking the time to set this up for us and offering to do so. Both it and DevOpsDays LA were a great conferences, as we discuss in the episode.
Links:
Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge (https://amzn.to/3TnWcsU) - John's upcoming book, co-authored by Derek Lews - "How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future." It'll be out in August, 2023. Pre-order here (https://amzn.to/3TnWcsU).
Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age (https://amzn.to/3JKxakr) - A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age.
SCaLE 20x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x).
DevOpsDays LA (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-los-angeles/welcome/).
Special Guest: John Willis.
3/17/2023 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 405: Peter Pouliot on DevRel at a hardware company
Matt interviews Peter Pouliot from Ampere (https://amperecomputing.com). They discuss Peter’s experience with working on OpenStack for Microsoft, developer relations in his latest role at Ampere, and how to strategically choose your conference parties to attend.
Links:
Ampere Altra Developer Platform (https://amperecomputing.com/systems/altra/kraken-comhpc-WS)
Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023 (https://blog.alexellis.io/linux-on-microsoft-dev-kit-2023/)
Ampere Developer Program (https://amperecomputing.com/developers)
Contact Peter:
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterpouliot/)
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Special Guest: Peter Pouliot.
3/10/2023 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 404: Sargun Kaur on Technical Interviews
Brandon interviews Sargun Kaur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sargunkaur/), Co-Founder and CEO of Byteboard (https://byteboard.dev/). They discuss the challenges and frustrations with technical interviews and how Byteboard has redesigned the coding test. Plus, Sargun offers tips for job seekers and shares her experience going from software engineer to startup CEO.
Show Links:
Byteboard (https://byteboard.dev/)
Contact Sargun
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sargunkaur/)
Twitter: @justsargs (https://twitter.com/justsargs)
SDT news & hype
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Photo Credit (https://blog.google/technology/area-120/byteboard-mobile-web-interviews/)
Special Guest: Sargun Kaur.
3/7/2023 • 47 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 403: Everything about this is wrong
Everything about this is wrong
This week we discuss the digital transformation of paid TV, the struggle to modernize the IRS and DHH’s MRSK project. Plus, Matt is Factorio famous…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 403 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ep_x-LOg4M)
Runner-up Titles
Forbidden
Everything needs cables
Got to be Grammarly
I’ve got a lot of hills to die on
A hatred for their customers
They wanted to hate your corpse
Except for The Wu-Tang Saga
You’ve abandoned the ship
No, no, we need to spy on you
You are gaslighting what your selling
I wouldn’t touch this
Full of chef kiss quotes
Rundown
What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 (https://stratechery.com/2023/what-the-nba-can-learn-from-formula-1/)
IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/24/irs-technology-gao-report-archaic/)
Screaming in the Cloud #357: Stepping Onto the AWS Commerce Platform with James Greenfield (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/stepping-onto-the-aws-commerce-platform-with-james-greenfield/)
US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/)
Individual Master File (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Master_File)
Introducing MRSK (https://world.hey.com/dhh/introducing-mrsk-9330a267)
mrsked/mrsk (https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk)
Justin Garrison @rothgar’s take (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1630634683313848320)
Relevant to your Interests
After Fraud Charges Against Slync’s Ex-CEO, Goldman Sachs Doubles Down With $24 Million Investment (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/02/22/slync-goldman-sachs-chris-kirchner-funding/?sh=52642f354594)
ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chatgpt-style-search-represents-a-10x-cost-increase-for-google-microsoft/)
Why everyone’s talking about Section 230 - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/02232023-Section-230/)
Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges For 2023 (https://www.revealbi.io/whitepapers/reveal-survey-report-top-software-development-challenges-for-2023)
Microsoft previews cost-efficient Azure VMs (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/microsoft_cheap_azure_vms/)
DOJ Preps Antitrust Suit to Block Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Deal (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/doj-preparing-suit-to-block-adobe-s-20-billion-deal-for-figma)
Oracle Cloud Made All The Right Moves In 2022 - Moor Insights & Strategy (https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/oracle-cloud-made-all-the-right-moves-in-2022/)
DoJ to block Adobe purchase of Figma on competition concerns (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/doj_to_block_adobe_purchase/)
Your jailbroken ChatGPT might violate OpenAI’s safety guidelines when role-playing as ‘DAN’ (https://www.fastcompany.com/90845689/chatgpt-dan-jailbreak-violence-reddit-rules)
Is WebAssembly Really the Future? (https://thenewstack.io/is-webassembly-really-the-future/)
Elon Musk says remaining Twitter employees will receive ‘very significant’ stock awards on March 24th (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/27/23616933/elon-musk-twitter-employees-stock-awards-march-after-more-layoffs)
Salesforce weighing up more job cuts to hit margin goal (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/27/salesforce_job_losses_not_over/)
Alphabet Needs to Replace Sundar Pichai (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alphabet-needs-to-replace-sundar-pichai)
LastPass Reveals Second Attack Resulting in Breach of Encrypted Password Vaults (https://thehackernews.com/2023/02/lastpass-reveals-second-attack.html)
Stack Overflow Stats (https://twitter.com/sahnlam/status/1629713954225405952)
Nonsense
Twitter had 88,188 channel (https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1630346916335865857?s=46&t=DiH5HJagHYkpKEP13Yz6Cg%20%20Zoë%20SchifferZoë%20Schiffer%20@ZoeSchiffer) but they don’t have THE THREAD. (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1590186505165200)
Sponsors
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Conferences
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
Coté and Matt arranging a live recording.
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 (https://www.pytexas.org)
KubeCon EU Amsterdam, April 18-21 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) - Matt & Cote will be there
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5
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Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842) Drive to Survive Season 5 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890)
Matt
Factorio Story Missions (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Story-Missions)
Recent podcast appearances
Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2023/02/10/kubernetes-cost-management/)
The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/07/kubernetes-cost-management.html)
Open Observability Talks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhqXQV2jsxo)
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3/3/2023 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 402: What’s going on in Chicago?
This week we take a critical look at DHH’s plan to move HEY! out of the cloud and the 5 values driving the decision. Plus, some thoughts on residential fiber…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 402 (https://youtube.com/live/C1KDU0QdrMY?feature=share)
Runner-up Titles
Cycled the Power
The Principles are Amazing
The neighbors prefer a MRI machine to my dog
Does this mean the public cloud is over?
Where was the Oracle rep?
We fear change
SaaS for me, not for you
The author of this text does not like Amazon
Adventure-driven development
You’ve got great a manifesto
Intolerable!
Cory Doctorow amped up
Rundown
We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-years-from-our-cloud-exit-53996caa)
Five values guiding our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/five-values-guiding-our-cloud-exit-638add47)
Basecamp CTO: $600k of servers will save $7 million (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/cloud_repatration_savings_calculated_basecamp/)
Two racks. My friends, a thread from Adam Jacob (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1628062851314356225?s=46&t=wXfsbi72zZrNHy0q1UbAGg)
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Microsoft Limits Bing AI Chats to 5 Replies to Keep Conversations Normal (https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/microsoft-limits-bing-ai-chats-to-5-replies-to-keep-conversations-normal/)
Update from Andy Jassy on Amazon's return to office plans (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-update-on-amazon-return-to-office)
Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazon-employees-push-ceo-andy-jassy-to-drop-return-to-office-mandate.html)
An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter)
The SSO Wall of Shame (https://sso.tax/)
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GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-copilot-update-stops-ai-model-from-revealing-secrets/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Twilio Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230215005742/en/Twilio-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results)
Big 1Password update for iOS and Mac brings over 100 improvements and changes (https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/15/big-1password-update-for-ios-and-mac/)
Is the 'exodus' over? Here's how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk's acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/is-the-exodus-over-heres-how-twitter-alternatives-have-fared-since-elon-musks-acquisition/)
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-says-shes-stepping-down.html)
Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You – The Markup (https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/02/16/forget-milk-and-eggs-supermarkets-are-having-a-fire-sale-on-data-about-you)
Microsoft to support Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602718/microsoft-windows-11-apple-mac-m1-m2-support-parallels-virtual-machines)
Digital Ocean Earnings (https://twitter.com/masonegger/status/1626231150091046912?s=12&t=4iXXneoFFARPscTY7xbH2w)
Karan B. on LinkedIn: Uber Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7030923903950618624-4lHt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios)
Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/salesforce-yields-to-activist-pressure-with-harsh-new-policies-for-engineers-sales-people/)
ByteDance's Slack-like tool generated $100M in 2022 (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/bytedance-slack-feishu-arr-milestone/)
Burton Snowboards cancels online orders after 'cyber incident' (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/burton-snowboards-cancels-online-orders-after-cyber-incident/)
Open-source is broken: the sad story of Denis Pushkarev (core-js) (https://www.izoukhai.com/blog/the-sad-story-of-denis-pushkarev-zloirock-the-creator-of-core-js)
Pixelfed - Decentralized social media (https://pixelfed.org/)
VMware, Broadcom extend deadline for acquisition (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/20/vmware_broadcom_deal_deadline_extended/)
How websites can still easily track you in incognito mode (https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-incognito-is-incognito-mode-on-your-internet-browser/)
Meta Verified (https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10114993498750111?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
YouTube As Infinite File Storage (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/youtube-as-infinite-file-storage/)
Biden won’t save the Apple Watch from potential ban (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/biden-wont-save-the-apple-watch-from-potential-ban/)
Apple TV+ growth has 'flat-lined' as users say service lacks value: UBS (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-tv-growth-has-flat-lined-as-users-say-service-lacks-value-ubs-133042717.html)
Gartner: Oracle targets users on Java compliance (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/20/gartner_java_licensing/)
Software is a hell of a drug (https://twitter.com/gregisenberg/status/1628016701991182336?s=20)
KKR-Backed BMC Plans IPO Valuing It at Up to $15 Billion (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-17/kkr-backed-bmc-worth-up-to-15-billion-is-said-to-file-for-ipo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top&leadSource=uverify%20wall)
Nonsense
We Tested Tiny11 for Arm on a Raspberry Pi (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/we-tested-tiny11-for-arm-on-a-raspberry-pi)
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0qBbJq4qQ)
United Airlines Eases Family Seating After Call to Cut Fees (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/business/united-airlines-family-seat-fees.html)
Listener Feedback
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Coté and Matt arranging a live recording.
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 (https://www.pytexas.org)
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Peep Show (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387764/)
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2/24/2023 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 401: Swing State for Grocery Stores
This week we discuss Ubisoft’s woes, the quest for a better Developer Experience, Sumo Logic going private and IBM acquiring StepZen. Plus, some thoughts on grocery stores…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 401 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpzvCcFZk0)
Runner-up Titles
Going Hardcore
Sleeping under the desk
The Cause of Everything Bad on the Internet
Rundown
Amazon plans to eventually 'go big' on physical grocery stores (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-plans-to-eventually-go-big-on-physical-grocery-stores-154524344.html)
Mi Tienda Ready to Cook Flour Tortillas (https://www.heb.com/product-detail/mi-tienda-ready-to-cook-flour-tortillas/2188466)
Ubisoft botched a ‘Division 2’ fix so badly it broke its ability to update the game (https://www.engadget.com/the-division-2-botched-update-172527977.html)
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter (https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/)
The Twitpocalypse may have begun today (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/09/twitter_glitches_raises_tweet_limit/)
What if Infrastructure as Code never existed - Adam Jacob (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPa2U239C4)
Platform Engineering Teams Done Right… (https://adrianco.medium.com/platform-engineering-teams-done-right-b3b3d4a8ad23)
These new platforms will be great as long as we pay attention to application developers (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/these-new-platforms-will-be-great?utm_source=substack&publication_id=50&post_id=102609967&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true)
IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/08/ibm-graphql/)
Sumo Logic to be Acquired by Francisco Partners for $1.7 Billion (https://investor.sumologic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sumo-logic-be-acquired-francisco-partners-17-billion)
Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake (https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155650909/google-chatbot--error-bard-shares)
The maze is in the mouse (https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a)
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AI Homework (https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/)
Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’ (https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/10/23593966/cloudflare-mastodon-server-wildebeest-instance-fediverse)
Adam Neumann finally explains what Flow does. (https://twitter.com/liron/status/1622962433752195072)
"The New Gatekeepers" (https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations)
A tech CEO spent almost $600,000 on a Super Bowl ad to warn America about Tesla’s self-driving technology (https://fortune.com/2023/02/13/tesla-elon-musk-fsd-tech-ceo-spent-almost-600000-on-a-super-bowl-ad-to-warn-america-about-teslas-self-driving-technology/)
AWS slammed for PostgreSQL DBaaS migration downtime (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/aws_slammed_for_postgresql_dbaas/)
Can this man turn Amazon around? (https://www.ft.com/content/a8cdfe3a-a445-476c-b4a7-367468ac1398)
A note from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson (https://www.twilio.com/blog/restructuring-twilio)
An announcement from GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/02/09/gitlab-news/)
Nonsense
De-Aging #HarrisonFord #JarkanVFX #indianajones #Deepfake #deepfaketechnology #fyp #foryoupage #foryou (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRt5XcrW/)
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2/17/2023 • 55 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 400: Prompt Engineering
This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, ChatGPT Prompts and the OpenTelemetry controversy. Plus, thoughts on refrigerating eggs…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 400 (https://youtube.com/live/3lko4YjndKY?feature=share)
Runner-up Titles
You don’t want to toy with food poisoning
Do you put all your eggs in one basket?
The answer to this and every question is ChatGPT
This is just Bing
Bullshit as a Service
It doesn’t matter if it’s right, it’s fine
Bad dog
The answer to every question is ChatGPT
Linux under the desktop
Rundown
Why Does the U.S. Refrigerate Eggs When Much of the World Doesn’t? (https://www.organicvalley.coop/blog/why-does-us-refrigerate-eggs/)
Earnings and Outlook
Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1621260249016434691?s=46&t=E1TVgOcjzgZuJPndlhI9NA)
Red Hat OpenShift making money (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1618795275665162247?s=56&t=lB7BRczZa4_zVz6n4aAjIg)
Gartner: Overall IT Spend Has Slowed. But Software? That’s Still Growing. (https://www.saastr.com/gartner-overall-it-spend-has-slowed-but-software-still-growing/)
Cloud Earnings (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/amazon-aws-earnings-q4-2022.html)
The Big Tech Rebound Is Underway (https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-big-tech-rebound-is-underway)
Cloud leaders Amazon, Google and Microsoft show the once-booming market is cooling down (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/04/amazon-google-microsoft-show-slowing-growth-in-cloud-infrastructure.html)
The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession (https://stratechery.com/2023/the-four-horsemen-of-the-tech-recession/)
Microsoft offers lackluster guidance, says new business growth slowed in December (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2023.html)
FY23 Q2 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2023-q2/press-release-webcast)
The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS (https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/02/06/the-on-premises-empire-strikes-back-at-aws/)
A.I.
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete (https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-an-army-of-contractors-to-make-basic-coding-obsolete)
Google has developed a music-making AI bot (https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-bot-music)
Why does ChatGPT constantly lie? (https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-does-chatgpt-constantly-lie)
Who will compete with ChatGPT? Meet the contenders (https://venturebeat.com/ai/who-will-compete-with-chatgpt-meet-the-contenders-the-ai-beat/)
OpenAI API (https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier)
Infrastructure-as-Code Generator (https://github.com/gofireflyio/aiac)
Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub's Copilot with $23M in VC backing (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/magic-dev-code-generating-startup-raises-23m/)
Microsoft to Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/business/microsoft-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html)
Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/technology/google-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence.html)
Claims Datadog asked developer to kill open source data tool (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/02/datadog_opentelemetry_tool_dorman/)
Everybody Gets Fired Eventually (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2023/02/everybody-gets-fired-eventually.html) (The Cloudcast Podcast)
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$NOW CEO Bill McDermott on 2023 IT Spend (https://twitter.com/upholdings/status/1616103812372267008?s=46&t=WKIJg71CxhnkC9pPlPnHPg)
Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-wind-down-charity-donation-program-amazonsmile-11674144274)
HPE and Oracle Solaris suit ends with hushed settlement (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/hpe_and_oracle_lawsuit_ends/)
Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/cloud_growth_slowdown_as_customers/)
How We Learned to Be Lonely (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/01/loneliness-solitude-pandemic-habit/672631/)
Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism (https://www.warpnews.org/premium-content/kevin-kelly-the-case-for-optimism/)
Activist investor Elliott sets its sights on Salesforce (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/activist-elliott-salesforce-benioff)
AWS expanding site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/23/aws_expanding_infamous_useast1_region/)
Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments (https://stripe.com/en-es/newsroom/news/amazon-and-stripe)
Undo — Chartr: Data Storytelling (https://read.chartr.co/newsletters/2023/1/23/undo)
VMware 2023 Predictions: Platform Engineering Improves Developer Experience, Tech Layoffs Solve Enterprise Talent Gaps (https://vmblog.com/archive/2023/01/24/vmware-2023-predictions-platform-engineering-improves-developer-experience-tech-layoffs-solve-enterprise-talent-gaps.aspx)
LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers' backups (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/goto-customer-backups-stolen-lastpass/)
Subject: Focusing on our short- and long-term opportunity - The Official Microsoft Blog (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing-on-our-short-and-long-term-opportunity/)
Slack's second chance (https://open.substack.com/pub/mostlycloudy/p/slacks-second-chance?r=2d4o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)
Internal Developer Portal: What It Is and Why You Need One (https://thenewstack.io/internal-developer-portal-what-it-is-and-why-you-need-one/)
Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64397643)
U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls (https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-european-union-antitrust-video-calls-software-giant/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
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FBI shuts down ransomware gang that targeted schools and hospitals (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/26/hive-ransomware-fbi-doj)
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The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/)
Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks - Odd Lots (https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/why-corporate-america-still-runs-on-ancient-softwa)
Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now? (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571659/tech-layoffs-facebook-google-amazon)
Salesforce Announces Appointment of Three New Independent Directors (https://investor.salesforce.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2023/Salesforce-Announces-Appointment-of-Three-New-Independent-Directors/default.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
1Password announces multiple improvements coming soon to its iOS app (https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/30/1password-announces-multiple-improvements-coming-soon-to-its-ios-app/)
Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/31/identity-management-platform-saviynt-secures-205m-in-debt-appoints-new-ceo/)
Artifact (https://artifact.news/)
GitHub says hackers cloned code-signing certificates in breached repository (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/github-says-hackers-cloned-code-signing-certificates-in-breached-repository/)
Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-hermes-an-open-source-document-management-system)
Introducing Helios, HashiCorp’s New Design System (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-helios-hashicorp-s-new-design-system)
Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/kubernetes-is-great-but-its-been?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=50&post_id=100430955&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email)
Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-ubiquiti-dev-pleads-guilty-to-trying-to-extort-his-employer/)
Charted: Hardest hit in tech layoffs (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-040e9788-23b3-4353-912c-6c9750e3e82f.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs (https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee-layoffs-google-facebook-salesforce-amazon-2023-2?r=US&IR=T)
Visa vs. AMEX (https://twitter.com/anshgupta64/status/1619538351127937027)
Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-just-180-000-u-s-subscribers-two-months-after-launch)
Coté ponders IBM what-if in AI (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/catatonic-leadership?utm_source=substack&publication_id=50&post_id=97661373&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true)
Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/half-of-smart-appliances-remain-disconnected-from-internet-makers-lament/)
Broadcom’s VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers (https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/01/broadcom_vmware_update/)
PagerDuty Layoffs Affect 7 Percent Of Workforce (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/pagerduty-layoffs-affect-7-percent-of-workforce?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Meta Pressures Average-Rated Employees to Up Their Game (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-pressures-average-rated-employees-to-up-their-game)
Spotify to Shed 6% of Its Work Force in Latest Round of Tech Layoffs (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/business/spotify-layoffs.html)
The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-job-market-for-remote-workers-is-shrinking-11674526943)
Big Tech Is Really Bad at Firing People (https://www.wired.com/story/google-meta-big-tech-is-bad-at-firing/)
Zoom layoffs impact 15% of staff (https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/07/zoom-layoffs-impact-15-of-staff/)
The Newer Geography of Jobs (https://arpitrage.substack.com/p/the-newer-geography-of-jobs?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
Nonsense
Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64481317)
Boeing delivers its final 747 jet today, ending a run of more than 50 years (https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141578966/boeing-747-last-jet)
King Charles will not appear on new Australia $5 note (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64493849)
Donkey Kong cheating case rocked by photos of illicit joystick modification (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/did-billy-mitchell-use-this-illicit-joystick-to-set-a-donkey-kong-high-score/)
Sponsor
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Conferences
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)!
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Coté and Matt arranging a live recording.
PyTexas 2023, Austin, TX April 1 - 2, 2023 (https://www.pytexas.org)
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842)Hand Mirror (https://handmirror.app)
Matt: StarFive VisionFiveV2 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starfive/visionfive-2) RISC V has arrived!
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/dTgyj9okQ_w)
CoverArt (https://labs.openai.com/s/1twM82RtWf5pjWk9fWJ7g0qS)
2/10/2023 • 59 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 399: Two Guys Live in the Southern Hemisphere, with Craig Box
This week Matt Ray is joined by Craig Box and they discuss living down under, Craig’s media future, and managing CNCF Sandbox projects developer relations. Be sure to subscribe to Craig’s Let’s Get To The News (https://craigbox.substack.com/) newsletter and follow him on Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@craigbox) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/craigbox/)(?)
This interview was done on January 16th, 2023.
Runner-up Titles
You sound like an Australian
The Mystery of the Cold Open
D-list Celebrities
The Americans are asleep
All the swans belong to the Queen
A summer Christmas is strange and weird and I don’t like it
Rundown
Global Entry, New Zealand-style (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/international-arrangements/new-zealand/us-global-entry-members)
Is there another podcast in the future?
Learning by osmosis
Developer advocacy at Google
You’re not tall enough to ride this ride
Joining ARMO (https://www.armosec.io/)
Kubescape (https://github.com/kubescape), the Kubernetes end-to-end security platform
OpenCost (https://www.cncf.io/projects/opencost/) and Kubescape (https://www.cncf.io/projects/kubescape/), CNCF Sandbox Projects
You’re already in my calendar
ARMO monetization strategy
All Blacks vs. Wallabies
Who are these weird celebrities?
The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_Centre)
TweetBot insulated me from a lot of Twitter
Conferences
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.
State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023
Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Coté (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Special Guest: Craig Box.
2/3/2023 • 54 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 398: To the Moon
This week Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the rise Mastodon, Netflix’s Strategy and DevOpsDays CFP ideas. Plus, some thoughts on tipping…
Rundown
Tipping
How Much You Should Tip Across The World, Mapped (https://digg.com/data-viz/link/how-much-you-should-tip-across-the-world-mapped-sY3g24oCCF)
Tipping Is Weird Now (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/technology-pandemic-economy-gratuity-tipping-etiquette-square/672658/?ref=galaxy-brain)
Mastodon
The unofficial SDT Mastodon Server: hachyderm.io (https://hachyderm.io/)
Follow SDT on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredefinedtalk)
Tapbots launches a new Mastodon client, Ivory, after Twitter kills its Tweetbot app (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/tapbots-launches-a-new-mastodon-client-ivory-after-twitter-kills-its-tweetbot-app/)
The Iconfactory Co-Founder Gedeon Maheux Talks Accessibility On Twitter, ‘The Blow’ Of Losing Twitterrific In New Interview (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/01/25/the-iconfactory-co-founder-gedeon-maheux-talks-accessibility-on-twitter-the-blow-of-losing-twitterrific-in-new-interview/?sh=43b0cc8a7943)
‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry (https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2023/01/19/ep-367)
Mastodon in (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) two (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs) files (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyB7AFsQoJs)
Netflix
Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix, (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/ted-sarandos-greg-peters-co-ceos-netflix)
The Netflix Tech Blog (https://netflixtechblog.com)
What we want to see at DevOpsDays
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/)
Nonsense
‘Tron 3’ on Track at Disney With Jared Leto and ‘Maleficent 2’ Director Joachim Rønning (https://variety.com/2023/film/news/tron-3-jared-leto-joachim-ronning-1235495033)
It's been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/22/retro_metric_imperial/)
Airlines squeeze rewards programs (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/21/travel-credit-cards-loyalty-program-perks-changes)
Salesforce, but for dating (https://dateforce.app/)
Conferences
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent
State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
DevOpsDays Austin 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-austin/welcome/), May 4-5
SDT news & hype
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Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842)
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Psychology-of-Money-Audiobook/B08D9TXF3H)
Ideas That Changed My Life (https://collabfund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/)
Follow Brandon on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@bwhichard)
JJ:
For All Mankind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_TV_series)
Follow JJ on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@[email protected])
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/Kx3o6_m1Yv8)
CoverArt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(TV_series)) Special Guest: JJ Asghar.
1/27/2023 • 1 hour, 56 seconds
Episode 397: Mark as Unread
This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne….
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 397 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLEanhxRwIM)
Runner-up Titles
I want to vest
Call the middle
I just didn’t have money
XLT, that’s not a thing
Yeah, I’m down for whatever
Coté’s Culture Corner.
Brandon’s Halo Hatrack.
Unlimited unpaid time off - let’s just call it “untracked PTO.”
If you have unlimited PTO, you can’t have quiet quitting.
YOLO workers’ rights
Rundown
DHH from 37signals shows the numbers
Our cloud spend in 2022 (https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022/) - highlighted from Coté’s newsletter (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/bottleneck-of-worry)
They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity (https://world.hey.com/dhh/they-re-rebuilding-the-death-star-of-complexity-4fb5d08d)
Work Life
Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23550470/microsoft-employees-unlimited-time-off-2023) (those that are left (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/18/23560315/microsoft-job-cuts-layoffs-2023-tech))
Corey’s Take (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1613258939621335040?s=12&t=jzcCYzgaielci5jNtA9nJA)
Relevant to your Interests
CNCF Accepts Kubescape as Inaugural Open Source Security Scanner (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/interview/cncf-accepts-kubescape-as-inaugural-open-source-security-scanner/2023/01/)
SailPoint acquires identity solutions startup SecZetta (https://siliconangle.com/2023/01/12/sailpoint-acquires-identity-solutions-startup-seczetta/)
Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/apple-working-on-adding-touch-screens-to-macs-in-major-turnabout)
Google Cloud’s Top U.S. Sales Execs Depart in Shakeup as Profits Remain Elusive (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-clouds-top-u-s-sales-execs-depart-in-shakeup-as-profits-remain-elusive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Twitter rival 'T2' raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high-profile angels (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/12/twitter-rival-t2-raises-its-first-outside-funding-1-1m-from-a-group-of-high-profile-angels/)
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/technology/microsoft-openai-chatgpt.html)
State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom (https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterverse/)
The Great Podcasting Market Correction (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/the-great-podcasting-market-correction)
Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts (https://www.businesspost.ie/news/stripe-clawed-back-pension-contributions-after-staff-cuts/)
Every Chick-fil-A restaurant is running Kubernetes (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1614683724146266114?s=46&t=GIFUEgf6YFIomCbFD0FuQA)
National Instruments Rises as Much as 19% on Plan to Explore Sale (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-13/national-instruments-rises-up-to-19-on-plan-to-explore-sale?srnd=deals#xj4y7vzkg)
FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system (https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/faa-computer-failure-grounded-thousands-flights-caused-2-contractors-introduced-data-errors-notam-system/)
The Airline Industry Meltdown Proves The Business Case For Digital Employee Experience (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-airline-industry-meltdown-proves-the-business-case-for-digital-employee-experience/)
Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/forrester-study-finds-228-percent-roi-when-modernizing-applications-on-azure-paas/)
Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909163)
U.S. embraces Ukraine's e-governance app (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c232a791-0715-4475-9240-551d79417fd9.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) with Ukraine.ua (https://ukraine.u)
Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs (https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/)
The Shit Show • furbo.org (https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/)
Extremely Hardcore (https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji)
Nonsense
Ring is releasing a new flying home cam to patrol your house (https://twitter.com/BoredElonMusk/status/1613393977134436354)
Every Cloud Architecture (https://www.goodtechthings.com/every-cloud-architecture/)
Museum of Obsolete Media (https://obsoletemedia.org/)
Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io/), Jan 24–26. Watch party in Amsterdam (https://www.meetup.com/dutch-spring-meetup/events/290846449/) (Jan 25th, 4:30pm), elsewhere.
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent
State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies) & Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)!
Use Discount Code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842) Atomic Habits (https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits) with Atomic Habits Resources (https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits/resources)
Also mentioned: What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health (https://hubermanlab.com/what-alcohol-does-to-your-body-brain-health/)
Matt: State of the World 2023 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/522/State-of-the-World-2023-Bruce-St-page01.html)
Coté: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/nBY_0e7EMns)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/5OUMf1Mr5pU)
1/20/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 396: Aloha to your strategy
This week we discuss digital transformation at Southwest and Delta Airlines, Shopify cancels all meetings, Salesforce’s M&A strategy, and A.I. is everywhere. Plus, thoughts on bike lanes…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 396 (https://youtu.be/tmm8rH9fZEE)
Runner-up Titles
Work trying to get on my personal calendar
Traveling with an infant
=BLACKSWAN(A1:G453)
Socks in a Costco
Can’t do the business case on savings until you loose it.
Pay transparency for you, not me
We don’t pay for things on the Internet
Semper Nimbus Privatus
Rundown
Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, (https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1611901297552396289)
Digital Transformation Travel Edition
Delta plans to offer free Wi-Fi starting Feb. 1 (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/05/delta-plans-to-offer-free-wi-fi-starting-feb-1.html)
The Southwest Airlines Meltdown (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/podcasts/the-daily/the-southwest-airlines-meltdown.html)
Southwest’s Meltdown Could Cost It Up to $825 Million (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/southwest-airlines-meltdown-costs-reimbursement.html)
Southwest pilots union writes scathing letter to airline executives after holiday travel fiasco (https://www.yahoo.com/now/southwest-pilots-union-writes-scathing-011720946.html)
Southwest makes frequent flyer miles offer while lots of luggage remains in limbo (https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/southwest-airlines-frequent-flyer-miles-meltdown/index.html)
Point of Sale: Scan and Pay (https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1602843962602975233?s=20&t=YdGNYzReSf4r1twJ1hRfbA)
Work Life
Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-03/shopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-tells-employees-to-just-say-no-to-meetings)
Netflix Revokes Some Staff’s Access to Other People’s Salary Information (https://apple.news/A--bGmZgJTQCgHQ-9QdWu4w)
U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/business/economy/ftc-noncompete.html)
Gartner HR expert: Quiet hiring will dominate U.S. workplaces in 2023 (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/gartner-hr-expert-quiet-hiring-will-dominate-us-workplaces-in-2023.html)
Netflix revokes some staff’s access to other people’s salary information (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-revokes-some-staffs-access-to-other-peoples-salary-information-11673384493)
SFDC
Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut (https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/10/salesforce_comment/)
Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/business/salesforce-layoffs.html)
After layoffs, Salesforce CEO still blasts worker productivi (https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/salesforce-ceo-blasts-worker-productivity-17708474.php)ty (https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/salesforce-ceo-blasts-worker-productivity-17708474.php)
AI is everywhere
Google execs warn company's reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/google-execs-warn-of-reputational-risk-with-chatgbt-like-tool.html)
Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-working-on-chatgpt-powered-bing-in-challenge-to-google?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Microsoft eyes $10 billion bet on ChatGPT (https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2023/microsoft-eyes-10-billion-bet-on-chatgpt)
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT (https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-the-way-to-bring-computational-knowledge-superpowers-to-chatgpt/)
Relevant to your Interests
2023 Bum Steer of the Year: Austin (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/2023-bum-steer-of-year-austin/)
Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/technology/twitter-rivals-alternative-platforms.html)
On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/12/13/org-structure-devx/)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 Transparency Report | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/reports/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2022-transparency-report/)
Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup (https://www.vox.com/recode/23507236/inside-disruption-rebellion-defense-washington-connected-military-tech-startup)
Elon Musk Starts Week As World’s Second Richest Person (https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/12/12/elon-musk-starts-week-as-worlds-second-richest-person/)
10 Tesla Investors Lose $132.5 Billion From Musk's Twitter Fiasco (https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/tesla-stock-investors-lose-132-5-billion-from-musks-twitter-fiasco/)
Rackspace's ransomware messaging dilemma (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-83146574-380f-4e37-965d-7fd79bce7278.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/heads-up-amazon-s3-security-changes-are-coming-in-april-of-2023/)
A MultiCloud Rant (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/a_multicloud_rant/)
Great visualization of the revenue breakdown of the 4 largest tech companies. (https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1603012861017862144?s=20&t=HC2UuMCHBB408xae6tZpbQ)
AG Paxton’s Google Suit Makes the Perfect the Enemy of the Good (https://truthonthemarket.com/2022/12/14/ag-paxtons-google-suit-makes-the-perfect-the-enemy-of-the-good/)
AWS simplifies Simple Storage Service to prevent data leaks (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/14/aws_simple_storage_service_simplified/)
Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation (https://venturebeat.com/virtual/creating-the-ultimate-smart-map-with-new-map-data-initiative-launched-by-linux-foundation/)
Spotify's grand plan to monetize developers via its open source Backstage project (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/spotifys-plan-to-monetize-its-open-source-backstage-developer-project/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlua2VkaW4uY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAlyOmdhogtX6nuQkNHQ7mVSyci6aMv7X6QwRTvS9PHGJmjO_wjCqsJXXPKI36A9MkIclSIQoHQ_dz7wJ-WzfaYQT_clMcUijiC28ZQhEau4NOcU-70wy5m0Q9LLmtvWuQbWQQEccEbQH2Lvg4_GqfnQBYNPZWRcgpx7XMLas_2R)
VMware offers subs for server consolidation vSphere cut (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/15/vsphere_plus_standard/)
Senior execs to leave VMware before acquisition by Broadcom (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2022/12/13/three-senior-execs-to-leave-vmware.html#:~:text=Mark%20Lohmeyer%2C%20who%20heads%20cloud,Raghuram%20announced%20in%20a%20memo)
China Bans Exports of Loongson CPUs to Russia, Other Countries: Report (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-bans-exports-of-its-loongson-cpus-to-russia-other-countries)
Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/16/dropbox-buys-form-management-platform-formswift-for-95m-in-cash/)
Sweep, a no-code config tool for Salesforce software, raises $28M (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/sweep-a-no-code-config-tool-for-salesforce-software-raises-28m/)
Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign (https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/)
Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oktas-source-code-stolen-after-github-repositories-hacked/)
Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/workday_co_ceo/)
Top Paying Tools (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04EK1VBK/p1671635825838769)
Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies (https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-air-quest-to-seize-the-skies/)
CIS Benchmark Framework Scanning Tools Comparison (https://www.armosec.io/blog/cis-kubernetes-benchmark-framework-scanning-tools-comparison/)
MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/)
OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/openai-releases-point-e-an-ai-that-generates-3d-models/)
No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods (https://www.wired.com/story/email-scam-dicks-sporting-goods-yeti-cooler/)
The Lastpass hack was worse than the company first reported (https://www.engadget.com/the-lastpass-hack-was-worse-than-the-company-first-reported-000501559.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab)
IRS delays tax reporting change for 1099-K on Venmo, Paypal business payments (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/23/irs-delays-tax-reporting-change-for-1099-k-on-venmo-paypal-payments.html)
Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief (https://www.ft.com/content/63ea94fa-c6fc-449f-b2b8-ea29cc83637d)
Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/technology/google-job-cuts.html)
IBM beat all its large-cap tech peers in 2022 as investors shunned growth for safety (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/27/ibm-stock-outperformed-technology-sector-in-2022.html)
Europe Taps Tech’s Power-Hungry Data Centers to Heat Homes (https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-taps-techs-power-hungry-data-centers-to-heat-homes-11672309944?mod=djemalertNEWS)
List of defunct social networking services (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services)
2023 Predictions | No Mercy / No Malice (https://www.profgalloway.com/2023-predictions/)
Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-rival-mastodon-rejects-funding-to-preserve-nonprofit-status/)
TSMC Starts Next-Gen Mass Production as World Fights Over Chips (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-29/tsmc-mass-produces-next-gen-chips-to-safeguard-global-lead)
Microsoft and FTC pre-trial hearing set for January 3rd (https://www.engadget.com/pre-trial-hearing-between-microsoft-and-ftc-set-for-january-3rd-203320387.html)
The infrastructure behind ATMs (https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-infrastructure-behind-atms/)
Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/03/apple-is-increasing-battery-replacement-service-charges-for-out-of-warranty-devices/)
Snowflake's business and how the weakening economy is impacting cloud vendors (https://twitter.com/LiebermanAustin/status/1607376944873754626)
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards (https://shifthappens.site/)
Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/05/amazon-layoffs-18000-jobs)
CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI (https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/)
Video game workers form Microsoft’s first U.S. labor union (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/video-game-workers-form-microsofts-first-us-labor-union-rcna64103)
World's Premier Investors Line Up to Partner with Netskope as the SASE Security and Networking Platform of Choice (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/worlds-premier-investors-line-up-to-partner-with-netskope-as-the-sase-security-and-networking-platform-of-choice-301712417.html)
omg.lol - A lovable web page and email address, just for you (https://home.omg.lol/)
Alphabet led a $100 million funding of Chronosphere, a startup that helps companies monitor and cut cloud bills. (https://twitter.com/theinformation/status/1611165698868367360)
Confluent expands Kafka Streams capabilities, acquires Apache Flink vendor (https://venturebeat.com/enterprise-analytics/confluent-acquires-apache-flink-vendor-immerok-to-expand-data-stream-processing/)
Excel & Google Sheets AI Formula Generator - Excelformulabot.com (https://excelformulabot.com/)
Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability? (https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/has-the-internet-reached-peak-clickability)
Adobe’s CEO Sizes Up the State of Tech Now (https://www.wsj.com/articles/adobes-ceo-sizes-up-the-state-of-tech-now-11673151167?mod=djemalertNEWS)
Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info (https://jalopnik.com/researchers-hacked-californias-digital-license-plates-1849966295)
Microsoft's New AI Can Simulate Anyone's Voice With 3 Seconds of Audio (https://slashdot.org/story/23/01/10/0749241/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter)
Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/observability-platform-chronosphere-raises-another-115m-at-a-1-6b-valuation/)
Why IBM is no longer interested in breaking patent records–and how it plans to measure innovation in the age of open source and quantum computing (https://fortune.com/2023/01/06/ibm-patent-record-how-to-measure-innovation-open-source-quantum-computing-tech/)
New research aims to analyze how widespread COBOL is (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/14/cobol_research/)
Companies are still waiting for their cloud ROI (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3675374/companies-are-still-waiting-for-their-cloud-roi.html)
What TNS Readers Want in 2023: More DevOps, API Coverage (https://thenewstack.io/what-tns-readers-want-in-2023-more-devops-api-coverage/)
Tech Debt Yo-Yo Cycle. (https://twitter.com/wardleymaps/status/1605860426671177728)
How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared (https://scribe.rip/@maximetopolov/how-a-single-developer-dropped-aws-costs-by-90-then-disappeared-2b46a115103a)
A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/01/11/a-look-at-the-2022-velocity-of-cncf-linux-foundation-and-top-30-open-source-projects/)
The golden age of the streaming wars has ended (https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/14/23507793/streaming-wars-hbo-max-netflix-ads-residuals-warrior-nun)
YouTube exec says NFL Sunday Ticket will have multiscreen functionality (https://awfulannouncing.com/youtube/nfl-sunday-ticket-multiscreen-mosaic-mode.html)
(https://twitter.com/theinformation/status/1611165698868367360)## Nonsense
The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home (https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/19/23510864/kohler-numi-smart-toilet-alexa-ces-2022)
Starbucks updating its loyalty program starting in February (https://www.axios.com/2022/12/28/starbucks-rewards-program-changes-coming)
The revenue model of a popular YouTube channel about Lego. (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/SDT-396--BwhY9F5kpz_BI2kkdw63ZpJ~Ag-MVMKwqqBEH5SzYKqYO2Jc)
Conferences
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/), Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th
Use code SDT for 5% off
SpringOne (https://springone.io/), Jan 24–26.
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, Ghent.
State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Recommendations
Brandon: Industrial Garage Shelves (https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-5-Tier-Industrial-Duty-Steel-Freestanding-Garage-Storage-Shelving-Unit-in-Black-90-in-W-x-90-in-H-x-24-in-D-N2W902490W5B/319132842)
Matt: Oxide and Friends: Breaking it down with Ian Brown (https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1150480)
Wu Tang Saga (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9113406/) Season 3 coming next month!
Coté: Mouth to Mouth (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58438631-mouth-to-mouth) by Antoine Wilson (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58438631-mouth-to-mouth).
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/euaDCtB_jyw)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/9xdho4stJQ8)
1/13/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 395: Should you start a podcast?
This week Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely cohost of the The Cloudcast and they discuss starting a podcast. They cover the Who, What, Why and How of launching a podcast and recommend podcast recording gear, editing software and hosting services.
Rundown
The Cloudcast and SDT origin stories
Who should start a podcast?
Why you should or should not start a podcast?
What should your podcast be about?
Podcast gear, software and hosting
Links
Record Podcasts with Audio Hijack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGyRbS5fyBU)
SDT Podcast Gear Recommendations (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_FyZEY4-2rzcYDjxZrgpKXnKvKeirNB9B4jr5Tm_46M/edit#)
Cloudcast Podcast Suggestions (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fjXNhZLmweTbl2X9KomJmxhwzc7IDz8i1pkvPRlXu5o/edit?usp=sharing)
Cloudcast Sample Podcast Show Notes (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pTyxrlt11phyx6Gp_7k3DvK5cZDnOpO9t6cIPahmDts/edit?usp=sharing)
Podcasting 101 via Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com/how-to-make-a-podcast)
Podcasting Microphones (https://www.thepodcasthost.com/equipment/the-best-podcasting-microphones-on-the-market/)
Voice over Marketplace (https://www.fiverr.com/categories/music-audio/voice-overs)
Royalty Free Music (https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/2)
Purchase Music Site (https://www.premiumbeat.com)
Subscribe to The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net)
Follow @bgracely (https://twitter.com/bgracely) and @thecloudcast (https://twitter.com/thecloudcastnet) on Twitter
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
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Special Guest: Brian Gracely.
1/6/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 394: 2022 Year in Review
This week we revisit the major cloud news and tech trends of 2022. Topics include: hyperscaler growth, remote work, missed opportunities and what were watching in 2023. Plus, we buy or sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter and Cloud Repatriation/FinOps.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 394 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7N-aGJUM1Y)
Runner-up Titles
Software Defined Talk is Going Hardcore
The Old Dr. Skateboard
What a World (https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechthewizardofozwitchmelt.html)
The Pile-On Lifestyle
A little more in booth directions
Cloud Bucket
We’ve done all the stuff
Predictions and Hopes and Dreams
Working from home is over like COVID is over
It fell down the Chasm of Nonsense
Bring in the Big Monkeys
Rundown
What were the major Cloud/Hyperscaler stories?
Has the economic downturn killed WFH? and Remote Work
Buy or Sell: Serverless, Blockchain, Crypto, Twitter, Cloud Repatriation
What are we watching this year?
What were the biggest missed opportunities?
Best Digital Transformation Success of 2023
Conferences
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/), Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th
Use code SDT for 5% off
State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3OJPV6h9tp-hbsGBLGsDQ/featured).
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Echo 3 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjxkfuErP77AhUinWoFHXUeAR0QFnoECC4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftv.apple.com%2Fus%2Fshow%2Fecho-3%2Fumc.cmc.mzqa5sj4m2i80g51cgu04i3j&usg=AOvVaw32mM5QflNs76__4SV1TiRh)
Matt: Triple Trail Challenge 2023 (https://jabulanichallenge.com.au/event-info/triple-trail-challenge/)
Coté: Apple’s new app, Freeform (https://www.macstories.net/reviews/freeform-leverages-the-freedom-and-flexibility-of-a-blank-canvas/) - a little beta-ish (typical Apple 1.0), but worth checking out.
Photo Credits
Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/co_1uAT4oss)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/LRnIZoco__8)
12/30/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 393: 10 Years of Project Sputnik, with Barton George
Ten years ago Dell launched the developer laptop, shipping a Linux desktop of their best gear. In this episode, Coté talks with Barton George who's lead the project about Project Sputnik (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-plus-developer-edition/spd/xps-13-9320-laptop/ctox13w11p1c4001u), lessons learned about innovating in large companies, and compressed air can sponsorships.
Links mentioned:
- Check out Barton's overview of the most recent Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition (https://www.dell.com/community/Developer-Blogs/Dell-XPS-13-Plus-developer-edition-with-Ubuntu-22-04-LTS-pre/ba-p/8255332), and the laptop itself (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-plus-developer-edition/spd/xps-13-9320-laptop/ctox13w11p1c4001u) and other Linux on Dell machine (https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems).
- Also, Barton mentions the new Dell Developer site (https://developer.dell.com), which you can see here (https://developer.dell.com).
- Dell Linux Workstations, Laptops, and Desktops (https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/linux-systems) - In addition to XPS 13 and Precision developer systems, this also features the Linux-enabled Latitude and Optiplex lines. Latitude and Optiplex are part of the broader Dell Linux portfolio which is made up of over 100 systems.
- Dell's Sputnik - Git what you want (http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/07/dells-sputnik-git-what-you-want.html), 2021.
- Project Sputnik --_ Cote interviews Barton_ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ddV4Qim_k), May 7, 2012.
- Sputnik Developer Laptop Overview (Barton George) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7o6CLtggXg), July 19, 2012.
- Barton George interviewed at OSCON 2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcBMC7htQno), July 19, 2012
- “Precise Pangolin (https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04/)” - was code name for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which the first XPS 13 developer edition launched with)
- Names of months (https://www.almanac.com/content/how-did-months-get-their-names)
This interview was done on December 12th, 2022. Special Guest: Barton George.
12/23/2022 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 392: Success is going to Day 2
This week we discuss the Pentagon’s new C loud Contract, Day 2 at Amazon and Nutanix acquisition rumors. Plus, some thoughts on kids and headphones…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 392 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KAB_eacdc)
Runner-up Titles
We’re always recording, Coté, we’re not always streaming.
I live the middle.
Best 10 microphones to put in a drawer and never use.
The lanyard is a child-management platform
“That’s great, Brandon…”
Finally DNS does something good
Amazon is a dog now
But then what?
N equals me
Rundown
Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft awarded $9 billion Pentagon cloud deals (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/google-oracle-amazon-and-microsoft-awarded-9-billion-pentagon-cloud-deals.html)
Amazon CEO, Putting Stamp on Company, Promotes Four Executives (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-07/amazon-ceo-putting-stamp-on-company-promotes-four-executives)
Amazon's heroic phase is over (https://amazonchronicles.ghost.io/amazons-heroic-phase/)
A Faster Horse (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/12/09/faster-horse/)
Layoffs, buyouts, and rescinded offers: Amazon’s status as a top tech employer (https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/8/23498824/amazon-layoffs-voluntary-buyouts-rescinded-offers-reputation)
Report: HPE has expressed interest in acquiring Nutanix (https://siliconangle.com/2022/12/01/report-hpe-expressed-interest-acquiring-nutanix/)
Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami Talks Broadcom, VMware, And His Vision (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/nutanix-ceo-rajiv-ramaswami-talks-broadcom-vmware-and-his-vision-to-help-partners-drive-business)
Relevant to your Interests
What if failure is the plan? (http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2022/12/05/what-if-failure-is-the-plan.html)
Tensions Grew at Salesforce Between Co-CEOs Benioff and Taylor (https://www.wsj.com/articles/tensions-grew-at-salesforce-between-co-ceos-benioff-and-taylor-ahead-of-leadership-change-11670447233?mod=djemalertNEWS)
Apple advances user security with powerful new data protections (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-advances-user-security-with-powerful-new-data-protections/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days. (https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1600854935515844610)
A good discussion on ChatGPT from Benedict Evans (https://another-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/chatgpt)
OpenAI ChatGPT is now an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner! (https://twitter.com/StephaneMaarek/status/1600864604220964871)
Airtable, last valued at $11 billion for its no-code software, lays off over 250 (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/airtable-layoffs/)
Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer | The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/2022-12-08-hello-from-githubs-new-chief-product-officer/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
As Carvana crashes hard, used car dealers — not buyers — stand to win big (https://www.businessinsider.com/used-vehicle-retailer-carvana-bankruptcy-car-buyers-inventory-2022-12)
Amazon Wants to Kill the Barcode (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/amazon-wants-to-kill-the-barcode/)
RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/rip-passwords-passkey-support-rolls-out-to-chrome-stable/)
An Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures (https://amer.resources.awscloud.com/modern-applications/aws-modernization-intro-to-eda-guide-2022)
Broadcom braced for full EU probe into $61B VMware buyout (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/12/broadcom_braced_for_eu_investigation/)
AWS Events (https://www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsChannel/playlists)
Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/ngrok-a-service-to-help-devs-deploy-sites-services-and-apps-raises-50m/)
The death of Rackspace's ‘Fanatical Support’ (https://sanantonioreport.org/the-death-of-rackspaces-fanatical-support/)
News aggregator Flipboard to add user-generated "conversations" (https://www.axios.com/2022/12/13/flipboard-user-conversations-feature)
Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/12/snyk-scores-another-196m-as-valuation-drops-12-to-7-4b-valuation/)
Japan to Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports to China (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-12/japan-is-said-to-join-us-effort-to-tighten-chip-exports-to-china)
LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership (https://news.microsoft.com/2022/12/11/lseg-and-microsoft-launch-10-year-strategic-partnership-for-next-generation-data-and-analytics-and-cloud-infrastructure-solutions-microsoft-to-make-equity-investment-in-lseg-through-acquisition-of-sh/)
Oracle beats on top and bottom lines (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/oracle-orcl-earnings-q2-2023.html)
How Slack’s Marriage to Salesforce Crumbled (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-slacks-marriage-to-salesforce-crumbled)
Nonsense
Dr Pepper Unveils Limited-Edition Bourbon Flavored Fansville Reserve (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dr-pepper-unveils-limited-edition-bourbon-flavored-fansville-reserve-in-time-for-your-next-tailgate-301649645.html)
Hertz Car-Rental Company to Pay $168 Million over False Arrests (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42188437/hertz-rental-cars-false-arrest-settlements/)
Conferences
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/), Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th
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State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
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Recommendations
Brandon: Wednesday (https://www.netflix.com/title/81231974) **on Netflix
AirPods case with AirTag Holder (https://www.amazon.com/AirPods-Tecogue-Integrated-Silicone-Protective/dp/B09CQ1L6QW/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=airpod%2Bcase%2Bwith%2Bairtag%2Bholder&qid=1670965514&sprefix=airpod%2Bcase%2Bwith%2B%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-3&th=1)
Matt: RIP Mike Leach (https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1602676510254682113)
Swing your Sword (https://www.amazon.com/Swing-Your-Sword-Leading-Football/dp/1938120124) via Brandon
Coté: Fishman’s Friend (https://fishermansfriend.com/), which I should have some of in this episode. Substack (https://newsletter.cote.io).
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Movie (https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/curious-george-a-very-monkey-christmas).
Photo Credits
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12/16/2022 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 391: Anton Grishko on managing Cloud Costs with FinOps
Brandon is joined by Anton Grishko, Chief Architect at ProfiSea Labs and they discuss DevOps adoption and the rise of FinOps. Plus, Anton offers practical tips on implementing FinOps and reducing your cloud spend.
Show Links
ProfiSea Labs (https://profisealabs.com/)
Anton’s Blog (https://medium.com/@antongrishko)
Contact Anton
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/antongrishko/)
Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Special Guest: Anton Grishko.
12/13/2022 • 50 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 390: It’s just a bunch of programming
This week we discuss Werner’s AWS Keynote, Event-Based Architectures and the potential of ChatGPT. Plus, some thoughts on International Condiments.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 390 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRy69wGMROM)
Runner-up Titles
It’s never stopped us before.
Ranch dressing divine/Before the Big Bang, it was/Eternal condiment
Three kinds of mayonnaise
An aspirational architectural pattern.
There’s not a lot of architectural thought out there.
I don’t have a computer science degree.
Mid-Code
It’s just a bunch of programming, how hard could it be?
Is it a utopian Wall-E or not?
Rundown
AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfvL_423a-I)
Amazon announces Eventbridge Pipes, a simpler way to connect events (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/amazon-announces-eventbridge-pipes-a-simpler-way-to-connect-events-from-multiple-services/)
Design Patterns (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201633612/) book
ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/)
ChatGPT will replace StackOverflow? (https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1599655544486187009)
Automating bullshit - OpenAI ChatGPT removes office worker toil (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/automating-bullshit-openai-chatgpt-removes-office/)
Coté doesn’t need to write those survey analysis blogs anymore (https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/w2tNHzzV7DXsz63ZWQfKGpD4?model=text-davinci-003).
Relevant to your Interests
Elastic Earnings (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1598068640137428992?s=46&t=eFF6wBlhOCFaLPPQf7nSLQ)
Snowflake Earnings (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1598348082839977984?s=20&t=3ZTOl6JnPJu8vtcP7YUC4Q)
IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/30/ibm-and-maersk-abandon-ship-on-tradelens-logistics-blockchain/)
OpenStack cloud sees explosive growth (https://www.zdnet.com/article/openstack-cloud-sees-explosive-growth/)
Amazon EC2 Instance Types - Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/?trk=3478554f-e06b-44d5-8171-41d0ea80c8c9&sc_channel=ps&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!544066093425!p!!g!!graviton%20processor&ef_id=Cj0KCQiAvqGcBhCJARIsAFQ5ke48NKL5fH2ETDPdMavKJxSfxS6luQdG2ZGGW51UzVtV8ev8GSxc2ucaAqoCEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!544066093425!p!!g!!graviton%20processor)
HYPR, the Leader in Phishing-Resistant MFA, Raises $25M (https://blog.hypr.com/press-releases/hypr-the-leader-in-phishing-resistant-mfa-raises-25m?_ga=2.20718968.1905140386.1669908801-1738015730.1669908801)
Future is quietly shutting down (https://twitter.com/robaeprice/status/1598393044503502860)
Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down (https://www.businessinsider.com/a16z-future-closes-staff-exit-2022-11?international=true&r=US&IR=T)
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/aws-launches-application-composer-a-low-code-tool-for-building-serverless-apps/)
No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff) (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/no-one-seemed-to-see-bret-taylor-stepping-away-from-salesforce-even-marc-benioff/)
Major password manager LastPass suffered a breach — again (https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140076375/major-password-manager-lastpass-suffered-a-breach-again)
Here's everything AWS announced in its re:Invent data keynote (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/heres-everything-aws-announced-today/)
Cloudflare hikes prices by a quarter (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/01/cloudflare_price_rises_annual_exemptions/)
Twitter lawsuit (https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983)
the only cheat sheet you need (https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh)
Google Plans to Lay Off 10,000 'Poor Performing' Employees. Why That's a Big Lie, According to Harvard Professor (https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/googles-plan-to-lay-off-10000-poor-performing-employees-is-based-on-a-big-lie-according-toharvard-professor.html)
Broadcom again tries to quash VMware price rise rumors (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/01/vmware_broadcom_prices_nutanix_q123/)
Rackspace email outage continues as migrations prove hard (https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/05/rackspace_hosted_exchange_security_update/)
If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/05/rowy-pre-seed/)
Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/06/axiom-launches-its-automated-identity-and-access-management-platform/)
The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set (https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-e-mail-newsletter-for-the-mogul-set)
The EU hosted a 24-hour party in its $400,000 metaverse to appeal to young people, but pretty much no one showed up (https://www.businessinsider.com/eu-hosts-400000-metaverse-party-barely-anyone-shows-up-2022-12)
mIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased its software 10 years out (https://www.pocnetwork.net/internet-news/mirc-ended-its-lifetime-license-agreement-with-all-who-purchased-its-software-10-years-out/)
Security compliance and automation platform Drata nabs $200M at $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/security-compliance-and-automation-platform-drata-nabs-200m-at-2b-valuation/)
9 insights on real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/)
Bret Taylor to step down as Salesforce co-CEO (https://www.axios.com/2022/11/30/bret-taylor-salesforce-ceo-step-down?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/tableau-software-ceo-mark-nelson-steps-down/)
Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January (https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/05/report-slack-ceo-stewart-butterfield-stepping-down-in-january/)
Microsoft Teams adds free communities feature to take on Facebook and Discord (https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/7/23497938/microsoft-teams-communities-feature)
Nonsense
Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/2022)
The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck (https://qz.com/work/1225213/the-difference-between-a-snafu-a-shitshow-and-a-clusterfuck/)
Dangerously Advanced Git (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1598382103829544961?s=20&t=3ZTOl6JnPJu8vtcP7YUC4Q)
Conferences
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/), Round Rock, TX Jan 15th-18th
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New State of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
Listener Feedback
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Brandon: Large Mouse Pad (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0788LMLZL?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details)
Matt: Ze Frank’s True Facts: Tarantulas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhJYtmZuhV4)
Sriracha History (https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmj4ae/the-story-of-sriracha-is-the-story-of-america)
Coté: CleanShot X (https://cleanshot.com/)
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12/9/2022 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 389: The Miscellaneous Keynote
This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and discuss application vendors mandating use of specific Kubernetes distros. Plus, some thoughts on dog boarding…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 389 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8L0QEIMvOs)
Runner-up Titles
Everyone gets a Graviton Instance
What a Boring re:Invent
Part of our brand
17 Days in the Hole
Under the Stars, Under the Sea
Tighten it up
Don’t make me pay for security
Secure by default
That’s a great message and I don’t believe it
Works with Lambda
Security, it keeps getting better?
Rundown
AWS re:Invent
What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News - 2022 Archive (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/?whats-new-content-all.sort-by=item.additionalFields.postDateTime&whats-new-content-all.sort-order=desc&awsf.whats-new-analytics=*all&awsf.whats-new-app-integration=*all&awsf.whats-new-arvr=*all&awsf.whats-new-blockchain=*all&awsf.whats-new-business-applications=*all&awsf.whats-new-cloud-financial-management=*all&awsf.whats-new-compute=*all&awsf.whats-new-containers=*all&awsf.whats-new-customer-enablement=*all&awsf.whats-new-customer%20engagement=*all&awsf.whats-new-database=*all&awsf.whats-new-developer-tools=*all&awsf.whats-new-end-user-computing=*all&awsf.whats-new-mobile=*all&awsf.whats-new-gametech=*all&awsf.whats-new-iot=*all&awsf.whats-new-machine-learning=*all&awsf.whats-new-management-governance=*all&awsf.whats-new-media-services=*all&awsf.whats-new-migration-transfer=*all&awsf.whats-new-networking-content-delivery=*all&awsf.whats-new-quantum-tech=*all&awsf.whats-new-robotics=*all&awsf.whats-new-satellite=*all&awsf.whats-new-security-id-compliance=*all&awsf.whats-new-serverless=*all&awsf.whats-new-storage=*all)
Compute
Amazon EC2 C7g instances – Compute –Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c7g/?sc_icampaign=aware_ec2-c7gn-instances_reinvent22&sc_ichannel=ha&sc_icontent=awssm-11814_aware_reinvent22&sc_iplace=ribbon&trk=1b39069e-86fc-466c-99c7-4ab2427ddb3a~ha_awssm-11814_aware_reinvent22)
Announcing Amazon EC2 M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn network optimized instances (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-ec2-m6in-m6idn-r6in-r6idn-network-optimized-instances/)
Announcing Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/announcing-amazon-ec2-hpc6id-instances/)
AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Amazon EKS and Kubernetes (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-nitro-enclaves-supports-amazoneks-kubernetes/)
Introducing Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/)
New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-accelerate-your-lambda-functions-with-lambda-snapstart/)
Data
Announcing Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-redshift-integration-apache-spark-amazon-emr/)
AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-announces-amazon-redshift-integration-apache-spark/)
AWS announces Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-aurora-zero-etl-integration-redshift/)
Serverless Open-Source Search Engine – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless (https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/features/serverless/)
Introducing AWS Glue 4.0 (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/introducing-aws-glue-4-0/)
Security
Introducing Amazon Security Lake (Preview) (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-security-lake-preview/)
AWS co-announces release of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-co-announces-release-of-the-open-cybersecurity-schema-framework-ocsf-project/)
Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/01/amazon-guardduty-elastic-kubernetes-service-clusters/)
Solutions
AWS CEO: The cloud isn’t just about technology (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/aws-adam-selipsky-cloud)
AWS Supply Chain (https://aws.amazon.com/aws-supply-chain/)
AWS Clean Room (https://aws.amazon.com/clean-rooms/)
Announcing AWS SimSpace Weaver (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-simspace-weaver-available/)
Amazon Connect announces Contact Lens agent performance evaluation forms (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-connect-contact-lens-agent-performance-evaluation-forms/)
Introducing Amazon Omics (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-omics-generally-available/)
Corey Quinn on re:Invent (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1597664998234345472)
Ask SDT — “using a "supported platform" list to drive cross sales.” (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1669255641385689) (SDT Slack)
Relevant to your Interests
SigmaOS raises $4 million to build a browser for productivity nerds (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/16/sigmaos-raises-4-million-to-build-a-browser-for-productivity-nerds/)
The Distributed Computing Manifesto (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon-1998-distributed-computing-manifesto.html)
Unpacking Musk's "hardcore" marching orders (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-3bf3c6e4-d8cd-492c-942d-c7f80719e66b.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/16/akeyless-secures-a-cash-infusion-to-help-companies-manage-their-passwords-certificates-and-keys/)
Vista passes halfway mark to $20bn target for latest flagship (https://www.privateequityinternational.com/vista-passes-halfway-mark-to-20bn-target-for-latest-flagship/)
1Password Will Support Passkeys Starting in Early 2023 (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/17/1password-passkeys-support-2023/)
Passkeys: the future of authentication in 1Password (https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/?utm_medium=sign-in-side-panel&utm_source=1password&utm_campaign=passkeys)
10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/10-000-google-employees-could-be-rated-as-low-performers)
Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html)
Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twitter-employees-resign-from-elon-musk-hardcore-deadline)
Security of Passkeys in the Google Password Manager (https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/SecurityofPasskeysintheGooglePasswordManager.html)
With $8.6M in seed funding, Nx wants to take monorepos mainstream (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/17/with-8-6m-in-seed-funding-nx-wants-to-take-monorepos-mainstream/)
Facebook parent Meta winding down some non-core hardware projects (https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-parent-meta-winding-down-some-non-core-hardware-projects-2022-11-11/)
OpenStack passes 40 million cores in production use (https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/18/openstack_thriving_survey/)
A note from CEO Andy Jassy about role eliminations (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/a-note-from-ceo-andy-jassy-about-role-eliminations)
Twitter is Going Great (https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/)
Building Kubernetes Applications with Acorn (https://acorn.io/building-kubernetes-applications-with-acorn/)
Platforms at Kubecon 2022 (https://blog.joshgav.com/posts/kubecon-platforms-review)
Zoom's looming squeeze (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-149ea16b-be11-451a-b4de-5a1e2f8f0ce7.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Sony’s VR headset-console integration could limit sales, but allow depth (https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2022/11/18/sony-s-vr-headset-console-integration-could-limit-sales-but-allow-depth?utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew&mid=f642abf4dca6751d0ec109d4cbc6782e)
The State of Kubernetes {Open-Source} Security | ARMO (https://www.armosec.io/blog/the-state-of-kubernetes-open-source-security/)
Considerations when implementing developer portals in regulated enterprise environments (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/considerations-when-implementing-developer-portals-regulated-enterprise-environments)
Broadcom's proposed $61B VMware acquisition scrutinized by UK regulators (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/broadcoms-proposed-61b-vmware-acquisition-scrutinized-by-uk-regulators/)
2023 may be the year of multicloud Kubernetes (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3679752/2023-may-be-the-year-of-multicloud-kubernetes.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Server-side WebAssembly prepares for takeoff in 2023 (https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252527414/Server-side-WebAssembly-prepares-for-takeoff-in-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Zoom shares drop on light forecast as company faces 'heightened deal scrutiny' (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/21/zoom-zm-earnings-q3-2023.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
What's coming for cloud computing in 2023 (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3680553/whats-coming-for-cloud-computing-in-2023.html)
The Rise of Platform Engineering - Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/02/13/setting-the-stage-for-platform-engineering/)
IBM sues Micro Focus, claims it copied mainframe software (https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/22/ibm_sues_micro_focus_for/)
How to beat the Kubernetes skills shortage (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3679749/how-to-beat-the-kubernetes-skills-shortage.html)
TikTok Couldn’t Ensure Accurate Responses To Government Inquiries, A ByteDance Risk Assessment Said (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/11/28/tiktok-inaccurate-government-inquiries-internal-bytedance-risk-assessment/?sh=7f57dc9723fe)
Exclusive: Sam Bankman-Fried says he's down to $100,000 (https://www.axios.com/2022/11/29/sam-bankman-fried-100000-ftx-cftc-regulation?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Why Big Tech is not rushing to clone Twitter (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-1cea6d1a-1428-448d-b0d3-5da3ae9425ef.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/)
I analyzed 290 booths at KubeCon - here are the DevOps trends for 2023 (https://www.uptime.build/post/i-analyzed-290-booths-at-kubecon-here-are-the-devops-trends-for-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Nonsense
Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.' (https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11)
Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63699884)
A 12,000 lb. metal sculpture of Elon Musk's head on a goat body riding a rocket parked outside Tesla HQ failed to elicit a response from the billionaire (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-head-on-goat-body-riding-a-rocket-sculpture-2022-11)
The leap second's time will be up in 2035—and tech companies are thrilled (https://www.popsci.com/technology/bipm-abandon-leap-second/)
Conferences
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL 2023 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2023-birmingham-al/welcome/), April 20 - 21, 2023
Listener Feedback
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Recommendations
Brandon: The Complete History & Strategy of Qualcomm (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/qualcomm)
Matt: Kishi Bashi This Must Be The Place (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslMHJFkIME)
Carma (https://carma.com.au) car purchase: referral code: REF22-872E
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12/2/2022 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 388: The Death of DevOps, with Andrew Clay Shafer
In case you haven't heard, DevOps is dead (https://twitter.com/sidpalas/status/1551936840453820417). Again. To discuss its demise, Coté talks with Andrew Clay Shafer. They talk about a lot more: Andrew's new company (https://www.ergonautic.ly), working with executives, sociotechnical systems, Andrew's recent SREcon talk in Amsterdam, and more.
You can also watch the live recording of this episoded, unedited (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lvec33N3o8)! It has a discussion of Coté's podcast making recommendations at the start.
Check out Andrew and friend's new company, Ergonautic (https://www.ergonautic.ly), and, find him in Twitter as @littleidea (https://twitter.com/littleidea). Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.
11/25/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 35 seconds
Episode 387: Trust and Incentives
This week we discuss the Gartner MQ for CIPS and all the happenings at Twitter. Plus, more thoughts on passwords and calendars.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 387 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvX2zhF26Kg)
Runner-up Titles
From Montessori to your Funeral
The Shit Pile of Enterprise Software
Software Expires
Bring in all the Kubernetes you can find
You’re in Some Kind of Password Genie Hell.
The salesperson at Gartner doesn’t want this report to go away
Going back to the Monolith
SRElon doesn’t do blameless postmortems
Mastodon as a Service at re:Invent
I am still betting on status quo outcome
Keep the Twitter off the phone
Bury me with my MP3 backup drives
Rundown
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-infrastructure-and-platform-services/)
Musk's Twitter chaos opens door to challengers (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-1a68726f-589a-432c-8ed5-aeb5ec089d64.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Rivals see opening in Twitter's chaos (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-d3f39e68-c8fd-468e-b6a3-f9148e7164d9.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Here’s Mastodon Sign Up Link (https://hachyderm.io/invite/58HjZptn)
Mastodon as an Open Source experience (https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1589534173928501248)
Trust Thermocline (https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904)
Twitter Blue Checks not exactly working out (https://twitter.com/joshuaphilll/status/1590696859869536256?s=46&t=24Ji5dek2N6OUQ-7nL5SiA)
CISO, Chief Privacy Officer & Chief Compliance Officer resign at same time (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning)
Inside the Twitter meltdown (https://www.platformer.news/p/inside-the-twitter-meltdown)
Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/)
Fake Eli Lilly Twitter account drop stock (https://twitter.com/RachelTobac/status/1591142813642940418)
'Killed It:' Elon Backtracks From 'Official' Twitter Badges Hours After Rollout (https://news.yahoo.com/killed-elon-backtracks-official-twitter-194000916.html)
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning)
Inside the Twitter meltdown (https://www.platformer.news/p/inside-the-twitter-meltdown)
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-09/amazon-hits-unwelcome-milestone-with-1-trillion-in-value-lost)
Gmail will no longer allow users to revert back to its old design (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/gmail-no-longer-allow-users-revert-back-old-design/)
Amazon is subjecting Alexa to a performance review (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451534/amazon-alexa-cost-cutting-review-andy-jassy)
Amazon aims to inject new life into Alexa with release of developer tools and features (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/21/amazon-aims-to-inject-new-life-into-alexa-with-huge-release-of-developer-tools-and-features/)
Tumblr will sell you two useless blue check marks for $8 (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451901/tumblr-blue-internet-checkmark-sale-twitter-verification-troll)
New in Docker Desktop 4.14: Greater Visibility Into Your Containers - Docker (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-4-14-greater-visibility/)
Does Kubernetes really give you multicloud portability? (https://medium.com/digital-mckinsey/does-kubernetes-really-give-you-multicloud-portability-476270a0acc7)
Report: The Evolution of DevOps | A Contrary Research Deep Dive (https://research.contrary.com/reports/evolution-of-devops)
Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html)
5 of the Best Kubernetes Training Courses for Beginners in 2022 (https://everythinghorseuk.co.uk/5-of-the-best-kubernetes-training-courses-for-beginners-in-2022/)
Zoom is coming for Microsoft’s territory with email and calendar services (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23447050/zoom-zmail-zcal-office-suite-launches)
Snowflake gets caught in the storm clouds (https://siliconangle.com/2022/11/10/snowflake-gets-caught-storm-clouds/)
AWS is 'not done building' as cloud computing matures (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/aws-adam-selipsky-cloud-reinvent)
Video editor Descript raises $50M in round led by OpenAI Startup Fund (https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2022/11/15/descript-openai-funding-video-editor)
MotherDuck: Hello, World! Quack. Quack. (https://prod.motherduck.com/blog/hello-world/)
Tech Layo (https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1592214346289274880)ffs (https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1592214346289274880)
The nefarious new way companies are discriminating against remote workers (https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-bosses-discriminating-against-remote-workers-time-zone-prejudice-bias-2022-11?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Insider%20Today%2C%20November%2016%2C%202022&utm_content=B&utm_term=INSIDER%20TODAY%20SEND%20LIST)
Angry Taylor Swift fans rail about Ticketmaster glitches (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/15/taylor-swift-ticketmaster/)
Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/business/ftx-bankruptcy.html)
Who Will Cisco Buy? Sources Say a Big Deal is Near (https://www.futuriom.com/articles/news/who-will-cisco-buy-sources-say-a-big-deal-is-near/2022/11)
Nonsense
Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5vm/colorado-votes-to-decriminalize-shrooms-and-other-psychedelics)
Conferences
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Listener Feedback
Overcast (https://overcast.fm) was recommend in the SDT Slack as a replacement for Apple Podcasts
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Recommendations
Brandon: The White Lotus (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus) Season 2
Matt: TweetBot (https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/mac/) macOS
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11/18/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 52 seconds
Episode 386: I’ve been to VMware Media Training
This week we recap VMware Explore Europe and discuss the Battery Ventures 2022 State of the OpenCloud report. Plus, some thoughts on cologne…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 386 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_WdZ1ORs4)
Runner-up Titles
I have conference voice.
I thought I had conference voice, but it’s COVID.
I painted a door.
Blue blazer to black t-shirt ratio.
The Java hyphen-hyphen capital X talk.
I’ve been to VMware Media Training.
Go to the Lenovo Booth.
iBanker Butt Sniffing.
The Sagrada Familia of iBanker Decks, except the summer interns finished it.
That’s like buying your steaks at Walmart.
Like I said, yesterday I painted a door.
Rundown
VMware Explore Europe (https://www.vmware.com/explore/eu.html)
State of the OpenCloud 2022 (https://www.battery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Battery-Ventures-OpenCloud-Report__2022.pdf)
Them interns are busyAF over there (https://hachyderm.io/web/@cote/109315205406946279).
Relevant to your Interests
DevOps company JFrog grows at a healthy clip but investors aren’t impressed (https://siliconangle.com/2022/11/02/devops-company-jfrog-grows-healthy-clip-investors-arent-impressed/)
The future of writing software happens in Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/future-of-software-cdes)
Markets Weekend: Moneyball (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-markets-ed2b997f-75a7-4d51-b357-9204b2eded00.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Kyndryl loses $281m as modernization agenda continues (https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/03/kyndryl_q2_fiscal_2023/)
Twilio’s stock crumbles on poor revenue guidance (https://siliconangle.com/2022/11/03/twilios-stock-crumbles-poor-revenue-guidance/)
Aboard: From clutter to clarity for you and your team. (https://aboard.io/)
Apple is now valued more than Alphabet, Amazon and Meta combined (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/apple-alphabet-amazon-meta-market-value-cap-trillion-big-tech-2022-11)
CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees (https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees)
1 big thing: Passkeys enter the mainstream (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-codebook-e54935ff-fc39-4aef-9529-a5468abc9129.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Nix (https://whynowtech.substack.com/p/nix)
Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back)
WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week (https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-is-preparing-to-notify-employees-of-large-scale-layoffs-this-week-11667767794?mod=e2tw)
Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion - sources (https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-infrastructure-costs-by-1-bln-sources-2022-11-03/)
Amazon EC2 Introduces Replace Root Volume to Patch Guest Operating System and Applications (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/11/ec2-replace-root-volume/)
EdgeDB raises $15M ahead of the launch of its cloud database service (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/edgedb-raises-15m-ahead-of-the-launch-of-its-cloud-database-service/)
Kindness, Tech Staffing and Resource Allocation (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2022/11/01/kindness-and-staffing/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Google and Meta Hiring Levels (https://twitter.com/eladgil/status/1589271330255699972)
Ionic + Outsystems: The Future of Enterprise App Development (https://ionic.io/blog/ionic-outsystems-the-future-of-enterprise-app-development?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=outsystems_2022)
New OSS Security Projects: cnquery and cnspec (https://blog.mondoo.com/cnquery-cnspec)
Apple Supposedly Dumping the 'Hey!' From Siri's Wake Phrase (https://gizmodo.com/apple-hey-siri-wake-trigger-change-google-amazon-alexa-1849753396)
Imploded Stocks of the Day: Carvana, Twilio, Atlassian, Cloudflare (https://wolfstreet.com/2022/11/06/imploded-stocks-of-the-day-carvana-twilio-atlassian-cloudflare/)
Twilio Stock: Absolute Disaster (NYSE:TWLO) (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4554174-twilio-absolute-disaster)
Twitter user growth is at “all-time highs” under Elon Musk (https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23445476/elon-musk-twitter-user-growth-all-time-high-advertisers)
Legacy’s Revenge: Oracle, SAP, IBM Market Caps Rise as Cloud Natives Fall (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/legacys-revenge-oracle-sap-ibm-market-caps-rise-as-cloud-natives-fall/)
Nonsense
Big announcement pre-re:Invent (if true) (https://twitter.com/aselipsky/status/1589645626769543168)
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
Conferences
All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference (https://www.alldaydevops.com/), Nov. 10th
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
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Recommendations
Brandon: The Vow, (https://www.hbo.com/the-vow) Season 2 (https://www.hbo.com/the-vow)
Matt: Good customer support
Fractal Design (https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-mini-c/black/)
Bare Creek Trail Run (https://barecreektrailrun.com.au/)
Coté: whatever version of “Wheelz of Steel” they have in Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/us/album/wheelz-of-steel/263570527?i=263570553) is so much more detailed. You can everything, like you’re in the room. There’s all sorts of asides and little comments that I’ve never heard before.
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11/11/2022 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 47 seconds
Episode 385: Armchair Strategist
This week we discuss Cloud Growth Rates, Corporate Security, Meta’s Strategy and Elon’s Twitter Takeover. Plus, some thoughts on bike locks and a parenting post mortem.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 385 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9ikhH8zqk)
Runner-up Titles
Cormac will give her a ride home
The Baby is asleep
Maybe she will get angry.
Lectures don’t work
See you on Mars, motherfucker!
You can have 1 piece of dog walk
It’s only stupid until it works.
Make big bets, but don’t tell anyone until you win.
Armchair strategists.
I forgot the Nokia thing, that was kind of a big deal.
How long have I been working
The CTA of Twitter
An exercise for the listener
Rundown
As overall cloud infrastructure market growth dips to 24%, AWS reports slowdown (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/28/as-overall-cloud-infrastructure-market-growth-dips-to-24-aws-reports-slowdown/)
Cloud Giants Update (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1585726177532030976?s=46&t=RXYniVQ-CK_8YOHAtvdakg)
Amazon's cloud business just recorded its weakest growth to date and missed analysts' estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/aws-earnings-q3-2022.html)
Meta
Meta Myths (https://stratechery.com/2022/meta-myths/)
Meta shares plummet on weak fourth-quarter forecast and earnings miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/26/facebook-parent-meta-earnings-q3-2022.html)
Meta shares dip is proof metaverse plan never really had legs (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/27/metas-shares-dip-is-proof-metaverse-plan-never-really-had-legs-facebook)
Jim Cramer cries and issues a public apology after being wrong about $META (https://twitter.com/watcherguru/status/1585684156188688384?s=46&t=RXYniVQ-CK_8YOHAtvdakg)
Maybe they’ve maxed out on TAM-by-user (https://stratechery.com/2022/meta-myths/)
Twitter
Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/elon-musk-completes-twitter-purchase-immediately-fires-ceo-and-other-execs/)
Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance (https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/28/elon-musks-first-move-is-to-fire-the-person-most-responsible-for-twitters-strong-free-speech-stance/)
Welcome to hell, Elon (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation)
Relevant to your Interests
Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/26/iphone-usb-c-lightning-connectors-apple-eu-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
Documentary Film “Inside Prometheus” Highlights Open Source Impact and the Innovators That Make it Happen (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221025005368/en/Documentary-Film-%E2%80%9CInside-Prometheus%E2%80%9D-Highlights-Open-Source-Impact-and-the-Innovators-That-Make-it-Happen)
Inside Prometheus: new film showcases the impact and the innovators (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/10/26/inside-prometheus-new-film-showcases-the-impact-and-the-innovators/)
What a combined Broadcom and VMware can deliver to our customers (https://www.broadcom.com/blog/what-a-combined-broadcom-and-vmware-can-deliver)
Microsoft (MSFT) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript @themotleyfool #stocks $MSFT (https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/10/25/microsoft-msft-q1-2023-earnings-call-transcript/)
Big Tech's ranks swelled last year (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-6533c5d1-774b-4ce2-9fdc-e2f2dfcfd5be.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Apple beats earnings during tech stock meltdown (https://www.axios.com/2022/10/27/apple-quarterly-earnings-ipad-iphone?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Everything we know so far about Jack Dorsey’s brand new app (https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-dorsey-bluesky-social-app-twitter-050005805.html)
List of KubeCon Sponsors (https://twitter.com/barton808/status/1586447169824980992?s=61&t=qyyTcr0wZ47P59cgdb_55g)
Was Jack Welch the Greatest C.E.O. of His Day—or the Worst? (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/was-jack-welch-the-greatest-ceo-of-his-day-or-the-worst)
Google reportedly spends $100 million on avatars to take on TikTok (https://www.androidpolice.com/google-acquires-alter-facemoji/)
DevOps de los Muertos (https://www.ergonautic.ly/blog/devops_de_los_muertos/)
Prepare Now for Critical Flaw in OpenSSL, Security Experts Warn (https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/prepare-critical-flaw-openssl-security-experts-warn)
Netflix is acquiring cozy game developer Spry Fox (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/31/23433526/netflix-spry-fox-cozy-gaming-studio-acquisition)
IBM to launch database-as-a-service version of Db2 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/ibm_db2_as_a_service/)
Singapore to phase out checks by 205 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/02/singapore_to_phase_out_checks/)
Cutting R&D to Grow GTM Spend (https://tomtunguz.com/cutting_rd_to_grow/)
1Password acquires Texas-based Passage to fuel push into passkeys (https://betakit.com/1password-acquires-texas-based-passage-to-fuel-push-into-passkeys/)
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
Nonsense
Wirecutter Recommendation (https://xkcd.com/2693/)
Tiny toiletries forever? The future of TSA, from liquids to shoes. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/11/01/tsa-liquids-rule-shoes-electronics/)
Conferences
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference (https://www.alldaydevops.com/), Nov. 10th
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th use code SDT for 5% off
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Southwest Airlines Lost and Found (https://www.southwest.com/help/day-of-travel/lost-and-found)
The Cloudcast: Reviewing KubeCon Detroit (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/11/reviewing-kubecon-detroit.html)
Coté: micro.blog (https://cote.micro.blog). Coté’s setup over there (https://micro.blog/cote) (for blogging too!). Also, you can still register (https://peakit.ro/event/peakit-005-day-2/) to see my legacy trap talk (https://peakit.ro/speaker/michael-cote/) tomorrow, maybe see the replay?
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11/4/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 384: KubeCon NA 2022 Recap
Matt reports in from Detroit with all the news at KubeCon NA 2022. Plus, some tips on proper etiquette when stretching on International Flights.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 384 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx9J2sHM6ic&t=4s)
Runner up titles
Detriot style pizza
I’m not doing high knees in the airplane bathroom
Masks were required
Not gonna get a lot of leads from your friendsd
Maybe we’re in the trough of disillusionment
We Didn’t Start the Fire for CNCF Projects
He has to eat the spreadsheet
Rundown
CNCF Wasm microsurvey (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/10/24/cncf-wasm-microsurvey-a-transformative-technology-yes-but-time-to-get-serious/)
Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/24/fermyon-cloud-app-webassembly-20m-funding-series-a/)
Docker launches a first preview of its WebAssembly tooling (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/24/docker-launches-a-first-preview-of-its-webassembly-support/)
WebAssembly Platform Company Cosmonic Raises $8.5 Million Seed Funding, Launches PaaS (https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2022/10/25/webassembly-platform-company-cosmonic-raises-85-million-seed-funding-launches-paas/)
WeRun313 (https://www.werun313.com/) Detroit Running Club
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Why we're excited about the Sigstore general availability (https://github.blog/2022-10-25-why-were-excited-about-the-sigstore-general-availability/)
Introducing Honeycomb Service Map (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/service-map-launch)
Documentary Film: Inside Prometheus (https://prometheusprojectdoc.com/)
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11/1/2022 • 47 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 383: My bag did not make the flight
This week we discuss Twitter’s workforce, DHH leaves the cloud and Tech Earnings. Plus, some thoughts on international travel.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 383 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7AKtJ-_h0)
Runner-up Titles
Serverless is the new OpenStack.
“I intended to read it.”
American Airline lounges are like bus terminals.
Made it to my hotel at 4 AM
Kubernetes is about the journey
That is your 3D chess
Let’s just crank up the VMs even higher.
Would you like to buy some YAML?
We’re gonna go with the ball pit money
DHH vs. Mr. Beast
Rundown
DHH
Why we're leaving the cloud (https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0)
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter? (https://world.hey.com/dhh/need-it-take-7-500-people-to-run-twitter-a8cb36a6)
Google Cloud Seeing ‘Significant’ VMware ‘Momentum’ (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-cloud-seeing-significant-vmware-momentum-gm/3)
Disruption for Doctors: the Rise of Selfcare — Joel Selanikio, MD (https://www.futurehealth.live/blog/2022/9/7/disruption-for-healthcare-practitioners-3)
Earnings
Microsoft beats but cloud growth comes in short (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q1-2023.html)
Alphabet misses on top and bottom lines as YouTube ad revenue drops in the quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/alphabet-googl-q3-2022-earnings-.html)
Relevant to your Interests
Clouded | Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud (2022) (https://consciouslyhybrid.com/watch.html#film)
Snap plunges more than 20% on third-quarter revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/snap-earnings-q3-2022.html)
US and Europe cloud prices to spike on back of inflation (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/20/public_cloud_price_rise/)
Are We Past Peak Newsletter? (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/business/media/newsletters-bubble.html)
IBM Consulting staff must work from office three days a week (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/ibm_consulting_three_day_week/)
Facebook shuttle bus drivers are losing their jobs as Meta slashes costs and employees stay home (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/facebook-shuttle-bus-drivers-face-layoffs-as-meta-slashes-costs-.html)
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/20/musk-twitter-acquisition-staff-cuts/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak (https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/microsoft-confirms-server.html)
Apple's top designer is leaving the company three years after taking over from Jony Ive (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/21/apples-top-designer-is-leaving-three-years-after-taking-over-from-ive.html)
Social media market caps (2021 peak to today (https://twitter.com/yo/status/1583202482444201984?s=20&t=Na-u4OwFjYe1NEtyBIxanQ)
GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/github_copilot_copyright/)
Cyber unicorn Snyk to sack 198 employees, 14% of workforce (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1wmnrxnj)
Apple Releases macOS Ventura With FaceTime Handoff, Continuity Camera, Stage Manager, New Apps and More (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/24/apple-releases-macos-ventura/)
Larry Ellison killed Oracle's first-generation cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/24/ellison_oracle_cloud/)
PayPal shares rise after Amazon adds Venmo as checkout option (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/amazon-will-now-let-users-pay-with-venmo-at-checkout.html)
Tragedy of the Digital Commons (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4245266)
Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/business/spotify-apple-audiobooks-app.html)
Why is it taking so long for cloud dev environments to catch on? (https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-it-taking-so-long-for-cloud-dev-environments-to-catch-on?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Snowflake, Revisited (https://www.thediff.co/p/snowflake-revisited)
What’s going on with Se (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33)r (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33)verless (https://twitter.com/BorisTane/status/1583507431564333058?t=GoEipi4iOOZn_ino4DudbQ&s=33)
Netflix launches new ‘Profile Transfer’ feature to help monetize account sharing (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/netflix-launches-new-profile-transfer-feature-to-help-end-account-sharing/)
Apple Raising Prices for Apple TV+, Music Services for the First Time (https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/apple-price-increase-apple-tv-plus-music-1235412633/)
Nonsense
American Airlines is ditching first class on all flights (https://www.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-ditching-first-class-105109577.html)
The $30 Million Lottery Scam (https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/viktor-gjonaj-michigan-lottery-scam-wire-fraud/671741/)
Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB-C (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/26/23423977/iphone-usb-c-eu-law-joswiak-confirms-compliance-lightning)
Conferences
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
All Day DevOps | The World's Largest DevOps Conference (https://www.alldaydevops.com/), Nov. 10th
THAT Conference Texas Speakers and Schedule (https://that.us/events/tx/2023/schedule/). Jan 15th-18th
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
SDT news & hype
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SDT news & hype
Brandon: DALL-E 2 (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/)
Generative A.I. Is Here. Who Should Control It? (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/generative-ai-is-here-who-should-control-it.html?action=click&module=audio-series-bar&region=header&pgtype=Article)
Matt: Upgrade (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6499752/).
Coté: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59808451).
Tanzu Talk (https://www.tanzutalk.com).
Photo Credits
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10/28/2022 • 1 hour, 12 seconds
Episode 382: The Ultimate Dogfooding
This week we discuss Aboard.io, cutting cloud costs, commute hours and final thoughts on Google Next. Plus, Matt Ray goes car shopping.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 382. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZaTjWHqQvA)
Runner-up Titles
Matt Ray is ready to buy.
That’s legal in Australia
When Ray Mail comes out, nobody cares
I am into workflow
This is the population of Hobart that we’re looking at
I want to help you, but you don’t even need help
Daddy’s Meeting Fort
Brandon hasn’t migrated his mainframe workloads to cloud.
All these problems are caused by developers
Rundown
Aboard.io is coming soon! (https://aboard.io/)
NTT Data buys digital consultancy Postlight (https://www.consulting.us/news/7702/ntt-data-buys-digital-consultancy-postlight)
Linear (https://linear.app/)
Americans Reclaim 60 Million Commuting Hours in Remote-Work Perk (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-18/americans-reclaim-60-million-commuting-hours-in-remote-work-perk)
Google Cloud Next ‘22 wrap-up (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/google-cloud-next22-wrap-up)
Dual Run for Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/solutions/mainframe-modernization)
Cloud Workstations (http://cloud.google.com/workstations)
Google is serious about its giant video chat booths, starts real-world testing (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/google-is-serious-about-its-giant-video-chat-booths-starts-real-world-testing/)
Google Cloud Next ‘22 in under 13 minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAvDlBe7xqI)
Why Cloud Finance Is Broken and Ineffective (https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/why-cloud-finance-is-broken-and-ineffective/)
Kubecost Adds SaaS Edition to Control Kubernetes Costs (https://containerjournal.com/features/kubecost-adds-saas-edition-to-control-kubernetes-costs/)
macOS Ventura (https://www.apple.com/macos/ventura/)
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Announcing Gloo Platform | Solo.io (https://www.solo.io/blog/announcing-gloo-platform/)
Nutanix stock rallies 25% on speculation of sale (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nutanix-stock-rallies-25-on-speculation-of-sale-11665769665)
Zuckerberg’s $1,499 Headsets Won’t Help Meta (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-11/zuckerberg-s-1-499-headsets-won-t-help-meta)
Demystifying the PR/FAQ - Julian Dunn's Blog (https://www.juliandunn.net/2022/09/09/demystifying-the-pr-faq/)
Google's 3D video calling booths, Project Starline, will now be tested in the real world (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/13/googles-3d-video-calling-booths-project-starline-will-now-be-tested-in-the-real-world/)
Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie (https://kotaku.com/zuckerberg-facebook-meta-legs-feet-video-vr-staged-fake-1849656315)
Inflation increased 0.4% in September, more than expected despite rate hikes (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/consumer-price-index-september-2022-.html)
Netflix feels the heat (https://www.axios.com/2022/07/20/netflix-streaming-subscribers-losses-profits?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The creator of Amazon's Kindle has left the company, along with a top Alexa executive, adding to a leadership exodus under new CEO Andy Jassy (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-kindle-creator-gregg-zehr-leaves-company-leadership-exodus-grows-2022-10?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Google Fiber is launching 5-gig and 8-gig plans early next year (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23403427/google-fiber-5-8-gbps-gigabit-tiers-plans)
Bringing passkeys to Android & Chrome (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/10/bringing-passkeys-to-android-and-chrome.html)
US Army reportedly planning $1B cloud migration contract (https://siliconangle.com/2022/10/14/us-army-reportedly-planning-1b-cloud-migration-contract/)
iOS 16 quietly added native Dvorak keyboard support, delighting weirdos like me (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/14/23404125/ios-16-dvorak-keyboard-support)
Floppy disk fever. The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (https://we-make-money-not-art.com/floppy-disk-fever-the-curious-afterlives-of-a-flexible-medium/)
Anyone Who Does Business With Google Knows Philipp Schindler (https://apple.news/AuqU9JwAeQJ2AUJkVi-5Zxg)
The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job (https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/)
Nutanix stock rallies 25% on speculation of sale (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nutanix-stock-rallies-25-on-speculation-of-sale-11665769665)
DIY laptop offers Apple-like looks with PC repairability (https://www.smh.com.au/business/entrepreneurship/diy-laptop-offers-apple-like-looks-with-pc-repairability-20221011-p5bous.html)
Broadcom’s VMWare takeover: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna gives deal conditional blessing (https://capital.com/broadcom-vmware-takeover-ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-deal-blessing)
How BuiltWith generates $14 million a year while having zero employees (https://5to9.beehiiv.com/p/builtwith-generates-14-million-year-zero-employees)
Microsoft Lays Off Hundreds of Staff (https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-lays-off-hundreds-of-staff)
With a $13B valuation, Celonis defies current startup economics (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/16/with-a-13b-valuation-celonis-defies-current-startup-economics/)
Computacenter CEO Bashes 'As a Service' as Bad for Customers (https://www.channelfutures.com/business-models/computacenter-ceo-bashes-as-a-service-as-bad-for-customers)
CEO Salaries in SaaS (https://blossomstreetventures.medium.com/ceo-salaries-in-saas-b36ffaa6293c)
Belkin’s mount to turn your iPhone into a camera is now available (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/18/23411241/belkin-magsafe-mount-continuity-camera-laptops-available)
Nonsense
ROI of a sticker (https://twitter.com/mbbroberg/status/1503732056429367301)
Conferences
KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Sponsors
The MacGeekGab.com (http://macgeekgab.com/) provides tips, Cool Stuff Found, and answers to your questions about anything and everything Apple.
SDT news & hype
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SDT news & hype
Brandon: InterStellar BBQ (https://www.theinterstellarbbq.com) try the Peach Tea Pork Belly when available (https://twitter.com/Chefjohnbates/status/1330525844536766464?s=20&t=DsVm7JlZgWpz3Ypk9cUVGA)
Matt: The Peripheral (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8291284/)
Coté: once again, OK burgers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wYjsdU6qgI). Checking in with platform engineering: “Innovation Insight for Internal Developer Portals,” (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/analyst-reports/innovation-insight-for-internal-developer-portals?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=platengpaper&utm_medium=whitepaper) Gartner paper on platform engineering/IDP.
Photo Credits
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/utMdPdGDc8M)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/6mze64HRU2Q)
10/21/2022 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 3 seconds
Episode 381: Aspiration Fatigue
This week we discuss Platform Engineering and compare the Microsoft Ignite and Google Cloud Next Keynotes. Plus, some thoughts on legs in the Metaverse.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 381. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxsNTYXt0Nw)
Runner-up Titles
It’s on brand
I wish I could see Brandon’s legs
Running VM’s in the meta verse
They were so busy seeing if they could get VR to work that they didn’t ask if they should.
Basically, VR is for seeing through walls, including walls of flesh.
Lifehacks disrupting VC
They’ve got legs
Draw a Triangle
Rundown
Platform Engineering
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering)
Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cognitive Load: a Summary of Community Discussions (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/platform-devops-summary/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global)
What Is Platform Engineering? (https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-is-platform-engineering)
Coté’s Slack Message (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1665297229292149)
Google Cloud Next
Exclusive: Google touts cloud deal with Ford (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-46ce6adb-537e-42cc-91ba-a8cfce2e6af6.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
What’s next for digital transformation in the cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/whats-next-for-digital-transformation-in-the-cloud?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=top)
Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/introducing-software-delivery-shield-from-google-cloud)
Cloud Workstations | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/workstations)
9 out of 10 banks still use mainframes. Google Cloud wants to reduce that. (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/google-cloud-dual-run-mainframe)
MSFT Ignite (https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/home)
Relevant to your Interests
AMD missed Q3 revenue numbers by $1B (https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1578129189534060544)
ServiceNow Acquires Era Software to Unify Observability (https://devops.com/servicenow-acquires-era-software-to-unify-observability/)
Walmart blazes trails with its enterprise ‘supercloud’ (https://siliconangle.com/2022/10/05/walmart-blazes-trails-enterprise-supercloud/)
Is Nomad taking over Kubernetes? (https://vinothkumar-p.medium.com/is-nomad-taking-over-kubernetes-70d7418d3464)
Meet Fizz, the social app downloaded by '95% of Stanford undergrads' (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/04/fizz-app-college-stanford-social/)
Register to secure your seat to join us at the exclusive premiere of Clouded - Uncovering The Culture Of Cloud. Autumn 2022 (https://clouded.consciouslyhybrid.com/#trailer)
I Watched the Coinbase Documentary So You Don’t Have To (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6344df6ab606fe0037676d4a/i-watched-the-coinbase-documentary-so-you-dont-have-to/)
Confidential Containers brings TEE support to Kubernetes (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/confidential_containers_encrypted_k8s/)
All YouTube users will soon have an account handle — but some will get to pick theirs earlier (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/10/23392552/youtube-unique-handle-rollout-shorts-comment-mentions-tiktok)
From cloud security to code security: why we've raised $25M to take on OSS dependency sprawl (https://www.endorlabs.com/blog/story-of-endorlabs)
ForgeRock, Thoma Bravo in Deal for $23.25 a Share (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/forgerock-thoma-bravo-in-deal-for-23-25-a-share-271665492762)
Meta announces legs (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/meta-announces-legs/)
White House to unveil ambitious cybersecurity labeling effort modeled after Energy Star (https://www.cyberscoop.com/white-house-to-unveil-internet-of-things-labeling/)
High-profile failures Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/warren_craddock/status/1579532951624175616?s=20&t=rIheTRCjdnjI-15LKiPmvg)
It's 2021 and USB-C is still a mess (https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/)
Intel Plans Thousands of Job Cuts in Face of PC Slowdown (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown)
The AI-generated podcast. (http://podcast.ai)
Meta unveils high-end Quest Pro VR headset (https://www.axios.com/2022/10/11/meta-unveils-high-end-quest-pro-vr-headset?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
New Metaverse Dreams and Old Metaverse Questions (https://sharptech.fm/member/episode/new-metaverse-dreams-and-old-metaverse-questions)
Nonsense
Adafruit’s Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/adafruits-cheekmate-gets-to-the-bottom-ahem-of-chess-cheating-controversy/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email)
Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules (https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/09/ixnay-on-the-webcams/)
Clam-O-Naise® by Cards Against Humanity (https://www.clams.lol/)
Rollercoasters trigger iPhone 14 crash detection (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2022/rollercoasters-trigger-iphone-14-crash-detection.html)
Listener Feedback
Pat Gelsinger interivew on Decorder (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23385652/pat-gelsinger-intel-chips-act-ohio-manufacturing-chip-shortage)
COIN: A Founder's Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXK5XKSxD1E)
Migrating from Heroku to Code-Engine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01g1QSjYDa0)
Conferences
KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: House of Dragons (https://www.hbo.com/house-of-the-dragon).
Matt: Malcolm in the Middle (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212671/).
Coté: Draw a Triangle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7975YqVDf7o).
Photo Credits
CoverArt (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/)
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/hoivM01c-vg)
10/14/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 380: No Free Lunches or Haircuts
This week we discuss why Google abandons products, the 2022 State of DevOps Report and Elon’s texts. Plus, some thoughts on glasses…
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 380. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8MwCBPgWY)
Runner-up Titles
Leave it all in Brighttalk
Let’s talk about it and I’ll read it later
Killed by Google Wins Again
Tell that to the WeWork founder
Buy somebody who’s already on the Moon
Anyone from software thinks they can do anything
Lots of learnings.
I hate DNS, but I’ve never seen a domain name I didn’t buy.
A good Brandon issue
Rundown
Google’s Incentives
Google is shutting down Stadia (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/29/google_shuts_down_stadia/)
Stadia shutdown shows Google's struggle to innovate (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-555c72e1-380a-4a69-affe-e8260ae5734e.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them. (https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1576985038511448064)
2022 State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/dora-2022-accelerate-state-of-devops-report-now-out)
Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/email/1f916f2d-db1b-43a8-85c1-46a56ab97e19/)
Relevant to your Interests
GitLab beats expectations with impressive revenue growth, but its stock falls anyway (https://siliconangle.com/2022/09/06/gitlab-beats-expectations-impressive-revenue-growth-stock-falls-anyway/)
Two Former eBay Executives Sentenced to Prison for Cyberstalking (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/two-former-ebay-executives-sentenced-prison-cyberstalking)
We’re excited to announce that the transaction to combine Citrix and TIBCO (https://buff.ly/3fzCIBL)
Can a Zebra Change Its Stripes? (https://www.newcomer.co/p/can-a-zebra-change-its-stripes)
VR & AR headset designers should consider how their customers look like when wearing them (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1576625132675936256?s=46&t=setZxlR2Skv0eAetpRREYw)
CEO Tim Cook says Apple avoids the word 'metaverse' (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1576732541435854848)
DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist (https://openai.com/blog/dall-e-now-available-without-waitlist)
Introducing Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text (https://ai.facebook.com/blog/generative-ai-text-to-video/?utm_content=null)
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time (https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Postgres WASM by Snaplet and Supabase (https://twitter.com/supabase/status/1576943402687631365)
Linux 6.0 arrives with support for newer chips, core fixes, and oddities (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/linux-6-0-arrives-with-support-for-newer-chips-core-fixes-and-oddities/)
The Most Visited Website in Every Country (That Isn’t A Search Engine) (https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/the-most-visited-website-in-every-country)
Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio Hands Over Control of Firm (https://www.wsj.com/articles/bridgewater-founder-ray-dalio-hands-over-control-of-firm-11664902335)
World's First Laptop with RISC-V Processor Now Available (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-laptop-world-first)
CoRecursive: Coding Stories: Android's Unlikely Success on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/corecursive-coding-stories/id1330329512?i=1000581376850)
Database 2x2 (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1577699834965786624?s=46&t=-tpbK02723C_6-I9GeLdGQ)
Pat Gelsinger came back to turn Intel around (https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23385652/pat-gelsinger-intel-chips-act-ohio-manufacturing-chip-shortage)
State Of Developer Relations (https://www.stateofdeveloperrelations.com/)
Red Hat Storage strategy update (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-storage-strategy-update)
IBM Redefines Hybrid Cloud Application and Data Storage Adding Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings (https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-10-04-IBM-Redefines-Hybrid-Cloud-Application-and-Data-Storage-Adding-Red-Hat-Storage-to-IBM-Offerings)
IBM + Red Hat: Doubling Down on Hybrid Cloud Storage (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/ibm-red-hat-doubling-down-on-hybrid-cloud-storage)
DevOps Is Dead. Embrace Platform Engineering (https://thenewstack.io/devops-is-dead-embrace-platform-engineering/)
Nonsense
Kim Kardashian pays over $1 million to settle SEC charges linked to a crypto promo on her Instagram (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/03/kim-kardashian-settles-sec-charges-instagram-crypto-promotion.html)
Test drive new McLaren Formula 1 themes in your Chrome browser (https://blog.google/products/chrome/test-drive-new-mclaren-formula-1-themes-in-your-chrome-browser/)
Tacos Are a Staple in Austin. How Is Inflation Impacting Taco Spots? (https://austin.eater.com/2022/9/30/23353698/inflation-austin-taco-restaurants-2022)
Google Japan’s latest version of it’s new keyboard, G-Board (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G3DWHf1xX0)
"The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)" (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1577298602371809281?s=20&t=J0Sf49X9mn4QazmqXin3tQ)
Conferences
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk (https://www.theringer.com/2022/9/20/23363052/voice-inside-head-sound-jerk-emotion-regulation-self-talk) ****(Podcast)
The Chatter Toolbox (https://www.ethankross.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2021/02/Chatter-Toolbox-by-Ethan-Kross.pdf) (PDF)
Matt: Keyboard.io Model 100 (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-keyboardio-model-100--4/)
Coté: classic microplane (https://amzn.to/3Mkcu2o).
Photo Credits
Glasses Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/qmnpqDwla_E)
10/7/2022 • 53 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 379: TAMs are a Trap
This week we discuss the rate of Public Cloud adoption, Google’s Simplicity Sprint and OKR’s. Plus, some thoughts on slippers.
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 379. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEU1uSOpu-c)
Runner-up Titles
You’re not proud of the product
You can have both
Landing Pages
It’s just like Serial
Don’t bring me these unqualified deals
It’s a Floppy Disk Problem
The better the metrics, the less useful they are
The sooner you are successful, the longer yoy’are successful
Highly Edited
Focus on Earnings
Rundown
AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/aws-ceo-says-the-move-to-cloud-computing-is-only-just-getting-started.html)
Acquired Episode on AWS (Podcast) (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-web-services)
Google and Developer Toil
Google CEO Pichai tells employees not to 'equate fun with money' in heated all-hands meeting (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/google-ceo-pichai-fields-questions-on-cost-cuts-at-all-hands-meeting-.html)
Google CEO tells employees productivity and focus must improve, launches 'Simplicity Sprint' to gather employee feedback on efficiency (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/31/google-ceo-to-employees-productivity-and-focus-must-improve.html)
Google CEO tells staff not to 'equate fun with money' (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/23/ceo_google_austerity/)
Google CEO Pichai: We need to get 20% more productive (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/07/google_ceo_sundar_pichai_productivity/)
Relevant to your Interests
PaaS Is Not Dead (https://www.fermyon.com/blog/paas-is-not-dead)
How devops in the cloud breaks down (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3674690/how-devops-in-the-cloud-breaks-down.html)
Adobe thinks critics are getting its Figma deal wrong (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c8c3c313-8144-4de3-9499-a4334a6b8f76.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
The Dead End from RedMonk (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/09/23/dead-end/)
Building for the 99% Developers (https://future.com/software-development-building-for-99-developers/)
Meta and Google cut staff via quiet layoffs (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/meta_google_layoffs/)
Slack canvas has officially entered the chat! (https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/1572717714522705923?s=46&t=EYrb_JytmT9CVPWd_8-tpw)
Linus Torvalds talks Rust on Linux, his work schedule and life with his M2 MacBook Air (https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-talks-rust-on-linux-his-work-schedule-and-life-with-his-m2-macbook-air/)
Keynote: Frozen DevOps? The not-so-technical Last Mile (https://www.slideshare.net/ManuelPais/keynote-frozen-devops-the-notsotechnical-last-mile-devopsdays-portugal-sep-2022)
Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition (https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1574754640490536963?s=20&t=vQF0s31OdAS2p7-X373AzQ)
Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/27/document-onboarding-startup-flatfile-nabs-50m-from-investors-including-workday/)
Suborbital Extension Engine, and what's next for us (https://blog.suborbital.dev/suborbital-extension-engine-and-whats-next-for-us)
What’s Stopping WebAssembly from Widespread Adoption? (https://thenewstack.io/whats-stopping-webassembly-from-widespread-adoption/)
Did We Overeat on Software? (https://future.com/did-we-overeat-on-software/)
Someone is pretending to be me. (https://connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/someone-is-pretending-to-be-me/)
Broadcom’s Golden Parachute For Top 5 VMware Execs May Total $337.8M (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/broadcom-s-golden-parachute-for-top-5-vmware-execs-may-total-337-8m/6)
For teens to do better in school, they need to sleep in (https://fortune.com/well/2022/08/18/how-later-school-start-times-for-teens-reduce-depression-and-improve-academic-performance/)
Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-launchpad/)
The Uber Hack Exposes More †Than Failed Data Security (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/uber-hack-data.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Leading venture capital firms to provide up to $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-launchpad/)
Nonsense
The Science Behind NASA's First Attempt at Redirecting an Asteroid (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2022/9/22/the-science-behind-nasas-first-attempt-at-redirecting-an-asteroid)
Ghoulish moans are haunting the intercoms of American Airlines flights (https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/09/26/flight-noise-american-airlines-intercom-lax/)
Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/inside-podcasters-explosive-audience-growth)
Conferences
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Happy to report that the world-class engineers at @grafana managed to make a @SlackHQ thread with more than 10,000 messages in it. (https://twitter.com/TwitchiH/status/1574522695399661584)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Introducing PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/introducing-powerpoint-live-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/2140980) and/or PowerPoint Reading Mode (https://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/use-reading-view-to-show-powerpoint-slides-in-a-window-instead-of-full-screen/)
Photo Credits
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/B2Y0zdSbR8U)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/ij5_qCBpIVY)
9/30/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 378: Email is not broken
This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.
Runner-up Titles
Freed from Intel
It works!
Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms
It will be fun
The Apple Chip
A Demi Kettle
Pay for your own Flu
Free to interrupt me
Feet on the desk in business suit emoji.
None of us can master the intranet.
The network is the calendar.
Rundown
Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture (https://archive.ph/aRauw)
Adobe
Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/15/adobe-buying-figma-20-billion-dollars)
Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/adobe-is-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-online-design-startup-figma)
Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/19/adobe-figma-deal-likely-to-attract-antitrust-scrutiny?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/09/20/adobe-historic-retention-package-figma-ceo/?sh=5de51dd37926)
Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status? (https://www.wired.com/story/slack-status-updates-green-dot/)
Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-68c29e0c-0328-4ac6-a513-c7b819801fc6.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/20/23361717/slack-canvas-documents-messaging-google-notion)
Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/zoom-readies-email-and-calendar-products-to-defend-itself-against-microsoft-google)
Relevant to your Interests
Why We Are Changing the License for Akka (https://www.lightbend.com/blog/why-we-are-changing-the-license-for-akka)
A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson (https://www.twilio.com/blog/a-message-from-twilio-ceo-jeff-lawson)
Ethereum Is Merging (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-14/ethereum-is-merging?leadSource=uverify%20wall)
Twitter whistleblower's testimony did little to help Elon Musk (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/twitter-whistleblower-mudge-zatko-musk?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Former top Cisco executives launch networking startup Nile (https://siliconangle.com/2022/09/14/former-top-cisco-executives-launch-networking-startup-nile/)
Audio subscription platform Podimo raises €58.6M (https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2022/09/14/podimo-funding)
Vulnerability Management for Go - The Go Programming Language (https://go.dev/blog/vuln)
Cloud adoption will fail because of the skills gap - Lydia Leong (https://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2022/09/12/cloud-adoption-will-fail-because-of-the-skills-gap/)
Ethereum's massive software upgrade just went live — here's what it does (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/15/ethereums-massive-software-upgrade-just-went-live-heres-what-it-does.html)
Amazon Web Services — Acquired (https://overcast.fm/+FaxkQnjhI)
It Is Time for Businesses to Build Their Own Microprocessors (https://thenewstack.io/it-is-time-for-businesses-to-build-their-own-microprocessors/)
Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/technology/uber-hacking-breach.html)
Securing the Supply Chain of Nothing (https://swagitda.com/blog/posts/securing-the-supply-chain-of-nothing/)
Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120 (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/google-cancels-half-the-projects-at-its-internal-rd-group-area-120/)
McKinsey charges $500k per project, telling stories through data. (https://twitter.com/liammotivado/status/1570381957128949762)
Starbucks NFTs. Simon Taylor is pretty sharp on fintech IMO (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1663589266293759?thread_ts=1663353870.068289&cid=C5GPMBXQT)
Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-an-intent-to-form-the-openwallet-foundation)
Microsoft Teams has been storing authentication tokens in plaintext | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-teams-has-been-storing-auth-tokens-in-plaintext-093510463.html)
JavaScript is no longer the favorite programming language for developers (https://www.techradar.com/news/javascript-no-longer-the-favorite-language-among-developers)
The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About (https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown)
Document Foundation charges €8.99 for macOS LibreOffice (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/20/libre_office_macos_fees/)
Sharp Tech (https://sharptech.fm/member)
Morgan Stanley Lost Some Hard Drives (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-20/morgan-stanley-lost-some-hard-drives)
A Look Back at Q2 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q2-22-public-cloud)
Charted: Big Tech market values (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-6e739364-6331-4154-b0af-9ed5f6eb5fd1.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Private equity may become a ‘pyramid scheme’, warns Danish pension fund (https://www.ft.com/content/f480a99c-4c7b-4208-b9dd-ef20103254b9)
The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital (https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/17-065_599caed6-9c77-4dca-9f71-92e580b7834e.pdf)
YouTube will start sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators as the company tries to catch TikTok (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/20/youtube-will-share-revenue-with-shorts-creators-as-tiktok-surges.html)
Nonsense
When we learned that our future AI overlords loved bowling (https://twitter.com/alancarroII/status/1571303604417437697)
File this under: Old Bay goes with anything (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04EK1VBK/p1663507223290509)
I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason. (https://www.everywhereist.com/2022/07/i-tried-21-flavors-of-mountain-dew-for-some-reason/)
Conferences
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Good SDT Slack Thread on pros/cons on using preemptive VM for K8s nodes in Slack (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1663715229658789)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Listen to Brandon’s appearance on the Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/09/did-we-get-digital-transformation-wrong.html)
Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World (https://www.amazon.com/Like-Comment-Subscribe-YouTube-Conquered/dp/B09RXQRKTF/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)
Coté: “Warm Oak.” Gentleman in Moscow. #defaultslifestyle update: Notes and Reminders.
Photo Credits
Banner Photo (https://unsplash.com/photos/g51F6-WYzyU)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/4UGmm3WRUoQ)
9/23/2022 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 29 seconds
Episode 377: Coffee is for closers
This week we discuss Oracle’s Cloud Growth(?), Starbuck’s blockchain-based loyalty program and André Staltz’s “Time Till Open Source Alternative” article. Plus, some thoughts on free coffee…
Runner-up Titles
It’s about me
Workshop it
I stand with the workers of Goldman Sachs
This is their Popeye moment
Pulitzers and free coffee
Financial shenanigans
Hide the gift shop in the data center
Rundown
No more free coffee as bankers return to Goldman Sachs (https://fortune.com/2022/09/12/goldman-sachs-eliminates-free-coffee-business-powerhouses-trimming-perk-employees-return-office/)
Oracle on Verge of Becoming World’s Hottest Cloud Vendor (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/oracle-on-verge-of-becoming-worlds-hottest-cloud-vendor/)
Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/starbucks-unveils-its-blockchain-based-loyalty-platform-and-nft-community-starbucks-odyssey/)
André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative (https://staltz.com/time-till-open-source-alternative.html)
Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/12/23348999/google-pixelbook-canceled-team-shut-down)
Relevant to your Interests
What if those green bubbles aren’t Android’s fault? - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/08122022-messaging/)
Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility)
Uber Eats goes driverless with Nuro partnership (https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uber-eats-goes-driverless-with-nuro-partnership)
GM is betting on its electric Equinox, starting at $30,000, to kick-start 'massive adoption' of EVs (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/08/gm-bets-on-electric-equinox-to-kick-start-massive-adoption-of-evs.html)
Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life (https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/career-ambition-advice-data/671374/)
Cheating Allegations Shake the Chess World After Champion Suffers Stunning Defeat (https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheating-allegations-shake-the-chess-world-after-champion-magnus-carlsen-suffers-stunning-defeat)
The Book of Reed Hastings, Revisited (https://puck.news/the-book-of-reed-hastings-revisited/?_cio_id=f6c606078958dac00d&utm_campaign=The+Daily+Courant+-+LEADS+%289%2F9%2F22%29&utm_content=The+Daily+Courant+-+LEADS+%289%2F9%2F22%29&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=customer.io)
Explainer: Understanding Ethereum's major 'Merge' upgrade (https://www.reuters.com/technology/understanding-ethereums-major-merge-upgrade-2022-09-09/)
Patreon security team layoffs cause backlash in creator community (https://www.cyberscoop.com/patreon-security-team-layoffs/)
Bolt's $1.5 billion deal to buy Wyre dies (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/09/bolt-and-wyre-15billion-dead-acquisition)
Citrix Plans to Explore Sale of Wrike Unit After Buyout Closes (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-09/citrix-plans-to-explore-sale-of-wrike-unit-after-buyout-closes?srnd=deals)
Meta moves PyTorch to Linux Foundation (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-b64088ed-a8e5-4ebe-a2e2-29a536ebcd1d.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
At Google, 'Rest and Vest' for Sr. Employees is Over, Says CEO (https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/googles-rest-vest-days-for-sr-employees-are-over-says-ceo-its-a-brilliant-idea.html)
Large railroad labor unions say they will strike if quality of life is not addressed in new contract (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/12/large-rail-labor-unions-move-closer-to-a-strike.html)
Heat wave knocks Twitter data center offline (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-99e77574-3a79-40b5-855e-326c18850349.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3)
Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation - Linux Foundation (https://linuxfoundation.org/press-release/linux-foundation-announces-intent-to-form-openwallet-foundation/)
What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-right-on-software-engineers/)
Twitter shareholders approve $44 billion Elon Musk buyout (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/13/23349687/twitter-musk-acquisition-shareholder-vote-approval)
Tech stack (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/xcjfua/tech_stack/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Productionizing Envoy Mobile at Lyft (https://eng.lyft.com/productionizing-envoy-mobile-at-lyft-88d49c9c8d14)
Squishable computer runs calculations depending on how you squish it (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2334975-squishable-computer-runs-calculations-depending-on-how-you-squish-it/)
iOS 16 - New Features (https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/)
Nonsense
IKEA Responds To Balenciaga’s $2,145 Bag That Looks Exactly Like IKEA’s 99-Cent Tote Bag, And It’s Hilarious (https://www.boredpanda.com/ikea-responds-balenciaga-original-frakta-bag/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic)
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business (https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/)
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
Conferences
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Jordi recommend Dirty Tricks (https://www.hulu.com/movie/dirty-tricks-51a9dccc-cae7-4f44-84ec-2fe4e6772e6e)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Rotowire (https://www.rotowire.com)
Matt: Control (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/)
The Other Two (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8310612/)
Photo Credits
Coffee Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/7zwyUZVrt-U)
CoverArt Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/hgWBJ5HM-_M)
9/16/2022 • 46 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 376: Businesses that use computers
This week we discuss Japan’s “war” on floppy disks, Twitter adds an edit button and Apple going all-in on eSIM. Plus, will the U.S. finally get instant bank transfers?
Runner-up Titles
They were already in the system.
Headless Optimization Gone Amuck.
While sitting on the toilet
Extensive iPhone Carrying Strategy Breakdown. We need fanny packs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-SXfb0CJrE).
All you have to do to know the problem is to hear the solution.
Bring Paul Ford out of retirement.
Great ideas, getting close
Prevent the typo
73 SaaS Companies
“Because, you know, Coté: I’m a pro.”
That may be his family crest
Rundown
Checking on Digital Transformation
Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/japan-declares-war-on-floppy-disks-for-government-use/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Instant Payments in the U.S.? (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1567516269594955778)
You Asked for It: Twitter’s Getting an Edit Button (https://gizmodo.com/twitter-edit-button-test-1849484288)
SaaS spend ratios on R&D/S&M/G&A (https://blossomstreetventures.medium.com/saas-spend-ratios-on-r-d-s-m-g-a-1a0b30931b0)
Relevant to your Interests
Netflix’s Catch-22 Milestone (https://puck.news/netflixs-catch-22-milestone/)
VMware Offers Sneak Peek at Tanzu App Platform (https://adtmag.com/articles/2022/09/01/vmware-offers-sneak-peek-at-tanzu-app-platform.aspx)
VMware customers optimistically wait for Broadcom’s impact (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/31/vmware_broadcom_voxpop/)
Ubiquiti Teaches AWS Security and Crisis Comms Via Counterexample (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/ubiquiti-teaches-aws-security-and-crisis-comms-via-counterexample/)
Rockstar programmer: Rivers Cuomo finds meaning in coding – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/rock-star-programmer-rivers-cuomo-finds-meaning-in-coding/)
Microsoft: The deadline to get off Basic Auth is approaching (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/05/microsoft_basic_auth_deadline/)
1 big thing: What's behind chip giants' lawsuit (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-e0555ee3-649d-4437-85db-a04c411d9069.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Cloudflare drops Kiwi Farms harassment site (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-e0555ee3-649d-4437-85db-a04c411d9069.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
Open-source password manager Bitwarden raises $100M • TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/06/open-source-password-manager-bitwarden-raises-100m/)
AWS Preps ‘Bastion’ Cloud Service for Advertisers (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/aws-preps-bastion-cloud-service-for-advertisers?utm_source=ti_app&ck_subscriber_id=512834888)
The cloud computing giants are vying to protect fat profits (https://www.economist.com/business/2022/08/29/the-cloud-computing-giants-are-vying-to-protect-fat-profits?ck_subscriber_id=1141233388)
Blackouts possible at height of California’s heat wave Tuesday as grid struggles with record usage (https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article265350931.html)
For homesick Marylanders (https://twitter.com/SwingRhythm2/status/1567184158346067972)
Google announces October 6th event to launch the Pixel Watch, Pixel 7, and new Nest devices (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/6/23339303/pixel-7-pro-pixel-watch-made-by-google-hardware-event-october-6th)
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise: For Kubernetes Networking & Security (https://isovalent.com/blog/post/isovalent-series-b/)
Introducing Ambient Mesh (https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/)
Muck Rack scores one of the largest growth equity investments in PR tech (https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/muck-rack-series-a-public-relations-tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Nonsense
Southwest Pilot Threatens to Turn Plane Around if Unruly Passengers Keep AirDropping Nudes (https://gizmodo.com/southwest-airlines-airdrop-nudes-cabo-1849478920)
New escape room just opened in town (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1662487190760019?thread_ts=1590186505.165200&cid=C5GPMBXQT)
Jaws is a box office hit again, 47 years after it first hit theaters (https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/5/23338141/national-cinema-day-jaws-box-office)
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
Conferences
DevOps Talks Sydney (https://devops.talksplus.com/sydney/devops.html), Sydney, September 6-7, 2022
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Patrick tweeted about Birdnet (http://birdnetpi.com) and his 5-year-son likes the pictures
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Recommendations
Brandon: ****
FRAKTA IKEA Duffle Bag (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/frakta-storage-bag-for-cart-blue-90149148/)
L.L.Bean Stowaway Pack (https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/126140?page=llbean-stowaway-pack)
Coté: Cavender’s All Purpose Greek Seasoning (https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/cavenders-greek-seasoning-6923/).
Photo Credits
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/efoo8mqF22M)
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/psDzkLlifxQ)
9/9/2022 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 375: For the Birds
This week we discuss VMware Explore, Snap’s move to multi-cloud and the Galaxy Brain take on thought leadership. Plus, Matt Ray’s latest Raspberry Pi project is for the birds…?
Runner-up Titles
Where’s my admin?
All my children qualify as adults
Start by eating their food
Put two letters in front of it
Where’s the grocery store
I got that everything bagel spice
Is it OK to hang-up on your kids?
In the heat of the moment, you can’t set policy.
The runbook’s already written.
Spagetti Bowl
Tanzu the Shih Tzu
A FinOps Type of Motion
The opposite of the Sales Kickoff, the Savings Kickoff
Growth is best done in the shadows.
Wrapping bullshit with bullshit
Nopehouse, home of the fast follower
The fast followers are just in front of the also-rans
Thought-leadership suicide mission
Rundown
VMware Explore (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html)
How Snap rebuilt the infrastructure that now supports 347M users (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/snap-microservices-aws-google-cloud)
Screaming in the Cloud with Martin Casado (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/the-new-cloud-war-with-martin-casado/)
Give finops a say over cloud architecture decisions (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3671148/give-finops-a-say-over-cloud-architecture-decisions.html)
Business Dudes Need to Stop Talking Like This (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/630ec150bcbd490021b17eab/business-dudes-need-to-stop-talking-like-this/)
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon tries a new way to excite you about cybersecurity (it's called laughter) (https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-tries-a-new-way-to-excite-you-about-cybersecurity-its-called-laughter/)
The golden noose around Apple's neck (https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-golden-noose-around-apples-neck/)
Campaign pushes Cloudflare to drop trans hate site (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-85e45e2f-8629-43d3-be69-45072a3631f5.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Mudge at Twitter (https://twitter.com/igb/status/1562427951882199044)
Bloomberg takes cut and paste seriously (https://twitter.com/MidwestHedgie/status/1562450905907478531)
Notice of Recent Security Incident - The LastPass Blog (https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/08/notice-of-recent-security-incident/)
World’s Most Popular Password Manager Says It Was Hacked (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/the-world-s-most-popular-password-manager-says-it-was-hacked)
LastPass Says No Passwords Stolen in Data Breach (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/lastpass-says-no-passwords-stolen-in-data-breach/)
AWS and Kubecost collaborate to deliver cost monitoring for EKS customers | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-and-kubecost-collaborate-to-deliver-cost-monitoring-for-eks-customers/)
Pandas Pivot Table Explained (https://pbpython.com/pandas-pivot-table-explained.html)
Charted: Big Tech's bigness (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-3db6f78d-4da1-494b-a5d4-04c8984ce0e5.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
UK's Micro Focus shares nearly double after Canada's OpenText agrees $6 bln takeover (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/canadas-opentext-buy-software-firm-micro-focus-6-bln-deal-2022-08-25/)
Teradata takes on Snowflake and Databricks with cloud-native platform (https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastructure/teradata-makes-database-analytics-cloud-native/)
The State of the Mainframe Market - Summer 2022 (https://futurumresearch.com/market-insight-reports/the-state-of-the-mainframe-market-summer-2022/)
City2Surf face recognition raises concerns (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2022/city2surf-face-recognition-raises-concerns.html)
IBM Watson Health layoffs disguised as staff 'redeployment' (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/29/ibm_allegedly_hid_watson_health/)
David Young on LinkedIn: The metaverse economy is set to boom... gambling will be a significant (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-young-b5276523_metaverse-5g-localisation-activity-6966387069338218496-4x5F?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
OCI History (https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1564499775415676928)
VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns as 'next transition' (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/30/vmware_broadcom_/)
Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/25/heroku_delete_inactive_free_tier/)
Cloudflare Is One of the Companies That Quietly Powers the Internet. Researchers Say It's a Haven for Misinformation (https://time.com/6208828/cloudflare-misinformation-internet-research/)
Nonsense
Sounds right (https://twitter.com/6thgrade4ever/status/1433519577892327424?s=20&t=o8cx7C7pcCkVR4cTcQbv4g)
When the development team meet their first Scrum Master (https://twitter.com/onejasonknight/status/1564287640366628866?s=20&t=y3AIxGPb8kge28aICQ6dFQ)
Chart of the year nominee (https://twitter.com/jpwarren/status/1564109454009716736/photo/1)
Conferences
DevOps Talks Sydney (https://devops.talksplus.com/sydney/devops.html), Sydney, September 6-7, 2022
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
Kube (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)C (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)o (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)n North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/), Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
Listener Feedback
Enlightning (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/enlightning/) from Whitney
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Recommendations
Brandon: Black Bird (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/black_bird/s01)
Matt: BirdNetPi (https://birdnetpi.com/)
Festival of Feet Half-Marathon (https://www.westiesjoggers.com/the-georges-river-festival-of-the-feet/)
Coté: Spigen ArcDock 120W [GaN III] 4-Port USB C Charging Stantion USB-C PD/USB-A Hub with Spigen USB 4 Cable for Thunderbolt 4 Cable 100W Charging 40Gbps Data Transfer for MacBook Pro Air iPad USB-C Laptop (https://amzn.to/3RqRl7M).
C7/C8 coupler cables
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9/2/2022 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 374: Is there no Dev in DevOps?
This week we discuss DevOpsDays Dallas, devs not wanting to do ops, Twitter Security issues and Apple playing the long game. Plus, some thoughts on Dr. Pepper and Burger King.
Runner-up Titles
Don’t have the USB cable
Barton, can you get me a drink?
Just like a beer
This is my own podcast, I can do whatever the fuck I want!
One day, I’m going to stop being the the butt of all the jokes
Throwing a lot of Harvard shade.
If you are in France, eat at the Burger King
They came for the DevOps glory
The jury’s still out for the Dev in DevOps
The same sane things
Security, always a problem
What if there was just one company?
Rundown
Dallas DevOpsDays (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/)
Devs don’t want to do ops (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3669477/devs-don-t-want-to-do-ops.html)
Twitter
Twitter's security alarm (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-34223563-612c-45a2-b8f2-0ff779d0c0f9.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’s (https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/24/twitter-whistleblowing-report-actually-seems-to-confirm-twitters-legal-argument-while-pretending-to-support-musks/)
Apple
Wait, When Did Everyone Start Using Apple Pay? — The Wall Street Journal (https://apple.news/AWkbbZpimR02alYW1mAwaxw)
Ad Revenues (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-77029a01-7f39-4716-9d96-b6c8ac0041b6.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
The golden noose around Apple’s neck (https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-golden-noose-around-apples-neck/)
1 big thing: Americans' beliefs are privacy law's hidden roadblock (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-77029a01-7f39-4716-9d96-b6c8ac0041b6.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Relevant to your Interests
Charted: Streaming surpasses cable (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-7fd08ad2-7f56-4c27-b8c2-9298e054bc56.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
AIOps startup BigPanda raises Series E extension, bringing its total capital to $340M (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/17/aiops-startup-bigpanda-raises-series-e-extension-bringing-its-total-capital-to-340m/)
Sync Computing nabs $15.5M to automatically optimize cloud resources (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/16/sync-computing-rakes-in-15-5m-to-automatically-optimize-cloud-resources/)
GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs. (https://www.gitpoap.io/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Cybersecurity platform Aceiss unveils product after seed close (https://member.fintech.global/2022/08/18/cybersecurity-platform-aceiss-unveils-product-after-seed-close/)
Excel @ mentions feature approaches GA on the desktop (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/17/microsoft_excel_at_mentions/)
Cisco pops as guidance, Q4 results top expectations amid concerns of slowdown (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3874201--cisco-pops-as-2023-guidance-q4-results-beat-forecasts-amid-concerns-of-slowdown)
There's no such thing as vulnerability-free software, it simply doesn't exist… yet (https://blog.chainguard.dev/theres-no-such-thing-as-vulnerability-free-software-it-simply-doesnt-exist-yet/)
Google Cloud claims it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever attempted (https://siliconangle.com/2022/08/18/google-cloud-claims-blocked-largest-ddos-attack-ever-attempted/)
Excel Formula Generator - Excel Formula AI Bot (https://excelformulabot.com/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Among Bidders for Signify Health (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-among-bidders-for-signify-health-11661123042?mod=djemalertNEWS)
Twitter tests a special tag to highlight phone number-verified accounts (https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/19/23313757/twitter-phone-number-verified-label-bots-privacy-security?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4)
YouTube․com/podcasts goes live as simple 'Explore' page (https://9to5google.com/2022/08/21/youtube-podcasts-explore/)
Will MoviePass’ return help struggling theaters? (https://thehustle.co/08232022-MoviePass)
Zoom pares back annual forecast as revenue growth slows to single digits (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/22/zoom-zm-earnings-q2-2023.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable (https://spectrum.ieee.org/internet-congestion-control)
Sony confirms PS VR2 is coming to market 'in early 2023' (https://www.engadget.com/sony-confirms-ps-vr2-is-coming-to-market-in-early-2023-224256205.html)
Twitter whistleblower won hacker acclaim for exposing software flaws (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/23/peiter-mudge-zatko-twitter-whistleblower/)
SSH Security Best Practices using Certificates, 2FA and Bastions (https://goteleport.com/blog/how-to-ssh-properly/?mkt_tok=ODE5LVdIVC00ODMAAAGGalp5pPNPihtU6fE8s-ewjsEBnb-hWmEbMR0NX6vHtlAHhTlzGLbUwTIxNWSL4d55i-2w8mJlk8p_5RNt8LK4LAP3FTPVkDQSMJT2G9aytA)
Twitter CEO @paraga weighs in on whistleblower story. (https://twitter.com/donie/status/1562069281545900033)
The House passed a defense spending bill saying you can't sell software to the DoD that has any known CVEs in it. (https://twitter.com/JGamblin/status/1560016175265972224)
There's no such thing as vulnerability-free software, it simply doesn't exist… yet (https://blog.chainguard.dev/theres-no-such-thing-as-vulnerability-free-software-it-simply-doesnt-exist-yet/)
Neumann’s Resurrection & The Trump Org’s Future (https://puck.news/neumanns-resurrection-the-trump-orgs-future/?_cio_id=f6c606078958dac00d&utm_campaign=Media+Monday+-+LEADS+%288%2F22%2F22%29&utm_content=Media+Monday+-+LEADS+%288%2F22%2F22%29&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=customer.io)
Nonsense
Shouting in the Datacenter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4)
Kubernetes (https://twitter.com/DennisCode/status/1560079800252764163?s=20&t=reqly34jg7V2ZSmYWGbl-A)
CS Final Exam (https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1561205709366255617)
Conferences
Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027)
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512).
Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page (https://cote.io/explore/)
Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup (https://events.finops.org/events/details/finops-sydney-cloud-finops-presents-sydney-cloud-finops-meetup/), Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
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Recommendations
Brandon: The Sandman Audio Book (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Sandman-Audiobook/B086WP794Z?ref=mrq_aud_sndmn_pser1&source_code=MRQOR13307142003UG&device=d&cvosrc=ppc.google.listen%20to%20the%20sandman&cvo_campaign=1859944977&cvo_crid=449246326732&Matchtype=p&ds_rl=1261256&gclid=Cj0KCQjw9ZGYBhCEARIsAEUXITXUUAZIJWHSjRdtii_NKJX6rFLqbyRzQTre-yOEBdBwaROX8T3z62oaAqdpEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Coté: Amazing Oriental (https://amazingoriental.com/Location/winkels-duivendrecht/)
Photo Credits
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8/26/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 373: Everything is a nail, find your hammers
This week we discuss Acorn’s attempt to simplify Kubernetes, the top 25 DevOps Tools and analyzing data in CSVs. Plus, Matt explains what Maccas means.
Runner-up Titles
All I am doing is sharing anecdotes
That’s the problem with spellcheck
Maccas?
College here is High School
Every cloud has its own sausage
Here’s a unicode cow
All Rust looks the same
Too Good for GitHub
The Shameful GitHub
Rundown
Simplifying Kubernetes,
Introducing Acorn (https://acorn.io/introducing-acorn/)
Waypoint (https://www.waypointproject.io/)
CNAB (https://cnab.io/)
Habitat (https://community.chef.io/tools/chef-habitat)
Dagger (https://dagger.io)
25 Most Popular Programming Languages Used By DevOps Pros (https://thenewstack.io/25-most-popular-programming-languages-used-by-devops-pros/)
Making sense of CSV
The Microsoft Excel (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds) W (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds)orld (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds) C (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds)hampionship is as brilliantly entertaining as it sounds (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-microsoft-excel-world-championships-is-as-brilliantly-entertaining-as-it-sounds)
Data Prep with Power Query (https://www.tiktok.com/@mavenanalytics/video/7129550248997014830?_r=1&_t=8UusyB7xB3G&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7129550248997014830)
https://jupyter.org
Passwords still a problem
Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company's Internal Logins (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb43/microsoft-employees-exposed-login-credentials-azure-github)
Cisco Confirms Network Breach Via Hacked Employee Google Account (https://threatpost.com/cisco-network-breach-google/180385/)
Remove my password from lists so hackers won’t be able to hack me (https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155)
Relevant to your Interests
Malcolm Gladwell doesn't want you to have a life (https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/malcolm-gladwell-still-talking-nonsense-17362618.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-Editors-Picks)
Disney says it has 221 million streaming subscribers. Netflix has 220.7 million. (https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1557459876326113281?s=21&t=fB7RD3Xipv9AfZbg37VkVA)
AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/applovin-offers-buy-unity-software-2022-08-09/)
No-code isn’t scalable. Our learnings at FINN going from 1000 toward 100,000 car subscriptions (https://medium.com/@ishtiaque/no-code-isnt-scalable-our-learnings-at-finn-going-from-1000-toward-100-000-car-subscriptions-ac98e752fc61)
Google fined $60 million over Android location data collection (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-fined-60-million-over-android-location-data-collection/)
Software is eating the world (of farm equipment)? (https://twitter.com/znfrey/status/1558892805295968257)
Investing in Flow (https://a16z.com/2022/08/15/investing-in-flow/)
Tencent veterans secure $13M to build cross-chain decentralized identities (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/15/tencent-veterans-web3-decentralized-id-bit/)
Bad Visualisations (https://badvisualisations.tumblr.com/)
TikTok says Project Texas will bolster security for US users – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/04/tiktok-says-project-texas-will-bolster-security-for-u-s-users-in-wake-of-china-data-access-concerns/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Apple Sets Return-to-Office Deadline of Sept. 5 After Covid Delays (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-15/apple-sets-return-to-office-deadline-of-sept-5-after-delays?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top#xj4y7vzkg)
Corey’s Thoughts on GCP canceling IoT (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1559266853502853120)
Securing apps for Googlers using Anthos Service Mesh (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/securing-apps-googlers-using-anthos-service-mesh)
Digital Ocean dumps Mailchimp after security breach (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/digital_ocean_dumps_mailchimp/)
WebOps: A DevOps for Websites, but the Tools Let It Down (https://thenewstack.io/webops-a-devops-for-websites-but-the-tools-let-it-down/)
Citrix Bankers Pitch Fresh Structure for $15 Billion Buyout Debt (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-16/citrix-bankers-pitch-fresh-structure-for-15-billion-buyout-debt?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Scammers targeting recent grads (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shaaahs_jobscam-identitytheft-hiringscam-activity-6965366767665774592-rkvj/?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web)
Lift and shift Windows applications to containers (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3670093/lift-and-shift-windows-applications-to-containers.html)
Nonsense
Snake bites 2-year-old girl, who bites it back until it dies (https://local12.com/news/offbeat/snake-bites-2-year-old-girl-who-bites-it-back-until-it-dies-reptile-venomous-world-health-organization-who-toddler-child-bingol-turkey)
A man returning from Indonesia to Australia was fined thousands of Australian dollars after airport security found several McDonalds food items in his luggage (https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/mcdonalds-fine/507-bcbb3f31-0041-43a6-86cc-5933301e9d3a)
Listener Feedback
Join the Cloud Austin Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/)
Recent Event: CloudAustin's Dog Days of DevOps (https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/events/pljpfrydclbvb/)
Amazon hosting a hiring event in Austin on Aug 23, 2022 (https://becomeawellarchitectedsoftware.splashthat.com)
Follow @cloudaustinmeet (https://twitter.com/cloudaustinmeet)
Conferences
Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027)
DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/), August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512).
Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page (https://cote.io/explore/)
Kubecon. Oct. 24 – 28 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
SDT news & hype
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Brandon: Piran (https://www.audible.com/pd/Piranesi-Audiobook/1526622416?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&gclid=CjwKCAjwo_KXBhAaEiwA2RZ8hIOpyF2m-RzCFD6d-nk2M5yyqAGA5V4NaqFcBHF_TzgXjvWGoralghoCc9IQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)e (https://www.audible.com/pd/Piranesi-Audiobook/1526622416?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&gclid=CjwKCAjwo_KXBhAaEiwA2RZ8hIOpyF2m-RzCFD6d-nk2M5yyqAGA5V4NaqFcBHF_TzgXjvWGoralghoCc9IQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)si (https://www.audible.com/pd/Piranesi-Audiobook/1526622416?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&gclid=CjwKCAjwo_KXBhAaEiwA2RZ8hIOpyF2m-RzCFD6d-nk2M5yyqAGA5V4NaqFcBHF_TzgXjvWGoralghoCc9IQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Matt: T (https://tailscale.com)ailscale (https://tailscale.com)
Beach2Beach 13k (https://beach2beach.com.au/events/13km-run/)
Festival of the Feet Half-Marathon (https://www.westiesjoggers.com/the-georges-river-festival-of-the-feet/)
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8/19/2022 • 56 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 372: Don’t do any editing
This week we discuss build vs. buy decisions, sustaining corporate strategies and Malcolm Gladwell’s WFH comments. Plus, we announce the location of the Austin Meetup on August 27th.
Runner-up Titles
Strategy for eating mixed nuts.
Finish in a flurry
Eat Dessert First
It’s about where you is, not where you was.
We don’t even own a copy of Illustrator
Lost his fastball
Just a paycheck
It’s cool to be the “turns out” person
Pizza, Beer, Enjoyment
McKinsey Titles, the movie
Rundown
App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy blew up the digital advertising ecosystem (https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1555177364081999874)
Only the paranoid survive in tech: Former Intel CEO (https://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/25/only-the-paranoid-survive-in-tech-former-intel-ceo.html)
Netflix Games Engaging Less Than 1 Percent of Subscribers (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/08/netflix-games-note-engaging-subscribers/)
Gladwell’s take on Work from Home (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRUT8Xh6/?k=1)
Relevant to your Interests
Cisco Networking And Cloud Leader Todd Nightingale To Join Fastly As CEO (https://www.crn.com/news/networking/cisco-networking-and-cloud-leader-todd-nightingale-to-join-fastly-as-ceo)
Aviatrix CEO On Potential Post-Broadcom VMware Layoffs And Why On-Prem Market Is ‘The Titanic Going Down’ | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aviatrix-ceo-on-potential-post-broadcom-vmware-layoffs-and-why-on-prem-market-is-the-titanic-going-down-)
Gartner: Microsoft #1 in Database Revenue; AWS Passes Oracle; Google Cloud Gains (https://clouddb.substack.com/p/gartner-microsoft-1-in-database-revenue)
Amazon and iRobot Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire iRobot (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220804006088/en/Amazon-and-iRobot-Sign-an-Agreement-for-Amazon-to-Acquire-iRobot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Companies Disney Owns (https://www.titlemax.com/wp-content/uploads/every-company-disney-owns.jpeg)
S3 Intelligent-Tiering: What It Takes To Actually Break Even (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-intelligent-tiering-breaking-even/)
Twilio Shares Stumble as Investors Fear a Demand Slowdown (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twilio-shares-stumble-investors-fear-213749401.html)
Closing the cloud strategy technology, and innovation gap (https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/consulting/us-future-of-cloud-survey-report.pdf> 1 reply 4 days agoV)
Cloudflare soars after beating on revenue and raising annual forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/cloudflare-q2-2022-earnings-send-stock-soaring.html)
Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million (https://www.axios.com/2022/08/08/axios-agrees-to-sell-to-cox-enterprises-for-525-million?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
New request for comments on improving npm security with Sigstore is now open (https://github.blog/2022-08-08-new-request-for-comments-on-improving-npm-security-with-sigstore-is-now-open/)
The Billionaire’s Dilemma (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/)
Intel launches Arc Pro GPUs that are designed for workstations and pro apps (https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23296836/intel-arc-pro-gpu-workstations-mobile-specs)
AI systems can’t patent inventions, US federal circuit court confirms (https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23293353/ai-patent-legal-status-us-federal-circuit-court-rules-thaler-dabus)
AppLovin offers to buy video game software maker Unity in $17.5 bln deal (https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/applovin-offers-buy-unity-software-2022-08-09/)
How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c)
SoftBank posts a $21.6 billion quarterly loss on its Vision Fund, one of the highest in its history (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/softbank-vision-fund-posts-a-21point6-billion-quarterly-loss-.html)
Ac (https://acorn.io)o (https://acorn.io)rn launches from the Cloud.com and Rancher Alumni (https://acorn.io)
Nonsense
French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo (https://www.vice.com/en/article/akeemk/chorizo-james-webb-space-telescope)
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VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512).
Coté’s VMware Explore 2022 Page (https://cote.io/explore/)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
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Brandon: Sea of Tranquility (https://www.audible.com/pd/Sea-of-Tranquility-Audiobook/0593551990)
Coté: The Sympathizer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sympathizer)
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8/12/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 371: What’s your TAM
This week we do a deep dive into the Total Addressable Market of Cloud and discuss the rise of Cloudflare. Plus, details about the SDT Meetup in Austin on August 27th (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027).
Runner-up Titles
“Have a good time at least once” is in my vacation OKRs
The podcast of the Slack
Analog Clocks
Digital Clock Native
Pretending to have a sidekick
The First Business Case for the Metaverse
I was a liberal arts major
The TAM Episode
Rundown
Cloud Earnings
Clouded Judgement 7.29.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-72922?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Amazon says cloud-computing revenue rose 33%, topping Wall Street estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/aws-earnings-q2-2022.html)
60% of Amazon's net revenue growth YoY was AWS. (https://twitter.com/conorsen/status/1552749857500286976?s=21&t=4J4ob4S-4vxl-60DOSKkUw)
AWS continues to show strength, but there are a few things to watch out for (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3863264-amazon-web-services-continues-to-show-strength-but-there-are-a-few-things-to-watch-out-for)
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 3% in 2022 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-06-14-gartner-forecasts-worldwide-it-spending-to-grow-3-percent-in-2022)
How Cloudflare emerged to take on AWS, Azure, and GCP (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3668197/how-cloudflare-emerged-to-take-on-aws-azure-and-gcp.html?utm_content=content&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic)
Relevant to your Interests
Apple beats on revenue and profit, expects growth to accelerate despite 'pockets of softness' (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/apple-aapl-earnings-q3-2022.html)
Instagram walks back its changes (https://www.platformer.news/p/-instagram-walks-back-its-changes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)
Meta posts its first-ever quarterly revenue decline (https://www.axios.com/2022/07/27/meta-quarterly-revenue-decline-earnings?utm_source[%E2%80%A6]utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=tophttps://www.axios.com/2022/07/27/meta-quarterly-revenue-decline-earnings?utm_source[%E2%80%A6]utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Why Kylie is mad at Instagram? (https://om.co/2022/07/26/why-kylie-is-mad-at-instagram-explained/)
There is a path to replace TCP in the datacenter (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/27/replace_tcp_datacenter/)
CHIPS for America Act (https://twitter.com/SBIndyNews/status/1552445739736989697)e
JetBlue agrees to buy Spirit for $3.8B. It would create the 5th largest U.S. airline (https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114226031/jetblue-spirit-deal-merger)
The pandemic impulse purchases we grew to hate (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23279350/pandemic-consumer-buys-peloton-bike-games-dog-covid?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email)
AMD and Nvidia leaks show we are drunk on power, and the hangover is going to be brutal (https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-and-nvidia-leaks-show-we-are-drunk-on-power-and-the-hangover-is-going-to-be-brutal)
Intel To Wind Down Optane Memory Business - 3D XPoint Storage Tech Reaches Its (https://www.anandtech.com/show/17515/intel-to-wind-down-optane-memory-business)
On the huge importance of non-tech roles in Open Source: Empirical study on NPM - Livable Software (https://livablesoftware.com/importance-of-non-tech-contributor-roles-open-source/)
VMware Fusion beta joins Parallels in supporting Windows VMs on Apple Silicon (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/newest-vmware-fusion-beta-supports-windows-11-on-apple-silicon-macs/)
Apple Arcade finally got the boost it needed (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/7/22370217/apple-arcade-fantasian-nba2k-wonderbox-classics-netflix)
Apple Nabs Key Lamborghini Executive to Work on Its Electric Car (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/apple-nabs-key-lamborghini-executive-to-work-on-its-electric-car?utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew)
IBM board of directors investigates sales fraud claims (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/exclusive_ibm_board_of_directors/)
Apparently Linus Torvalds is using an M2 Mac? (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1659428218962219)
Oracle Cuts Workers in US Customer Experience Unit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-01/oracle-cuts-workers-in-us-customer-analytics-division)
Gmail gets a new look and tighter intergration to celebrate 18 years of service (https://www.xda-developers.com/gmail-new-look-tighter-intergration-18-years/)
Uber reports positive cash flow for first time (https://www.ft.com/content/a454447f-c0b9-44fc-a24a-2781f1b7717e)
Pinterest shares surge after Elliott discloses it is the largest shareholder (https://www.reuters.com/technology/elliott-says-it-is-largest-sharesholder-pinterest-2022-08-01/)
How Kubernetes Reinvented Virtual Machines (in a good sense) (https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/kubernetes-vs-virtual-machines/)
Former VMware Star Sanjay Poonen Becomes CEO Of Cohesity (https://twitter.com/datachick/status/1554482007438237698)
Thoma Bravo picks up Ping Identity for $2.8B in an all-cash deal (https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/03/thoma-bravo-picks-up-ping-identity-for-2-8b-in-an-all-cash-deal/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJnqIsV7eSB4aeKNW7V9HidMxohTjY2dtNtainWRjHXiv7ApDViwdsq6K_9LBJIVnI3ylbHjASvuAqEijvmNUyuW8DaHp0rSZ7uten5Sz6_DUKqUxifms2H-6Yk6TW5i8i9UXqTNsT_vhnMMFzJUp7OTTzNaXAfmzM0PqPtmoFdH)
Software Is No Longer Eating The World (https://webtwoboomer.com/software-is-no-longer-eating-the-world-109785eb9d4f)
GitLab plans to delete dormant projects from free accounts (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention_policy/)
Raspberry Pi Zero vs MangoPi MQ Pro Benchmarks (https://bret.dk/raspberry-pi-zero-vs-mangopi-mq-pro-benchmarks/)
Highest. Close. Ever. - All Star Charts (https://allstarcharts.com/highest-close-ever/)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (https://www.platformonomics.com/2022/07/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/)
Nonsense
Murder Hornets get new name (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04EK1VBK/p1659024319485459)
An Australian Artist Pulled a Pickle from a McDonald’s Cheeseburger and Slapped It on a Gallery's Ceiling. Now It Costs $6,200 (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pickle-artist-2152731)
MAKRO | Microsoft Excel Stream Highlights 3/19 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY)
British Airways suspends the sale of short-haul flight tickets from Heathrow (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/02/british-airways-suspends-short-haul-flight-tickets-from-heathrow.html)
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Listener Feedback
Slack is increasing prices, changing how its free plan works (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/18/slack-is-increasing-prices-and-changing-the-way-its-free-plan-works/)
What is DevRel? (https://www.whatisdevrel.com/) — Cloudcast Podcast
Good discussion on changing jobs in SDT Slack (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/CEJ12RBJA/p1659459039423009)
Conferences
Register for the SDT Austin Meetup August 27th at 6:30 PM (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-meetup-in-austin-tx-tickets-396650401027) ****
DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/), August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512).
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
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Recommendations
Brandon: Ambulance (https://www.ambulance.movie) and The Terminal List (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11743610/)
Ringer Podcast: ‘The Gray Man’ and the Top 10 Trash Special Ops Movies (https://www.theringer.com/2022/7/29/23283211/the-gray-man-and-the-top-10-trash-special-ops-movies)
Matt: (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW)Jabulani Challenge (https://jabulanichallenge.com.au/)
City2Surf (https://www.city2surf.com.au/)
Coté: Vienna. Specifically: 12 Bruegels (https://www.khm.at/en/visit/collections/picture-gallery/the-best-of-bruegel-only-in-vienna/), old movies at old cinemas, Miznon (https://www.miznonvienna.com/).
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8/5/2022 • 47 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 370: In the long run…
This week we discuss developer toil, local vs. remote development and Facebook’s management woes. Plus, some thoughts on business books…
Runner-up Titles
The Instant Acquisition
Belly of the Beast
We can’t be bothered, but we bothered
I’m done with that
I don’t have those problems
More Money, More Weirdness
Occam’s Razor is always handy
Ghost ride it into production
Let’s take the offline online
We’re just doing stuff with computers
Rundown
Coté and Brian attempt to summarize Facebook’s current state (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1658919353110909?thread_ts=1658853863.040209&cid=C6CDLDCVB).
Developer Toil: The Hidden Tech Debt (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/developer-toil-the-hidden-tech-debt?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_content=SDT370)
Original webinar, from Susie and Tyson (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/may-6-tech-debt-audit-how-to-prioritize-and-reduce-the-tech-debt-that-matters-most?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=Global_P2_BT_Q220_Tech-Debt-Audit&utm_content=20220127techdebtwebinarwatchparty).
Will Local Dev ever go away? (https://twitter.com/bernhardsson/status/1551241460749668355?s=21&t=Rd250F4rR6CGACqvAvWNVQ) and Swyx’s take (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1533910738942562304)
Relevant to your Interests
How to Misuse & Abuse DORA Metrics (https://abinoda.substack.com/p/misuse-dora?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct)
Elon Musk’s Friendship With Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair (https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-affair-sergey-brin-wife-divorce-11658674840?page=1)
Non-Obvious Docker Uses (https://matt-rickard.com/non-obvious-docker-uses/)
T-Mobile agrees to cough up $500 million for its disastrous data breach last year (https://www.androidpolice.com/t-mobile-500-million-settle-disastrous-data-breach/)
AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's cloud licenses (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/25/aws_slams_microsoft_cloud_licenses/)
NFL enters media streaming market with 'NFL+' (https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34293043/nfl-enters-media-streaming-marketplace-nfl+-service)
How Software Is Stifling Competition and Slowing Innovation (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/business/software-james-bessen-book.html)
San Francisco Races Clock for Comeback With Tech Gloom Deepening (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-25/san-francisco-tries-to-lure-remote-workers-to-offices-as-tech-gloom-swirls)
DALL·E 2 (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/)
Adam Mosseri on Insta Changes (https://twitter.com/mosseri/status/1551890839584088065)
Here are the 37 tech companies most likely to be acquired by private-equity firms after valuations plunged, according to bankers and private data (https://www.businessinsider.com/37-tech-companies-most-likely-acquired-private-equity-lbo-2022-7)
Clouded Judgement — Recession Impact (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-72222?utm_medium=email&%3Butm_campaign=cta&%3Baction=share&utm_source=substack)
Nonsense
A new plasma robot can dig tunnels 100 times faster and 98% cheaper (https://interestingengineering.com/a-new-plasma-boring-robot-can-dig-tunnels-100-times-faster-and-98-cheaper)
Mattel to launch SpaceX vehicles as new Matchbox toys and collectibles (https://www.space.com/mattel-spacex-rockets-toys-collectibles)
The US Records Its First Case Of Polio Since 2013 (https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-records-its-first-case-of-polio-since-2013-64556)
Urgent Care with Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1551807292718600192?s=21&t=Wf3G1SSTwRtDaZOCSWIUPw)
Listener Feedback
Demo of Apple Badges at the 187 Buildings (https://t.yesware.com/tt/740736faf72e77cb6d58a854f7821c9cfc324626/10219ebf44dbd66341ef721c919e72a9/0d5ae0606487c84cebb763c9a92afb67/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8k6VqRDsdE)
Chase wants you to work at Octopus Energy Group (https://octopusenergy.group/)
UK Lead Platform Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/0dce210e-6b16-4287-9bce-b133e9d2a30f)
UK Senior Platform Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/ac0f94c5-1ec5-48bc-be96-10399948f14c)
APAC Platform Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/d0976d8f-90df-46ab-9942-6e01b1332cd8)
US Platform Engineer (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/c89812b8-8ae8-47c8-869c-f26273e6492c)
Opportunities globally (https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy)
Work with Matt Ray: Kubecost hiring Product Manager in US (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3191662780/?refId=5fll6MecQC23Dr%2Bc0Mnzew%3D%3D)
Conferences
Coté’s August 4th webinar on platform engineering (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/springone-tour-apj/aug-4-why-you-should-treat-your-platform-as-a-product?utm_campaign=devrel&utm_source=cote&utm_medium=social) - register and watch (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/springone-tour-apj/aug-4-why-you-should-treat-your-platform-as-a-product?utm_campaign=devrel&utm_source=cote&utm_medium=social), my homies
DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/), August 24-25, 2022 - Coté speaking, along with John Willis, Andrew Shafer, and friends
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?srccode=na_pxkba4ap4tgmb&cid=7012H000001KawVQAS) - Coté’s pitch (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1551895600270016512).
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Global Entry Enrollment on Arrival (https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/enrollment-arrival)
Viajero Confiable Mexico (https://www.gob.mx/inm/acciones-y-programas/viajero-confiable-mexico-en)
Matt: (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW)Synology MR2200ac Mesh Wi-Fi Router (https://amzn.to/3Ji2JQD)
The Maintenance Race (https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race/)
Coté: Truefitt & Hill Shaving Cream Bowl - Trafalgar | Smooth Glide for Incredibly Close, Yet Comfortable Hydrating Shave, 6.7 ounces (https://www.amazon.com/Truefitt-Hill-Shaving-Cream-Trafalgar/dp/B00095OP8O)
Photo Credits
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/mo3FOTG62ao)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/TZIH-fDKzvY)
7/29/2022 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 369: DJ .pptx FINAL_0707-V2
If capitalism is so great, why aren’t we working less? We discuss the potential for the GDP to finally do something for us, plus simplifying “sovereign cloud” and the potential of containers with their own jurisdiction. Also, thoughts on PowerPoint filenames.
Runner-up Titles
Also true, Less Money, Mo Problems
Should have just been titled “Mo’ Problems.”
Pancakes in Australia
Australian names for pancakes: jackies, thin roundies, carbo-jacks, Yankee Breakfast Discs, flappies/flappos.
Rentie and Rentos - “I’m renting, so it’s terrible.”
Presentation-Final-V2.pptx
DJ .PPTX Final_V2
I learned nothing about slide naming in college
conferencekeynote-roughdraftfeedbackwelcome.pptx
The Software Defined Fund
Surfboard popped up and slapped my willies.
Lean into it, or be leaned into.
Rundown
Sovereign cloud as a test of cloud differentiation
Microsoft adding in more sovereign cloud stuff (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-cloud-for-sovereignty-to-its-line-up/) .
There’s a stack of software you can move to different Datacenters globally, and you can bind compote and data to that region.
How different are each of the clouds? Do they offer kind of the same things?
Do they have patent fights over things to prevent each other from copying capabilities?
Is differentiation in price and their management skills? Performance based on how they they spend on the hardware?
TextExpander gets $41.4m funding round (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/21/textexpander-which-lets-users-build-shortcuts-to-speed-up-business-communications-raises-41-4m-its-first-ever-funding/)
Marco Polo is no more, people gave up.
Wut? Such confusion.
Says they have 100,000 monthly users - what is the math there?
TextExpander origin story (https://textexpander.com/sin-categorizar/our-startup-story) .
If we can’t work less, what’s the point of all this capitalism?
No one wants to work on Friday (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/07/15/its-official-fridays-office-are-over/) .
Coté’s too many types of screw drivers point in another form.
See also “what did GDP ever do for me?”
A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore (https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544) .
Relevant to your Interests
Tau T2A is first Compute Engine VM to run on Arm | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tau-t2a-is-first-compute-engine-vm-on-an-arm-chip)
First Cyber Safety Review Board report finds Log4j has become an ‘endemic vulnerability’ (https://therecord.media/first-cyber-safety-review-board-report-finds-log4j-has-become-an-endemic-vulnerability/)
Matt Levine On What to Watch In Twitter vs. Elon Musk — Odd Lots (https://overcast.fm/+5AWNuS__g)
Microsoft tapped to provide advertising on ad-supported Netflix tier (https://siliconangle.com/2022/07/13/microsoft-tapped-provide-advertising-ad-supported-netflix-tier/)
Steering with a Madman in the Car (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/steering-madman-car-rory-o-driscoll/)
Unity caught some dogfood poisoning (https://twitter.com/holdenlink/status/1547733215695106049?s=21&t=ZISftEOcILLedscGcYiDaA)
IBM shares slide after company trims cash forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/18/ibm-earnings-q2-2022.html)
Netflix loses nearly 1 million subscribers, and its stock soars (https://stocks.apple.com/AEzC4lR8VSnCJ8pP0usCQwQ)
http://free-for.dev (http://free-for.dev/)
Nutanix Objects Violates MinIO’s Open Source License (https://blog.min.io/nutanix-objects-violates-minios-open-source-license/)
Amazon and One Medical agree to acquisition of One Medical (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-and-one-medical-sign-an-agreement-for-amazon-to-acquire-one-medical)
Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++ (https://thenewstack.io/google-launches-carbon-an-experimental-replacement-for-c/)
a16z is Moving to the Cloud (https://a16z.com/2022/07/21/a16z-is-moving-to-the-cloud/)
The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox (https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/)
Microsoft is adding video stories to Teams to liven up the chat app (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/microsoft-launches-viva-engage-with-stories-video-feature.html)
Google, Oracle cloud servers suffer outage in UK heatwave (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/19/google_oracle_cloud/)
Nonsense
Pringles Texas BBQ Sauce chips, review from two Texans (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRrerXJE/?k=1)
Next level Excel (https://twitter.com/asmith83/status/1549373680496656385)
Nerd Power Move (https://twitter.com/MasterActual/status/1547013912146616321?s=20&t=T4yCyLMYvQQDdpaEvItWyQ)
https://www.amazon.com/Router-Guard-Large-WiFi/dp/B07MXD75TR (https://www.amazon.com/Router-Guard-Large-WiFi/dp/B07MXD75TR)
America’s Love Affair With Iced Drinks (https://apple.news/A8t_aLscDS7CwWTHW6Qidhg)
Lawn Mowing Simulator will be free on the Epic Games Store next week (https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/07/epic-games-store-free-july-21)
Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/) , July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x) , July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
DevOpsDays DFW (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-dallas/welcome/) , August 24-25, 2022 -
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt) , SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023,
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) .
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) , so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Matt: Sydney Harbour 10k (http://sydneyharbour10k.com.au/)
Coté: Silverview (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58133677-silverview) .
7/22/2022 • 56 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 368: Managing Cloud Costs
Barton George interviews Matt Ray about how to manage costs in the cloud.
Links
FinOps Foundation (https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/)
OpenCost (https://www.opencost.io/)
Kubecost (https://www.kubecost.com)
Photo Credits
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/3-Tc_5LROrM)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/djb1whucfBY)
Special Guest: Barton George.
7/19/2022 • 21 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 367: Exit Ramps
This week we discuss Musk vs. Twitter, Apple Wallet Employee Badges and using Slack for incident management with Incident.io. Plus, some thoughts on European Highways…
Runner-up Titles
Tasty Jambalaya
Cars Rules
Exit Ramps
The Autobahn
The Driving Episode
Muscle Memory
Norman Doors
Screenshotting
Screensharts
Count the pixels
Digital Nirvana
Free Ketchup
An ROI cul-de-sac
Rundown
Musk vs. Twitter
Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/08/elon-musk-notifies-twitter-he-is-terminating-deal.html)
How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/technology/elon-musk-twitter-damaged.html)
Digital Transformation mean outages in IRL
A DoorDash glitch temporarily allowed hundreds of users to order free food (https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1545596276271566848?s=21&t=8IJ2hDk6a0d1t226lEORrw)
American Airlines pilots get triple pay for trips dropped in scheduling glitch (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/06/-american-airlines-pilots-get-triple-pay-for-trips-dropped-in-scheduling-glitch.html)
167 Green Launches Employee Badge In Apple Wallet For All Tenants (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/167-green-launches-employee-badge-in-apple-wallet-for-all-tenants-301584857.html)
Incident.io raises $28.7M for Slack-based incident response (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/13/incident-io-looks-to-beef-up-its-slack-based-incident-response-platform-with-28-7m-in-fresh-cash/)
Relevant to your Interests
Storage firm Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyr (https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/07/06/storage-firm-drobo-has-filed-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy)
Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore (https://www.theverge.com/23196764/netflix-culture-ted-sarandos-employee-feedback-dave-chappelle-controversy)
PlayStation Store removes purchased movies from libraries after service shutdown (https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23199861/playstation-store-film-tv-show-removed-austria-germany-studiocanal)
AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/aws_m1_macs_ec2_ga/)
Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft)
South by Southwest in Australia: Austin event plans a Down Under version in 2023 (https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2022/06/30/south-by-southwest-plans-australian-event-sxsw-sydney-lineup-2023/7772398001/)
Nothing (event): Return to Instinct. (https://us.nothing.tech/pages/event)
Oracle Considered $1B In Cuts, ‘Thousands’ Of Layoffs: Report | CRN (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/oracle-considered-1b-in-cuts-thousands-of-layoffs-report)
YouTube Rolling Out Picture-in-Picture Support on iOS for All U.S. Users, (https://twitter.com/MacRumors/status/1546603375927603201)
Eligible customers can now order a free MFA security key | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/eligible-customers-can-now-order-a-free-mfa-security-key/)
SingleStore raises additional cash to grow database business (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/singlestore-raises-additional-40m-to-grow-its-database-business/)
BMW is now selling a monthly subscription service for heated seats (https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1546871470256783361?s=20&t=q5LdjUzALd8r_TpqQs9nZw)
Inside a radical new project to democratize AI (https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/)
Honda key fob flaw lets hackers remotely unlock, start cars (https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/honda-key-fob-flaw-hackers/)
Spotify to acquire music trivia game Heardle (https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/spotify-acquire-heardle-music-trivia-game?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
AWS squashes authentication bugs in Kubernetes service (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/12/authentication_bug_aws_kubernetes/)
Evan Williams Is Stepping Down as C.E.O. of Medium (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/business/media/evan-williams-leaving-medium.html)
Nonsense
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll)
Liam Dutton nails pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM)
I compared food courts at Sam's Club and Costco, and this is why Costco comes out on top (https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-vs-sams-food-court-comparison-photos-hot-dogs-pizza-soda-2022-7)
Every Windows boot screen ever! (https://twitter.com/ntdev_/status/1546261307640397832?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
Tricentis - Deliver cloud-based applications with confidence. (https://www.tricentis.com/cloudmigration/)
Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023,
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: GE Profile Opal (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW). (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW) (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Profile-Countertop-Nugget-Maker/dp/B07YF9SGBW)
Coté: History of The Netherlands (https://www.republicofamsterdamradio.com/historyofthenetherlands) podcast (https://www.republicofamsterdamradio.com/historyofthenetherlands).
Photo Credits
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/7nrsVjvALnA)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/fEedoypsW_U)
7/15/2022 • 58 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 366: 'Zero mainframe, zero datacenter'
This week we discuss Fedex going all-in on cloud, app modernization at the IRS and how to take unlimited PTO. Plus, some thoughts on rental property and telling time.
Runner-up Titles
Spreadsheets in your mind
More ETF less Van Gogh
The baby likes ducks
The sticky stuff was not working
I’ve read books
Modernization takes 30 to 40 years
No time is good
Can I go to the beach
Take a vacation
The Kitchen Table Board
Rundown
A scheduling glitch temporarily canceled thousands of American Airlines flights (https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1109592782/american-airlines-flights-canceled-glitch)
Amazon, Microsoft, Google Strengthen Grip on Cloud (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-microsoft-google-strengthen-grip-on-cloud-11657018980?st=tgisntn6fwhaeii)
Cloud infrastructure spend to top non-cloud in 2022 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/04/idc_cloud_spend_predictions/)
Brian has thoughts see Slack Thread (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1657112482499439?thread_ts=1657110807.269759&cid=C6CDLDCVB)
FedEx to close all datacenters by 2024 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/fedex_to_close_all_datacenters/)
Mark Zuckerberg: We’re ‘turning up the heat’ at Meta so employees will quit (https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/mark-zuckerberg-meta-wants-to-oust-workers-who-shouldnt-be-here/)
Relevant to your Interests
AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/01/aws_eks_anywhere_bare_metal/)
Bessemer is now an RIA (https://twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/1542973289609322496)
Exclusive: Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-meta-girds-fierce-headwinds-slower-growth-second-half-memo-2022-06-30/)
Azure said to be having capacity issues, supply chain blamed (https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/04/azure_capacity_issues/)
Need A Linux Kernel Module? Scratch That (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/04/need-a-linux-kernel-module-scratch-that/)
Leaked Videos Show Disney Is the Biggest Ad Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of (https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkp57/leaked-videos-show-disney-is-the-biggest-ad-tech-giant-youve-never-heard-of)
NIST unveils four algorithms that will underpin new 'quantum-proof' cryptography standards (https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/emerging-technology/nist-unveils-four-algorithms-that-will-underpin-new-quantum-proof-cryptography-standards)
Amazon Bringing Grubhub To Prime Users After Buying 2% Stake (https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/07/06/amazon-bringing-grubhub-to-prime-users-after-buying-2-stake/?sh=52f77aa01d40)
A Look Back at Q1 '22 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q1-22-public-cloud?utm_medium=email&%3Butm_campaign=cta&%3Baction=share&utm_source=substack)
Oracle slashes minimum commitment for on-prem cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/oracle_on_prem_cloud/)
Euro slides to 20-year low against the dollar as recession fears build (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/05/euro-slides-to-20-year-low-against-the-dollar-as-recession-fears-build.html)
Nonsense
I fucking hate Jira. (https://ifuckinghatejira.com/)
This Nuclear-Powered ‘Flying Hotel’ Can Stay Airborne for Years (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH1n4vpJRQ8)
Dave & Buster’s completes its Main Event acquisition (https://restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/dave-busters-completes-its-main-event-acquisition)
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023,
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Shining Girls (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/shining_girls)
Coté: renting bikes at Het Zwarte Fietsenplan (https://www.hetzwartefietsenplan.com).
Photo Credits
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/6ZXbiz1Urrs)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/1gMmmVdcIl8)
7/8/2022 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 365: Automating for Auditing
This week we discuss the Stack Overflow Dev Survey, Securing the Supply Chain and Slack Huddles. Plus, some thoughts on coffee down under.
Runner-up Titles
Waiting for my wife to get up and out of the bedroom/office
My wife is still asleep
I feel a Liberal Arts rant coming on
That’s not the full stack baby
How deep does this chasm go?
This was your chance to own the SaaS 10 years ago
Rundown
Starbucks down under (https://twitter.com/franchisewolf/status/1541032303861739520)
Why there are almost no Starbucks in Australia (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/starbucks-australia-coffee-failure.html)
Survey Says
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/)
The 10th Annual Open Source Jobs Report - Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/tools/the-10th-annual-open-source-jobs-report/?utm_campaign=OSSUMMIT-2022&utm_content=212390733&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-14706299)
Supply Chain
Aqua Security and CIS release first formal guidelines for software supply chain (https://flip.it/I3T0Nc)
Direct link to CIS Doc (https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/7555/sections/942026)
Chain Bench (https://github.com/aquasecurity/chain-bench)
The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security (https://www.slim.ai/blog/the-4-s-s-of-software-supply-chain-security.html)
Productivity
The Future of Slack Looks a Lot Like Zoom (https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-slack-looks-a-lot-like-zoom/)
Discord Improved My Marriage (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/discord-improved-my-marriage/)
IBM’s first cloudy mainframes scheduled to launch June 30 (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/29/ibm_cloud_mainframe_launch/)
Relevant to your Interests
Netflix Cuts 300 Employees In New Round of Layoffs (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflix-cuts-300-employees-in-new-round-of-layoffs-1235157991/)
Remote Workers Make More Money, Cloud Salary Survey Says (https://thenewstack.io/remote-workers-make-more-money-cloud-salary-survey-says/)
Amazon has a plan to make Alexa mimic anyone's voice (https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-has-plan-make-alexa-mimic-anyones-voice-2022-06-22/)
Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature (Update: confirmed) – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/21/twitter-to-expand-into-long-form-content-with-upcoming-twitter-notes-feature/)
Google is paying the Wikimedia Foundation for better access to information (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/22/23178245/google-paying-wikimedia-foundation-information)
Oracle slashes minimum commitment for on-prem cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/oracle_on_prem_cloud/)
Zendesk to Be Acquired by Investor Group Led by Hellman & Friedman and Permira for $10.2 Billion (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220624005233/en/Zendesk-to-Be-Acquired-by-Investor-Group-Led-by-Hellman-Friedman-and-Permira-for-10.2-Billion?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
He's the first buyer of the electric F-150. Why he's the future of the car industry (https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1104920656/ford-electric-f150-lightning-electric-vehicles-automakers)
Here’s Google’s letter saying employees can relocate to states with abortion rights (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/24/23182288/google-letter-email-employees-roe-v-wade-decision)
Report: Apple is gearing up to launch a ‘flood’ of new devices starting this fall (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/26/23183875/apple-gearing-up-launch-flood-new-devices-this-fall-m2-chip-macbook-iphone-14-watch-series-9)
Valorant Is Planning to Monitor Voice Chat, Tests Begin Next Month (https://www.ign.com/articles/valorant-monitor-voice-chat-tests-begin-next-month)
Politics trumps business in Truth Social’s war on Big Tech (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-truth-social/)
Geofence and keyword warrants (https://thehustle.co/06282022-geofence-warrants/)
The GitOps market: driving progressive delivery and experimentation's expansion by The Art of Modern Ops (https://soundcloud.com/user-718131608/the-gitops-market-driving-progressive-delivery-and-experimentations-expansion/s-K1R91NkC4DD?si=067997b06f4e49c6b2ca6ce2fa670e08&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
Jeffrey Snover retires (https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1541447375369097217)
Pinterest CEO steps down, Google executive to take over in e-commerce push (https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/tech/pinterest-ceo/index.html)
VMware Unveils vSphere+ and vSAN+ (https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-unveils-vsphere-plus-and-vsan-plus)
Consentomatic (https://consentomatic.au.dk/)
Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable (https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/analysis/atlassian-unprofitable-valuation-adam-schwab/)
Google Workspace head Javier Soltero is leaving the company (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/google-workspace-javier-soltero-leaving)
DevOps is a failure | lbr. (https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2022/06/21/devops-is-a-failure)
Developer-Led Landscape: Complexity, Automation & A Future of Autonomous Development (https://tylerjewell.substack.com/p/complexity-automation-autonomous-development?utm_source=email)
How Thomas Kurian made Google Cloud into an enterprise-first company (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian)
Nonsense
New favorite #barcelona #bar #travel #spain #abroad (https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahhands/video/7112453214980607275)
SXSW expands to Australia for 2023 (https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/sxsw-expands-to-australia-for-2023/)
Listener Feedback
There are indeed a Smart Sprinkler System: Rachio Smart Sprinkler Controllers (https://rachio.com/) and Rain Bird (https://www.rainbird.com/professionals/products/controllers)
Conferences
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Discount code: DEVOP
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023,
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Gmail Top Senders Script (https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2019/08/26/finding_the_most_frequent_senders_in_your_gmail_account.html), Google Storage Manager (https://one.google.com/storage/management) and Gmail Search Operators (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en)
Brandon’s on the Cloudcast this week: A 2022 Mid-Year Cloud Update (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/06/a-2022-mid-year-cloud-update.html)
Matt: MangoPi MQ-PRO (https://mangopi.cc/mangopi_mqpro) (RISC-V SBC)
Photo Credits
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/49uySSA678U)
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/CHlb47sc_O8)
7/1/2022 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 364: First class SaaS
This week we discuss the rise of WASM, Cloudflare’s Post Mortem, Oracle Cloud news and the future of CAPTCHAs. Plus, some thoughts on buzzwords, sprinklers and dogs.
Runner-up Titles
Chrome fixes everything
Plateau of Productivity
When the curve nopes.
When the parabola yeets.
First class SaaS
Thanks for the legwork fool
The cash cow has run out of milk
Sign-a-tar
Tumbler is now HIPAA compliant
Working has its privileges
Let go of this dog now
Rundown
Fermyon Launches With First Cloud-Native WebAssembly PaaS (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/06/21/2466499/0/en/Fermyon-Launches-With-First-Cloud-Native-WebAssembly-PaaS-for-Developers-Creating-Microservice-Based-Apps-Raises-6-Million-Seed-Funding-Led-by-Amplify-Partners.html)
Cloudflare
Cloudflare Post Mortem (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-june-21-2022/)
Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/massive-cloudflare-outage-caused-by-network-configuration-error/)
The Hardest Working Office Design In America Encrypts Your Data–With Lava Lamps (https://www.fastcompany.com/90137157/the-hardest-working-office-design-in-america-encrypts-your-data-with-lava-lamps)
Oracle
Oracle Versus Amazon: Oracle Will Rip and Replace AWS at Cerner (https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/oracle-versus-amazon-oracle-will-rip-and-replace-aws-at-cerner/)
Exclusive: TikTok moves U.S. user data to Oracle servers (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-tiktok-moves-us-user-data-oracle-servers-company-2022-06-17/)
DocuSign CEO Dan Springer steps down (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/docusign-ceo-dan-springer-steps-down.html)
Removing people from security
Password policies of 120 websites (https://passwordpolicies.cs.princeton.edu/> <https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVTmokvUcAAcZM3.png)
iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/20/ios-16-bypass-captchas/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s First Year on the Job: Undoing Bezos-Led Overexpansion (https://www.wsj.com/articles/andy-jassy-amazon-bezos-overexpansion-11655383388?mod=djemalertNEWS)
Senate considers ban on data brokers selling health and location info (https://www.engadget.com/senate-health-and-location-data-protection-act-bill-160829066.html)
Full List of Data Broker Opt-Out Guides: How to opt-out of the internet (https://joindeleteme.com/help/deleteme-help-topics/opt-out-guide/)
Anna Sorokin plans to launch an NFT collection (https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/anna-delvey-nft-interview-rcna33811?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew)
Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites – The Markup (https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites)
Median software multiple is now 5.7x. (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1536370793399001090)
The 3-Day Return to Office Is, So Far, a Dud (https://www.curbed.com/2022/06/hybrid-3-day-return-office-apple-google-remote-work.html)
The Big Winners and Losers From the Remote Work Revolution (https://www.theringer.com/2022/6/17/23172139/the-big-winners-and-losers-from-the-remote-work-revolution-julia-hobsbawm)
I Should Be Able to Mute America (https://www.gawker.com/culture/i-should-be-able-to-mute-america)
Capital One fraudster got in via 'misconfigured' AWS storage (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/captial_one_wire_fraud/)
Better.com loses three more senior executives, including SVP and VP of sales (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/21/better-com-loses-three-more-senior-executives-including-svp-and-vp-of-sales/)
Veza Raises $110M in Funding - FinSMEs (https://www.finsmes.com/2022/04/veza-raises-110m-in-funding.html)
The 4th S of Software Supply Chain Security (https://www.slim.ai/blog/the-4-s-s-of-software-supply-chain-security.html)
Nonsense
The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle - NDC Oslo 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcFBwt1nu2U)
Jira gets fired by ClickUp - Exit Interview commercial advertisement (https://youtu.be/LPCUAgzUt2k)
Amazon demos Alexa reading a bedtime story in the voice of a boy's deceased grandma (https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-demos-alexa-reading-a-bedtime-story-in-the-voice-of-a-boys-deceased-grandma/)
Could You Really Not Just Put This In An Email? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcuP3VLFj70)
Listener Feedback / Jobs
Mantalus hiring Client Account Executive in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3129118727)
Conferences
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for ****$50 off 4-Day everything ticket
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DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023,
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: The Old Man (https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-old-man) **on FX/Hulu
Matt: Patagonia Black Hole 25L (https://www.patagonia.com/product/black-hole-pack-25-liters/49297.html)
Coté: Elgato 4k Cam Link (https://www.elgato.com/en/cam-link-4k).
Photo Credits
Wall of Entropy (https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/wB9iWZKwljw)
6/24/2022 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 363: Bad Bosses
This week we discuss Oracle buying Corner, drama at Coinbase and the Gartner MQ for Observability. Plus, some thoughts on European Design Style…
Runner-up Titles
Secular Winds.
Internet Hygiene
Don’t Bang the Table
Do you own a motorcycle?
The Hilda World-building Executive Retreat for Toxic Crytpo Execs.
That’s some flavor
Client/server Bias.
Power of Privilege
Rundown
Everyone tries to fix verticals like healthcare but can an outsider really do it?
Oracle thinks it can fix healthcare’s biggest tech issue (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23162503/oracle-cerner-health-records-data-interoperability)
Oracle stock jumps 9% on strong cloud revenue (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-stock-jumps-9-on-strong-cloud-revenue-11655151953)
CEO Bias
Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses (https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62a7fbc951acba00209259f5/elon-musk-brian-armstrong-coinbase-crypto/)
Coinbase CEO Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1535304943728414721)
An Open letter to Elon… (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170228/spacex-elon-musk-internal-open-letter-behavior)
Productivity
Google’s changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23166474/google-calendar-gmail-invite-redesign-updated-info)
Who the **** Enjoys Using Outlook? (https://slate.com/technology/2022/06/gmail-versus-outlook.html)
Honeycomb Cements Its Position as a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - Honeycomb (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycomb-leader-observability-gartnermq)
Relevant to your Interests
Introducing Achievements: recognizing the many stages of a developer’s coding journey | The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/2022-06-09-introducing-achievements-recognizing-the-many-stages-of-a-developers-coding-journey/)
Microsoft’s new Xbox TV app streams games without a console later this month (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/9/23159460/microsoft-xbox-tv-app-samsung-2022-tv-xbox-cloud-gaming-streaming)
MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/10/apple-m1-unpatchable-flaw/)
Spotify comes for audiobooks (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/9/23161536/spotify-audiobooks-amazon-audible-podcasts)
Joe Beda retires, sort of. (http://: <https://twitter.com/jbeda/status/1535319525851205633)
Microsoft will soon post salary ranges for ALL job openings (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10901943/Microsoft-major-employer-post-salary-ranges-job-openings.html)
Amazon Prime Air prepares for drone deliveries (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-prepares-for-drone-deliveries)
Apple CEO Tim Cook heaps praise on ‘cutting-edge’ Chinese software developers (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3181696/apple-ceo-tim-cook-expects-continued-growth-cutting-edge-chinese)
The Origin of Git (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1536832603411451905?s=21&t=MOP-Q2LxtK9mGe8b5NyXCg)
Snowflake switches gears, from data warehouse to application cloud (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3663700/snowflake-switches-gears-from-data-warehouse-to-application-cloud.html)
The Washington Post is not selling its software business, despite offers (https://www.axios.com/2022/06/14/wapo-arcxp-not-selling-tech-business?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top)
Nonsense
The SDT THREAD is now over 7k messages. (https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk/status/1537479093595168768)
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
Listener Feedback / Jobs
Jesus has written the perfect SDT comment. See here. (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C5GPMBXQT/p1654897666362529)
Conferences
FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 for ****$50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 for ****$25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023,
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Top Gun: Maverick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giXco2jaZ_4)
Coté: D&D Adventure Begins (https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products-board-card-games/dd-adventure-begins).
Photo Credits
Header Photo (https://unsplash.com/photos/L7KHB115W6w)
CoverArt (https://unsplash.com/photos/S7PKp7eAEdE)
6/17/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 362: Are we using version control?
This week we discuss work life balance, the State of Continuous Delivery Survey and recap WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on Buddha and parenting…
Runner-up Titles
The Buddha had no kids
The Air Fryer is a PaaS.
Rundown
Work vs. Life
Office workers get little reward for returning to the office – an idle factory is taboo (https://cote.io/2022/06/08/office-workers-get-little-reward-for-returning-to-work-an-idle-factory-is-taboo/)
CEOs had a phenomenal year. Workers, less so (https://thehustle.co/05312022-CEO-vs-Worker-Pay/)
Tesla monitored its employees on Facebook with help of PR firm during 2017 union push (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/tesla-paid-pr-firm-to-surveil-employees-on-facebook-in-2017-union-push.html)
Elon Musk asks all Tesla employees to come back to the office or quit (https://electrek.co/2022/06/01/elon-musk-tesla-employees-come-back-office-or-quit/)
Ford factory workers get 40-hour week (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-workers-get-40-hour-week)
Survey Says
State of Continuous Delivery (https://cd.foundation/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2022/06/The-State-of-CD-Q1-2022.pdf)
Chainguard raises $50M Series A for supply chain security (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/02/chainguard-raises-50m-to-guard-supply-chains/)
WWDC
Apple WWDC 2022: the 16 biggest announcements (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/6/23141939/apple-wwdc-2022-biggest-announcements-ios-16-macbook-air-macos-watchos)
Create macOS or Linux virtual machines - WWDC22 - Videos (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10002/)
Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/macos-ventura-will-extend-rosetta-support-to-linux-virtual-machines/)
All the New Features Coming to Your Mac This Fall (https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ventura-macos-13-preview/)
EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices (https://www.engadget.com/eu-reaches-deal-to-make-usb-c-a-common-charger-for-most-electronic-devices-104605067.html)
Relevant to your Interests
Earnings
HashiCorp quarter (https://siliconangle.com/2022/06/02/kubecost-launches-open-source-opencost-project-keep-lid-kubernetes-spending/https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1532457687778312213?s=21&t=FiXLrZJc1LtYPQyeU27CEg)
MongoDB quarter (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1532094080418607104)
GitLab quarter (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1533906440695316480?s=21&t=K30ROu7mTJp1DgbvYxhDCA)
Salesforce stock jumps as it raises profit forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/31/salesforce-crm-earnings-q1-2023.html)
Tech Valuations Tumble, but Business Software Stocks Are Cushioned by the Cloud (https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-valuations-tumble-but-business-software-stocks-are-cushioned-by-the-cloud-11654164000?mod=djemalertNEWS)
A Framework for Navigating Down Markets (https://future.com/framework-valuation-navigating-down-markets/)
VMware
Good thread (VMware history) (https://twitter.com/jdooley_clt/status/1528688334394077184)
Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/26/broadcom_buying_vmware_makes_sense/)
Broadcom plans 'rapid subscription transition' for VMware (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/27/broadcom_vmware_subscriptions/)
Broadcom buying VMware makes sense for IoT infrastructure (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/26/broadcom_buying_vmware_makes_sense/)
Brian Madden’s brutal and unfiltered thoughts on the Broadcom / VMware deal (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brian-maddens-brutal-unfiltered-thoughts-broadcom-vmware-brian-madden/?trackingId=m%2FeClBkjQxSyYPzRVcnpHQ%3D%3D)
Broadcom will tame the VMware beast (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/27/broadcom-will-tame-vmware-beast/)
VMware Blockchain (https://www.vmware.com/products/blockchain.html)
Bolt, the payments start-up, has begun laying off employees. (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/business/bolt-layoffs.html)
Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists (https://layoffs.fyi/)
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data (https://www.wired.com/story/proton-mail-calendar-drive-vpn/)
OpenStack, except it's outer space, (https://twitter.com/Kemp/status/1530198772872933377)
Microsoft confirms it's taking a 'new approach' with its game streaming device | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-confirms-its-taking-a-new-approach-to-its-game-streaming-device-090144247.html)
How to do fun and interesting executive dinners, round tables, etc. – online and in-person (https://cote.io/2022/05/27/how-to-do-executive-dinners/)
Over 380 000 open Kubernetes API servers | The Shadowserver Foundation (https://www.shadowserver.org/news/over-380-000-open-kubernetes-api-servers/)
Twitter fined $150M for misusing 2FA data (https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252520746/Twitter-fined-150M-for-misusing-2FA-data)
First she documented the alt-right. Now she’s coming for crypto. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/)
Exclusive: Microsoft continues to iterate on an Xbox cloud streaming device codenamed 'Keystone' (https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/exclusive-microsoft-continues-to-iterate-on-an-xbox-cloud-streaming-stick-codenamed-keystone)
Microsoft won't lower software costs on AWS, Google clouds (https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterprisedesktop/news/252520735/Microsoft-wont-lower-software-costs-on-AWS-Google-clouds)
A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta, making her the latest victim of sexual abuse on Meta's platforms, watchdog says (https://www.businessinsider.com/researcher-claims-her-avatar-was-raped-on-metas-metaverse-platform-2022-5)
Forget LinkedIn—Your Next Job Offer Could Come via Slack (https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-hunters-workers-use-slack-to-find-job-offers-fast-11653918510)
Sheryl Sandberg will leave Meta after 14 years this fall (https://www.protocol.com/sheryl-sandberg-meta-coo)
This crypto startup believes 'sex-to-earn' is the future of web3 (https://www.inputmag.com/tech/sexn-crypto-startup-sex-to-earn-web3-nfts)
ExpressVPN rejects CERT-In directives, removes its India servers (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/expressvpn-rejects-cert-in-directives-suspends-india-ops/articleshow/91956961.cms)
MongoDB CTO on (no)SQL, Superapps, and Southeast Asia (https://future.com/mongodb-cto-cloud-providers-southeast-asia/)
Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/1/23149832/google-meet-duo-combination-voice-video)
This VR headset will measure a user's brain activity (https://www.pcgamer.com/this-vr-headset-will-measure-a-users-brain-activity)
Tesla has to respond to increase in phantom braking complaints (https://electrek.co/2022/06/03/tesla-respond-increase-phantom-braking-complaints/)
Amazon’s retail CEO is resigning after 23 years (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/3/23153327/amazon-ceo-consumer-retail-businesses-dave-clark-resigning)
Zoom Hires Greg Tomb as President (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/06/06/2457166/0/en/Zoom-Hires-Greg-Tomb-as-President.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Peloton hires Amazon Web Services executive Liz Coddington as new CFO in latest shakeup (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/07/peloton-hires-amazon-executive-liz-coddington-new-cfo-latest-shakeup/)
Musk accuses Twitter of 'resisting and thwarting' his right to information on fake accounts (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/06/musk-says-twitter-is-refusing-to-share-data-on-spam-accounts.html)
‘A new IBM’: How the tech giant simplified its marketing (https://www.marketingweek.com/ibm-simplifying-marketing/)
Coinbase extends hiring pause for 'foreseeable future' and plans to rescind some offers (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/coinbase-hiring-pause-for-foreseeable-future-and-will-rescind-offers.html)
Evading the Big Blue Name Police (https://www.itjungle.com/2022/06/08/evading-the-big-blue-name-police/)
IBM CEO explains why company offloaded Watson Health (https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/ibm_ceo_arvind_krishna_explains/)
MongoDB fires up new cloud, on-premises releases (https://venturebeat.com/2022/06/07/mongodb-fires-up-new-cloud-on-premise-releases/)
In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/08/elon-musk-twitter-bot-data/)
OpenCost: Open Source Collaboration on Kubernetes Cost Standards (https://thenewstack.io/opencost-open-source-collaboration-on-kubernetes-cost-standards/)
Kubecost launches open-source OpenCost project (https://siliconangle.com/2022/06/02/kubecost-launches-open-source-opencost-project-keep-lid-kubernetes-spending/)
Datadog’s 2022 State of Serverless repor (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/)t (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/)
The IRS needs digital transformation (https://twitter.com/josephzeballos/status/1534189391328976897?s=21&t=uPoXtZtzX-q_GAtodVVbsg)
Oracle quietly closes $28B deal to buy electronic health records company Cerner (https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/07/oracle-quietly-closes-28b-deal-to-buy-electronic-health-records-company-cerner/)
Nonsense
The Cast of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y64UeNeiOM)
WSJ News Exclusive | Justin Timberlake Sells Song Catalog to Blackstone-Backed Fund (https://www.wsj.com/articles/justin-timberlake-sells-song-catalog-to-blackstone-backed-fund-11653557400)
Every person in the U.S. now receives an average of 65 packages a year. (https://twitter.com/mims/status/1529222322686672896)
Spotify Podcasters Are Making $18,000 a Month With Nothing But White Noise (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/how-to-make-money-on-spotify-a-white-noise-podcast-could-bring-you-big-bucks)
Flying ice cream? Unilever links with drone delivery service Flytrex (https://www.fooddive.com/news/flying-ice-cream-unilever-links-with-drone-delivery-service-flytrex/624541/)
Texas to reclaim home of the largest Buc-ee’s (https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-to-reclaim-home-of-the-largest-buc-ees/)
Sponsors
Teleport — The easiest, most secure way to access infrastructure. (https://goteleport.com/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=sdt)
Listener Feedback / Jobs
Tim wants you to work at Biogen as a Global DevOps Lead, Commercial & Medical IT (https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Biogen/743999821251393-global-devops-lead-commercial-medical-it)
Walmart is hiring Principal Software Engineer - Linux Kernel in Sunnyvale, California (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2945555862)
Ryan wants you to work at DataDog as the Vice President, Events and Field Marketing (https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=4252681)
J&J Senior Algorithm Analytics Engineer in Redwood City, California | Medical Devices (https://jobs.jnj.com/jobs/2206008429W?lang=en-us)
NYTimes is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - CI/CD Platform (https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Tech/job/New-York-NY/Staff-Software-Engineer---CI-CD-Platform_REQ-012710)
Conferences
FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOpsDayLA (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/devops-day-la) is happening at SCALE19x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x), July, 29th, 2022
Discount code: DEVOP
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
Discount code: SDTFriendsWI50 - $50 off 4-Day everything ticket
Discount code:: SDTFriendsWI25 - $25 off 3-Day Camper ticket
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/tx/2023/) Jan 16-19, 2023,
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Apple Watch SE (https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-se/?afid=p238%7CsZvcBV5q2-dc_mtid_1870765e38482_pcrid_584606532877_pgrid_117189313172_pntwk_g_pchan__pexid__&cid=aos-us-kwgo-watch--slid---product-) for Tweens
Coté: Matt Levine interview on (https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-490-matt-levine) The Longform podcast (https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-490-matt-levine).
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6/10/2022 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 361: This is Bonkers
This week Brandon is joined by special guest host JJ Ashgiar and they record a live episode at the THAT Conference. Brandon and JJ interview Clark Sell and Brett Slaski about the origins and purpose of the THAT Conference and then the group discusses Broadcom acquiring VMware.
Relevant to your Interests
THAT Conference (https://that.us/that-conference/)
Broadcom to Acquire VMware for Approximately $61 Billion in Cash and Stock (https://www.broadcom.com/company/news/financial-releases/60271)
Guests
Clark Sell (https://that.us/members/clark/)
Brett Slaski (https://that.us/members/brettski/)
Recommendations
Brandon — The Bond King (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Bond-King-Audiobook/1250818656?source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1260658&ds_rl=1263561&gclid=CjwKCAjwyryUBhBSEiwAGN5OCPtAy0WtVF9Sw3HS0KsY-puo-qa_4t4xDOyS0HQjFpAOq26oFO8tOhoCQ70QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
JJ — Between (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5sKv4E2ko)
Photo Credit (https://twitter.com/coridrew/status/1529094510126501889/photo/1) Special Guests: Brett Slaski, Clark Sell, and JJ Asghar.
6/3/2022 • 50 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 360: Radical Transparency
This week we discuss “Radical Transparency,” State of Crypto, IBM’s Cloud Efforts and Zoom’s Earnings. Plus, paying at the pump abroad.
Runner-up Titles
I’m here for the sandwich talk
I want to get back to the garbage chairs
Paying for Petrol
Paying at the Pump
Anonymize your trash
I don’t want to improve
Making life hard for HR
Radical transparency for you, not me
Where’d this public cloud come from?
Don’t ever fall into the trap of sucking
That’s a Circle
Rundown
Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-tests-app-for-employees-to-grade-each-other-during-meetings)
Bridgewater Principles & Culture (https://www.bridgewater.com/principles-and-culture?utm_campaign=BPI-Bridgewater-Capitalism-RR&utm_content=bridgewater%20culture&utm_source=paid-gs)
You need meeting knobs like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsHq-mZI8U)
Seth Green's Stolen NFT Puts His New Animated Bored Ape Series in Jeopardy (https://www.themarysue.com/seth-green-stolen-nfts/)
Adam Neumann’s Web3 Startup Raises $70 Million From VCs, ‘Goddess Nature Token’ (https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gwax/adam-neumanns-web3-startup-raises-dollar70-million-from-vcs-goddess-nature-token)
How Committed Is Big Blue To The IBM Cloud? (https://www.itjungle.com/2022/05/23/how-committed-is-big-blue-to-the-ibm-cloud/)
Zoom’s QTR (https://twitter.com/jaminball/status/1528831823065026560?s=21&t=3K1nAM4G-1fmOzinHP6TbA)
Relevant to your Interests
Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists (https://layoffs.fyi/)
Cloud Foundry Launches Korifi to Ease Kubernetes Development (https://thenewstack.io/cloud-foundry-launches-korifi-to-ease-kubernetes-development/)
Get The Report: State of Observability 2022 (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/form/state-of-observability/)
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/21/lonestar_moon_datacenter/)
Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS | Kubecon + Cloudnativecon Europe 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyMIF4olLWI)
Broadcom in talks to acquire VMware (http://reut.rs/3PwnpHv> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté put the agenda together.
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022, Matt’s there!
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: After Steve (https://www.audible.com/pd/After-Steve-Audiobook/B09CF3K1XT?qid=1653426845&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=FEFPFCQR2E9H1MTGRS5D)
Matt: REI Anniversary Sales (https://www.rei.com/promotions/anniversary-sale)
Screaming in the Cloud: AWS Commerce Platform (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/stepping-onto-the-aws-commerce-platform-with-james-greenfield/)
Reply All: Flying the Coop (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/94hk5ag/187-flying-the-coop)
Coté: The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60900832-the-baby-on-the-fire-escape).
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5/27/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 359: Sell the Slide
This week we discuss the "sum of the parts" of Rackspace, Rocky Linux recreates CentOS and thoughts on the economy. Plus, a debate: rental car vs. Uber.
Rundown
Rackspace Technology Reports First Quarter 2022 Results; Company Evaluating Strategic Alternatives (https://ir.rackspace.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rackspace-technology-reports-first-quarter-2022-results-company)
Cloudflare gets serious about infrastructure services (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/with-new-serverless-database-cloudflare-gets-serious-about-infrastructure-services/)
Rocky Linux developer CIQ raises $26M to recreate CentOS for enterprises (https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/11/rocky-linux-developer-ciq-raises-26m-to-recreate-centos-for-enterprises/)
Snowflake Stock: Finally, This Software Titan Is Worth A Nibble (NYSE:SNOW) (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4511737-snowflake-worth-nibble)
Job vacancies outpace unemployment for first time (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61475720)
Relevant to your Interests
Observability Engineering - O'Reilly Book 2022 Download (https://info.honeycomb.io/observability-engineering-oreilly-book-2022)
Observe raises $70M to grow its data-fueled observability platform (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/11/observe-raises-70m-grow-data-fueled-observability-platform/)
Apple discontinues its last iPod (https://www.engadget.com/apple-discontinues-ipod-touch-161433001.html)
Ploopy. Open-source hardware. (https://ploopy.co/)
DigitalBridge to Buy Switch for $11 Billion as Data Center M&A Binge Continues (http://)
Aiven Raises $210M to Invest in Sustainable Open Source Cloud (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220511005232/en/Aiven-Raises-210M-to-Invest-in-Sustainable-Open-Source-Cloud)
Workforce management startup Rippling raises $250M at $11.25B valuation (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/11/workforce-management-startup-rippling-raises-250m-11-25b-valuation/)
Google finally announces the Pixel Watch (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/11/23064072/google-pixel-watch-fitbit-io-2022)
IBM's massive 'Kookaburra' quantum processor might land in 2025 (https://www.popsci.com/technology/ibm-quantum-computing-roadmap/)
Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL database service (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/google-cloud-launches-alloydb-a-new-fully-managed-postgresql-database-service/)
Komodor provides a Kubernetes troubleshooting platform (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/12/komodor-is-building-kubernetes-troubleshooting-platform-for-the-masses/)
Nvidia Does the Unexpected: Open Sources GPU Drivers for Linux (https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-does-the-unexpected-open-sources-gpu-drivers-for-linux/)
Hands-Free Voice Control | Sonos (https://www.sonos.com/en-us/sonos-voice-control)
Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-content-moderation law (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/12/appeals_court_lets_texas_law/)
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment acquires Redbox (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/chicken-soup-for-the-soul-entertainment-acquires-redbox-for-375m-to-accelerate-its-streaming-business/?tpcc=tcpluslinkedin)
Hasura raises $100M to create GraphQL APIs for databases (https://twitter.com/mamund/status/1525142084138713092)
Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for PowerShell (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/jeffrey_snover_said_microsoft_demoted/)
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's $214 million pay package is 'excessive' and should be vetoed by shareholders, say advisory firms (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-salary-excessive-report-vote-down-2022-5)
Netflix tells employees they can quit if they don't want to work on content they disagree with, according to new company culture guidelines (https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-company-culture-guidelines-employees-can-quit-if-they-disagree-2022-5)
Not all open-source leaders are jerks (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/12/not_all_opensource_leaders_are/)
Intel Poaches Open Source Execs from Netflix, Apple to Boost Linux Efforts (https://thenewstack.io/intel-poaches-open-source-execs-from-netflix-apple-to-boost-linux-efforts/)
Jeff Bezos turns up heat on Joe Biden over US inflation (https://www.ft.com/content/8ef4934e-2072-4534-bce6-824fb0da8628)
Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/satya-nadella-details-microsoft-plan-for-significant-additional-investment-in-employee-compensation/)
Musk: Twitter deal at lower price "not out of the question" (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/16/elon-musk-twitter-deal-lower-price?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Google Lets Personal Users Stay On 'No-Cost Legacy G Suite' With Custom Gmail Domain (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/16/2121201/google-lets-personal-users-stay-on-no-cost-legacy-g-suite-with-custom-gmail-domain)
Apple slows return to office, will let employees stay remote and require masks in common spaces (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/17/23100696/apple-delay-hybrid-office-return-work-from-home-covid-19-masks?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
For Tech Startups, the Party Is Over (https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-tech-startups-the-party-is-over-11652710330?mod=djemalertNEWS)
The State of Kubernetes Security in 2022 (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/state-kubernetes-security-2022-1)
Facebook’s hiring crisis: Engineers are turning down offers (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/facebook-docs-hiring-recruiting-crisis)
Twitter bleeds more top talent in the midst of Musk acquisition (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/twitter-executives-departure-musk)
Sisters doing it for themselves: this nun built her own power plant (https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/16/sisters-doing-it-for-themselves-drc-nun-fed-up-with-power-outages-builds-own-hydroelectric)
Google Cloud launches new software supply chain and zero trust security services (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/google-cloud-launches-new-software-supply-chain-and-zero-trust-security-services/)
Orbit + Hoopy: Writing the Future of DevRel - Orbit (https://orbit.love/blog/orbit-hoopy-writing-the-future-of-devrel)
A beef over NFTs is shaking the sneaker industry - The Hustle (https://thehustle.co/05172022-Nike-StockX)
Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report (https://a16zcrypto.com/state-of-crypto-report-a16z-2022/)
Apple has shown its mixed reality headset to its board of directors: report (NASDAQ:AAPL) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3841044-apple-has-shown-its-mixed-reality-headset-to-its-board-of-directors-report?utm_campaign=twitter_automated&utm_content=news&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_automated)
Why Did Heroku Fail? (https://matt-rickard.com/why-did-heroku-fail/)
Docker Launches Docker Extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/05/docker-desktop-extensions-linux/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global)
Nonsense
Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast (https://usps-mailin-it.simplecast.com/)
Dad's take on Peloton from 2019 (https://twitter.com/peter/status/1524265098465792000?s=21&t=5jYSjrdL3mIVGMb-31qQtg)
A solar power plant in space? The UK wants to build one by 2035. (https://www.space.com/space-based-solar-power-plant-2035)
Elon discovers Lawyers (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525615849167589380?s=21&t=VVDN3Oxzsmu57Srayk2X1w)
More Cables (https://twitter.com/rayredacted/status/1490088765112700928?s=21&t=TNzXDAprfUDBcUIehlJ5yw)
Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/)
Southwest introduces transferable credits (https://twitter.com/southwestair/status/1527001072132399104?s=21&t=jrhjV0241gVclZpxEP0vnQ)
Listener Feedback
Relyance AI is looking for a VP of Product (https://boards.greenhouse.io/relyance/jobs/4148931004)
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FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022, Matt’s there!
DevOps Loop (https://devopsloop.io), June 22nd. Free! Coté helps put the agenda together.
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Recommendations
Brandon: tvOS 15.4 lets you finally log in to captive Wi-Fi portals on Apple TV (https://www.macworld.com/article/622912/tvos-15-4-features-release-install.html)
Matt: The Poppy War (https://amzn.to/3LufOWD)
Coté: Skilcraft U.S. Government Retractable Ball Point Pen, Fine Point, Blue Ink, Box of 12 (https://www.amazon.com/Skilcraft-Government-Retractable-Point-7520-01-332-3967/dp/B008UARY3I/).
Photo Credits
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/PujiL9mZWNM)
CoverArt (https://mobile.twitter.com/RackerSlide/status/712306062049673217/photo/2)
5/20/2022 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 358: Philip Griffiths on Zero Trust Networking and OpenZiti
Brandon interviews Philip Griffiths, the VP of Global Business Development at NetFoundry. They discuss how OpenZiti enables zero trust networking and how to build certificate-based security into your applications. Plus, some thoughts on creating an open source mascot.
Episode Links
NetFoundry (https://netfoundry.io/) replace with live netfoundry.io/sdt
OpenZiti (https://openziti.github.io/)
Zitification (https://ziti.dev/blog/zitification/)
Bootstrapping Trust (https://ziti.dev/blog/bootstrapping-trust-part-1-encryption-everywhere/)
Contact Philip
LinkedIn: philipleonardgriffiths (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipleonardgriffiths/)
Twitter: @OpenZiggy (https://twitter.com/OpenZiggy)
Twitter: @ThePGriffiths (https://twitter.com/ThePGriffiths) Special Guest: Philip Griffiths.
5/17/2022 • 46 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 357: Is platform engineer the new thing?
This week we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, the impending (?) economic downturn and advice on migrating your iCloud account when moving abroad. Plus, some thoughts on driving…
Rundown
DevOpsDays Austin (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/)
Uber CEO vows to be ‘hardcore about costs,’ slow down hiring in memo to employees (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/9/23063499/uber-ceo-slash-costs-hiring-slowdown-ride-hailing-profit)
A cheat sheet for the next tech downturn (https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/next-tech-downturn-cheat-sheet-recession)
Relevant to your Interests
Square Enix Says Embracer Acquisitions Allow It to Invest More in the Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud (https://www.ign.com/articles/square-enix-says-embracer-acquisitions-allow-it-to-invest-more-in-the-blockchain-ai-and-the-cloud)
Google is raising pay, revamping employee reviews, documents show (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/google-says-its-raising-employee-pay-in-performance-review-revamp.html)
What you may not know about the Dell-Snowflake deal (https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/07/may-not-know-dell-snowflake-deal/)
The Graphic Truth: Twitter doesn't rule the social world (https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-twitter-doesn-t-rule-the-social-world)
I’m not a goblin, I just play one in Google Docs (https://interconnected.org/home/2022/05/05/larping)
Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/07/apple-director-of-machine-learning-resigns/)
Podcast Details (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/https://podcastdetails.com/)
3D printing and trackballs: the future of gadgets? (https://overcast.fm/+QN1pbp6qs)
Red Hat and General Motors Collaborate to Trailblaze the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-general-motors-collaborate-trailblaze-future-software-defined-vehicles?sc_cid=7013a000002pyDRAAY)
Docker advances container isolation and workloads with acquisition of Nestybox - Docker (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-advances-container-isolation-and-workloads-with-acquisition-of-nestybox/)
Appian Awarded $2.036 Billion in Damages Against Pegasystems Inc. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appian-awarded-2-036-billion-in-damages-against-pegasystems-inc-301543673.html)
4 new iCloud Keychain features for 2022 (https://www.securemac.com/news/4-new-icloud-keychain-features-for-2022)
A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good (https://www.wired.com/story/fido-alliance-ios-android-password-replacement/)
Google Cloud is forming a Web3 product and engineering organization (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1522592192472121345)
Google's cloud group forms Web3 team to capitalize on booming popularity of crypto (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/googles-cloud-group-forms-web3-product-and-engineering-team.html)
Nonsense
Marc Andreessen Plucks Third Home Along Malibu Beachfront for $34M (https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/04/12/andreessen-plucks-third-home-along-malibu-beachfront/)
Sponsors
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Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022
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MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
FinOps X (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/finops-x/), June 20-21, 2022
Open Source Summit North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/), June 21-24, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Brandon: Outer Range (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjD6eSS6tX3AhXXam8EHa55B98YABAAGgJqZg&ae=2&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESbeD2gX-q2K65uLuKzoQSEiKkGaXTpp9RAoJvlxlVPxR4LhROL0ylc9MUb1dLMuoOjK6vgpj6-pR2_8Lrntvbf8wa_QDIU5pSrGKNVSpV7DC9ZUOpval8pLWvDwXMkxZaCToCTryt5P87wp9Zyjc&sig=AOD64_3eTUtq0o5DQELmJ4xY31WYRxL5Cw&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwjonNmS6tX3AhUrg2oFHaZID8EQ0Qx6BAgDEAE&dct=1)
Matt: IKEA Hektar lamp (https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/hektar-work-lamp-with-wireless-charging-dark-grey-80323435/)
Treasury Series I Bonds (https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds.htm) via Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096314685/a-secret-weapon-to-fight-inflation)
Coté: EPICKA Universal Travel Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/EPICKA-Universal-Travel-Adapter-Power/dp/B078S3M2NX?asc_campaign=&asc_source=&asc_refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fauthor%2Fdorri-olds&tag=w050b-20&ascsubtag=%20%20%20%20%20%205:21)
Photo Credits
Banner (https://blog.atmtxphoto.com/2019/08/12/el-mercado-color/)
5/13/2022 • 57 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 356: They should have consulted us
This week we discuss palace intrigue at Apple. the death of passwords and Twilio’s valuation. Plus, Matt explains how to resurrect a dead MacBook Pro…
Rundown
How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/technology/jony-ive-apple-design.html)
Passwords
Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up on passwordless logins (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/05/apple-google-microsoft-passwordless-logins/)
Teleport nabs $110M to provide identity-based infrastructure access (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/03/2309618/)
Listen to Brandon interview Teleport CEO (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/346)
How FIDO Works (https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/)
1Password 8 for Mac Released With New Design and Features (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/03/1password-8-for-mac-released/)
Twilio - A Future Essential, Or Overhyped & Just Unprofitable? (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4505528-twilio-a-future-essential-or-overhyped-and-just-unprofitable)
Twilio Announces First Quarter 2022 Results (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twilio-announces-first-quarter-2022-200500471.html)
Matt Ray on headless Debian network installation works (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1520946695823323137?s=21&t=eJoens13aik6Sd6EobYW4Q)
Relevant to your Interests
Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-web-services-re-awarded-nsa-cloud-contract-152924596.html)
A common mistake of many first-time CTOs or VP of Engineerings: (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1519909093187764224?s=21&t=ZwsCN2E_FzOziodSkZIqWQ)
Big Tech revenue growth rates. (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1520074033383026689?s=21&t=ZwsCN2E_FzOziodSkZIqWQ)
Amazon Web Services is now a $74 billion business (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1520078644521099264?s=20&t=cv9yGuNtWBn5EV_TtsP6YA)
Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23046170/twitter-miscounted-daily-users-three-years-q1-2022-earnings)
Cloudflare has blocked one of the largest DDoS attacks of all time (https://www.techradar.com/news/cloudflare-has-blocked-one-of-the-largest-ddos-attacks-of-all-time)
Actual is going open-source (https://actualbudget.com/open-source)
Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better) (https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/28/reality-check-twitter-actually-was-already-doing-most-of-the-things-musk-claims-he-wants-the-company-to-do-but-better/)
Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23047026/amazon-alexa-voice-data-targeted-ads-research-report)
Amazon has bold ambitions to take on SpaceX in the satellite internet business (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/01/amazon-takes-on-spacex-in-the-satellite-internet-with-project-kuiper.html)
Netlix from Tech Company to Media Company in one chart (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRxW0B5XoAAuE4k.jpg)
Telegram "Premium" subscription is showing up in beta builds of the app (https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/2/23053104/telegram-premium-paid-subscription)
Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates (https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/02/apple_store_old_app_policy)
Inside the Growing Discontent Behind Nintendo’s Fun Facade (https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-america-contractors-full-time-complaints-report)
Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/03/how-graphite-turned-a-side-project-into-a-20m-series-a/)
Stanford University will receive a record $1.1 billion gift from the venture capitalist John Doer (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1521870438338596867)
Cameo lays off close to 90, including senior executives (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/cameo-layoffs-cto-cpo)
Google Makes $100,000 Worth of Tech Training Free to Every U.S. Business (https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-05-02/google-makes-100-000-worth-of-tech-training-free-to-every-u-s-business)
Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com (https://chiefmartec.com/2022/05/marketing-technology-landscape-2022-search-9932-solutions-on-martechmap-com/)
Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures (https://diagrams.mingrammer.com)
Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud (https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/04/google-cloud-and-sap-launch-a-native-integration-between-workspace-and-s-4hana-cloud/)
Cloud spending is hard to control. Cloud providers only do so much to help. (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cloud-spending-cost-management-finops)
Pack your bags! This is your invite to SpotifyIsland (https://twitter.com/Spotify/status/1521449221261602817?s=20&t=Hiqhz_-gGUj5e3-NQQ0PZA)
Marketing Technology Landscape 2022: search 9,932 solutions on martechmap.com (https://chiefmartec.com/2022/05/marketing-technology-landscape-2022-search-9932-solutions-on-martechmap-com/)
Nonsense
AOC and Elon (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRjqr-ZWUAEB5U2.jpg)
Sneakers, elastic pants: People alter office wear amid COVID (https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-business-dress-codes-fashion-22c012502cef421ddfe5400a82dc8e2c)
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Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022
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DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022
MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022
cdCon, June 7 – 8, 2022 Austin, Texas + Virtual (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cdcon/)
Get a 40% disocunt with this code: CdCon22SDPod
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Ozark Series Finale (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/ozark/s04)
Matt: Debian preseed (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1520946695823323137)
Photo Credits
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Cover Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/q7h8LVeUgFU)
5/6/2022 • 57 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 355: That’s why he runs my Marketing department
This week we discuss Matt’s new job at Kubecost, Istio joins the CNCF, the latest cloud earnings and Twitter gets bought. Plus, the first ever Cloud Startup Fantasy Draft…
Rundown
Kubecost (https://www.kubecost.com)
Istio
Istio have applied to become Cloud Native Project (https://twitter.com/IstioMesh/status/1518616150258733058)
Istio moves to the CNCF - Service Mesh's Past, Present and Future - Solo (https://www.solo.io/blog/istio-past-present-future/)
Earnings
AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/21/aws_not_for_sale/)
Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html)
Microsoft earnings beat across the board (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/microsoft-msft-earnings-q3-2022.html)
Alphabet reports weak earnings and revenue on big YouTube miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/alphabet-to-report-q1-earnings-after-the-bell-tuesday.html)
Cloud CAPEX: Google and Microsoft (https://twitter.com/charlesfitz/status/1519363715480514560)
The Complete History & Strategy of NVIDIA (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993-2006)
Akamai launches managed database offering for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB (https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/25/akamai-launches-managed-database-offering-mysql-postgresql-redis-mongodb/)
Twitter
Back to the Future of Twitter (https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/)
Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html)
Bezos on Twitter being acquired (https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/1518734031566778368?s=21&t=hU6sj6ankANQAZPIf6Pnog)
Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-reassures-staff-cries-during-meeting-about-musk-takeover-00027931)
Relevant to your Interests
7 Best Free RSS Feed Readers (https://bloggingwizard.com/free-rss-feed-readers/)
Is Firefox OK? (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/is-firefox-ok/)
After proving need for no-code apps, Glide rewarded with $20M Series A – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/21/with-20m-series-a-glide-expands-no-code-application-building-capabilities/)
Good SDT Slack Thread on this (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C6CDLDCVB/p1650634994278229)
The Founder Who Turned an Automation Startup Into Portland’s Biggest Tech Company (https://pnw.ai/article/the-founder-who-turned-an-automation-startup-into-portland-s-biggest-tech-company/121260557)
Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analyst-predicts-end-of-chip-shortage)
Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return (https://www.ft.com/content/312acbb3-eb72-4d2f-b81f-649dcb3583ca)
Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html)
Devs Are Up in Arms After Apple Says It Will Remove Games That Haven't Been Updated - IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/devs-upset-apple-remove-app-store-havent-been-updated)
AppDynamics founder’s midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/appdynamics-founders-midas-touch-strikes-again-as-harness-valuation-hits-3-7b/)
SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/sonarsource-raises-412m-to-scan-codebases-for-bugs-and-vulnerabilities/)
Kubernetes Is Here to Stay: Here's Why (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-kubernetes-2022)
Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/27/dropbox_unplugged_datacenter)
YouTube’s growth struggles to load (https://thehustle.co/04282022-YouTube-growth)
Apple now lets you buy parts so you can fix your iPhone yourself (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/apple-now-lets-you-buy-iphone-parts-so-you-can-fix-it-yourself.html)
Robinhood is cutting 9% of its staff (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/robinhood-layoffs)
Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you (https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/feature/Top-10-PaaS-providers-and-what-they-offer-you)
Nonsense
Once the Square CEO, Jack Dorsey is now officially 'Block Head' (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jack-dorsey-changes-his-official-title-from-ceo-to-block-head-11650663753)
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Brandon: F1 TV (https://f1tv.formula1.com)
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4/29/2022 • 58 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 354: We’ve always been doing Agile
This week we discuss the disruption happening to Netflix, Corporate Metrics and a few thoughts on Heroku. Plus, some summer travel tips.
Rundown
Netflix
Netflix shares crater 25% after company reports it lost subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/netflix-nflx-earnings-q1-2022.html)
Netflix Estimates More Than 100 Million Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords (https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-sharing-password-100-million-1235236051/)
Netflix slowdown leaves streaming biz reeling (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-487b37f1-d49f-4ccc-b267-794c850a834c.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Reporting is hard
Revenue, Revenue Everywhere. Not a Dollar to Count by @ttunguz (https://www.tomtunguz.com/metricflow/)
Heroku
Heroku is practically down for 4 days (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1516756294983733255?s=21&t=005wWLAylkwjFOf1qWQmjw)
Heroku is like a fallen civilization of elves. Beautiful, immortal, beloved by all who encountered it - but still a dead end. (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1369704730218299392?s=20&t=z2QiNcun21R761sSCy269g) - Adam Jacob
Relevant to your Interests
How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog (https://httpie.io/blog/stardust)
Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company. (https://twitter.com/rabble/status/1514793459147677696)
"Measuring Argo Workflow Costs with Kubecost" (https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/measuring-argo-workflows-with-kubecost/)
The Chips That Rebooted the Mac (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chips-that-rebooted-the-mac-11650081649?mod=djemalertNEWS)
The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time (https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian?s=r)
Apollo Global weighs going in on bid to buy Twitter: report (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/142421/apollo-global-weighs-going-in-on-bid-to-buy-twitter-report)
Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dk8m/googles-ai-powered-inclusive-warnings-feature-is-very-broken)
Stolen AirPods give away Russian retreat positions (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8b2b7a28-bf0d-11ec-8413-422ef6319ad0?shareToken=241a4f9d880e0a092706864989c8b1a5)
Apple must pay a man more than $1,000 for not including a power adapter with his new iPhone, judge rules (https://news.yahoo.com/apple-must-pay-man-more-051314585.html)
Discovery is shutting down CNN+ and is expected to provide details to staffers Thursday... (https://twitter.com/bristei/status/1517165214864744449)
Nonsense
Chipotle launches a $50 million venture capital fund (https://www.axios.com/chipotle-launches-a-50-million-venture-capital-fund-ffd4954e-f459-4a3a-8a9e-3c11bd88728d.html)
Listener Feedback
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Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
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Brandon: Rectangle App on macOS (https://rectangleapp.com)
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4/22/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 353: This smells like shenanigans
This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings…
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Rundown
Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3656734/perforce-to-acquire-infrastructure-as-code-pioneer-puppet.html)
The PE Yo-Yo
Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion (https://www.reuters.com/business/thoma-bravo-buy-cybersecurity-firm-sailpoint-69-bln-ft-2022-04-11/)
Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks (https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/12/private-equity-giant-kkr-buys-security-firm-barracuda-networks/)
How big could the cloud get? Part 1 (https://01core.substack.com/p/how-big-could-the-cloud-get-part?s=w)
Relevant to your Interests
Introducing global endpoints for Amazon EventBridge (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-global-endpoints-for-amazon-eventbridge/)
Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-two-key-tech-execs-quit-truth-social-after-troubled-app-launch-2022-04-04/)
Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon (https://www.pcmag.com/news/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-admits-its-based-on-mastodon)
Epic and Lego partner to build a metaverse for kids (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/7/23014616/epic-lego-metaverse-partnership)
What the New TV Shows About Start-Up Grift Still Don’t Get (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/10/tv-silicon-valley-founders-theranos-wework-uber-00023884)
Are Microsoft’s days as the ‘friendly’ tech giant over? – POLITICO (https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-tech-giant-antitrust-europe-brussels-silicon-valley/)
The Great Atlassian outage enters a new week (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/11/atlassian_still_down/)
Silverfort nabs $65M with a ‘holistic’ approach to protecting ID management across IT silos and legacy systems (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/12/silverfort-nabs-65m-with-a-holistic-approach-to-protecting-id-management-across-it-silos-and-legacy-systems/)
Activision Blizzard appoints new diversity officer (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/11/23020687/activision-blizzard-diversity-equity-inclusion-officer)
ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost (https://ngrok.com/next-generation)
Neurodiverse Candidates Find Niche in Remote Cybersecurity Jobs (https://www.wsj.com/articles/neurodiverse-candidates-find-niche-in-remote-cybersecurity-jobs-11649842380?mod=djemalertNEWS)
How do you know when a business leads with technology? (https://blogs.gartner.com/mark-mcdonald/2022/04/13/how-do-you-know-when-a-business-leads-with-technology/)
CEO Andy Jassy’s 2021 Letter to Shareholders (https://news.a2z.com/articles/ceo-andy-jassy-s-letter-to-shareholders-2?bypass_deeplink=true)
Kubernetes Crosses the Chasm, and Other Lessons from the 2021 CNCF Survey (https://www.infoq.com/articles/k8s-cncf-survey-chasm/)
Nonsense
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert (https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.html)
CNN+ draws fewer than 10,000 daily viewers: report (https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/cnn-draws-fewer-than-10000-daily-viewers-report/)
The Origins of the Dutch Angle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofBDXc749wE)
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Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022
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MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
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Recommendations
Matt: Memory Palace: Combinations (https://thememorypalace.us/combinations/)
To Scale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg)
Brandon: Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet — is it? (https://www.theverge.com/23020727/decoder-chris-dixon-web3-crypto-a16z-vc-silicon-valley-investing-podcast-interview)
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4/15/2022 • 51 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 352: Layers of Abstraction
This week we discuss Dagger’s Launch, Employee Tacking and Executive Compensation. Plus, some thoughts on beans and broccoli…
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Rundown
Dagger
Introducing Dagger: a new way to create CI/CD pipelines (https://dagger.io/blog/public-launch-announcement)
Docker founder Solomon Hykes launches Dagger, a new DevOps startup (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/30/docker-founder-launches-dagger-a-new-devops-platform/)
CUE (https://cuelang.org/)
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger earned $178.6M in 2021 (https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1509472069804716034)
Goldman Sachs is tracking ID swipes so it can crack down on employees who are breaking its return-to-office rules. Here's what happens to those who don't show up enough. (https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-is-tracking-swipes-to-get-people-back-rto-2022-3)
Relevant to your Interests
On Postgres Container Apps. Behold Smooshing: database meet app platform, app platform meet database. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/03/31/on-postgres-container-apps-behold-smooshing-database-meet-app-platform-app-platform-meet-database/)
Update on “reader” app distribution (https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=grjqafts)
Why Apple Is Preparing to Let You Subscribe to Your iPhone (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-04-03/will-i-be-able-to-subscribe-to-my-apple-aapl-iphone-and-pay-monthly-l1jc5o3e)
Tinybird adds $37 million to run realtime analytics APIs for you (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/05/tinybird-adds-37-million-to-run-realtime-analytics-apis-for-you/?tpcc=tcplustwitter&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM6DbR0JNAhQ2Rv4GtlcllLuggWg2oYNbvCCwzAQ8XySmAM6W8JsJB5QZFYKELlABHfhkjv-SXS4YetXpmgIp0y1MfitJPfDZEwy3yW172Lvu51o_ReSpNixBd1ugWwg-mdixhwkw4i1WM1j8axSwYiOVI4XQrjGNhcjV4xjRcUS)
Skillsoft and Codecademy: Equipping today’s workforce with the skills for tomorrow (https://www.skillsoft.com/blog/skillsoft-and-codecademy-equipping-todays-workforce-with-the-skills-for-tomorrow)
A guide to pronouncing names of global tech companies (https://restofworld.org/2022/global-tech-company-pronunciation-guide/)
Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/05/google_go_double_sign_off/)
Scaling Kubernetes to Over 4k Nodes and 200k Pods (https://medium.com/paypal-tech/scaling-kubernetes-to-over-4k-nodes-and-200k-pods-29988fad6ed)
Grafana Labs announces $240 million Series D round led by GIC and welcomes new investor (https://grafana.com/blog/2022/04/06/grafana-labs-series-d/?mdm=social)
Microsoft is integrating its Windows 365 Cloud PCs into Windows 11 (https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/5/23011183/microsoft-windows-365-11-integration-cloud-pcs-features?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4&stream=top)
$120M to build a "checkout" button (https://twitter.com/carnage4life/status/1511420421937065984?s=21&t=RAHpnj-JXcBF2yfYUbjNaA)
Google Cloud cross-platform data storage engine, BigLake (https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/05/google-cloud-launches-biglake-a-new-cross-platform-data-storage-engine/)
Announcing the next generation of Amazon Honeycode (https://honeycodecommunity.aws/t/announcing-the-next-generation-of-amazon-honeycode/16941)
Boeing taps Amazon, Microsoft, Google for cloud mega-deal (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3821095-boeing-taps-amazon-microsoft-google-for-cloud-mega-deal-bloomberg)
Facebook owner Meta targets virtual currency market with ‘Zuck Bucks’ (https://www.ft.com/content/50fbe9ba-32c8-4caf-a34e-234031019371)
The first RISC-V portable computer is now available (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-first-risc-v-portable-computer)
Stanford engineers invent a solar panel that generates electricity at night (https://interestingengineering.com/stanford-solar-panel-night)
Global Unicorn Club (https://twitter.com/Brice2B/status/1511593493206077440)
IBM 'misclassified' mainframe sales to enrich executives (https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/07/ibm_securities_lawsuit/?td=rt-3a)
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed late on Wednesday that it had purchased a stake in computer and printer maker HP Inc worth $4.2bn (https://on.ft.com/3r7tuPQ)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ready With Mesa 22.0, Early Intel Arc Graphics Enabled & Amber Added (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-22.04-Mesa-22.0)
PaaS is back: Why enterprises keep trying to resurrect self-service developer platforms (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/paas-is-back-enterprises-self-service-dev-platforms/)
We Don't Talk about PaaS - Coté's Commonplace Book - Issue #59 (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/we-don-t-talk-about-paas-cote-s-commonplace-book-issue-59-970679?via=twitter-card&client=DesktopWeb&element=issue-card)
Elon Musk is the new Product Manger of Twitter. (http://Elon> Musk just took a 9.2% stake in Twitter — what may happen next)
Twitter plans edit button, says Elon Musk’s poll had nothing to do with it (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/twitter-plans-edit-button-says-elon-musks-poll-had-nothing-to-do-with-it/)
Announcing AWS Lambda Function URLs: Built-in HTTPS Endpoints for Single-Function Microservices (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-function-urls-built-in-https-endpoints-for-single-function-microservices/)
Why AMD Spent $1.9B for Pensando's DPU Biz (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/why-amd-spent-1-9b-for-pensandos-dpu-biz/2022/04/)
Microsoft Azure vaults into the Arm server era with chips from Ampere (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/microsoft-azure-arm-chips-ampere)
Nonsense
I Gave My Goldfish $50,000 to Trade Stocks (https://youtu.be/USKD3vPD6ZA)
300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day (https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/dallas-got-rick-rolled-with-a-giant-qr-code-on-april-fools-day-13716928)
Comic Helvetic, an Unholy Combo of Comic Sans and Helvetica (https://kottke.org/22/04/comic-helvetic-comic-sans-and-helvetica)
Footage of Jay Leno Hosting Windows 95 Launch Event Surfaces Online (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7d87a/footage-of-jay-leno-hosting-windows-95-launch-event-surfaces-online)
American Airlines Restarts Philadelphia Regional Routes With Landline Buses (https://airlineweekly.com/2022/04/american-airlines-restarts-philadelphia-regional-routes-with-landline-buses/)
Listener Feedback
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command (https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck)
Unity hiring: Senior Strategic Business Development @ Austin, TX, USA (https://careers.unity.com/position/senior-strategic-business-development/3969930)
Brain Gracely wants you to join Solo.io in Tech Marketing. (https://twitter.com/bgracely/status/1511357915411750916?s=20&t=Ahsx4cjGziDZ4JQPYWQI2g)
Happy Birthday Day to Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/nikiacosta/status/1508084723859533831?s=21&t=sMrz86c8vkj7Ja3mY_tOcQ).
Sponsors
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Conferences
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Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022
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MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
VMware Explore 2022, August 29 – September 1, 2022 (https://www.vmware.com/explore.html?src=so_623a10693ceb7&cid=7012H000001Kb0hQAC)
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Coté: Cojonudos Espárragos (https://epulumfood.com/conservas/736-esparragos-cojonudos-de-navarra-1316-gruesos-denominacion-de-origen-protegida-el-navarrico-100-natural-8413239002585.html).
Matt: Look at Them Beans - Johnny Cash
Murder on the Orient Express (https://amzn.to/3JihaT9) (book, not the movie)
Brandon: ****Yasso Bars (https://yasso.com/collections/greek-yogurt-bars)
Photo Credits
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4/8/2022 • 54 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 351: You can’t put it all on one slide
This week we discuss the potential consequences of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Gaming M&A and Docker’s latest funding. Plus, Coté offers advice about snakes….
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Rundown
Security experts say new EU rules will damage WhatsApp encryption (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/23000148/eu-dma-damage-whatsapp-encryption-privacy)
Europe says yes to messaging interoperability (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/dma-political-agreement/)
Amazon Game Studio Head Steps Down Amid Declining New World Active Players (https://www.mmorpg.com/news/amazon-game-studio-head-steps-down-amid-declining-new-world-active-players-2000124647)
Netflix buys Boss Fight in latest gaming acquisition (https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2022/03/25/netflix-buys-boss-fight-in-latest-gaming-acquisition)
As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/31/as-docker-gains-momentum-it-hauls-in-105m-series-c-on-2b-valuation/)
Relevant to your Interests
Mac Studio Teardown: No upgradable storage… yet (https://youtu.be/TYF527DqnwY)
Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/teen-suspected-by-cyber-researchers-of-being-lapsus-mastermind?sref=ylv224K8)
Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/138898/apple-acquires-uk-open-banking-startup-credit-kudos)
PlanetScale Rewind (https://planetscale.com/blog/its-fine-rewind-revert-a-migration-without-losing-data)
Apple launches the first driver’s license and state ID in Wallet with Arizona (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-launches-the-first-drivers-license-and-state-id-in-wallet-with-arizona/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/23/generaly-availability-google-cloud-now-lets-you-suspend-vms/)
Sealed IBM files in age-discrimination case now public (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/24/confidential_ibm_docs_age_discrimination/)
Want to smell in virtual reality? A Vermont-based startup has the technology (https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/03/14/virtual-reality-smell-ovr-technology)
Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994814/apple-iphone-hardware-subscription-bundle-report)
Nvidia CEO to Look at Intel for Foundry, Says Shift Will Be Hard (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-23/nvidia-ceo-to-look-at-intel-for-foundry-says-shift-will-be-hard?sref=GJfVw2fX) (
Instacart is slashing its valuation by almost 40% to $24B (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-25/instacart-slashes-its-valuation-by-almost-40-to-24-billion> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Recommendations
Brandon: iOS App Developer Settlement with Apple (https://www.smallappdeveloperassistance.com)
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4/1/2022 • 57 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 350: Email in Excel
This week we discuss how the software supply chain impacts business continuity and analyze the latest attempt to disrupt Microsoft Excel. Plus, some thoughts on bread heels….
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Rundown
On the weaponisation of open source (https://beny23.github.io/posts/on_weaponisation_of_open_source/)
Hacker Group Claims Access to User Authentication Firm Okta (https://gizmodo.com/hacker-group-claims-extraordinary-access-to-user-authen-1848684491)
The tyranny of Microsoft Excel may finally be over (https://www.techradar.com/news/the-tyranny-of-microsoft-excel-may-finally-be-over)
Relevant to your Interests
Website Builder Webflow Hits $4 Billion Valuation As It Nears $100 Million Revenue (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/03/16/webflow-series-c-4-billion-valuation-100-million-revenue/)
Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM (https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-1235207852/)
BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/)
DeepMind's New AI: As Smart As An Engineer... Kind Of! (https://youtu.be/x_cxDgR1x-c)
Netflix CEO Says Account Sharing Is OK – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/11/netflix-ceo-says-account-sharing-is-ok/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
About Netflix - Paying to Share Netflix Outside Your Household (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/paying-to-share-netflix-outside-your-household?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
CURL is now 24 (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/20/curl-is-now-24/)
Software is no longer sold; it's adopted (https://orbit.love/blog/software-is-no-longer-sold-its-adopted)
Grafana Labs, raised $220 million in Series C (http://axios.link/fjLn)
Coatue-Backed Grafana Seeks Funds at $5 Billion-Plus Value (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-18/coatue-backed-grafana-seeks-funds-at-5-billion-plus-valuation)
Cribl raises $200M to help enterprises do more with their data (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/25/cribl-raises-200m-to-help-enterprises-do-more-with-their-data/)
Elon Musk's SpaceX has activated more than 5,000 Starlink internet terminals in Ukraine, report says (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-satellite-terminals-active-ukraine-internet-2022-3)
The UK May Build a £16 Billion Solar Power Station in Space. Here’s How It Would Work (https://singularityhub.com/2022/03/18/a-solar-power-station-in-space-heres-how-it-would-work-and-its-potential-benefits/)
Harness Expands Software Delivery Platform With Acquisition of ChaosNative and Launches Two New Modules to Help Developers Rapidly Deliver Resilient, Reliable, Secure Software (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/harness-expands-software-delivery-platform-with-acquisition-of-chaosnative-and-launches-two-new-modules-to-help-developers-rapidly-deliver-resilient-reliable-secure-software-301507809.html)
Harness moves into chaos engineering with ChaosNative acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/22/harness-moves-into-chaos-engineering-with-chaosnative-acquisition/?guccounter=1)
Apple hit with a widespread service outage (https://www.axios.com/apple-widespread-service-outage-c2331400-e1ba-492d-b209-dfe07900410c.html)
SSH and Git, meet 1Password (https://blog.1password.com/1password-ssh-agent/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=march-product-updates)
Twilio launches Flex Conversations, a unified chat API for contact centers (https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/21/twilio-launches-flex-conversations-a-unified-chat-api-for-contact-centers/)
Ford's F-150 Lightning will offer an EPA-rated 320 miles of range (https://www.engadget.com/ford-f-150-lightning-epa-range-estimates-164244122.html)
NVIDIA Introduces Grace CPU Superchip (https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-introduces-grace-cpu-superchip)
Long-Enduring COBOL May Still Have A Shelf Life (https://spectrum.ieee.org/cobol-programming-shelf-life?utm_content=201673534&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-768512626586378240#toggle-gdpr)
RapidAPI Raises $150M Series D Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to Empower Developers to Innovate and Build Software Faster with APIs (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220323005325/en/RapidAPI-Raises-150M-Series-D-Led-by-SoftBank-Vision-Fund-2-to-Empower-Developers-to-Innovate-and-Build-Software-Faster-with-APIs)
The Ubuntu Application (https://i.redd.it/sw5nd1oj36o81.png)
COBOL modernization startup CloudFrame bags $7M Series A funding (https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/22/exclusivecobol-modernization-startup-cloudframe-bags-7m-series-funding/)
Updated Okta Statement on LAPSUS$ (https://www.okta.com/blog/2022/03/updated-okta-statement-on-lapsus/)
Clocking in at $2.3 billion in losses, Business Email Compromise remains the elephant in the room. (https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-the-internet-crime-complaint-center-2021-internet-crime-report/)
Nonsense
Google's McLaren sponsorship puts the Android robot and Chrome wheels on its 2022 F1 car (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981140/mclaren-f1-android-chrome-google-mcl36-sponsor-2022)
Plain Text Sports (https://plaintextsports.com/)
Sponsors
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Conferences
.Net Beyond conference (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), March 30–31, 2022, online.
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Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022
MongoDB World 2022 (https://www.mongodb.com/world-2022), June 7-9th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Coté: The Confidential Agent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confidential_Agent), **Graham Greene.
Matt: Secrets of The Bullshark (https://www.natgeotv.com/za/shows/nationalgeographicwild/secrets-of-the-bullshark)
Brandon: Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance (https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/star-wars-rise-of-the-resistance/)
Photo Credits
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3/25/2022 • 47 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 349: The Janitor Strategy for Developer-led Sales, also, The School of the Philosophy of Rocks and Time
This week, Coté and Matt define three sales model for doing developer-led sales. Also, we know that clown fish are optional, but do rocks need to exist?
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Mood Board:
How many of you watch streaming?
hotdogheadexplosion37 - “I’m your host, exploding hotdog.”
hotdogheadexplosion37 solves agile financing problems.
I’m your host, ExplodingHotDogMan
What if rocks didn’t exist?
I didn’t take “Philosophy of Rocks 101 in college, but I did take hydrobiology 379.”
This is what happens when Brandon’s not here
Legal week
B to D sales
The Janitorial Sales Model - vendor creates mess, drives uncontrolled/ungoverned/decentralized viral spread.
The Mary Poppins Model
Graffiti Proof Paint Model
Rundown
Rocks.
The End of Daylight Saving Time? (https://twitter.com/senatecloakroom/status/1503797632745025542)
Dell Striving To ‘Embrace Developers In A Big Way’: Michael Dell (https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/dell-striving-to-embrace-developers-in-a-big-way-michael-dell)
Relevant to your Interests
Congratulations to The Cloudcast, 600 Shows! (https://twitter.com/thecloudcastnet/status/1504070851376910341?s=20&t=g_261CFiP9bXnIgAxGhG6A)
Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings (https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd7w2t2mtvfg81uhx)
Birdeye Raises $60M Series C Funding Led by Accel-KKR to Help Local Businesses Grow (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/birdeye-raises-60m-series-c-funding-led-by-accel-kkr-to-help-local-businesses-grow-301499886.html)
Commercial satellites test the rules of war in Russia-Ukraine conflict (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/10/commercial-satellites-ukraine-russia-intelligence/)
Google Cloud and VMware expand partnership with focus on cloud migrations (https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/16/google-cloud-vmware-expand-partnership-focus-cloud-migrations/)
The Conversation: Twitter Trends 2022 (https://marketing.twitter.com/en/insights/the-conversation-twitter-trends-2022-btc)
Google's domain name registrar is out of beta after seven years (https://www.engadget.com/google-domains-beta-201056792.html?src=rss)
Amazon just introduced a bizarre metaverse-like game to train people how to use AWS (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/amazon-launches-metaverse-like-game-to-train-people-how-to-use-aws.html)
The first RISC-V portable computer is now available (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-first-risc-v-portable-computer)
Launching Valid Capital (https://zachholman.com/posts/launching-valid-capital)
Veracode Announces Significant Growth Investment From TA Associates | Veracode (https://www.veracode.com/blog/security-news/veracode-announces-significant-growth-investment-ta-associates?mkt_tok=NzkwLVpLVy0yOTEAAAGDLUxgknNx2RnwA_RGOOCwibpdAPgKpM0oYFV4AIIlXQjBpYcPVvt3195gmAPK_qM8s9R_biDaz_muNzwGiEN1PbUqWtqKcfbsXiZDkm14z9aOAg)
Canonical bullish on OpenStack (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/14/canonical_bullish_on_openstack/)
Facebook’s Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/facebook-meta-perks.html)
The next big SaaS player will be the company that solves enterprise billing (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/enterprise-saas-billing-market-sequoia#toggle-gdpr)
The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/ibm_redhat_strategy/)
HashiCorp beats expectations in first quarterly earnings report since going public (https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/10/hashicorp-beats-expectations-first-quarterly-earnings-call-since-going-public/)
Oracle's cloud business seen as 'the driver,' of Q3 results (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3811176-oracle-q3-results-on-tap-cloud-still-the-driver-moness-crespi-hardt-says)
Nonsense
Facebook Libra: the inside story of how the company’s cryptocurrency dream died (https://www.ft.com/content/a88fb591-72d5-4b6b-bb5d-223adfb893f3)
Winamp joins LimeWire in the emerging "legacy software comes back from the dead to do NFTs" trope (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-03-16-0)
One of the greatest videos in all of sports (https://twitter.com/CJToledano/status/1502095289628332034)
The time Vladimir Putin stole Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring (https://twitter.com/kendallbaker/status/1304007930975457280)
Sponsors
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Conferences
.Net Beyond conference (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), March 30–31, 2022, online.
THAT Conference comes to Texas (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/), May 23-26, 2022
Discount Codes:
Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
3 Day Camper Ticket ($50 off): SDTFriends50
Virtual Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriendsON75
THAT Conference Wisconsin (https://that.us/call-for-counselors/wi/2022/), July 25, 2022
DevOps Days Birmingham AL, (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022
Spring Tour Chicago (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/springone-tour/2022/chicago/), April 26th to 27th.
DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Coté: Amazon Fresh store in London
Matt: The Kubernetes Podcast 170 (https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/170-kubernetes-the-documentary/): The Kubernetes Documentary (https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/170-kubernetes-the-documentary/)
3/18/2022 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 348: Jevons Paradox
This week we discuss the potential digital transformation of the Dollar and Snowflake’s Strategy. Plus, what exactly is Heavy Metal…
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Rundown
Digital Transformation of the Dollar
The U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today's digital world (https://www.npr.org/2022/02/06/1072406109/digital-dollar-federal-reserve-apple-pay-venmo-cbdc)
Biden takes big step toward government-backed digital currency (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/us-government-digital-currency-rcna19248)
Let’s check in on SNOW
Snowflake CFO Defends Strategy, Attacks Google Amid Stock Rout (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/snowflake-cfo-defends-strategy-attacks-google-amid-stock-rout)
Clouded Judgement 3.4.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-3422)
SNOW Investor Deck (https://s26.q4cdn.com/463892824/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/Q4-FY22-Snowflake-Investor-Presentation_vFinal.pdf)
Relevant to your Interests
Need to keep your SBC fresh? Armbian v22.02 is out (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/03/armbian_project_releases_version_2202/)
Developing Games Around the World: Netflix to Acquire Next Games (https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-next-games)
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman buys 7.5% stake in Splunk (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1499853648532103176?s=21)
Report: Twitch confronted with staff "exodus" over strategy disagreements (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-03-04-report-twitch-confronted-with-staff-exodus-over-strategy-disagreements)
As Nvidia hacker deadline looms, 71,000 employee accounts have reportedly been exposed (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22962217/nvidia-hack-lapsus-have-i-been-pwned-email-breach-password)
Understanding the value of AWS and Amazon Retail integration - a perspective from a long-time $AMZN shareholder. (https://twitter.com/NayutSitachitt/status/1500071134166880256)
Europe attempts to break the internet again: (https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1499543574190465024)
Notable Internal Systems at Amazon (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/amazon-notable-systems/)
Amazon's assistance in Ukraine (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/community/amazons-assistance-in-ukraine?_amp=true)
Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't (https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not-an-ad/#shakedowns)
DevOpsDays Austin donated $10,000 saved from 10 yrs of events to Ukraine relief (https://twitter.com/DoDAustin/status/1500954897054941187)
For Its Next Trick, Nvidia Is Doing Software-Defined Storage (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/storage/its-next-trick-nvidia-doing-software-defined-storage?NL=DCK-01&Issue=DCK-01_20220308_DCK-01_396&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1_b&utm_rid=CPNET000003016799&utm_campaign=45131&utm_medium=email&elq2=748e07ba5670467290e5ae0f0a6bc703)
Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/amazon-announces-20-for-1-stock-split-10-billion-buyback.html)
First Apple M1 Ultra Benchmark Posted, Nearly Matches Threadripper 3990X (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-m1-ultra-nearly-matches-amd-threadripper-3990x)
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity launch the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project (https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-critical-infrastructure-defense/)
Google to Acquire Mandiant (https://www.mandiant.com/company/press-release/mgc)
Salesforce is opening four new office towers (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/salesforce-opening-new-towers)
Tech giants move to reopen offices, but differ on hybrid-work plans (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3652538/tech-giants-move-to-reopen-offices-but-differ-on-hybrid-work-plans.html)
Here's Everything Apple Announced Today (https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-march-2022-iphone-se-mac-studio/?bxid=5cec26a424c17c4c64607ba0&cndid=21662414&esrc=&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_GADGET_LAB_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_PaywallSubs_030822_Special_Apple&utm_mailing=WIR_PaywallSubs_030822_Special_Apple&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=P1)
Nonsense
When is a nanometer not nanometer? (https://twitter.com/hikari_no_yume/status/1498435747065610244)
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Borko wants you to work in DevRel at Render. (https://render.com/careers)
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Brandon: The Last Du (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_duel_2021)e (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_duel_2021)l (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_duel_2021)
Coté: complaint department grenade (https://www.google.com/search?q=complaint+department+grenade&sxsrf=APq-WBtkL9qxNC01q31Sn8P5QML2-fJE0w:1646945772678&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRofqNt7z2AhXK16QKHQLVB0IQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=2281&bih=1812&dpr=1)s (https://www.google.com/search?q=complaint+department+grenade&sxsrf=APq-WBtkL9qxNC01q31Sn8P5QML2-fJE0w:1646945772678&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRofqNt7z2AhXK16QKHQLVB0IQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=2281&bih=1812&dpr=1), The French Dispatch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Dispatch).
Matt: Reincubate Camo (https://reincubate.com/camo/)
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3/11/2022 • 50 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 347: Son of Beagle
This week we discuss how to measure DevRel, the legacy of Sun and a few thoughts on Markdown. Plus, we determine the TAM for trackballs…
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Rundown
Measuring Developer Relations (https://www.swyx.io/measuring-devrel)
What if Sun called it Cloud? (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1498804338751275011?s=21)
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A Visa exec's email to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy set off an internal scramble that's becoming increasingly common at the tech giant (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/visa-execs-email-amazon-ceo-212121273.html)
Clouded Judgement 2.25.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-22522?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email)
Report: 76% of IT pros say that cloud has hit a wall (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/24/report-76-of-it-pros-say-that-cloud-has-hit-a-wall/)
Out Of Scope - #0 (https://emilykager.substack.com/p/out-of-scope-0)
Mental Health with Kelsey Hightower — Software Engineering Daily (https://overcast.fm/+E6UCo3rcM)
Zendesk Scraps Takeover of SurveyMonkey Parent Company Momentive (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/zendesk-holders-said-to-reject-surveymonkey-parent-s-takeover)
EPAM Systems Withdraws Financial Forecasts. It Makes Software in Ukraine. (https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/epam-systems-stock-ukraine-russia-51646072988?mod=mw_quote_news)
Bandcamp is Joining Epic Games (https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/)
Introducing a Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-google-cloud-architecture-diagramming-tool?utm_campaign=6039766a0836ec00015b0fc5&utm_content=620ed18194703000011ebabc&utm_medium=smarpshare&utm_source=twitter)
Kyndryl signs partnership deal with AWS (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/kyndryl_aws/)
Apple is said to be working on a foldable MacBook/iPad hybrid device (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/apple-is-said-to-be-working-on-a-foldable-macbook-ipad-hybrid-device/)
Amazon Luna – Cloud Gaming Service (https://www.amazon.com/luna/landing-page)
TikTok expands maximum video length to 10 minutes (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/28/22954525/tiktok-maximum-video-length-10-minutes)
Intel energizes decades-old Linux kernel sub-project (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/intel_linutronix_linux/)
Nonsense
You’ve Been Wearing Your Travel Pillow Wrong This Whole Time (https://www.lifesavvy.com/83514/youve-been-wearing-your-travel-pillow-wrong-this-whole-time/)
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Listener Feedback
Listen to The Kubernetes Developer Experience? (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/02/the-kubernetes-developer-experience.html) on The CloudCast
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.Net Beyond conference (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), March 30–31, 2022, online.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Mimestream - A native macOS email client for Gmail (https://mimestream.com) (BETA)
Coté: The Nineties (https://slate.com/culture/2022/02/chuck-klosterman-nineties-book-contrarian-review.html), Tyler Cowen interview with him (https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/chuck-klosterman/).
Matt: Hail Mary (https://amzn.to/3CdUYrf)
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3/4/2022 • 56 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 346: Ev Kontsevoy with an opinionated approach to secure access
Brandon interviews Ev Kontsevoy the CEO and Cofounder of Teleport. They discuss Ev’s early career, his experience at Mailgun and Teleport’s opinionated approach to providing secure access.
Episode Links:
YouTube Clip of the question to Jeff Bezos that inspired Mailgun (https://youtu.be/6nKfFHuouzA?t=1441)
Teleport (https://goteleport.com/)
Teleport Slack (https://goteleport.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-midnn9bn-AQKcq5NNDs9ojELKlgwJUA#/shared-invite/email)
5 Best Practices for Securing SSH (https://goteleport.com/blog/5-ssh-best-practices/)
Contact Ev:
LinkedIn: kontsevoy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kontsevoy/)
Twitter: @kontsevoy (https://twitter.com/kontsevoy) Special Guest: Ev Kontsevoy.
3/1/2022 • 50 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 345: It’s always the last place you look
This week we discuss Kubernetes adoption, the State of Open Source Survey and the search for a better Developer Experience. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash and conflict resolution.
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Rundown
Ten takeaways from the 2022 State of Open Source survey (https://opensource.org/node/1183)
What is Developer Experience? a roundup of links and goodness (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/02/21/what-is-developer-experience-a-roundup-of-links-and-goodness/)
Developer Experience Is Security (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2022/02/17/devex-is-security/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
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California Will Stick Solar Panels Over Canals to Fight Two Disasters at Once (https://gizmodo.com/california-will-stick-solar-panels-over-canals-to-fight-1848550514)
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Snyk expands into cloud security with acquisition of Fugue (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/17/snyk-leaps-into-cloud-security-with-acquisition-of-fugue/)
Spotify Bet Big on Joe Rogan. It Got More Than It Counted On. (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/arts/music/spotify-joe-rogan-misinformation.html)
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Tiger Global, D1 Capital Signal Pullback From Big Private Tech Deals Amid Market Rout (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiger-global-d1-capital-signal-pullback-from-big-private-tech-deals-amid-market-rout)
Thoughts On Markdown — Smashing Magazine (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/thoughts-on-markdown/)
Salesforce employees protest against its NFT ambitions (https://www.engadget.com/salesfore-employees-protest-nft-ambitions-153913396.html)
Exam software is booming, but is it ethical? (https://thehustle.co/02222022-Exam-software/)
Texas led the country in new renewable energy projects last year (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/18/texas-led-the-country-in-new-renewable-energy-projects-last-year.html)
Introducing Gitpod for Open Source (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-for-opensource)
Tech billionaire makes power play (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2022/tech-billionaire-makes-power-play.html)
Why Big Tech is cooperating on smart homes (https://thehustle.co/02222022-smart-homes/)
Edgeless Systems wants to make public clouds the ‘safest place for sensitive data’ (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/21/edgeless-systems-wants-to-make-public-clouds-the-safest-place-for-sensitive-data/)
Goldman Sachs hands out biggest bonuses on Wall Street as talent shortage rages (https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/goldman-sachs-hands-out-biggest-bonuses-on-wall-street/)
Intel Ramps Up Linux Investment By Acquiring Linutronix (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Acquires-Linutronix)
KubeDoc Follow Up (http://Follow> up on the K8s documentary from Joe Beda)
Nonsense
Texas Weather (https://twitter.com/makeitrainshane/status/1496486188332593161?s=21)
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Listener Feedback
macOS Utilities and Clip Board Managers
Chris recommends Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com)
Rookie recommends Mac tools like shuffle, flux and spectacle. (https://earthly.dev/blog/command-line-tools/)
Conferences
.Net Beyond conference (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), March 30–31, 2022, online.
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DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022
DevOpsDays Chicago 2022: Call for Speakers/Papers (https://sessionize.com/devopsdays-chicago-2022/), May 10 & 11th, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf (http://Splunk’s> ,conf June 13-16, 2022), June 13-16, 2022
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=sdt), SF, December 6–8, 2022.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Severance (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q2zdxcx605w8vtx) on Apple TV+ (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q2zdxcx605w8vtx).
Coté: Hilda (https://www.netflix.com/title/80115346); All Killa, No Filla podcast #69 (https://allkillanofilla.libsyn.com/all-killa-no-filla-episode-69-peter-sutcliffe-part-6), “toe-mat-oes”; Indonesian ribs (https://www.plus.nl/product/plus-spareribs-indische-stijl-vacu-m-600-gram-782203).
Matt: The Flight Attendant (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7569576/).
Photo Credits
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Survey Response (https://www.openlogic.com/resources/2022-open-source-report#top)
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2/25/2022 • 55 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 344: Positive sum but not for everyone
The week we review Kubernetes: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU) and Matt explains why there is no Diet Coke in Australia.
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Rundown
Movie Review: Kubernetes: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU)
The improbable rise of Kubernetes to become the operating system of the cloud (https://siliconangle.com/2022/02/12/improbable-rise-kubernetes-become-operating-system-cloud/)
CNCF Sees Record Kubernetes and Container Adoption in 2021 Cloud Native Survey (https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2022/02/10/cncf-sees-record-kubernetes-and-container-adoption-in-2021-cloud-native-survey/)
Mirantis on run rate over $100M two years after buying Docker Enterprise assets (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/09/mirantis-on-run-rate-over-100m-two-years-after-buying-docker-enterprise-assets)
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There Are Now 1,000 Unicorn Startups Worth $1 Billion or More (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-09/there-are-now-1-000-unicorn-private-company-startups-worth-1-billion-or-more)
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ISS, Glass Lewis urge Zendesk investors vote against Momentive deal (https://www.reuters.com/business/glass-lewis-recommends-zendesk-investors-vote-against-momentive-deal-2022-02-11/)
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Apple Announces AirTag Updates to Address Unwanted Tracking (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/10/airtag-updates-unwanted-tracking/)
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Microsoft is reopening its Washington and Bay Area offices this month (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/14/microsoft-is-reopening-its-washington-and-bay-area-offices-this-month.html)
Why Startup Founders Should Check In With Their Investors About Compliance (https://thedefiant.io/vc-startups-compliance/)
Cyber security company Securonix raises $1 billion in Vista-led round (https://wtvbam.com/2022/02/14/cyber-security-company-securonix-raises-1-billion-in-vista-led-round/)
IBM wanted to correct 'seniority mix' by firing older staff (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/ibm_age_discrimination_court_documents/)
JPMorgan Is the First Bank Into the Metaverse, Looks at Business Opportunities (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/15/jpmorgan-is-the-first-bank-into-the-metaverse-looks-at-business-opportunities/)
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VMware, Nvidia team up on AI-powered hybrid cloud platform (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/14/vmware-nvidia-team-up-on-ai-powered-hybrid-cloud-platform/)
Google Search Is Dying | DKB (https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying)
Fantastical update adds cloud-based scheduling features (https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/02/fantastical-update-adds-cloud-based-scheduling-features/)
20 years of .NET: Microsoft's Scott Hunter on the developer platform's "amazing journey" (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/20-years-of-net-microsofts-scott-hunter/)
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AWS brings its Local Zones mini data centers to 32 new cities (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/16/aws-brings-its-local-zone-mini-data-centers-to-32-new-cities/)
Launching and Scaling Data Science Teams: Three Years Later (https://ian-macomber.medium.com/launching-and-scaling-data-science-teams-three-years-later-f1fa6f25b4ae)
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Snyk Acquires Fugue, Enters Cloud Security Market (https://snyk.io/news/snyk-acquires-fugue-enters-cloud-security-market/)
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Intel to acquire contract chipmaker Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B (https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/15/intel-to-acquire-contract-chipmaker-tower-semiconductor-for-5-4b/)
Meta closes Kustomer deal after regulatory approval (https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-closes-kustomer-deal-after-regulatory-approval-2022-02-15/)
Introducing Gitpod for Open Source (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-for-opensource)
Spotify acquires Podsights and Chartable to advance its podcasting business (https://www.reuters.com/business/spotify-acquires-podsights-chartable-advance-its-podcasting-business-2022-02-16/)
Nonsense
Buc-ee's plans first store outside of the South (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2022/02/11/buc-ees-expansion-colorado.html?ana=TRUEANTHEMFB_AU&csrc=6398&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2g1jbZKpebJ2D5BSLlURVrZzEZTDPxPy6rXi1EGmpkgSRgN0b78gprzI0)
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige & Kendrick Lamar FULL Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show (https://youtu.be/gdsUKphmB3Y)
Recycled bulletproof vests may boost the range of electric cars 5-fold, and extend battery life to 10 years (https://www.businessinsider.com/recycled-bulletproof-vests-may-increase-electric-car-range-5-fold-2022-2)
All Blacks sale gets green light after players agree to private equity deal (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/17/all-blacks-sale-gets-green-light-after-players-agree-to-private-equity-deal)
Learning Things From Internet Videos — Postlight — Digital Strategy, Design and Engineering (https://postlight.com/insights/learning-things-from-internet-videos)
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Ryan recommends Invasion on Apple TV+ (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/invasion/umc.cmc.70b7z97fv7azfzn5baqnj88p6)
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Recommendations
Brandon: PasteBot (https://tapbots.com/pastebot/) and speeding up your mouse tracking on macOS (https://paulminors.com/blog/how-to-speed-up-mouse-tracking-on-mac/)
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Matt: Hands on a Hardbody (https://mailchimp.com/presents/film/hands-on-a-hardbody/) - On MailChimp?
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2/18/2022 • 50 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 343: Comfort Bubble
This week we discuss what to expect in cloud in 2020 and the prospect of building a better Kubernetes Developer Experience. Plus, Coté explains the Dutch concept of Gezellig.
Rundown
What to expect in cloud computing in 2022 and beyond (https://siliconangle.com/2022/02/07/expect-cloud-computing-2022-beyond/)
A Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers is Key in 2022 (https://containerjournal.com/features/a-better-kubernetes-experience-for-developers-is-key-in-2022/)
Relevant to your Interests
AWS Earnings (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1489349176014036992)
TriggerMesh, Case Study in Open Sourcing Enterprise Software (https://thenewstack.io/triggermesh-case-study-in-open-sourcing-enterprise-software/)
Strange Computer Languages: A Hacker’s Field Guide (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/26/strange-computer-languages-a-hackers-field-guide/)
Real-time code sharing for your lectures and presentations (https://brunosimon.github.io/keppler/)
Demostack - Spin up a demo, tailor the story, win more deals faster (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/demostack)
Microsoft Responds to OneDrive Mac User Criticism Following Decision to Enforce Files On-Demand Feature (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/03/microsoft-responds-mac-onedrive-criticism/)
Docker. Highlights from our fiscal year: (https://twitter.com/scottcjohnston/status/1489606304058548226?s=21)
The end of the metaverse hopefully (https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-end-of-the-metaverse-hopefully)
YouTube vs. Netflix (https://twitter.com/austin_rief/status/1490481914075131907?s=21)
Chrome is changing its logo for the first time in eight years (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22919398/chrome-logo-change-eight-years)
Why rapid wage growth makes the Fed nervous (https://www.axios.com/federal-reserve-inflation-wage-growth-c34de73f-1822-46dc-9e9c-c6aeb777a6da.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
SoftBank’s $66bn sale of chip group Arm to Nvidia collapses (https://www.ft.com/content/59c0d5f9-ed6a-4de6-a997-f25faed58833?shareType=nongift)
DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914085/alphacode-ai-coding-program-automatic-deepmind-codeforce)
Meta says it may shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe over data-sharing dispute (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/meta-threatens-to-shut-down-facebook-and-instagram-in-europe.html)
Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/02/apple-unveils-contactless-payments-via-tap-to-pay-on-iphone/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Square dongle could be in trouble (https://www.axios.com/square-dongle-trouble-37bed05e-2368-44b1-a145-0c59e993fe67.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
PopSQL Raises $14M in Series A Funding (https://www.finsmes.com/2022/02/popsql-raises-14m-in-series-a-funding.html)
Report: Google Quietly Ditching Stadia (https://kotaku.com/google-stadia-streaming-failing-shutdown-report-stream-1848487185)
Amazon raises the maximum base pay for corporate and tech employees (https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1490709656083124225)
Amazon and Nike are reportedly thinking of buying Peloton (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-nike-peloton-150402603.html)
Google account hacks dropped by half after pushing two-step authentication by default (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/8/22923618/google-account-hacks-dropped-half-two-step-authentication)
NCAA is adding 2 factor authentication to its suite of web apps (https://twitter.com/rj_writes/status/1491214001275285504?s=21)
Microsoft Considers Pursuing a Deal for Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-08/microsoft-is-said-to-pursue-deal-for-cybersecurity-firm-mandiant?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Peloton takedown PPT (https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf)
Nonsense
Wild Hipster Couple Accused in $4.5 Billion Crypto Crime (https://www.thedailybeast.com/heather-morgan-rapping-tech-ceo-accused-of-laundering-billions-in-hacked-crypto-with-ilya-lichtenstein)
How to Make an NFT (https://www.howtogeek.com/783359/how-to-make-an-nft/)
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Listener Feedback
Peloton Take Down (https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_Peloton_Presentation_Feb072022.pdf)
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DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al), April 18 & 19th, 2022
DevOpsDays Austin 2022 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-austin/welcome/), May 4 - 5, 2022
Splunk’s ,conf June 13-16, 2022 (https://www.splunk.com/?_ga=2.68961233.1982633711.1644347192-620855413.1644347192)
Call for Speakers for .conf22 is open until Feb 28, 2022 (https://conf.splunk.com/content/dam/splunk-conf/2022/pdf/conf22-call-for-speakers-guidance-slide.pdf)
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Recommendations
Brandon: iCloud Drive (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201104)
Coté: Star Wars Visions, Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Matt: Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball (https://amzn.to/3oDZzxs)
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2/11/2022 • 52 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 342: Paradox of Advice
This week we discuss Cloud Earnings, OpenSSF’s new project and Tim Bray’s take on Cloud. Plus, some thoughts on data gravity…
Rundown
Earnings
Apple tops earnings expectations on strong iPhone sales (https://www.axios.com/apple-earnings-top-estimates-strong-iphone-4a850376-e1f2-445f-90b4-2d3216a1e36f.html)
Microsoft Azure exceeded $40 billion in annualized revenue (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1486876801314000903?s=21)
Alphabet crushes earnings, announces 20-for-1 stock split (https://finance.yahoo.com/video/alphabet-crushes-earnings-announces-20-212516853.html)
Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring (https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reaching-over-50m-in-arr/)
OSS Security
Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) (https://openssf.org/)
OpenSSF Announces The Alpha-Omega Project to Improve Software Supply Chain Security for 10,000 OSS Projects (https://openssf.org/press-release/2022/02/01/openssf-announces-the-alpha-omega-project-to-improve-software-supply-chain-security-for-10000-oss-projects/)
Citrix goes private (https://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jan-2022/takeprivate.html)
Tim Bray’s take on Cloud (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/30/Cloud-Lock-In)
Relevant to your Interests
Confluent and AWS just announced a "Strategic Collaboration Agreement." (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1486876801314000903?s=21https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1486790805029199872)
Internal messages show Amazon is telling employees to warn customers away from using Microsoft's or Google's clouds as a hedge against AWS outages (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-multi-cloud-outages-messaging-sales-marketing-2022-1)
Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.html)
Google cloud unit shuffles partnerships and sales groups as CEO Kurian chases market share (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/28/google-cloud-unit-shuffles-partnerships-and-sales-groups-email-says.html)
Science says ‘Zoom fatigue’ is real — and worse when you don’t like your face (https://thehustle.co/01282022-zoom-fatigue)
Power tool companies have discovered USB-C (https://twitter.com/verge/status/1486883202102923269?s=21)
Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data – The Markup (https://themarkup.org/privacy/2022/01/27/life360-says-it-will-stop-selling-precise-location-data)
Germany will break the Internet (https://twitter.com/fascinatingtech/status/1487342734906171393)
A guide to Web3 for Web2 frontend devs (https://mirror.xyz/dhaiwat.eth/O5CK6Tjfv8uhl6FPbjT0yZ8LUwViDPWGYHdu9khRWpM)
Meta doubles down on Oculus Quest name change and everyone hates it (https://www.androidcentral.com/meta-quest-oculus-name-change)
Streaming Service Retention Rates (https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1488249269433872384?s=21)
Okta Chart for Cloud Adoption (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1488233622934933504?s=21)
Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise (https://www.geekwire.com/2022/commentary-how-homeowners-defeated-zillows-ai-ultimately-leading-to-zillow-offers-demise/)
Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/ryanbreslow-bolt/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The numbers behind Spotify's Rogan (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-f981e6a4-e379-409c-aba4-83ee55beb79f.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare)
How “Engineering-Driven” Leads to “Engineering-Supremacy” (https://charity.wtf/2022/01/20/how-engineering-driven-leads-to-engineering-supremacy/)
Universal Control was worth the wait – here's how it's changing the way I work (https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/28/universal-contorl-ipad-and-mac-feature/)
Craob X: World's First Portless Laptop on The Way (Exclusive Leak) - My Laptop Guide (https://mylaptopguide.com/craob-x-worlds-first-portless-laptop-on-the-way-exclusive-leak/)
.NET Beyond (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/dotnet-beyond)
Bolt founder Ryan Breslow announces new CEO after Silicon Valley Twitter rant (https://www.fintechfutures.com/2022/02/bolt-founder-ryan-breslow-announces-new-ceo-after-silicon-valley-twitter-rant/)
SpaceX’s new Starlink Premium tier promises up to 500Mbps for $500 a month (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22913921/spacex-starlink-premium-satellite-internet-faster-speed-expensive)
MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation (https://mariadb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-corporation-ab-to-become-a-publicly-traded-company-via-combination-with-angel-pond-holdings-corporation/)
Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buying-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion)
Serverless less trendy? (https://twitter.com/LawrenceHecht/status/1486723915393101836)
Nonsense
Tesla launches 'TeslaMic,' a microphone for in-car karaoke (https://electrek.co/2022/01/28/tesla-launches-teslamic-microphone-in-car-karaoke/)
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Listener Feedback
Brian recommends you read Amp It Up (https://www.audible.com/pd/Amp-It-Up-Audiobook/B09QBTJZJL)
Conferences
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CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
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Recommendations
Brandon:
DDOG Dashboard for ERCOT Power in Texas (https://twitter.com/danopia/status/1361712065564598276)
Wordle (https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) and some news The New York Times Buys Wordle (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-times-wordle.html)
Coté: The Important Thing podcast (https://randsinrepose.com/archives/category/the-important-thing/).
Matt:
TriggerMesh Office Hours (https://www.twitch.tv/triggermesh)
Living With Yourself (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8880894/)
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2/4/2022 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 341: File your own expenses
This week we discuss the SAT going online, the Pyramid of Open Source and dealing with tech debt. Plus, some thoughts on expense reports…
Rundown
Starting in 2024, U.S. students will take the SAT entirely online (https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075315337/new-digital-sat-college-admissions-test-requirement-2024-us)
Enforcing the Pyramid of Open Source (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/17/enforcing-the-pyramid-of-open-source/)
Microsoft cloud revenues power Microsoft's $51.7 billion second FY'22 quarter | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-cloud-revenues-power-microsofts-51-7-billion-second-fy22-quarter/)
Relevant to your Interests
Twitter brings NFTs to profile photos, but only for Twitter Blue subscribers | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/twitter-blue-nft-profile-photos-193912407.html)
Peloton hires McKinsey to review cost structure; cycle maker may cut jobs, close stores (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/peloton-hires-mckinsey-to-review-cost-structure-as-equipment-sales-slow-.html)
Michael Dell Op-ed: There will never be a post-Covid world (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/there-will-never-be-a-post-covid-world-michael-dell.html)
Merck wins cyber-insurance lawsuit related to NotPetya attack (https://therecord.media/merck-wins-cyber-insurance-lawsuit-related-to-notpetya-attack/)
Anitian Raises $55 Million Series B to Further Transform the Cloud Security and Compliance Automation Industries with Pre-Engineered, Zero Trust Cloud Platforms (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anitian-raises-55-million-series-b-to-further-transform-the-cloud-security-and-compliance-automation-industries-with-pre-engineered-zero-trust-cloud-platforms-301464500.html)
Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/25/google-kills-off-floc-replaces-it-with-topics/)
Nvidia Quietly Prepares to Abandon $40 Billion Arm Bid (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-25/nvidia-is-said-to-quietly-prepare-to-abandon-takeover-of-arm?srnd=deals&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
SparkCognition, which develops AI solutions for a range of industries, nabs $123M (https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/25/sparkcognition-which-develops-ai-solutions-for-a-range-of-industries-nabs-123m/)
Oracle audit also a 'sales enablement tool' (https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/oracle_audits/)
Apple pays record $100,500 to student who found Mac webcam hack | AppleInsider (https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/25/apple-pays-record-100500-to-student-who-found-mac-webcam-hack?utm_medium=rss)
This Post Was Written by GitHub Copilot | flower.codes (https://flower.codes/2021/07/08/this-post-was-written-by-github-copilot)
Can CNN make streaming work? (https://thehustle.co/01272022-CNN-streaming/)
Kelsey Hightower vs. Chris Dixon (https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1486141993910738947)
Meta-backed Diem in talks to sell off assets: report (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/131658/meta-backed-diem-in-talks-to-sell-off-assets-report)
Nonsense
Boeing Adds $450 Million to Air-Taxi Effort (https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-expands-focus-on-air-taxis-11643022001)
A bot tried to ruin Wordle by posting the next day’s answer. Twitter suspended the account. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/25/twitter-suspends-wordle-ruining-bot/)
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Listener Feedback
From Slack: Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs (https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g) by Dan Olson
Michale wants you to work at ****Honeycomb as a Senior Product Marketing Manager (https://jobs.lever.co/honeycomb/fbaf1073-5ed0-44f1-aeea-2e8da4abb300)
Brian wants you to be a Senior Product Manager - Cloud Infrastructure in Remote (https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/93594/senior-product-manager---cloud-infrastructure/job?mode=view&mobile=false&width=1140&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=540&jun1offset=540)
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Brandon: Ozark Season 4 Part 1 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552)
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1/28/2022 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 9 seconds
Episode 340: The Dumb Pipe Manifesto
This week we discuss Open Source Model Business Models, Cloud Migrations and the prospect of cloud providers becoming “dumb pipes.” Plus, some thoughts on the rise of Professor Galloway.
Rundown
There is such a thing as an open source business model (https://tracymiranda.com/2022/01/18/there-is-such-a-thing-as-an-open-source-business-model/)
Web3 | No Mercy / No Malice (https://www.profgalloway.com/web3/)
AWS is Not a Dumb Pipe (https://matt-rickard.com/aws-is-not-a-dumb-pipe/)
Clouded Judgement 1.14.22 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-11422?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta)
Remote work and cloud adoption lands 1Password with $620M Series C, now valued at $6.8B (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/1password-series-c-funding/)
Relevant to your Interests
Kubernetes needs a developer platform (https://odedia.org/kubernetes-needs-a-developer-platform)
Observable raises $35.6M to bring better visibility to enterprise data (https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/13/observable-raises-35-6m-to-bring-better-observability-to-enterprise-data/)
People Building 'Blockchain City' in Wyoming Scammed by Hackers - Slashdot (https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/01/14/2049248/people-building-blockchain-city-in-wyoming-scammed-by-hackers?utm_source=feedly1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed)
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Custom Models Production Reportedly Halted Amidst BIOS & Design Issues (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-custom-models-production-reportedly-halted-amidst-bios-design-issues/)
Superior Court judge rules that Google's nondisclosure agreements are so broad they violate the state's ban on noncompete agreements (https://twitter.com/josheidelson/status/1482172137100103681?s=21)
Dutch competition authority recently ruled that Apple must allow dating apps to offer alternative payments. (https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1482352249359765504?s=20)
Web3 is going just great (https://web3isgoinggreat.com/)
It was nice to be invited but I wish I hadn’t been. #aws #tektok (https://www.tiktok.com/@quinnypig/video/7051805142575828229?_d=secCgwIARCbDRjEFSADKAESPgo8n%2BSYoNkGjICEDwLtsEq5Vw8vYOrCeKA%2BYdnbH2q%2BGzCJSq0PR6HDK9dRZrD9ybwiTPzGCTYAE5wzEUzOGgA%3D&checksum=39492f2b99a6e16e45d03599f4c740f13d168c4885ba087d002c9da02d345c79&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAloz292Ou8nd0JpLkbR5Ni1HtvoxFxXznJH7K8cTaC-sb_PTSx0Gz3VJhg0IaQE-y&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=7051805142575828229&share_link_id=ED4E7720-207C-4CE8-B721-3156FE8CBB61&source=h5_m×tamp=1642380671&tt_from=copy&u_code=dh620mifaijla3&user_id=6930822818507047942&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=copy&_r=1)
10 real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines (https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/01/13/10-real-world-stories-of-how-weve-compromised-ci-cd-pipelines/)
Ford signs five-year payments deal with Stripe for e-commerce drive (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/17/ford-signs-five-year-payments-deal-with-stripe-for-e-commerce-drive.html)
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device - Stories (https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/)
I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone. (https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s2igq9/i_automated_my_job_over_a_year_ago_and_havent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Tales From Crypto: A Billionaire Meme Feud Threatens Industry Unity (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/business/dealbook/web3-venture-capital-andreessen.html)
Better.com CEO Who Fired 900 Workers On Zoom Call Reinstalled (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/01/18/better-ceo-vishal-garg-returns-softbank/?sh=3d7d30903595)
Charted: Big tech's ballooning deals (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-1a493767-1c76-4401-bcde-04aaa86927e2.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare)
Airlines warn of "catastrophic disruption" in 5g service deployment (https://www.axios.com/airlines-catastrophic-disruption-flights-5g-55446670-0f98-4f7b-8a89-c76bdacb2675.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Harness releases open version of continuous delivery product with access to source code – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/harness-releases-open-version-of-continuous-delivery-product-with-access-to-source-code/?tpcc=tcplustwitter&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADLmrkm7w_e6Izxgu7aR_NvVW7P0_mJUDI6o-fuqX4cafEZWt6pA7YDzu1R1QI58Z1Abyd6nBlRaz3J99j3TJdT7rBb_-hdPut3zznMQrSKhqeexm71mz9m5wJ4sG6InSkB4lr-mS63m7GT2EDpUFDyvAfhEoDoos75FVvDKH8An)
Kubernetes needs a developer platform (https://odedia.org/kubernetes-needs-a-developer-platform)
‘It’s All Just Wild’: Tech Start-Ups Reach a New Peak of Froth (https://dnyuz.com/2022/01/19/its-all-just-wild-tech-start-ups-reach-a-new-peak-of-froth/)
SaaS acquisition multiples in 2021 (https://blossomstreetventures.medium.com/saas-acquisition-multiples-in-2021-d9f646f914ba)
Google to free G Suite users: Pay up or lose your account (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/)
Zoom multiple (https://twitter.com/gilbert/status/1482075188602699779?s=21)
Nonsense
Busy Simulator (https://busysimulator.com/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Sweet Booby Podcast (https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/sweet-bobby/).
Link to subscribe in Overcast (https://overcast.fm/+0oa3C8efk).
Matt: Eufy RoboVac35c Wi-Fi Robotic Vacuum (https://amzn.to/35aVZUL).
Cricket Explainer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZGLHdcw2RM).
Coté: The Good Enough Parent (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58644937-the-good-enough-parent).
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1/21/2022 • 50 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 339: Just do some squats
This week we discuss NPM corruption, why Web3 may not be different and the future focus of Hyperscalers. Plus, some thoughts on Dutch Doctors.
Rundown
NPM corruption
Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects (https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected)
Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/)
Web 3 is exciting because incumbents like solving known problems
Computing and data infrastructure in '22 (https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/computing-and-data-infrastructure-in-22/)
Aneel Lakhan take on Web3 and the need for a currency but not necessarily bitcoin via The Cloud Cast. (https://overcast.fm/+RrQyCAW4/33:45)
Reasons why Web3 may not be all that different
Matt Mullenweg on Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0 (https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1479998907123863554?s=21)
My first impressions of web3 (https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html)
The Cloud Cast episode Look Ahead VC Funding (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/01/2022-look-ahead-vc-funding.html)
Maybe Hyperscalers should just focus in on primitives? (https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/computing-and-data-infrastructure-in-22/)
I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months. (https://benadam.me/thoughts/my-experience-at-amazon/)
Relevant to your Interests
Is Clubhouse dead? Not if you are in South Asia (https://restofworld.org/2022/is-clubhouse-dead-not-if-you-are-in-south-asia)
NFT kingpin OpenSea lands monster $13.3B valuation in new raise (https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nft-kingpin-opensea-lands-monster-024228291.html)
Andreessen Horowitz completes massive $9B fundraise for startups - FinLedger (https://finledger.com/2022/01/07/andreessen-horowitz-completes-massive-9b-fundraise-for-startups/)
The Multicloud Engineer (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1479518107207143432)
Lyft did a four part blog series on scaling engineering productivity (https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1478552675293696000)
Podcasting Hasn’t Produced A New Hit in Years (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-01-09/podcasting-hasn-t-produced-a-new-hit-in-years)
Take-Two is buying Zynga (https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1480529880240558095?s=21)
This company just decided to give employees a 4-day workweek permanently (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/the-4-day-workweek-becomes-permanent-for-tech-company-bolt.html)
Free to read: Coronavirus tracked: has the epidemic peaked near you? (https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areas=aus&areas=can&areas=chn&areas=jpn&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usnh&areasRegional=uspr&areasRegional=usdc&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=usmi&cumulative=0&logScale=0&per100K=1&startDate=2021-06-01&values=cases)
New year, new CEO (https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/)
Carriers Are Pissed About Apple's Best New Privacy Feature (https://gizmodo.com/carriers-are-pissed-about-apples-best-new-privacy-featu-1848334572)
CEO Of $10 Billion Open-Source Company Elastic Steps Down, President Leaves (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/01/12/elastic-ceo-shay-banon-steps-down/?sh=7b9d03e43aa8)
Nonsense
Forced by shortages to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM warnings (https://boingboing.net/2022/01/08/forced-by-shortages-to-sell-chipless-cartridges-canon-tells-customers-how-to-bypass-drm-warnings.html)
Every few years Australia takes an international superstar hostage for unclear reasons (https://twitter.com/andrewriddle36/status/1480324097024270343?s=21)
Snoop Dogg Is Planning To Launch A Hot Dog Brand Called “Snoop Doggs” – Billboard (https://www.billboard.com/business/legal/snoop-dogg-trademark-hot-dogs-1235017107/)
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CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
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Recommendations
Brandon: ANOVA Precision Cooker (https://anovaculinary.com/anova-precision-cooker/wifi/).
Coté: MSG. Tanzu Application Platform 1.0 (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1480944939504738305).
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1/14/2022 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 338: Time Machine and Index Funds
This week we discuss why cloud numbers don’t add up, Oracle buys Cerner and the demise of BlackBerry. Plus, Matt gives advice for keeping up with Web3.
Rundown
Cloud numbers don’t add up (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3645135/cloud-numbers-dont-add-up.html)
A Look Back at Q3 '21 Public Cloud Software Earnings (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/a-look-back-at-q3-21-public-cloud)
Oracle to buy medical records company Cerner in its biggest acquisition ever (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/20/oracle-to-buy-medical-records-company-cerner.html)
Apple hits $3 trillion market cap, becoming first company to hit the mark (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-hits-3-trillion-market-cap-184825195.html)
If you're clinging to an old BlackBerry, it will officially stop working on Jan. 4 (https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1069938727/blackberry-phones-will-stop-working-january-4)
Relevant to your Interests
AWS
Amazon Cloud Unit Draws Antitrust Scrutiny From Khan’s FTC (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/amazon-cloud-unit-draws-fresh-antitrust-scrutiny-from-khan-s-ftc)
You have asked for this, it is basically your fault! (https://twitter.com/loujaybee/status/1473946267713777668)
MongoDB Poaches Top Amazon Executives to Compete With AWS (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-21/mongodb-poaches-top-amazon-executives-to-compete-with-aws)
AWS DynamoDB architect who recently left for MongoDB (https://twitter.com/houlihan_rick/status/1472969503575265283)
Enterprise Strategy Blog 2021: Year-End Roundup (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/enterprise-strategy-blog-2021-year-end-roundup/)
Amazon announces broad cloud and AI collaboration with auto giant Stellantis (https://u5080173.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/mU8jup-SNFzYvtbX4uPzDyL1IAz5Ln7YgpEcFyupWXkYVfffvkmVk3BhLDlVzDFIeRw_P95DEa2HqI_BexBNjAKvt6FfRZthQGF2WSCjJiYFiPMVhizyP2yS5z_xaIxS9XEABf95iIZIf6WpIvoRag/3ih/XiBZVWqJTIeD_85_O-P01Q/h92/VZ-TuO40kMGZGcvR-G4w0vWL0MmFfxA7Qn8k94v91FM)
M&A and VC
Google confirms it acquired cybersecurity specialist Siemplify, reportedly for $500M, to become part of Google Cloud’s Chronicle (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/04/google-confirms-it-acquired-cybersecurity-specialist-siemplify-reportedly-for-500m-to-become-part-of-google-clouds-chronicle/)
Google confirms it acquired cybersecurity specialist Siemplify, reportedly for $500M, to become part of Google Cloud’s Chronicle (https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/04/google-confirms-it-acquired-cybersecurity-specialist-siemplify-reportedly-for-500m-to-become-part-of-google-clouds-chronicle/)
PitchBook: seed and early stage startups in the US raised $93B in 2021 through December 15, up from $52B in 2020 and $30B in 2016 (http://www.techmeme.com/220103/p8#a220103p8)
Spotify acquires podcast tech company Whooshkaa which turns radio broadcasts into on-demand audio (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/spotify-acquires-podcast-tech-company-whooshkaa-which-turns-radio-broadcasts-into-on-demand-audio/)
Cal.com, Inc. raises $7.4m Seed (https://cal.com/blog/seed)
Redpoint Ventures is Launching a Media Operation—And Embracing TikTok (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/redpoint-ventures-is-launching-a-media-operation-and-embracing-tiktok)
Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreesen are still working (https://twitter.com/bhorowitz/status/1469063034765250562?s=21)
Crypto
Money in the Metaverse (https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/money-in-the-metaverse)
The Block Unicorn Index (https://twitter.com/michaelbatnick/status/1472256861252501509?s=21)
RadioShack goes Crypto (https://www.radioshack.com)
Pay
Google will pay top execs $1 million each after declining to boost workers’ pay (https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22867419/google-execs-million-salaries-raise-sec)
Apple Pays Its Engineers $180,000 Bonuses to Stop Them From Joining Meta (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-28/apple-pays-unusual-180-000-bonuses-to-retain-engineering-talent)
Apple
Apple is rebuilding Apple Music as a full native app with macOS 12.2 beta (https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/16/apple-is-rebuilding-apple-music-as-a-full-native-app-with-macos-12-2-beta/)
Apple is reportedly going to make more of its own chips (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/16/22839850/apple-office-develop-chips-in-house-broadcom-skyworks)
Alexa
Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/amazon-s-voice-controlled-smart-speaker-alexa-can-t-hold-customer-interest-docs)
Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59810383)
Security
LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-users-warned-their-master-passwords-are-compromised)
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp users targeted in phishing scheme (https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/facebook-messenger-instagram-and-whatsapp-users-targeted-in-phishing-scheme/)
Misc
TikTok is accused of violating GPL with new live streaming software (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/tiktok-obs-gpl-violation)
Retailers To Lose $828 Million Of Sales Over Christmas Due To Inaccessible Websites (https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2021/12/19/retailers-to-lose-828-million-of-sales-over-christmas-due-to-inaccessible-websites/)
What’s next for Cloud Foundry (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/27/whats-next-for-cloud-foundry/)
A big video game company enters the metaverse (https://thehustle.co/01062022-square-enix)
IBM has restarted attempts to sell its unprofitable Watson Health division (https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1479085532902612994?s=20)
Minecraft as a k8s admin tool (https://eric-jadi.medium.com/minecraft-as-a-k8s-admin-tool-cf16f890de42)
Web3 (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-8d859ef6-7a97-4527-8575-d43affa97158.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) For (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-8d859ef6-7a97-4527-8575-d43affa97158.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) and (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-8d859ef6-7a97-4527-8575-d43affa97158.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare) Against (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-8d859ef6-7a97-4527-8575-d43affa97158.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare)
Jack Dorsey says VCs really own Web3 (and Web3 boosters are pretty mad about it) (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848162/jack-dorsey-web3-criticism-a16z-ownership-venture-capital-twitter)
Nonsense
U Refill Toner | Laser printer cartridge refills you do yourself (https://www.urefilltoner.co.uk/index.html)
Pedant-friendly millipede discovered: First with 1,000+ legs (https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/16/newly_discovered_millipede_earns_its/)
Largest ever giant millipede fossil found on UK beach (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/largest-ever-giant-millipede-fossil-found-on-uk-beach)
A DAO wants to make Blockbuster a decentralized film streaming service (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/128564/a-dao-wants-to-buy-blockbuster-and-turn-it-into-a-decentralized-film-streaming-service?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss)
Marvel Cinematic Universe is taking over the box office (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1477657032798846979)
Researchers make world's thinnest Christmas tree (https://phys.org/news/2021-12-world-thinnest-christmas-tree.html)
Dieser Tortilla ist köstlich! Kein Öl, kein Backofen! Einfaches und leckeres Frühstück # 110 (https://youtu.be/t5C-6yrevHo)
Crypto CEO Brian Armstrong Buys Los Angeles Home for $133 Million (https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-ceo-brian-armstrong-buys-los-angeles-home-for-133-million-11641249787)
Taco Bell launches taco-a-day subscription program nationwide to drive visits (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/06/taco-bell-launches-taco-a-day-subscription-program-nationwide-to-drive-visits.html)
North Koreans enjoy burritos after paper bizarrely claims Kim Jong-il invented them (https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/north-korea-burritos-kim-jong-il-vda90265d)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Station Eleven on HBO (https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYZWoOQ6F9cLDCAEAAABP)
Book originally recommend on episode 137 (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/137)
Matt: (https://k8slens.dev)State of the World 2022 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/516/State-of-the-World-2022-page01.html)
Photo Credits
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1/7/2022 • 55 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 337: Year in Review
This week we discuss the stories of the year, make a few predications and answer listener questions. Plus, some thoughts on grammar…
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Recommendations
Brandon: Apple Photo Widget. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207023)
Matt: (https://k8slens.dev)Hades (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dulle_Griet,_by_Pieter_Brueghel_(I).jpg).
Coté: Chateau La Fleur Perey, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, 2018 (https://www.vivino.com/NL/en/chateau-la-fleur-perey-saint-emilion-grand-cru-st-emilion-grand-cru/w/1239347).
Photo Credits
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Cover Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/Vn1m4tSCUt0)
12/29/2021 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 336: Michael Wilde on Observability
This week Brandon interviews Michael Wilde. They discuss Wilde's career progression from Sales Engineer to Account Executive and Honeycomb's approach to Observability. Plus, some thoughts on yoga...
Show Links
Honeycomb.io (https://www.honeycomb.io)
BubbleUp (https://docs.honeycomb.io/working-with-your-data/bubbleup/)
Contact Wilde
LinkedIn: michael wilde (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelwilde/)
Twitter: @michaelwilde (https://twitter.com/michaelwilde)
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Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/honeycomb) Special Guest: Michael Wilde.
12/22/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 335: Eager to take a JNDI lookup
This week we discuss how the industry reacted to the Log4j vulnerability and the merits of going Multicloud. Plus, some thoughts on printer paper.
Rundown
Log4j and OSS
Security warning: New zero-day in the Log4j Java library is already being exploited (https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-warning-new-zero-day-in-the-log4j-java-library-is-already-being-exploited/)
‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/10/22828303/log4j-library-vulnerability-log4shell-zero-day-exploit)
What you need to know about the Log4J vulnerability rocking the internet (https://blog.f-secure.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-log4j-vulnerability-rocking-the-internet/)
Zero-Day Exploit Targeting Popular Java Library Log4j (https://www.govcert.ch/blog/zero-day-exploit-targeting-popular-java-library-log4j/)
Paying people to work on OSS (https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1470074108327215118?s=21)
Don’t pay people to work on OSS? (https://twitter.com/littleidea/status/1470393230256533505?s=21)
AWS Outage and Multicloud
Is multi-cloud getting more popular? (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/12/aws-outage-and-hashicorp-ipo-point-to-a-multicloud-future.html) It always has been, also, it means a lot (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/cote-s-commonplace-book-issue-56-889420).
Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region (https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/)
https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com
Relevant to your interests
Oracle swings to loss because of payment tied to dispute over former CEO Hurd's employment (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/oracle-orcl-earnings-q2-2022.html)
Snowflake stock soars after software sales more than double (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/snowflake-stock-soars-after-software-sales-more-than-double-11638393921)
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’ (https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/10/better-com-ceo-vishal-garg-steps-back-as-employees-detail-how-he-led-by-fear/)
Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend (https://www.pcworld.com/article/559001/the-future-of-esports-is-microsoft-excel-and-its-on-espn.html)
Is multi-cloud getting more popular? (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/12/aws-outage-and-hashicorp-ipo-point-to-a-multicloud-future.html)
Who gets left out of ‘bootstrapping’? (https://thehustle.co/who-gets-left-out-of-bootstrapping/?utm_source=sunday%20-%2012/12)
SnapLogic raises $165M to accelerate enterprise automation via data integration (https://siliconangle.com/2021/12/13/snaplogic-raises-150m-accelerate-enterprise-automation-via-data-integration/)
Take one last look at Google Toolbar, which is now dead (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/happy-21st-birthday-to-google-toolbar-which-inexplicably-still-exists/)
The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ)
Apple Officially Delays macOS Monterey Universal Control Until Spring 2022 (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/13/apple-delays-universal-control/)
Software start-up Airtable hits $11 billion valuation in latest funding, adds Salesforce, Michael Dell as investors (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/13/low-code-software-start-up-airtable-worth-11-billion-in-new-funding.html)
Noname Security Becomes First API Security Unicorn (https://nonamesecurity.com/blog/noname-security-becomes-first-api-security-unicorn)
Catching Up On Cloud Infrastructure Startups After The HashiCorp IPO (https://www.forbes.com/sites/rscottraynovich/2021/12/14/catching-up-on-cloud-infrastructure-startups-after-the-hashicorp-ipo/)
GitLab acquires Opstrace - FAQ (https://forum.gitlab.com/t/gitlab-acquires-opstrace-faq/62844)
Nonsense
How to speak Australian : Abbreviate Everything (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDb_WsAt_Z0)
Recycling Center - Sorting Aluminum and Steel (https://youtu.be/BuBIDn9kkY8?t=79)
NIKE, Inc. Acquires RTFKT (https://news.nike.com/news/nike-acquires-rtfkt)
A Quadruped Humanoid Robot Might Be Able To Do It All (https://spectrum.ieee.org/delivery-robot-anymal)
Busy Simulator (https://busysimulator.com/)
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Conferences
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DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al) . April 18 & 19th, 2022
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Recommendations
Brandon: Apple Legacy Contact (https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/14/how-to-set-up-legacy-contacts-on-ios-15)
Matt: (https://k8slens.dev)A.P. Bio (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6461726/)
Coté: Texas Sun (https://open.spotify.com/album/4HFO9PDRxsdbcegkcNhxgz?si=1VPg7l8NRriNVxR03eJ7LQ). Also, the song Coté was trying to remember, “Didn’t I,” by Darondo (https://open.spotify.com/track/6Dq2LzijkY9WNPwBGDah4L?si=wBlYORO7RV6GOTfWSZILRA) - an example of perfection. Number two on that list (https://open.spotify.com/track/3PrqRBsMdy8eZkbDqDb32p?si=88b4da23bcd94c84).
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12/17/2021 • 49 minutes, 14 seconds
Episode 334: Jordan Tigani on data intensive applications
Brandon interviews Jordan Tigani, Chief Product Officer at SingleStore. They discuss Jordan's experience at Google building BigQuery and how to use SingleStore to build data intensive applications. Plus, some good stories on caviar and marathon running.
Links
Google Big Query (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery)
A Return to the General Purpose Database (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/10/26/general-purpose-database/)
SingleStore (https://www.singlestore.com)
SingleStore Free Trial (https://www.singlestore.com/managed-service-trial/)
Work at SingleStore (https://www.singlestore.com/careers/)
SingleStore Recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant (https://www.singlestore.com/blog/recognized-in-the-gartner-magic-quadrant/)
Contact Jordan
@jrdntgn (https://twitter.com/jrdntgn)
LinkedIn: jordantigani (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/)
Banner Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/11KDtiUWRq4) Special Guest: Jordan Tigani.
12/14/2021 • 52 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 333: Chop wood, carry water
This week we discuss the State of Developer Relations and Cloud Adoption Trends. Plus, some thoughts on taking out the trash.
Rundown
State of devrel 2021 (https://www.stateofdeveloperrelations.com/_files/ugd/383279_55d4ef5b6f3847c188639d20f3f31b01.pdf)
The Cloud in 2021: Adoption Continues (https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-cloud-in-2021-adoption-continues/)
Relevant to your interests
AWS Primitives (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1466464691312594955?s=21)
An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities) (https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take)
Meta Selects AWS as Key, Long-Term Strategic Cloud Provider (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005108/en/Meta-Selects-AWS-as-Key-Long-Term-Strategic-Cloud-Provider)
@Werner vs @QuinnyPig (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1466803730934734849?s=21)
Unleash the Booch on No Code (https://twitter.com/grady_booch/status/1467278429221384193?s=21)
A Top SoftBank Executive Wants $2 Billion in Pay. His Boss Disagrees. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/business/softbank-marcelo-claure-masayoshi-son.html)
Someone stole $120 million in crypto by hacking a DeFi website (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/2/22814849/badgerdao-defi-120-million-hack-bitcoin-ethereum)
FTC sues Nvidia to preserve Arm’s status as “Switzerland” of semiconductors (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/12/ftc-sues-nvidia-to-preserve-arms-status-as-switzerland-of-semiconductors/)
How H-E-B got into livestreaming (https://www.grocerydive.com/news/how-h-e-b-got-into-livestreaming/610935/)
The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Exchange Just Raised $400M (https://www.builtinnyc.com/2021/11/22/gemini-raises-400m-7b-valuation-winklevoss-crypto-hiring)
Microsoft will charge 20% more for Office 365 (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1467932100527632389)
Prayers up for our Better.com layoff victims. #layoff #remotework #teamremote #workfromhome #corporate #9to5 (https://m.tiktok.com/v/7038608341731691823.html?_d=secCgwIARCbDRjEFSACKAESPgo85n%2BtKIwo1Zhqn4KTcyroixZ%2FDA8lQYFxeSIpCqXVWLAncwFASfJBaYShvEGUS%2FMGXSehfMJ3NZVGOvAZGgA%3D&checksum=eaad8d27a15f6b79885fc253d8a2c4e8c08460d79884cbf7bc70c937b1a945d1&language=en&preview_pb=0&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAA0HTt90iOfdDeuCxbCJ90nZmvHaieIsIe8dMxMIXWtMD0S9s2k4mM58aBqknhPDlp&share_app_id=1233&share_item_id=7038608341731691823&share_link_id=412686F9-9887-49F9-A2AB-D70149209B02&source=h5_m×tamp=1638830750&tt_from=copy&u_code=dkl91gk6a054k8&user_id=7011150160509174789&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=copy)
Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests (https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests)
AWS Top Secret-West (https://twitter.com/aselipsky/status/1468062726656167937?s=21)
Social Media Trends 2022 (https://www.hootsuite.com/research/social-trends)
$50M to reinvent security automation (https://torq.io/blog/a-new-beginning-security-automation/)
Anyscale - Introducing Anyscale: The Future Is Distributed (https://www.anyscale.com/blog/the-future-is-distributed)
GitGuardians announces a $44M fundraise to further enable the AppSec Shared Responsibility Model (https://blog.gitguardian.com/announcing-our-44m-fundraise-to-further-enable-the-appsec-shared-responsibility-model/)
Liqid raises $100M as demand for composable data center infrastructure grows (https://siliconangle.com/2021/12/07/liqid-raises-100m-demand-composable-data-center-infrastructure-grows/)
Launched Managed Kubernetes service (https://serverspace.io/services/managed-kubernetes/)
An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage)
The Trump SPAC Did a PIPE (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-06/the-trump-spac-did-a-pipe)
Salesforce, Zoom lead $580M investment in call center software company (NYSE:CRM) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3777464-salesforce-zoom-lead-580m-investment-in-call-center-software-company)
Kelsey wades into Bitcoin (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1468263886323261443?s=21)
AppNeta Acquired by Broadcom in Order to Bring Its Award-Winning Visibility Platform to the World's Largest Enterprises (https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/appneta-acquired-by-broadcom-in-order-to-bring-its-award-winning-visibility-platform-to-the-world-s-largest-enterprises-835894275.html)
New Horizons for Open Source (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021_LF_Annual_Report_120721c.pdf)
VMware Tanzu Application Platform with TriggerMesh (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/white-papers/vmware-tanzu-application-platform-with-triggermesh)
A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future (http://)
Software maker HashiCorp raises $1.2 billion in U.S. IPO -source (http://)
Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent? (https://diginomica.com/hyperscalers-dont-appreciate-needs-smbs-what-should-aws-be-doing-reinvent)
An Amazon server outage is causing problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and others (https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage)
Top DevOps Trends to Watch in 2022 | IT Business Edge (https://www.itbusinessedge.com/development/devops-trends-2022/)
Nonsense
icanhazdadjoke (https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api)
Estonian capital began with a traffic jam (https://twitter.com/kane/status/1466883996315308032?s=21)
Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) (https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/)
Sponsors
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Postlight — Postlight co-founders Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk tech, business, ethics, and culture. Subscribe to the Postlight Podcast: postlight.com/podcast (https://postlight.com/podcast)
Conferences
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/)
Software Defined Talk Live Recording - THAT (https://that.us/activities/onqzzIqfp9NOeyLm67SY)
Discount Codes:
Everything Ticket ($75 off): SDTFriends75
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CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
Event Date: May 10 & 11th, 2022
DevOps Days Birmingham AL, 2022 Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/devopsdays-2022-birmingham-al)
CFP closes on Jan 31, 2022,
Event Dates: April 18 & 19th, 2022
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Brother Compact Monochrome Laser Printer (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0763WDSYZ/?tag=thewire06-20&linkCode=xm2&ascsubtag=AwEAAAAAAAAAAS50&th=1)
Matt: (https://k8slens.dev)Lens Desktop for Kubernetes (https://k8slens.dev)
Coté: Basel gingerbread (https://www.laeckerli-huus.ch/en/).
Photo Credits
Header Graphic (https://unsplash.com/photos/aGxAsacQ1LY)
Cover Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/b9-odQi5oDo)
12/10/2021 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 332: Capabilities vs. Complexity
This week we recap the news from AWS re:Invent and Knative joins the CNCF. Plus, some discussion on trademarks…
Rundown
AWS re:Invent Recap
Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/top-announcements-of-aws-reinvent-2021/)
AWS Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion – 100 GB From Regions and 1 TB From Amazon CloudFront Per Month (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer-expansion-100-gb-from-regions-and-1-tb-from-amazon-cloudfront-per-month/)
Where new AWS CEO Adam Selipsky plans to take cloud computing next (https://siliconangle.com/2021/11/28/new-aws-ceo-adam-selipsky-plans-take-cloud-computing-next/)
Announcing Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-pull-through-cache-repositories-for-amazon-elastic-container-registry/)
AWS launches its Graviton 3 processor (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/aws-launches-its-graviton-3-processor/)
Amazon launches preview of new AWS Private 5G managed service (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/amazon-announces-the-preview-of-aws-private-5g/)
re:Invent Keynote Rebuttal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uuLGsK89-Y)
Goldman’s Cloud Will Pitch Trades (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-01/goldman-s-cloud-will-pitch-trades)
Knative
Knative applies to become a CNCF incubating project (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/11/Knative-applies-to-become-CNCF-incubating-project.html)
Serverless offerings like AWS Lambda haven't hit the big time, but Kubernetes can help (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/serverless-offerings-like-aws-lambda-havent-hit-the-big-time-but-kubernetes-can-help/)
Relevant to your interests
Why Sabre is betting against multi-cloud – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/19/why-sabre-is-betting-against-multi-cloud/?guccounter=1)
Kubernetes: what are the key benefits for companies? (https://blog.sparkfabrik.com/en/kubernetes-key-benefits-for-companies)
Cloud security startup Lacework valued at $8.3 bln after mammoth funding round (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cloud-security-startup-lacework-valued-83-bln-after-mammoth-funding-round-2021-11-18/?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Buyer Beware: Not All Names Are Created Equal (https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/buyer-beware-not-all-names-are-created-equal-24-11-2021-en)
Shopify’s BFCM Live Map (http://datastories.shopify.com/)
Inside Amazon's struggle to break into the lucrative market for SaaS business applications, including an internal pitch to buy $38 billion HubSpot (https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-aws-struggles-in-saas-business-applications-cloud-market-hubspot-2021-11?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10_things_tech&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20sai:%2010%20things%20in%20tech%20you%20need%20to%20know%20today&utm_term=10%20THINGS%20IN%20TECH%20YOU%20NEED%20TO%20KNOW%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED)
WSJ News Exclusive | AT&T, Verizon Propose 5G Limits to Break Air-Safety Standoff (https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-verizon-propose-5g-limits-to-break-air-safety-standoff-11637778722)
cryptoji | encrypted emoji (https://cryptoji.com/)
CITC - About | Greylock (https://greylock.com/castles/)
Professions are most Vulnerable to Automation (https://twitter.com/mitsmr/status/1465123356395683840)
The Essential Components of Digital Transformation (https://hbr.org/2021/11/the-essential-components-of-digital-transformation)
Quest Software Acquired: Private Equity Buys IT Management, Security Software Company (Again) (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/private-equity/quest-software-acquired-again/)
Upbound nabs $60M to grow its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management project – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/29/upbound-grabs-60m-series-b-to-grow-open-source-crossplane-cloud-management-project)
Bill Gates Predicts the Future in a Rediscovered Microsoft Video from 1994 (https://thenewstack.io/bill-gates-predicts-the-future-in-a-rediscovered-microsoft-video-from-1994/)
Oxide / Hubris and Humility (https://oxide.computer/blog/hubris-and-humility)
Britain's Blue Prism agrees to $1.65 bln takeover by SS&C, snubs Vista (https://www.reuters.com/business/britains-blue-prism-agrees-165-bln-takeover-by-ssc-2021-12-01/)
Elon Musk tells SpaceX employees that Starship engine crisis is creating a 'risk of bankruptcy' (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/30/elon-musk-to-spacex-starships-raptor-engine-crisis-risks-bankruptcy.html)
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down, sources say (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/29/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-is-expected-to-step-down-sources-say.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.? (https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/technology/parag-agrawal-twitter.amp.html)
Jack Dorsey’s Square changes corporate name to Block (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/01/square-changes-corporate-name-to-block-.html)
Nonsense
Cloth watch (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/model-this-apple-pricing-decision.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=model-this-apple-pricing-decision)
Canada taps into strategic reserves to deal with massive shortage ... of maple syrup (https://www.npr.org/2021/11/25/1059236116/canada-taps-into-strategic-reserves-to-deal-with-massive-shortage-of-maple-syrup)
Want a meal on the fly? A drone can bring you chicken wings in one Triangle neighborhood (https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/article255262531.html)
Chatter Telephone| Fisher Price (https://www.fisher-price.com/en-us/product/chatter-telephone-hgj69)
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Brandon: Plain English: The Omicron Variant: So, How Bad Is It? (https://www.theringer.com/2021/11/30/22809285/the-omicron-variant-so-how-bad-is-it)
Matt: Cautionary Tales: Wrong Tools Cost Lives (https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-wrong-tools-cost-lives/)
Knative in Action author Jacques Chester on Cloud Native AF (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/3)
Coté: War Horse (https://www.amazon.com/Horse-Scholastic-Gold-Michael-Morpurgo/dp/0439796644)
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12/3/2021 • 55 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 331: Graphics of Guerrillas
This week we discuss the rise of Web3 and make a few AWS re:invent predications. Plus, what if Billy Joel and Huey Lewis formed a band…
Rundown
It's a Web3 World Now — How the Hype Compares to Web 2.0 (https://thenewstack.io/its-a-web3-world-now-how-the-hype-compares-to-web-2-0/)
Crypto group tries to claw back fees after failed Constitution bid (https://www.axios.com/crypto-constitution-bid-high-cost-6ab84b3b-79c0-40d0-be6b-232172a3ed7a.html)
$10B is the new $1B, and we need a new framework for startup valuations (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/23/10b-is-the-new-1b-and-we-need-a-new-framework-for-startup-valuations/)
AWS Re:Invent Predictions
5 Things To Know About New AWS Channel Chief Ruba Borno (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/5-things-to-know-about-new-aws-channel-chief-ruba-borno)
Andy Jassy was reportedly surprised when Jeff Bezos asked him to take on the job of Amazon CEO: 'I wasn't clamoring for it' (https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-choosing-andy-jassy-surprised-amazon-ceo-2021-11)
“Who Is He?”: Andy Jassy, Amazon’s New CEO, Enters the Ring (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/andy-jassy-amazons-new-ceo-enters-the-ring)
Relevant to your interests
Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data (https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-failed-to-protect-your-data-investigation/)
Apple's Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started (https://m-cacm.acm.org/news/256904-apples-plan-to-scan-handset-images-stopped-before-it-started/fulltext)
Andy Jassy’s Big Idea for AWS Expansion Marred by Glitches, High Prices (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andy-jassys-big-idea-for-aws-expansion-marred-by-glitches-high-prices)
The NFT Bay Debuts to Save You a Right-Click on Someone's Precious Digital Art (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nft-bay-debuts)
Follow Matthew Ball for MetaVerse Info (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1462787490272759811)
IBM tells POWER8 owners: the end is nigh for upgrades (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/22/ibm_power8_eol/)
VMware withdraws major vSphere release due to bugs (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/22/vsphere_7_update_3_withdrawn/)
Webhooks provider Svix snags $2.6M to simplify software management (https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/21/no-code-webhooks-provider-svix-snags-2-6m-to-simplify-software-management/)
Drama in the Rust community — mod team resignation (https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671)
The bitcoin fanatics fuel GPU shortages for gamers (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/19/gpu_makers_not_keen_on_crypto/)
AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/23/amazon_linux_2022/)
Announcing $150M to build the end-to-end platform for the modern Web (https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-funding-series-d-and-valuation)
Oracle and Google join Microsoft and Amazon in bidding for Defense Department's Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-and-google-join-microsoft-and-amazon-in-bidding-for-defense-departments-joint-warfighter-cloud-capability/)
Passwordless authentication platform Stytch raises $90M (https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/18/passwordless-authentication-platform-stytch-raises-90m/)
Passwordless authentication platform Stytch raises $90M (https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/18/passwordless-authentication-platform-stytch-raises-90m/)
We got an exclusive look at the 13-slide pitch deck Stytch, a passwordless startup, used to raise $90 million from Coatue (https://www.businessinsider.com/stytch-startup-used-this-pitch-deck-to-raise-90m-from-coatue-2021-11#-13)
Nonsense
Dollar Tree will raise prices from $1 to $1.25 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1463225256131375110)
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Listener Feedback
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Brian recommends Outliers (https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930)
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Brandon:
Wave Mic Arm LP (https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Elgato-Gaming/Audio/Wave-Mic-Arm/p/10AAN9901)
The Infinite Machine (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Infinite-Machine-Audiobook/0062990187?ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=EKPH6JXTYCGYS2SK9JKH)
Matt: Corn Pudding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj5mJGyoYIM) for Thanksgiving
Coté: J. Kenji López-Alt (https://www.youtube.com/c/JKenjiLopezAlt/videos)’s videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/JKenjiLopezAlt/videos), for example, Beef with Broccoli (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEs3qXQvg6M).
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11/26/2021 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 330: The marketing became the technology
This week we discuss Splunk’s CEO Transition, Crypto.com renames the Staples Center and Netlify’s attempt to realize Git Push Nirvana. Plus, when do house shoes become just shoes.
Rundown
Splunk stock plunges as CEO Doug Merritt steps down (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/splunk-stock-plunges-as-ceo-doug-merritt-steps-down.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Git Push Nirvana
Heroku itself isn’t what people want. What we actually want is (https://twitter.com/bryanl/status/1460286401199718401?s=21)
git push heroku main (https://twitter.com/bryanl/status/1460286401199718401?s=21)
Netlify Raises $105 Million to Transform Development for the Modern Web (https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-modern-web)
Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena (https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-16/crypto-staples)
Relevant to your interests
ManualsLib - Makes it easy to find manuals online! (https://www.manualslib.com/)
Spotify expands into audiobooks with acquisition of Findaway (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/11/spotify-expands-into-audiobooks-with-acquisition-of-findaway/)
Apple’s unexciting 2021 Mac and iPhone software prove it should take a break from annual OS updates (https://www.theverge.com/22771079/apple-macos-monteray-ios-15-mac-iphone-software-operating-system-updates-space-out-features)
Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/11/red_hat_8_5/)
Business Essentials (https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/)
FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-system-hacked-to-email-urgent-warning-about-fake-cyberattacks/)
Citrix Systems Inc. Layoffs - TheLayoff.com (https://www.thelayoff.com/citrix-systems)
if you use the "Cost Explorer" to check the details of your bill, they will charge you $0.01 (yes, 1 cent) per each request? (https://twitter.com/preraksanghvi/status/1458126728900001796?s=21)
Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money it makes selling TVs (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021)
Seven years after last venture investment, Mixpanel scores $200M Series C – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/15/seven-years-after-last-venture-investment-mixpanel-scores-200m-series-c/)
Twitter acquires Threader, an app that compiles and shares threads – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/15/twitter-acquires-threader-an-app-that-compiles-and-shares-threads/)
PlanetScale raises $50M Series C as its enterprise database service hits general availability – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/16/planetscale-raises-50m-series-c-as-its-enterprise-database-service-hits-general-availability)
Frontpage -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read (https://tosdr.org/)
Snowflake adds Python option for developers (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/16/snowflake_python_support/)
5 ways to improve mental health for software developers (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/11/5-ways-to-improve-mental-health-for-software-developers/)
Here's why identity software firm Okta plans to open a retail location in New York City (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/heres-why-identity-software-firm-okta-plans-to-open-a-retail-location-in-new-york-city.html)
Akamai Exec Rick McConnell to Succeed John Van Siclen as Dynatrace CEO - GovCon Wire (https://www.govconwire.com/2021/11/akamai-exec-rick-mcconnell-to-succeed-john-van-siclen-as-dynatrace-ceo/#:~:text=Rick%20McConnell%2C%20president%20and%20general,2022%2C%20the%20company%20said%20Monday)
Twilio CEO touts company's long-term growth outlook after recent stock plunge (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/twilio-ceo-touts-companys-growth-outlook-after-recent-stock-plunge.html)
AWS Channel Chief Doug Yeum Stepping Down (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-channel-chief-doug-yeum-stepping-down)
The future of work (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEV0DS0UUAUZtl8.jpg)
Apple announces Self Service Repair (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-service-repair/)
Nonsense
Introducing the Icelandverse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI)
MoviePass is coming back, under original founder Stacy Spikes (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/moviepass-is-coming-back)
Dude, he’s back. (https://twitter.com/DellTech/status/1460344411863322632)
Mattress company Casper to be sold in private equity deal (https://www.axios.com/casper-sells-private-equity-dc40779f-57af-402a-9f62-40285b1434fe.html)
Corey Quinn explains AppConfig (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1458667547818016769?s=21)
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Brandon: InterStellar BBQ (https://www.theinterstellarbbq.com)
Coté: Travels with My Aunt (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48858.Travels_with_My_Aunt).
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11/19/2021 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 329: Eat the complexity
This week we discuss the state of severless, the agility equation and Twitter goes blue. Plus, what exactly happens in an Internet Minute…?
Rundown
The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-serverless)
Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/9/22766286/twitter-blue-subscription-service-scroll-nuzzel-undo-tweets-ad-free-articles-us?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4)
From Amazon to Zoom: What Happens in an Internet Minute In 2021? (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/from-amazon-to-zoom-what-happens-in-an-internet-minute-in-2021/)
Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/08/clubhouse-record-room-replay/)
Relevant to your interests
HashiCorp: Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/hashicorp-benchmarking-the-s-1-data)
Cloudflare Announces Third Quarter 2021 Financial Results (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudflare-announces-third-quarter-2021-201500627.html)
Hello, world! Meet Kyndryl, the services biz spun-out by IBM (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl_ibm_spinoff/)
Google is working on a more user-friendly way to find files in Drive (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/4/22763374/google-drive-search-chips-filters-beta-test)
Habitica - Gamify Your Life (https://habitica.com/static/home)
Red Hat to hire fewer senior engineers after budget frozen (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/red_hat_jobs/)
Datadog Acquires Ozcode - Ozcode (https://oz-code.com/blog/general/datadog-acquires-ozcode)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Platforms (https://martinfowler.com/articles/talk-about-platforms.html)
To reinvent work, we have to destroy the clock (https://thehustle.co/to-reinvent-work-we-have-to-destroy-the-clock/)
We've gone backwards since the Bronze Age with calendars (https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/calendar_backwards/)
AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Canada (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211108005823/en/AWS-Announces-Plans-to-Open-Second-Region-in-Canada)
Security software company McAfee acquired for $14 billion (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/8/22769910/mcafee-private-investor-group-acquisition-software)
Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/unity-is-buying-peter-jacksons-weta-digital-for-over-1-6b/)
Amazon’s Cloud’s New Boss Is Girding to Defend Turf in the Field Company Pioneered (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-cloud-boss-is-girding-to-defend-turf-in-the-field-company-pioneered-11636300800?st=5gwylbkkz0bug3s&reflink=article_email_share)
GE to break up into 3 companies focusing on aviation, health care and energy (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/ge-to-break-up-into-3-companies-focusing-on-aviation-healthcare-and-energy.html)
You’re scheduling too many 1:1 meetings (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/one-on-one-meetings)
Nonsense
Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/elon-musk-faces-a-15-billion-tax-bill-which-is-likely-the-real-reason-hes-selling-stock.html)
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Conferences
Coté speaking at DevOops (https://devoops.ru/en/) (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?” (https://devoops.ru/en/talks/kubernetes-is-not-for-developers/)
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/) — Now with the right link
Listener Feedback
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Recommendations
Brandon: macOS disk size utility (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net)
Matt: Cloud Native AF #5: (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/5) Charming Pirates and the Funnel to Contributors
Photo Credits
Banner (https://unsplash.com/photos/-mwNJswDlXE)
Show Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/5mZ_M06Fc9g)
Internet Minute Graphic (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/from-amazon-to-zoom-what-happens-in-an-internet-minute-in-2021/)
11/12/2021 • 59 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 328: Your MOM is a SaaS
This week we discuss HashiCorp’s S1, AWS Earnings and highlights from Microsoft Ignite. Plus, Coté teaches us a new Dutch phrase.
Rundown
Cloud software vendor HashiCorp files for IPO as investors pour money into high-growth tech stocks (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/cloud-software-vendor-hashicorp-files-for-ipo.htmlCot)
Coté’s highlights (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1456344043433177091).
Understanding the 2021 State of Open Source Report (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/state-of-open-source-report-highlights)
Amazon
Amazon badly misses on earnings and revenue, gives disappointing fourth-quarter guidance (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/amazon-amzn-earnings-q3-2021.html)
Amazon Web Services tops analysts' estimates on profit and revenue (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/aws-earnings-q3-2021.html)
Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register (https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/10/29/amazon-is-the-flywheel-aws-is-the-cash-register/)
A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline! (https://github.com/localstack/localstack)
Your hybrid, multicloud, and edge strategy just got better with Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/your-hybrid-multicloud-and-edge-strategy-just-got-better-with-azure/)
Compliance in a DevOps Culture (https://martinfowler.com/articles/devops-compliance.html)
Relevant to your interests
Abacus.ai snags $50M Series C as it expands into computer vision use cases (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/abacus-ai-snags-50m-series-c-as-it-expands-into-computer-vision-use-cases/)
NeuVector is excited to announce we are joining SUSE (https://www.suse.com/c/accelerating-security-innovation/)
Monitor Your Azure Environment Using Amazon Managed Grafana (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5z4ysfz_gA)
Facebook’s new name will be Meta (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22745234/facebook-new-name-meta-metaverse-zuckerberg-rebrand)
New product: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-2/)
Universal Search & Productivity App | Command E (https://getcommande.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Software services firm Zendesk to buy SurveyMonkey parent for nearly $4 bln (https://www.reuters.com/technology/software-services-firm-zendesk-buy-surveymonkey-parent-nearly-4-bln-2021-10-28/)
Kalshi (https://kalshi.com/markets)
Popular gaming platform Roblox back online after multi-day crash (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/popular-gaming-platform-roblox-suffers-multi-day-crash-01635713002)
Dell spins off $64 billion VMware as it battles debt hangover (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/dell-spins-off-64-billion-vmware-as-it-battles-debt-hangover/)
BMC Unveils New Data Management and Analytics Capabilities (https://thenewstack.io/bmc-helix-and-control-m-data-management-and-analytics/)
Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million (https://gizmodo.com/squid-game-cryptocurrency-scammers-make-off-with-2-1-m-1847972824)
AI programming tool Copilot helps write up to 30% of code on GitHub (https://www.axios.com/copilot-artificial-intelligence-coding-github-9a202f40-9af7-4786-9dcb-b678683b360f.html)
Introducing the Free Java License (https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license)
Backblaze’s IPO a test for smaller tech concerns (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/backblazes-ipo-a-test-for-smaller-tech-concerns/)
Happy 1.0, Knative (https://off-by-one.dev/happy-1-0-knative/)
A Return to the General Purpose Database (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/10/26/general-purpose-database/)
Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (https://www.theverge.com/e/22523015)
Nat Friedman to step down as head of Microsoft's GitHub (https://www.zdnet.com/article/nat-friedman-to-step-down-as-head-of-microsofts-github/)
Microsoft launches Google Wave (https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/microsoft-launches-google-wave/)
Nonsense
Apple's worst shipping delay is for a $19 polishing cloth — Engadget (https://apple.news/A5hFyYAq3RgG35nJT1AX6bA)
Aussie++ (https://aussieplusplus.vercel.app/)
Microsoft resurrects Clippy again after brutally killing him off in Microsoft Teams (https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/1/22756973/microsoft-clippy-microsoft-teams-stickers-return)
Allbirds shares surge 60% in eco-friendly shoe maker's market debut (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/03/allbirds-ipo-bird-to-start-trading-on-the-nasdaq.html)
Sponsors
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Conferences
MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021
Coté speaking at DevOops (https://devoops.ru/en/) (Russia), Nov 11th: “Kubernetes is not for developers…?” (https://devoops.ru/en/talks/kubernetes-is-not-for-developers/)
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/events/tx/2022/)
Listener Feedback
Mailed stickers to Stephan in Berlin.
Brian wants you to work at Red Hat as a Senior Product Manager (https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/88701/senior-product-manager) or Principle Product Manager (https://us-redhat.icims.com/jobs/89053/principal-product-manager) in Security.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Success Equation (http://success-equation.com) — The spiritual sequel to “The Halo Effect”
Podcast Interview with Author (http://Michael> Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More | Acquired Podcast)
YouTube Talk by Author (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLfqBsX5Lc)
Paradox of Skill (https://research-doc.credit-suisse.com/docView?language=ENG&format=PDF&source_id=em&document_id=805456950&serialid=LsvBuE4wt3XNGE0V%2B3ec251NK9soTQqcMVQ9q2QuF2I%3D)
Matt: The Art and Soul of Dune (Companion Book Music) (https://open.spotify.com/album/0FGr97xSOQLD596ZebfU1T?si=9rTrMK_wTiWZOtwiKfvZMA)
Dune (the book) (https://amzn.to/3whLKHx)
Coté: LaserWriter II (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56269270-laserwriter-ii). Also, check out my Tiny Tanzu Talk videos playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiV6sJUlKx_4dse8U2tLjjn0) - 18 months of video madness. Also, I watch Frozen from three to ten times a day now with Dutch subtitles turned on. So, I’m trying to memorize “als een kip met het gezicht van een aap.” (https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=nl&text=like%20a%20chicken%20with%20the%20face%20of%20a%20monkey&op=translate&hl=en)
Photo Credits
Show Art (https://unsplash.com/photos/UMfGoM67w48)
Hashicorp S1 Screenshot Show Art (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1456349608775491585re)
Banner Header (https://unsplash.com/photos/dwBZLRPhHjc)
11/5/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes
Episode 327: Jack Naglieri on security at scale
Brandon interviews Jack Naglieri, Founder & CEO at Panther Labs. They discuss the challenges of security at scale and the current state of security tools. Plus, we learn how Jack transitioned from Security Analyst to Security Engineer and now CEO.
Links:
StreamAlert (https://www.streamalert.io)
Website: https://runpanther.io (https://runpanther.io/)
Request a Demo (https://runpanther.io/request-a-demo/)
Jack’s Podcast: Detection at Scale (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/detection-at-scale/id1582584270)
Contact Jack:
LinkedIn: jacknaglieri (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacknaglieri/)
Twitter: @jack_naglieri (https://twitter.com/jack_naglieri)
Github: jacknagz (https://github.com/jacknagz/)
Special Guest: Jack Naglieri.
11/2/2021 • 52 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 326: Just Jump In
This week we recap Datadog’s announcements, discuss Sequoia’s investment pivot and hot takes on Facebook’s intent to rebrand. Plus, some thoughts on heated pools…
Rundown
Dash 2021: Guide to Datadog’s newest announcements (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/dash-2021-new-feature-roundup/)
The Sequoia Fund: Patient Capital for Building Enduring Companies (https://sequoia.medium.com/the-sequoia-fund-patient-capital-for-building-enduring-companies-9ed7bcd6c7da)
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse)
Relevant to your interests
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/sam-altmans-worldcoin-wants-to-scan-every-humans-eyeball-and-give-them-crypto-in-exchange/)
Sphere has joined Twitter! (https://blog.sphere.me/sphere-has-joined-twitter-e7127cfe0467)
Red Hat continues to grow, but IBM’s struggles continue (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/red-hat-continues-to-grow-but-ibms-struggles-continue/)
Apple Safari browser might become the new Internet Explorer (https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/safari_risks_becoming_the_new_ie/)
VMware/Dell split confirmed for November 1st (https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/21/vmware_dell_split_nov_1_2021/)
Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/23/22742282/microsoft-dotnet-hot-reload-u-turn-response)
Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework 2.4 - Enterprise transformation without the risk of culture change! (https://scaledagiledevops.com/)
Amazon Web Services plans to design more of its own semiconductors, CEO says (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/amazon-web-services-plans-to-design-more-of-its-own-semiconductors-ceo.html)
Hertz Orders 100,000 Teslas, Part of Plan to Electrify Fleet (https://www.wsj.com/articles/hertz-orders-100-000-teslas-11635167670?st=cc9kqzrd339yvqr&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter)
Web 2 Map (https://twitter.com/amoration/status/1452360953425633286/photo/1)
Australia Buys Telecom in Expensive Push to Keep China Out of Pacific (https://gizmodo.com/australia-buys-foreign-telecom-in-expensive-push-to-kee-1847927415)
Microsoft acquires Clear Software to enhance connectivity to systems of record (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/2021/10/22/microsoft-acquires-clear-software-to-enhance-connectivity-to-systems-of-record/)
NewRelic acquires CodeStream to provide chat in developer environments, inks Microsoft IDE partnership (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/newrelic-acquires-codestream-to-provide-chat-in-developer-environments-inks-microsoft-ide-partnership/)
Cisco Accelerates Innovation of AppDynamics Business Observability Platform with Intent to Acquire replex (https://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-corporate-news-1021)
vscode.dev Visual Studio Code for the Web (https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev)
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/)
Nonsense
Open enrollment video for Facebook employees (https://vimeo.com/622520807/1e34c19767)
Sponsors
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Conferences
MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
Jordi wants you to work at Cypress.io (https://www.cypress.io/jobs/)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk)
Dune Part 2 Official: Denis Villeneuve Can Complete the Sci-Fi Tale (https://gizmodo.com/dune-part-2-is-official-will-be-here-october-2023-1847938646)
Coté: The Complete Works of Bruegel (https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/art/all/01154/facts.pieter_bruegel_the_complete_works.htm#).
Photo Credits
Cover Art (https://imgix.datadoghq.com/img/blog/dash-2021-new-feature-roundup/observability-pipelines.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&w=698)
10/29/2021 • 54 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 325: Nothing says Enterprise like a function key
This week we discuss TriggerMesh going open source, the new Enterprise Mac and Honeycomb raising VC . Plus, will Matt become a TikTok influencer…?
Rundown
Introducing TriggerMesh Open Source (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/introducing-triggermesh-open-source)
Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachDB Serverless (https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/10/cockroachdb-serverless/)
The Enterprise of the MacBook Pro
macOS Monterey Release Candidate Undoes Safari Changes, Reintroduces Old Tab Design (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/18/macos-monterey-reverts-safari-changes/)
HDMI Port Limitations (https://twitter.com/tapbot_paul/status/1450166030446235650)
Apple innovators do it again with $19 'Polishing Cloth' (https://mashable.com/article/apple-polishing-cloth)
Apple’s new 140W charger can fast charge a lot more than just your MacBook Pro (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22734233/apple-140w-macbook-charging-brick-gan-usb-c-pd-3-1-third-party-chargers)
Funny Tweet Storm of Apple Event (https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1450146483030749184)
Steven Sinofsky on Apple (https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1450255227945242628?s=21)
How Honeycomb Is Using $50M in New Funding to Bring Observability to All (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/series-c-funding-bringing-observability-to-all)
Expensify builds a SQLite Database from their S-1 (https://twitter.com/craig_tracey/status/1450459102975565829?s=21)
Yes, there’s a market for Excel influencers on TikTok (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/productivity-app-influencers)
Relevant to your interests
Welcome to Dagger.io (http://dagger.io/)
Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58911297)
How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux (https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/13/how_ntfs_finally_made_it/)
GitLab jumps 22% in its Nasdaq debut after code-sharing company priced IPO above expected range (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/14/gitlab-jumps-in-nasdaq-debut-after-pricing-ipo-above-expected-range.html)
Elastic to buy 'continuous profiling' startup Optimyze (https://www.zdnet.com/article/elastic-to-buy-continuous-profiling-startup-optimyze/)
Slackers of the World, Unite! (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/slack-office-trouble/620173/)
Amazon To Allow Employees To Work Remotely Indefinitely (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/amazon-to-allow-employees-to-work-remotely-indefinitely-7573211.html)
Google bets on the cloud breaking up (https://www.ft.com/content/ab36b9e2-00e0-469c-9388-fa034f9bfd63)
The replacement for Google Reader? (https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/1446503789586894850?s=20)
Why a Key Google Cloud Product Ended Up Generating Less Than 0.1% of Revenue (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-a-key-google-cloud-product-ended-up-generating-less-than-0-1-of-revenue?utm_source=ti_app)
Fully-local simulator for Cloudflare Workers (https://github.com/cloudflare/miniflare)
The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers On The Right… (https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73)
Expensify Announces Filing of Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211015005640/en/Expensify-Announces-Filing-of-Registration-Statement-for-Proposed-Initial-Public-Offering)
Programming languages ranked by how much electricity they use: (https://twitter.com/mit_csail/status/1450135081226489857?s=21)
Yes, there’s a market for Excel influencers on TikTok (https://www.protocol.com/workplace/productivity-app-influencers)
IBM shares drop on weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/ibm-earnings-q3-2021.html)
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse)
****- Amazon cloud storage challenger Backblaze files to go public (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/cloud-object-storage-company-backblaze-files-to-go-public.html)
Snowflake Launches A Media Cloud, As It Builds Out Programmatic Services (https://www.adexchanger.com/platforms/snowflake-launches-a-media-cloud-as-it-builds-out-programmatic-services/)
Twilio delves more deeply into marketing with new tool built on $3.2B Segment acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/20/twilio-delves-more-deeply-into-marketing-with-new-tool-built-on-3-2b-segment-acquisition/)
Nonsense
this is hilarious but also really awesome ux (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBs8RaiVEAAlDJL.jpg)
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Conferences
TriggerMesh Open Source Software Webinar (https://www.triggermesh.com/oss-intro) - October 28, 2021
MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
InfraCloud is hiring a Site reliability Engineer (SRE) in India (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2763208585/?alternateChannel=search&refId=eSIVvVIqBdTCFUIIcV6Fvw%3D%3D&trackingId=E8rnW8pH9WYFNfz1ZMtONw%3D%3D)
James wants you to superorbital.io as a Kubernetes focused Cloud Engineer (https://superorbital.io/careers/)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Foundation (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/foundation/umc.cmc.5983fipzqbicvrve6jdfep4x3?ign-itscg=MC_20000&ign-itsct=atvp_brand_omd&mttn3pid=Google%20AdWords&mttnagencyid=a5e&mttncc=US&mttnsiteid=143238&mttnsubad=OUS2019859_1-547710607871-c&mttnsubkw=104006946180__BCaSlfl0_&mttnsubplmnt=) and Squid Game (https://www.netflix.com/title/81040344)
Netflix's "Squid Game" Generated $891 Million In Value: Report (https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/netflixs-squid-game-generated-s891-million-in-value-report-news.141147.html)
Matt: Gauntlet Slayer Edition (https://store.steampowered.com/app/258970/Gauntlet_Slayer_Edition/)
MacOS Mission Control drag & drop between screens
Photo Credits
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10/22/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 324: Stockpile EULAs
This week we discuss the real-world use of containers, recap the Google Cloud Next announcements and make some Apple predications. Plus, how often do you wash jeans…?
Rundown
Containers in the Real World
10 trends in real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/)
What Workloads Do Businesses Run on Kubernetes? (https://thenewstack.io/what-workloads-do-businesses-run-on-kubernetes/)
Google Cloud Next `21
What’s New at Google Cloud Next ‘21 (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/whats-new-at-next)
Introducing Google Distributed Cloud—in your data center, at the edge, and in the cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-distributed-cloud-edge-and-hosted)
Introducing Anthos for VMs and tools to simplify the developer experience (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/introducing-anthos-for-vms-and-other-app-modernization-tools)
Build a more secure future with Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/next21-how-google-cloud-secures-the-world)
Google Cloud will show users their gross carbon emissions (https://www.engadget.com/google-cloud-platform-carbon-footprint-emissions-environment-163339146.html)
GKE AutoPilot not new but mentioned (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/autopilot-overview#security)
Google Cloud launches a managed Spark service (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/google-cloud-launches-a-managed-spark-service/)
Weave & Chick-fil-A: Managing Fleets of Kubernetes Clusters... (https://youtu.be/ta9jJc-RVvE)
Relevant to your interests
Eating the Cloud from Outside In (https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go/)
The Confidential Computing Consortium Year in Review, 2021 - Confidential Computing Consortium (https://confidentialcomputing.io/2021/10/06/the-confidential-computing-consortium-year-in-review-2021/)
Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges (https://www.infoq.com/articles/kubernetes-trends-and-challenges/)
Microsoft and Amazon reach truce allowing former AWS executive Charlie Bell to start in new role (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-amazon-reach-truce-allowing-former-aws-executive-charlie-bell-start-new-role/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Series A Funding Announcement | cloudtamer.io (https://www.cloudtamer.io/announcing-our-series-a/)
Reddit hires former Google Cloud exec as its first chief product officer (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/11/reddit-hires-former-google-cloud-exec-as-its-first-chief-product-officer/)
The next big thing in podcasts is talking back (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722468/spotify-amazon-facebook-audio-podcast-polls-interact)
1Password’s new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/1passwords-new-feature-lets-you-safely-share-passwords-using-just-a-link/)
Coinbase is launching its own NFT platform to take on OpenSea – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/coinbase-is-launching-its-own-nft-platform-to-take-on-opensea/)
The Air Force’s First Software Chief Stepped Down—But He Won’t Be Quiet (https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2021/10/air-forces-first-software-chief-stepped-down-he-wont-be-quiet/186047/)
Nonsense
Tesla is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas (https://www.theverge.com/22715458/tesla-move-headquarters-to-austin-texas)
VC firm associate has built a crypto marketplace designed for fantasy startup investing (https://twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/1445830869151748101The> Confidential Computing Consortium Year in Review, 2021 - Confidential Computing Consortium)
Musk vs. Bezos in a Tweet (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1447426189660880898?s=20)
Pon agrees to buy Dorel Sports for $810 million (https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2021/10/11/pon-agrees-buy-dorel-sports-810-million#.YWWYtC-B0dk)
The first USB-C iPhone is here thanks to a mod (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722123/first-iphone-usb-c-port-robotics-engineering-student-custom)
Sponsors
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Conferences
GitOpsDays Community Special: GitOps One-Stop Shop Event October 20 (https://www.gitopsdays.com/)
TriggerMesh Open Source Software Webinar (https://www.triggermesh.com/oss-intro) - October 28, 2021
MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
Ed wants you to be Product Manager at VMware based in Spain (https://vmware.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/VMware/job/ESP-Seville-Av-de-Republica-Argentina/Product-Manager-for-RabbitMQ_R2111712)
Brian wants you to be a Senior Product Manager - Pipelines in Bangalore (https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/89894/senior-product-manager---technical/job?mobile=false&width=1140&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240) or Senior Product Manager - GitOps in Remote, UK (https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/89893/senior-product-manager---gitops/job)
Brian recommends this jump box (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082ZZ2W14/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185)
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Universel Dual Monitor Arm with Pistons (https://www.bestar.com/product/dual-monitor-arm-ak-ma01d-17/)
Coté: A Carnival of Snackery (https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Carnival-of-Snackery-Audiobook/1549108212), new David Sederis diaries, audio of course. Tasty Meats Paul’s Whole Hair Thing (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/1448351873614827521). Also (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1448556155266084866).
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10/15/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 323: Boxes and Arrows
This week we discuss AWS Step Functions, VMware Tanzu Community Edition and Zoom’s M&A Strategy. Plus, some thoughts on car batteries…
Rundown
AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-aws-step-functions-supports-200-aws-services-to-enable-easier-workflow-automation/)
Introducing VMware Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-community-edition-announcement)
Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzucommunityedition.io/)
Zoom M&A
And that’s that, as the Zoom deal to buy Five9 is called off – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/30/and-thats-that-as-the-zoom-deal-to-buy-five9-is-called-off/)
Zoom loses Five9 - leaves the cloud contact center business open to innovative alternatives (https://diginomica.com/zoom-loses-five9-leaves-cloud-contact-center-business-open-innovative-alternatives)
Telegram added 70M new users amid six-hour WhatsApp outage (https://9to5mac.com/2021/10/05/telegram-added-70m-new-users-amid-six-hour-whatsapp-outage/e)
Relevant to your interests
Announcing Trusted Cloud Principles (https://trustedcloudprinciples.com/)
Australian Bureau of Statistics runs 2021 Census on the AWS Cloud (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/australian-bureau-of-statistics-runs-2021-census-on-the-aws-cloud/)
"A New Strategy, R2" (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2021/09/30/a-new-strategy-r2/)
Cloudflare’s Disruption (https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/)
PSPDFkit raises $116M, its first outside money; now nearly 1B people use apps powered by its collaboration, signing and markup tools (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/01/pspdfkit-raises-116m-its-first-outside-money-now-nearly-1b-people-use-apps-powered-by-its-collaboration-signing-and-markup-tools/)
Microsoft announces Office 2021 features and pricing (https://www.theverge.com/22704168/microsoft-office-2021-features-pricing-release-date)
Paperlike, the Screen Protector for iPad: write and draw like on paper (https://paperlike.com/)
Microsoft sets Oct. 5 as Windows 11 launch date (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-oct-windows-11-launch-date-7202798e-fa64-421a-835a-4c625c97e728.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
COVID Breathalyzers Could Transform Rapid Testing (https://spectrum.ieee.org/covid-breathalyzers-could-transform-rapid-testing)
AWS Mistakes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493193)
The Verica Open Incident Database (https://www.thevoid.community/)
Developer-focused infrastructure security platform Mondoo raises $15M (https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/05/developer-focused-infrastructure-security-platform-mondoo-raises-15m/)
1 big thing: Enterprise software's reawakening (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-846feca0-b1b3-40c1-92b0-88c5cd3c0d46.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
FB Outage
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet (https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/)
Tools to explore BGP (https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/10/05/tools-to-look-at-bgp-routes/)
Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR (https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22708989/instagram-facebook-outage-messenger-whatsapp-error)
Security
The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked | VGC (https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-entirety-of-twitch-has-reportedly-been-leaked/)
DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-protocol-compound-mistakenly-gives-away-millions-to-users.html)
Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using MFA flaw (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw/)
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked (https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xpm8/company-that-routes-billions-of-text-messages-quietly-says-it-was-hacked)
Nonsense
There are six internet links on my office on wheels. Seven when Starlink arrives. (https://ghuntley.com/internet/)
Australia accelerates its plans to allow international travel. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/australia/australia-international-travel-covid.html)
As of today, Australia has 5 time zones once again. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAv7UPuVEAA87S9.jpg)
April Fools' copy-paste button for lazy programmers now actually for sale (https://www.cnet.com/news/april-fools-copy-paste-button-for-lazy-programmers-now-actually-for-sale/?PostType=link&ServiceType=twitter&UniqueID=5A6C2A44-2481-11EC-97B3-AFC2BDCD475E&ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&TheTime=2021-10-03T19:37:32&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Sponsors
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Conferences
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
GitOpsDays Community Special: GitOps One-Stop Shop Event October 20 (https://www.gitopsdays.com/)
MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
James wants you to wort at GoCardless in London as a IT Engineering Manager (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3190118.), IT Support Manager (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3501701) or Business Systems Engineer - HR Systems (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless/jobs/3334891)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185)
Recommendations
Brandon: Bayco LBC-400 Recessed Light Bulb Changer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GAUSCO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Drones changing bulbs (https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1435753919817429000)
Matt: Lee “Scratch” Perry A Live Injection: Anthology 1968-1979 (https://open.spotify.com/album/1W3cKgwqmprjq24abdSThm?si=ZOBFrj2FQpqxdjylhaUFEQ&dl_branch=1)
Cloud Native AF: Farmers Don't Care About Kubernetes with Mike Dvorkin (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/4)
(https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/4)
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10/8/2021 • 54 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 322: I didn’t make these rules
This week we discuss the launch of Cloudflare R2 Storage and the DevRel Salary Survey. Plus, some thoughts on nuts…
Rundown
Cloudflare
Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/)
How Cloudflare thinks it can become ‘the fourth major public cloud’ (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cloudflare-r2-storage-aws)
@Cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52. (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1443076111651401731?s=21)
DevRel
2021 DevRel Salary Survey results (https://dev.to/bffjossy/2021-devrel-salary-survey-results-table-of-contents-43fe)
Big tech and promotion processes that lead to unnecessary complexity and waste. (https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1442162670753431559)
Relevant to your interests
iPhone Carrier Deal Spreadsheet (https://twitter.com/backlon/status/1441509334324707329?s=21)
We asked celebrities what they think Tanzu and Kubernetes means (https://twitter.com/VMworld/status/1441095517438550018)
Dev Ops Solutions | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/)
Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/26/google-lowers-its-cloud-marketplace-revenue-share-to-3percent-from-20percent.html)
Online Learning Company Udemy Plans October IPO (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/online-learning-company-udemy-plans-october-ipo)
1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins (https://www.engadget.com/fastmail-1password-masked-email-110028257.html)
AWS US East region wobbles for eight hours (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/28/aws_east_brownout/)
Vista bets on software robotics with $1.5 billion Blue Prism takeover (https://www.reuters.com/article/blue-prism-grup-m-a-vista-equity/vista-bets-on-software-robotics-with-1-5-billion-blue-prism-takeover-idUSKBN2GO0GO)
Amazon announces Astro home robot that roams around your house (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/amazon-event-2021-live-updates-amazons-set-to-announce-new-products.html)
Akamai to acquire cloud security firm Guardicore for about $600 million (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guardicore-m-a-akamai-tech/akamai-to-acquire-cloud-security-firm-guardicore-for-about-600-million-idUSKBN2GP119)
Facebook Reels exits beta in the US with offers to pay creators for well-performing videos (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/facebook-reels-exits-beta-in-the-u-s-with-offers-to-pay-creators-for-well-performing-videos/)
The cloud is NOT just someone else’s computer (https://cloudpundit.com/2021/09/22/the-cloud-is-not-just-someone-elses-computer/)
Netflix Has Acquired Its First Video Game Studio (https://gizmodo.com/netflix-has-acquired-its-first-video-game-studio-1847767078)
How IBM lost the cloud (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/ibm-lost-public-cloud)
Apple Pay flaw risks letting hackers drain money from iPhones (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/09/30/apple-pay-flaw-risks-letting-hackers-drain-money-iphones/)
Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-tv-as-a-service/)
First cryptocurrency fund approved in Switzerland (https://cointelegraph.com/news/first-cryptocurrency-fund-approved-in-switzerland)
OS/2’s Last Stand: IBM OS/2 Warp 4 Turns 25 (https://www.howtogeek.com/755650/os2s-last-stand-ibm-os2-warp-4-turns-25/)
Nonsense
Costco placing purchase limits on toilet paper, other products due to COVID-related demand (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2021/09/24/costco-limiting-purchases-toilet-paper-other-items/5841158001/)
Release Notes (https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1441423424337764362?s=21)
William Shatner's Going to Space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Ship (https://www.tmz.com/2021/09/24/william-shatner-going-space-jeff-bezos-blue-origin/)
A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500 (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/hamster-trading-cryptocurrencies-rigged-cage-goxx-bitcoin-price-ether-doge-2021-9)
Heatbit - electric heater that earns you money (https://heatbit.com/)
Sponsors
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Conferences
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
MongoDB.local London 2021 (https://events.mongodb.com/dotlocallondon) - November 9, 2021
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
Anova Precision® Cooker Nano was highly recommended (https://anovaculinary.com/anova-precision-cooker/nano/)
OpenNebula is hiring (https://opennebula.io/all-remote-manifesto-opennebula-systems-goes-fully-distributed/)
Biogen needs a Digital Health Program Manager (https://smrtr.io/6H9cZ) and Sr. Manager- Quality Engineering (https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Biogen/743999765854224-sr-manager-quality-engineering-automation-performance-)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185)
Recommendations
Brandon: https://claimittexas.org
Matt: Emacs M-x zone (https://twitter.com/mickeynp/status/1443513130831728647)
Cloud Native AF: Jacques Chester (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/3)
Coté: Sandman Act 2 (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Sandman-Act-II-Audiobook/B098TWVZVD?ipRedirectOverride=true&overrideBaseCountry=true&pf_rd_p=27448286-da3b-4d18-b236-d4299a63a797&pf_rd_r=80RBYZH1WGDFKCCAZK82), in Audible.
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10/1/2021 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 321: Cambrian explosion of screw drivers
This week we discuss GitLab going public, review iOS 15 and a few more thoughts on remote work. Plus, should the EU impose a universal phone charger?
Rundown
GitLab
Microsoft GitHub rival GitLab files to go public after annualized revenue tops $200 million (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/github-rival-gitlab-files-to-go-public-on-revenue-over-200-million.html)
GitLab: Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/gitlab-benchmarking-the-s-1-data)
GitLab S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up by @ttunguz (https://www.tomtunguz.com/gitlab-s-1/)
Apple iOS 15 Review
Buy a 'free' iPhone 13 with trade-in at Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T: All you need to know (https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/buy-a-free-iphone-13-with-trade-in-at-verizon-t-mobile-and-at-t-all-you-need-to-know/)
Apple iPhone 13 Review: The Most Incremental Upgrade Ever (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/personaltech/apple-iphone13-review.html)
EU to impose universal phone charger, in blow to Apple (https://punchng.com/eu-to-impose-universal-phone-charger-in-blow-to-apple/)
1Password’s iOS Safari extension looks good (https://support.1password.com/getting-started-safari-ios/)
Ship / Show / Ask (https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html)
Spend the money on Zoom-Box-Discord instead!
Relevant to your interests
Original Creators of Apache Pulsar Raise $23M Series-A for StreamNative, Round Led by Prosperity7 Ventures (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/original-creators-apache-pulsar-raise-130000869.html)
Werner tweet on NDAs (https://twitter.com/werner/status/1438536990211858436?s=21)
Amazon gives Kindle e-readers a rare user interface overhaul (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/a-quick-tour-of-amazons-new-ui-for-kindle-e-readers/)
Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/15/22675175/microsoft-account-passwordless-no-password-security-feature)
Over the last 90-days, if you average more than 6-viewers, you are in the top 6.7% of Twitch. (https://twitter.com/zachbussey/status/1367868296473813001)
Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t (https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-wants-iphones-to-help-detect-depression-cognitive-decline-sources-say-11632216601)
WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. to Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-target-crypto-ransomware-payments-with-sanctions-11631885336)
WeWork shares expected to start trading in late October (https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/wework-ipo-spac-deal-bowx)
Salesforce rival Freshworks raises $1.03 bln in U.S. IPO, valued at $10.13 bln (https://www.reuters.com/technology/freshworks-valued-1013-bln-after-raising-103-bln-us-ipo-source-2021-09-22/)
Apple rolls major Safari redesign out to Macs ahead of Monterey release (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/apple-rolls-major-safari-redesign-out-to-macs-ahead-of-monterey-release/)
This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/21/red_hat_pandemic_certification_generosity_over/)
Facebook introduces portable Portal Go for $199 (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-new-portals-go-170004952.html)
Raspberry Pi attracts $45m after lockdowns fuel demand for PCs (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/09/20/raspberry-pi-attracts-45m-lockdowns-fuel-demand-personal-computers)
Zoom's $14.7 billion deal for Five9 under US national security review (https://www.zdnet.com/article/zooms-14-7-billion-deal-for-five9-under-us-national-security-review/)
Rundown
Follow the millimetres (https://twitter.com/kosso/status/1438847578586718209?s=21)
It Has Come to Subscription Tacos (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/taco-bell-subscription-netflix-for-tacos/620109/)
A 10-Foot Wide House In Boston Sells For $1.25 Million (https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039324508/boston-skinny-house-spite-house-sold)
Samuel Adams' latest potent beer is illegal in 15 states (https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/09/20/Samuel-Adams-Utopias-beer-illegal-15-states/7301632163091/)
Sponsors
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Conferences
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.comDeveloper> Advocate / Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks)
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
Go Slack Discussion on Ship / Show / Ask (https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html)
Brian recommends The Disconnect | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station (https://www.kut.org/the-disconnect)
Jordi wants you to be a Developer Advocate / Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks (https://weaveworks.breezy.hr/p/31f1bfca89fb01-developer-advocate-developer-experience-engineer)
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=823) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185)
Recommendations
Brandon: iPhone Battery & Power Repair (https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-power)
Matt: Deep Rock Galactic (https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/Deep_Rock_Galactic/)
Coté: Hornbach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbach_(retailer)); box cutters; Drunker & Retireder (https://drunkerandretireder.fireside.fm/).
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9/24/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 320: Hash codes for everyone
This week we recap some of the Apple News and discuss the latest productivity research from Microsoft. Plus, an update on Coté’s struggle to adopt Apple Notes…
Rundown
Apple wins and loses in court, patches a vulnerability and release new products
Apple’s App Store Dealt Blow by Judge in Epic Antitrust Case (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-10/apple-s-app-store-dealt-blow-by-judge-in-epic-antitrust-case?sref=HQB7G2wY&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business)
Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchases, rules judge in Epic v. Apple (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22662320/epic-apple-ruling-injunction-judge-court-app-store)
Major win for Epic Games: Apple has 90 days to open up app store payments (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/injunction-apple-must-open-up-app-store-payments-in-90-days/)
FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild (https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage-zero-click-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/)
Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/apple-software-update-spyware-nso-group.html)
The 8 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPhone 13 event (https://www.theverge.com/22663657/apple-iphone-13-pro-ipad-mini-watch-event-biggest-announcements)
iPadOS 15 (https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-15/features/).
Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/study-microsoft-employees-shows-remote-work-puts-productivity-innovation-risk/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Relevant to your interests
Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open (https://frame.work/)
Facebook debuts Ray-Ban Stories, smart glasses that record video (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662809/facebook-ray-ban-stories-camera-smart-glasses-hands-on)
EXCLUSIVE Wide-ranging SolarWinds probe sparks fear in Corporate America (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-wide-ranging-solarwinds-probe-sparks-fear-corporate-america-2021-09-10/)
Epic is shutting down Houseparty (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22663531/epic-games-shutting-down-houseparty-october)
Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances (https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/azure-container-instances/)
Microsoft gives up predicting when its US offices will fully reopen (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22664284/microsoft-office-reopening-plans-us)
Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-passwords-for-500-000-fortinet-vpn-accounts/)
How a New User Can Run Just One Container in the AWS Cloud…Maybe (https://markn.ca/2021/how-a-new-user-can-run-just-one-container-in-the-aws-cloud-maybe/)
Programming languages: Python is on the verge of another big step forward | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-python-is-on-the-verge-of-another-big-step-forward/)
Oracle falls short on revenue as it ramps up cloud investment (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/oracle-orcl-earnings-q1-2022.html)
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ)
Open Scheduling Infrastructure (https://cal.com/,), Calendly was last valued at $3b valuation
The next Big Tech battle: Amazon’s bet on healthcare begins to take shape (https://www.ft.com/content/fa7ff4c3-4694-4409-9ca6-bfadf3a53a62)
Thoughtworks Rises With Others in Flurry of High-Performing IPOs (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/thoughtworks-rises-in-trading-debut-after-ipo-exceeds-target)
strongDM Raises $54M Series B (https://www.strongdm.com/press-release/strongdm-raises-54m-series-b-led-by-tiger-global-to-transform-secure-infrastructure-access-management) ****
Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-15/chat-app-discord-is-worth-15-billion-after-new-funding?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Microsoft in standoff with Amazon over big hire, names Charlie Bell to lead ‘bold’ new security group (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-standoff-amazon-big-hire-names-charlie-bell-lead-bold-new-security-group/)
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian reorganizes engineering unit in hopes of gaining market share more quickly (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-reorganizes-engineering-eyal-manor-out.html)
Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/09/supabase-raises-30m-for-its-open-source-insta-backend/)
Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/14/canva-raises-200-million-at-a-40-billion-valuation/)
Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion (https://www.axios.com/intuit-buy-mailchimp-12-billion-85feba65-e142-4756-8fa6-b8af63988902.html)
Nonsense
They will even sing 'Happy Birthday.' Robots are picking up unwanted jobs at a Latin restaurant in Texas (https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/business/dallas-restaurant-employs-robots-trnd/index.html)
How long are you in meetings? (https://twitter.com/ericabrescia/status/1437091131867602944)
Don’t Sleep On The Lawn, There’s An AI-Powered, Flamethrower-Wielding Robot About (https://hackaday.com/2021/09/11/dont-sleep-on-the-lawn-theres-an-ai-powered-flamethrower-wielding-robot-about/)
Unicode 14.0 adds 37 new emoji, including 'melting face' and 'beans' | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/unicode-14-final-emoji-list-183855308.html)
Sponsors
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Conferences
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com)
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
Matt wants you to work at Github. Hiring, both senior (https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/2830098) and non-senior (https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/2797203) roles.
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
TriggerMesh is hiring! (https://twitter.com/sebgoa/status/1437722696536797185)
Recommendations
Brandon: Reverse Sear a Steak (https://jesspryles.com/how-to-cook-a-steak-with-reverse-sear-method/)
Matt: Halo Master Chief Collection (https://store.steampowered.com/app/976730/Halo_The_Master_Chief_Collection/)
Coté: AirServer (https://www.airserver.com/).
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9/17/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 319: We need two elephants
This week we discuss the history of Docker, the rise of Kubernetes and the launch of AWS EKS Anywhere. Plus, how much lumber fits in a cubic meter…?
Rundown
How Docker broke in half (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3632142/how-docker-broke-in-half.html)
Migrating from Docker to Podman (https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2021-09-01-migrating-from-docker-to-podman/)
AWS rolls out EKS Anywhere and EKS Connector (https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/08/aws-rolls-out-eks-anywhere-and-eks-connector/)
Relevant to your interests
This too shall PaaS: VMware's new Tanzu Application Platform explained (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/02/vmwares_new_tanzu_application_platform/)
How the 5G experience compares across 50 states and 250 US cities (https://www.opensignal.com/2021/09/02/how-the-5g-experience-compares-across-50-states-and-250-us-cities)
HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/hashicorp_pause/)
Terraform Understaffed? (https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/6562466c32a8750d7a71a6cc6232e6b5a28fe13a)
OpenAI Sold its Soul for $1 Billion (https://onezero.medium.com/openai-sold-its-soul-for-1-billion-cf35ff9e8cd4)
Open source is selfish (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3632360/open-source-is-selfish.html)
Mainframes, ML and digital transformation — Benedict Evans (https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/8/31/mainframes-machine-learning-and-digital-transformation)
Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future (https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/docker_tier_shakeup_opinion_column/)
DigitalOcean embraces serverless computing with Nimbella acquisition (https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/07/digitalocean-embraces-serverless-computing-with-nimbella-acquisition/)
Tripwire CEO steps down after supporting Texas abortion law (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tripwire-ceo-steps-down-after-supporting-texas-anti-abortion-law)
1 big thing: Inside the SolarWinds response (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-53936069-fe59-430e-a95f-784c877dacc3.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare)
The IBM Mainframe: The most powerful and cost-effective computing platform for business (https://www.planetmainframe.com/2021/09/the-ibm-mainframe-the-most-powerful-and-cost-effective-computing-platform-for-business/)
‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/great-attrition-or-great-attraction-the-choice-is-yours)
A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image (https://github.com/wagoodman/dive)
Where does AWS profit come from? (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1434520165438296065)
AWS EC2 egress data transfer pricing ($0.05-$0.09/GB) is more expensive than Israeli internet access, cool, cool. (https://twitter.com/rhowe212/status/1435197534553743360)
Exclusive: Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO -sources (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-reddit-seeks-hire-advisers-us-ipo-sources-2021-09-02/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top)
Nonsense
Larry Page: "I think we should look into acquiring [YouTube]" (https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1433837480449613839?s=21)
HTTP Request Header Proposal (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-jZfnrVgAQnx9T.png)
El Salvador Buys 400 Bitcoin as Crypto Become Currency Tuesday (https://gizmodo.com/el-salvador-buys-400-bitcoin-as-crypto-officially-becom-1847627336)
Man Gets 4 Years in $126 Million Printer Toner Fraud (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/us/california-man-printer-toner-fraud.html)
Sponsors
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Conferences
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com)
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
Listener Feedback
Nate sent in this video on What is a Lake House and why it matters (http://What> is Lake House and why it matters)
Peter recommended Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions/dp/1627790365)
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Recursion (https://www.audible.com/pd/Recursion-Audiobook/1984886878?qid=1631147912&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=2BCDWA97JMC0A9227G05)
Matt: Hammocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammock)
Coté: Webster’s Original Dictionary (http://www.webstersdictionary1828.com/)
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9/10/2021 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 318: The sounds of Excel
This week we discuss Docker’s new licensing, Wirecutter goes behind a paywall and Serverless COBOL. Plus, Coté explains why open source is like College Football.
Rundown
Docker is Updating and Extending Our Product Subscriptions - Docker Blog (https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/)
New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall (https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-wirecutter-product-review-site-moves-behind-paywall-11630436401)
Serverless COBOL in Knative (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/serverless-cobol-in-knative)
Announcing VMware Tanzu Application Platform: A Better Developer Experience on any Kubernetes (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/announcing-vmware-tanzu-application-platform?utm_campaign=content-social_&utm_content=1630455965&utm_medium=social-sprout&utm_source=twitter)
VMware’s new Tanzu platform aims to unify Kubernetes development (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3631384/vmware-s-new-tanzu-platform-aims-to-unify-kubernetes-development.html)
Databricks raises $1.6B series H funding round (https://www.zdnet.com/article/databricks-raises-1-6b-series-h-funding-round/)
Relevant to your interests
EXCLUSIVE Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases (https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-microsoft-warns-thousands-cloud-customers-exposed-databases-emails-2021-08-26/)
Apple loosens rules for developers in major concession amid antitrust pressure (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/26/apple-app-store-payment-settlement/)
Introducing a16z's seed fund - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2021/08/27/introducing-a16zs-seed-fund/)
30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/30_years_of_linux_red_hat/)
Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple (https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icloud-id)
The Semiconductor Heist Of The Century | Arm China Has Gone Completely Rogue, Operating As An Independent Company With Inhouse IP/R&D (https://semianalysis.com/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century-arm-china-has-gone-completely-rogue-operating-as-an-independent-company-with-their-own-ip/)
Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/hyper_v_server_discontinued/)
NGINX Commits to Open Source and Kubernetes Ingress - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/nginx-commits-to-open-source-kubernetes-ingress-involvement/)
CITC - About | Greylock (https://greylock.com/castles/)
Decentralized Investing Platform Syndicate Raises $800K From 100 Investors (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/06/30/decentralized-investing-platform-syndicate-raises-800k-from-100-investors/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
What you don’t know about working with AWS (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3631376/what-you-dont-know-about-working-with-aws.html)
Forrest Brazeal going to GCP (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1431324536096628738)
Clubhouse embraces spatial audio for more lifelike conversations (https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/30/22648050/clubhouse-spatial-audio-3d-360-sound)
Nonsense
A (possibly fake?) high school apparently duped its way into playing on ESPN (https://footballscoop.com/news/bishop-sycamore-online-only-prep-school-espn-img-academy)
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Conferences
DevOpsDays Zurich (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-zurich/welcome/), Sep 7th and 8th.
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com)
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
KubeCon October 11-15 Virtual and In Person (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
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Brandon: WATOE Wireless Charger 3 in 1 Qi Fast Charging Station (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089G6RM6Z/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Matt: Broad City (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2578560/)
Coté: Short Life in a Strange World (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46178718-short-life-in-a-strange-world).
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9/3/2021 • 56 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 317: Fahrenheit is perfect for BBQ
This week we discuss Gartner’s Emerging Tech Hype Cycle and analyze 10 years of “Software Eating the World.” Plus, is Willie Nelson a good singer…?
Rundown
3 Themes Surface in the 2021 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies (https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/3-themes-surface-in-the-2021-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=SM_GB_YOY_GTR_SOC_SF1_SM-SWG&utm_content=&sf248828168=1)
Chris Dixon Blockchain Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1427452454543663129)
Ten Years Software Is Eating the World - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/)
Disney wins this round: Here's where the streaming giants stand at the end of earnings season (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/13/disney-gaining-fast-on-netflix-in-streaming-wars.html)
Relevant to your interests
Salesforce announces first integrations with Slack after closing $28B sale (https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com/2021/08/17/after-spending-28b-salesforce-announces-first-direct-integrations-with-slack/)
Custom Silicon (https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2021/08/tesla-project-dojo-overview/)
LEAKED MEMO: Google is dismantling its embattled health division as the tech giant reconsiders its strategy for healthcare (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-health-shutting-down-david-feinberg-leaves-2021-8?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10_things_tech&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20sai:%2010%20things%20in%20tech%20you%20need%20to%20know%20today&utm_term=10%20THINGS%20IN%20TECH%20YOU%20NEED%20TO%20KNOW%20-%20ENGAGED%2C%20ACTIVE%2C%20PASSIVE%2C%20DISENGAGED)
'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/23/aws_memorydb_reaction/)
'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/23/gnome_asahi_linux/)
Turing Pi V2 is here - Turing Pi (https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-v2-is-here/)
Google's newest cloud region taken out by 'transient voltage' that rebooted network kit (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/25/google_cloud_australia_southeast2_outage/)
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging app (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1673505)s (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1673505)
Grafana Labs Raises $220 Million Round at $3 Billion Valuation (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-24/grafana-labs-raises-220-million-round-at-3-billion-valuation)
Serverless, Multicloud Popular with K8s Users, Survey Says (https://thenewstack.io/serverless-multicloud-popular-with-k8s-users-survey-says/)
Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/23/elastic-acquires-build-security-for-security-policy-definition-and-enforcement/)
The Modern Data Stack: Open-source Edition (https://www.datafold.com/blog/the-modern-data-stack-open-source-edition)
****## Nonsense
ASML is the most important company you've never heard of. (https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1429464889307762688?s=21)
Rejected Old Bay Jingle (https://youtu.be/xMJMDEDXwec)
Ford doubles Lightning production target on strong pre-launch demand -sources (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-ford-doubles-lightning-production-target-on-strong-pre-launch-demand-sources-0)
Streaming Churn (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1430326411487846411?s=21)
New Tilting Stops $100 Million Fix of San Francisco's Millennium Towe (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-tilting-stops-100-million-fix-of-san-franciscos-millennium-tower/2639941/)r (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-tilting-stops-100-million-fix-of-san-franciscos-millennium-tower/2639941/)
Sponsors
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Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com)
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Chunks (https://www.justbarechicken.com/products/lightly-breaded-chicken-breast-chunks/)
Coté: Noppes thrift store (https://www.noppeskringloopwinkel.nl/).
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8/27/2021 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 316: All we need is cURL
This week we discuss 1Password moving to Electron, Knative and Infrastructure as Code best practices. Plus, what to do with extra lumber…
Rundown
Users lobby 1Password to abandon new Electron version (https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/16/users-lobby-1password-to-abandon-new-electron-version)
Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/16/cisco-beefing-up-app-monitoring-portfolio-with-acquisition-of-epsagon-for-500m/)
Cloud startup Epsagon to be acquired by Cisco for $500 million (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3915010,00.html)
Relevant to your interests
Clearlake Capital completes strategic equity investment in RSA (https://clearlake.com/clearlake-capital-completes-strategic-equity-investment-in-rsa/)
Apple SVP Craig Federighi responds to confusion over iOS 15 iCloud child safety policies in new interview (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/13/apple-svp-craig-federighi-responds-to-confusion-over-ios-15-icloud-child-safety-policies-in-new-interview/)
Poly Network offers $500,000 reward to crypto hacker who returned stolen assets. (https://www.engadget.com/poly-network-rewards-crypto-hacker-121507483.html)
PolyNetwork's Hacker Returns All Funds on Ethereum and Refuses a $500K Bug Bounty (https://cryptopotato.com/polynetworks-hacker-returns-all-funds-on-ethereum-and-refuses-a-500k-bug-bounty/)
Disney Beats Q3 Estimates As Streaming Flagship Hits 116M Subscribers (https://deadline.com/2021/08/disney-q3-beats-estimates-streaming-116-million-subscribers-1234813827/) (https://www.engadget.com/poly-network-rewards-crypto-hacker-121507483.html)
Translates GitHub Actions into Tekton and Knative Objects (https://github.com/triggermesh/aktion)
Music Distributor DistroKid Raises Money at $1.3 Billion Valuation from the creator of F’dcompany.com (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-16/music-distributor-distrokid-raises-money-at-1-3-billion-valuation?srnd=markets-vp)
HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey (https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud)
T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/t-mobile-investigating-claims-of-massive-data-breach/)
Funding, Buyback, and Hiring (https://ma.tt/2021/08/funding-buyback-hiring/)
Palantir bought $50 million in gold bars in August as cash pile grows (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/palantir-bought-50-million-in-gold-bars-in-august-as-cash-accumulates.html)
In No Code you delete code as you write it. (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1427707854090215429?s=20)
Roblox bookings grow 35% to $665.5M for Q2 2021 (https://venturebeat.com/2021/08/16/roblox-bookings-grow-35-to-665-5m-for-q2-2021/)
WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yvy5/whatsapp-says-its-not-banning-the-taliban-because-it-cant-read-their-texts)
OK, so you stole $600m-plus from us, how about you be our Chief Security Advisor, Poly Network asks thief (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/18/poly_network_job/)
Postman’s Series D Funding and the API-First World (https://blog.postman.com/postman-announces-series-d/)
Would the math work if Databricks were valued at $38B? (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/would-the-math-work-if-databricks-were-valued-at-38b/)
Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/debian_11_bullseye_released/)
This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS (https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-why-valve-is-switching-from-debian-to-arch-for-steam-decks-linux-os/)
Nonsense
The Most Dangerous Writing App (https://www.squibler.io/dangerous-writing-prompt-app)
Suicide Linux (https://qntm.org/suicide)
Austin expected to become least-affordable metro for homebuyers outside of California (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/austin-expected-to-become-least-affordable-metro-for-homebuyers-outside-of-california/269-6bbed38e-ce06-453e-a659-aece44c6c111)
These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs (https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-people-who-work-from-home-have-a-secret-they-have-two-jobs-11628866529)
How QR codes are made (https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1425606620265000965)
Atlas | Leaps, Bounds, and Backflips (https://blog.bostondynamics.com/atlas-leaps-bounds-and-backflips)
Every hotdog eaten shortens life by 36 minutes (https://news.yahoo.com/every-hot-dog-eaten-shortens-142355450.html)
Progress Report: August 2021 (https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/)
PINE64 presents PineNote, its new tablet in ebook format with electronic ink (https://linuxstoney.com/pine64-presents-pinenote/)
EC2 offers 400 Instance Types (https://twitter.com/furrier/status/1426323051168165891?s=20)
Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m6i-instances-powered-by-the-latest-generation-intel-xeon-scalable-processors/)
Sponsors
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Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com)
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: The White Lotus (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p64640553468&keyword=whats+the+white+lotus+about&utm_id=sa%7C71700000085024446%7C58700007207672331%7Cp64640553468&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFZn4B3y39e_zSPMRqpQRLRlpbZcqjCPZ2XXT4RyS11xRWmAFvRv86BoCrUEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p64640553468&keyword=whats+the+white+lotus+about&utm_id=sa%7C71700000085024446%7C58700007207672331%7Cp64640553468&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwmeiIBhA6EiwA-uaeFZn4B3y39e_zSPMRqpQRLRlpbZcqjCPZ2XXT4RyS11xRWmAFvRv86BoCrUEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Matt: Cloud Native AF #2: James Urquhart (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/2)
Mitani Chicken Salt (https://www.mitani.com.au/)
Coté: Sharp R20DS microwave (https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/746608/sharp-r20ds.html). Also, see product descriptions about defrosting stew and other “small meals” for rival microwaves (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1423964819787485184).
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8/20/2021 • 59 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 315: Field of Code
This week we discuss Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch, Reorgs and Remote Pay. Plus, some thoughts on IKEA and QBRs.
Rundown
This Week in Programming: The ElasticSearch Saga Continues (https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-the-elasticsearch-saga-continues/)
Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks then blocks comments (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/09/elasticsearch_python_client_change/)
Twitter Thread on Elasticsearch (https://twitter.com/xeraa/status/1423071203753869313)
Google staff could see pay cut if they opt to work from home (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/12/google-staff-could-see-pay-cut-if-they-opt-to-work-from-home)
Steven Sinosky: Hardcore Software (https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/)
Relevant to your interests
700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built (https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/)
Amazon delays employee office return until 2022 amid COVID-19 surge (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-delays-hq-office-return-until-2022-amid-covid-19-surge-055819058.html)
Red Hat tells U.S. workers they must be vaccinated to come to office (https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2021/08/06/red-hat-announces-vaccine-mandate-for-u-s-workers.html)
Tesla rewrote its own software to survive the chip shortage (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22595060/tesla-chip-shortage-software-rewriting-ev-processor)
All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/06/aws_google_dns/)
The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/30/end_of_itanium_shipments/)
Hard Drive Reliability: A Look at HDD and SDD Failure Rates (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2021/)
Microsoft announces new 'Super Duper Secure Mode' for Edge (https://therecord.media/microsoft-announces-new-super-duper-secure-mode-for-edge/)
Salesforce enters the streaming wars with new video service for professionals (https://www.axios.com/salesforce-streaming-service-professionals-30a58e49-77fc-469d-9ff7-99f866678a98.html)
Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell is leaving after 23 years as shakeup continues at AWS (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/amazon-cloud-exec-charlie-bell-leaving-after-23-years-amid-aws-shakeup.html)
VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/vcs-are-betting-big-on-kubernetes-here-are-5-reasons-why/)
Accenture gets hacked (https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1425420813281505289?s=20)
Why can we not have an explicit statement about 1Password being a subscription-only service (https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917)
The “Cloud MQ” for 2021 is Out! (https://blogs.gartner.com/bob-gill/2021/08/11/the-cloud-mq-for-2021-is-out/)
Reddit Numbers (https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1425774330911277057)
GitHub Codespaces (https://github.com/features/codespaces)
HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey (https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud?utm_source=social)
Now Microsoft is protesting after Amazon won a $10 billion NSA cloud contract (https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22618764/nsa-10-billion-microsoft-aws-cloud-services-protest)
a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation (https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-6-the-cost-of-cloud-vs-repatriation-IU1rwMMk)
TriggerMesh Previews Integration Language Based on HCL (https://containerjournal.com/features/triggermesh-previews-integration-language-based-on-hcl/)
Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing (https://clivethompson.medium.com/why-captcha-pictures-are-so-unbearably-depressing-20679b8cf84a)
Announcing AI21 Studio and Jurassic-1 Language Models (https://www.ai21.com/blog/announcing-ai21-studio-and-jurassic-1)
Nonsense
Cabin fever in "Fortress Australia" due to slow vaccination rate (https://www.axios.com/australia-coronavirus-border-ban-lockdowns-1e58fb57-2666-47b4-bcba-1b305a5b66ab.html)
AMC theaters will start accepting Bitcoin this year (https://www.engadget.com/amc-theaters-bitcoin-tickets-143803440.html)
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Jordy wants you to work at as a Senior Software Engineer at Weaveworks (https://weaveworks.breezy.hr/p/76a86071360001-senior-software-engineer)
Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social) - see Coté’s promo video (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1425460843014131716).
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
DevOps World by CloudBees September 28-30 (https://www.devopsworld.com) (Virtual Event)
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Recommendations
Brandon: The Suicide Squad (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_suicide_squad)
Matt: Uniqlo Fluffy Yarn Fleece Full-Zip Jacket (https://www.uniqlo.com/au/en/products/E419505-000?colorCode=COL09)
Coté: PÅHL (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/pahl-desk-white-s49128945/) desk (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/pahl-desk-white-s49128945/).
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8/13/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 314: Prime Minster of Thinking
This week we discuss Programming Language Rankings, CNCF Project Velocity and the new Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure. Plus, are straws really necessary?
Rundown
Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020 (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/08/02/update-on-cncf-and-open-source-project-velocity-2020/?utm_content=174974774&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-3286770860)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021)
Heroku and Digital Ocean make the Cloud Platforms list (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-technologies-platform)
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2021 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-21/)
AWS Named as a Leader for the 11th Consecutive Year in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-named-as-a-leader-for-the-11th-consecutive-year-in-2021-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-infrastructure-platform-services-cips/)
Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers (https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/08/03/gartner_verdict_on_public_cloud/)
Relevant to your interests
Amazon cloud revenue growth accelerates to 37% in Q2 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/aws-earnings-q2-2021.html)
Use the new Google Meet web app for better meetings on desktop devices (https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/07/use-new-google-meet-web-app-for-better.html)
The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22601191/fireside-app-mark-cuban-falon-fatemi-libsyn-rode-invest)
Russia hacked emails of US federal prosecutors around the country (https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1421315244660559874?s=20)
Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit (https://www.axios.com/zoom-settle-85-million-privacy-suit-4674b13a-b062-46fa-b72d-32fdf62d97d1.html)
Microsoft Teams rolls out native notification on its macOS app (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/02/microsoft-teams-rolls-out-native-notification-on-its-macos-app/)
Salesforce’s MuleSoft buys RPA specialist Servicetrace (https://siliconangle.com/2021/08/02/salesforces-mulesoft-buys-rpa-specialist-servicetrace/)
Cloud Foundry Summit: Kubernetes Must Do Better by Developers (https://thenewstack.io/cloud-foundry-summit-kubernetes-must-do-better-by-developers/)
IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/03/ibm_sev_one_outages/)
Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 Is Now Generally Available (https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/red-hat-openshift-4.8-is-now-generally-available)
Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall (https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/08/03/deal-of-the-century-how-michael-dell-turned-his-declining-pc-business-into-40-billion-windfall/)
Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without deciphering it | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-analyze-encrypted-messages-ad-targeting-175739715.html)
Why Nvidia’s $40 billion bid for Arm could be in jeopardy (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/04/nvidias-40-billion-bid-for-arm-could-be-in-jeopardy.html)
Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-clients-of-opensearch-and-elasticsearch-compatible-with-open-source/)
Oracle launches Verrazzano container platform for Kubernetes (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3627407/oracle-launches-verrazzano-container-platform-for-kubernetes.html)
Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform (https://verrazzano.io/)
Investing in Polywork - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2021/08/05/investing-in-polywork/)
Amazon’s drone project is experiencing turbulence (https://thehustle.co/08052021-Amazon-drone-project)
One big tech company changes its hybrid work policy in a permanent way (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/08/02/linked-in-permanent-remote-work.html)
Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life)
LISA Community Message (https://s.usenix.org/acton/media/2452/lisa-community-announcement)
Nonsense
Zoom agrees to pay $85M to settle privacy suit (https://www.axios.com/zoom-settle-85-million-privacy-suit-4674b13a-b062-46fa-b72d-32fdf62d97d1.html)
Goldman Sachs joins Wall Street rivals in boosting junior banker salaries (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/02/goldman-sachs-joins-wall-street-rivals-in-boosting-junior-banker-salaries-.html)
HEB sells candles that smell like fresh tortillas, because you can't live at the stor (https://www.statesman.com/story/lifestyle/food/2021/07/27/heb-butter-tortilla-candles-texas-grocery-store-bakery-scents/5391681001/)e (https://www.statesman.com/story/lifestyle/food/2021/07/27/heb-butter-tortilla-candles-texas-grocery-store-bakery-scents/5391681001/)
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Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social)
THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/tx/2022)
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Let Him Go (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/let_him_go).
Matt: Cloud Native Application Flows (https://www.cloudnativeaf.com/) podcast.
Coté: La Vallade (https://lavallade.nl) restaurant in Amsterdam, which serves La Pauline (https://www.wijnbeurs.nl/la-pauline-classique-merlot-cabernet) wine, which you should also try.
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8/6/2021 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 313: My kids are listening to Stevie Nicks
This week we discuss Infrastructure as Code, GCP's new API policy and The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey. Plus, some thoughts on Olympic Swimming.
Rundown
Evolving Infrastructure-as-Code to Integration-as-Code (https://containerjournal.com/features/evolving-infrastructure-as-code-to-integration-as-code/)
Google sets all-time records as search and YouTube profits soar (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596592/google-q2-2021-record-revenue-profit-youtube-ad-cloud-search)
Saved by Google? New API policy promises stability and availability. (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/google-cloud-enterprise-apis)
The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2021 Infographic (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/)
Relevant to your interests
Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu Is Now GA, Plus an Integration with TriggerMesh (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/cloud-native-runtimes-for-vmware-tanzu-advanced-ga)
Big-name San Antonio tech company axing 10 percent of workforce (https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/technology/article/San-Antonio-based-Rackspace-10-percent-layoffs-16332426.php)
Facebook’s cloud gaming service hits iOS devices as a web app | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/facebook-gaming-ios-pwa-163440977.html)
Clubhouse Breach (https://twitter.com/mruef/status/1418693478574346242?s=20)
Serverless COBOL: Rejuvenating legacy code with open source software — Part 1 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/serverless-cobol-rejuvenating-legacy-code-with-open-source-software/)
Ably blog claims company doesn't need Kubernetes to scale, surge in traffic takes down entire website (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/ably_doesnt_need_kubernetes/)
No, we don’t use Kubernetes | Ably Blog: Data in Motion (https://ably.com/blog/no-we-dont-use-kubernetes)
Replicated $50M Series C To Advance Multi-Prem Software Adoption - Replicated (https://www.replicated.com/blog/series-c-announcement/)
a16z Infra #6: The Cost of Cloud vs. Repatriation | a16z Live (https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/episodes/a16z-infra-6-the-cost-of-cloud-vs-repatriation-IU1rwMMk)
Amazon pulls the plug on 3-year effort to migrate from PeopleSoft to Workday. (https://twitter.com/TonyBaer/status/1420035381383385092)
Discord is adding Slack-like threads to keep conversations better organized (https://www.xda-developers.com/discord-slack-threads/)
AWS’s Egregious Egress (https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/?s=09)
Mitchell's New Role at HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashicorp)
Report: Vista Equity Partners could sell Tibco for $7.5B+ (https://siliconangle.com/2021/07/23/report-vista-equity-partners-sell-tibco-7-5b/)
Accel doubles down on 1Password, which just raised $100M more at a $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/1password-raises-100m-at-a-2b-valuation/)
The iPhone 12’s strong momentum helps Apple to another huge quarter (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22596120/apple-q3-2021-earnings-iphone-ipad-mac)
Microsoft posts big earnings beat and gives optimistic revenue forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-msft-earnings-q4-2021.html)
Microsoft bests earnings estimates as Azure posts 51% growth; shares fall (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-bests-earnings-estimates-as-azure-posts-51-growth-shares-fall/)
Nonsense
United States Sells Unique Wu-Tang Clan Album (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-sells-unique-wu-tang-clan-album-forfeited-convicted-hedge-fund-manager)
Meet the typical Costco shopper (https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-costco-shopper-demographic-asian-american-woman-earning-high-income-2021-7)
Kangaroo vs Human population across Australia. (https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1420111843058720770)
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Listener Feedback
Nate from Slack recommends Oceanhorn 2 (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oceanhorn-2/id1141837408) in the Apple Arcade
Conferences
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social)
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Criminal Podcast Episode 48 Hours (https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-167-48-hours-6-18-21/)
Matt: King Tubby and other dub music on Spotify
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7/30/2021 • 59 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 312: Crossing The Brown Horizon
This week we discuss Netflix getting into games and review the latest State of DevOps Report. Plus, what do you call a domicile in Amsterdam?
Rundown
Why Netflix is getting into games (https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/7/20/22586084/netflix-gaming-strategy-earnings-explained)
State of DevOps Report 2021 (https://puppet.com/resources/report/2021-state-of-devops-report/)
Relevant to your interests
Twitter Is Shutting Down Fleets, Its Vanishing-Post Format, After Less Than a Year (https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-fleets-shutting-down-1235019174/)
Morgan Stanley‘s CIO survey shows a significant moderation in expectations for the migration of workloads to the public cloud. (https://twitter.com/Atreidesmgmt/status/1414945521026875393)
Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner (https://www.zdnet.com/article/say-hi-to-microsofts-own-linux-cbl-mariner/)
Austin sees pay-off from pandemic-era tech reshuffling (https://www.axios.com/austin-pandemic-reshuffling-tech-entrepreneurs-investors-11669cb1-edf5-4d00-8043-036c49215fe6.html)
Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders (https://www.axios.com/pegasus-spyware-journalists-activists-report-5af14a4f-dce1-454d-b0e2-dc2b043b2b0e.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs)
IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver? (https://blog.newagealpha.com/can-ibm-deliver)
The end of open source? (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/18/the-end-of-open-source/)
DevRev: Former Nutanix execs look to lure in dev startups with new Business Infrastructure-as-a-Service firm – Blocks and Files (https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/16/devrev-genius-nutanix-pair-envisage-massive-new-saas-opportunity/)
Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle? (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/19/gartner_hype_cycle/)
Rapid7 + IntSights: Own Your Entire Attack Surface, Internally and Externally (https://www.rapid7.com/rapid7-acquires-intsights/)
Apple to delay office returns to October - Bloomberg News (https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-delay-office-returns-october-bloomberg-news-2021-07-20/)
Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure (https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgx5bw/amazon-aws-shuts-down-nso-group-infrastructure)
Apple's AirPods did ~$16B in 2020 (https://twitter.com/trungtphan/status/1417500092395753472?s=21)
You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/21/amazon_aws_recruitment/)
Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/21/briton-arrested-over-high-profile-twitter-account-hacks)
Report: Spyware used to target journalists, activists and world leaders (https://www.axios.com/pegasus-spyware-journalists-activists-report-5af14a4f-dce1-454d-b0e2-dc2b043b2b0e.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs)
IBM Insight — Can IBM Deliver? (https://blog.newagealpha.com/can-ibm-deliver)
IBM shows strongest revenue growth in three years (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/ibm-earnings-q2-2021.html)
What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-ibm-watson.html)
Why Zoom bought Five9 for $14.7 billion: Enterprise wallet share and a big customer engagement play (https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-zoom-bought-five9-for-14-7-billion-enterprise-wallet-share-and-a-big-customer-engagement-play/)
Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/zoom-is-buying-cloud-contact-center-provider-five9-for-14point7-billion.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1626659760)
Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22556500/zoom-kites-acquisition-machine-translation-real-time-captions)
Zoom will now let you add third-party apps to your calls (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/21/22585980/zoom-apps-events-launch-onzoom)
(https://twitter.com/Atreidesmgmt/status/1414945521026875393)## Nonsense
Well, now it is. It's Pregnancy Test Doom! (https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302820468819288066)
Noise cancellation neither helps productivity nor perceived performance (https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1416764559159742469)
World's First 3-D-Printed Steel Bridge Debuts in Amsterdam (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-first-3-d-printed-steel-bridge-debuts-amsterdam-180978228/)
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Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Craig in Fort Worth. Craig bought the Doc Martin’s recommended in episode 82. See the pictures. (https://www.instagram.com/p/CRnMmSGL6m5/)
Conferences
THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
DevOps Loop | October 4, 2021 (https://devopsloop.io/?utm_campaign=Global_P6_TS_Q322_Event_DevOpsLoop_at_VMworld&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social)
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dark Sky (https://darksky.net/app)
Matt: BOM Weather (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.bom.metview)
Coté: 8ball newsletter (https://www.8ball.report); Buienradar (https://www.buienradar.nl/) in the Netherlands.
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7/23/2021 • 57 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 311: The Enterprise #devrel Path-to-Profit Pincer Movement
This week, Coté and Matt Ray finally nail the secrets of enterprise devrel. You won’t want to miss this one! Also: Coté gives up on streaming PowerPoint and IT survey show that it’s time to ask for a raise.
Mood board:
Free glowsticks for leadgenning yourself.
Our tragic doppleganger.
DevRel secrets.
If you open a terminal you win streaming.
Memes are serverless.
You gotta spend money to lose money.
All about the pincher.
Rundown
Cloud Native Integration Platform TriggerMesh Receives Strategic Funding from Cisco Investments, Existing Investors (https://www.triggermesh.com/blog/cloud-native-integration-platform-triggermesh-receives-strategic-funding-from-cisco-investments-existing-investors).
Cisco leads $5M round for multicloud application integration startup TriggerMesh (https://siliconangle.com/2021/07/13/cisco-leads-5m-round-multicloud-application-integration-startup-triggermesh/).
Checking in on Matt’s devrel notes.
Twitter is shutting down Fleets on August 3, citing low usage (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/14/twitter-is-shutting-down-fleets-on-august-3-citing-low-usage/).
Labor shortages in IT, but growing IT budgets. (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/799caf53-ac05-45b3-a99c-bf54be456c99.pdf)
Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/8/22568582/microsoft-employee-pandemic-bonus-1500-dollars)
Biden is preparing an executive order targeting noncompete clauses for workers. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/us/politics/biden-noncompete-clauses-workers.html?referringSource=articleShare)
Relevant to your interests
Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm (http://https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/british_airways_data_breach_rival_lawsuit/)
Stamps.com Agrees to Thoma Bravo Buyout in $6.6 Billion Deal (http://https://finance.yahoo.com/news/thoma-bravo-buys-stamps-com-120837681.html)
CentOS Stream: 'I was slow on the uptake, but I get what they are doing now,' says Rocky Linux founder (http://https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/09/centos_stream_greg_kurtzer/)
Experts analyzed Andy Jassy's first memo to Amazon employees as CEO (http://https://newsnationusa.com/news/finance/banking/experts-analyzed-andy-jassys-first-memo-to-amazon-employees-as-ceo-heres-why-its-nearly-perfect/)
Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ for >$500 million (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-11/microsoft-is-said-to-be-buying-cybersecurity-company-riskiq)
Microsoft to acquire cybersecurity startup RiskIQ; reports peg deal at more than $500M (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-reportedly-acquire-cybersecurity-startup-riskiq-500m/)
@vladtenev (CEO of @RobinHoodApp) is now following @profgalloway (https://twitter.com/somospostpc/status/1414581950677934090?s=20)
The Future IBM We Will Probably Never See (http://https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/07/08/the-future-ibm-we-will-probably-never-see/)
Q3 IPO cycle starts strong with Couchbase pricing and Kaltura relisting (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/12/q3-ipo-cycle-starts-strong-with-couchbase-pricing-and-kaltura-relisting/)
Report: Broadcom in talks to buy SAS for as much as $20B (http://https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/07/12/report-broadcom-in-talks-to-buy-sas-for-as-much-as-20b/)
Broadcom No Longer in Talks to Buy SAS Institute, Sources Say (https://www.wsj.com/articles/broadcom-no-longer-in-talks-to-buy-sas-institute-sources-say-11626212065)
Probably Wrong Flowchart, this time on AWS database services! (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1414956493561077761?s=21)
Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy (https://www.protocol.com/policy/w3c-privacy-war)
Person advises Principal AWS engineer not to build AWS on AWS, because a16z’s cloud repatriation piece said it’s too expensive at scale. (https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1415106401177907200?s=21)
The Windows 365 Cloud PC (http://https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/14/introducing-a-new-era-of-hybrid-personal-computing-the-windows-365-cloud-pc/)
SonicWall warns of ‘imminent ransomware campaign’ targeting its EOL equipment (https://therecord.media/sonicwall-warns-of-imminent-ransomware-campaign-targeting-its-eol-equipment/)
Analyzing the Legal Implications of GitHub Copilot (https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-copilot/)
Kelsey Hightower changing Roles (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1415156964380880898)
Nonsense
Spike in “Chain Gang” Destructive Attacks on ATMs (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/spike-in-chain-gang-destructive-attacks-on-atms/)
Tesla finally releases Full Self-Driving Beta v9 (http://https://electrek.co/2021/07/10/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-v9-first-videos-release-notes/)
Netflix to offer Video Games (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-14/netflix-nflx-to-offer-video-games-on-its-streaming-platform)
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14
Carolina VMUG, July 22 (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1415326605291950083?s=21) - Coté gives DevOps metrics talk.
THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Matt: McGruff's SMART KIDS Album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4P4plYXKFE)
Coté: Cumin Beef, from FuLu Mandarijn (https://fulumandarijn.com).
7/16/2021 • 48 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 310: Never Talk
This week we discuss Copilot’s use of Open Source, changes at IBM and the Infinidash Meme. Plus, an update on Coté’s return to Twitter.
Rundown
Adam Jacob on OSS (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1413173291909484558)
IBM Leadership Changes (https://newsroom.ibm.com/IBM-Leadership-Changes)
IBM (IBM) Announces President Jim Whitehurst Leaving (https://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=18638012)
IBM Email Woes (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/ibm_arvind_email/)
IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/ibm_arvind_email/)
Amazon Eyeing 'Rebel Alliance' With Dropbox, Slack To Challenge Microsoft: Insider (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-eyeing-rebel-alliance-dropbox-173352783.html)
New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral — despite being entirely fictional (https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/infinidash/)
Relevant to your interests
Who's Winning in the Container Software Market (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/whos-winning-container-software-market)
Do the costs of the cloud outweigh the benefits? (https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/03/do-the-costs-of-the-cloud-outweigh-the-benefits)
After Jeff Bezos: the changing of the guard at Amazon (https://www.ft.com/content/7475ae98-7e25-4d6f-8470-e8b9effb0ee7)
Russia Linked Group Hacks 200 Businesses With Ransomware (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTD2pkJHs4)
A Large Ransomware Attack Has Ensnared Hundreds of Companies (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEGqxeYOWfy8AZ_smpDvRjdoqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowipWZCzCan7EDMKS42wY?hl=en-AU&gl=AU&ceid=AU%3Aen)
Independence Day: REvil uses supply chain exploit to attack hundreds of businesses (https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2021/07/04/independence-day-revil-uses-supply-chain-exploit-to-attack-hundreds-of-businesses/amp/)
Gurman: Apple rapidly expanding outside of Silicon Valley as it struggles to recruit and retain talent (https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/04/apple-expanding-silicon-valley-talent/)
Are you ready to become a TV company? The future of tech events is media. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2021/06/29/are-you-ready-to-become-a-tv-company-the-future-of-tech-events-is-media/)
Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-26Q47L81&ct=210706&st=sb)
We Replaced Splunk at 100TB Scale in 120 Days (https://medium.com/lets-xplore/how-we-replaced-splunk-at-100tb-scale-in-120-days-e5a59db63f6)
Roblox partners with Sony Music to connect artists with money-making activities in the metaverse (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/06/roblox-partners-with-sony-music-to-connect-artists-with-money-making-activities-in-the-metaverse/)
Russia ‘Cozy Bear’ Breached GOP as Ransomware Attack Hit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-06/russian-state-hackers-breached-republican-national-committee)
Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/7/22549338/apple-google-apps-comscore-study-facebook)
Layoffs hit a record low as companies hold onto employees for dear life (https://www.axios.com/layoffs-all-time-low-656979a1-38e0-48d4-b3bb-5ad9b5345aa3.html)
TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/07/tiktok-resumes-job-applications/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEHDmvKOaaLh3HshMxX8UZq11CLj9pXU9brF854gAzMY59GYmPKqB6viF4iJzAuAll_J1nhSSYrbuxaDvrWBA_9HSRY2kKHeI9hwg8vntjRda0KWK7eG3cTUThM4-snNbwX01cesPdy6l_dJu_5PzpHOStKn1i2qEKOb9sGh1FhO)
Box claims activist investor wanted in on deal it publicly opposed (https://www.axios.com/box-activist-investor-starboard-deal-opposed-kkr-02f529dd-6870-41b3-8f5b-de5c89033859.html)
Nonsense
job description: must be willing to work in a fast-paced unpredictable high-energy environment (https://twitter.com/_robertschultz/status/1412470172485521408?s=21)
Puppy in a cone is 2% unhappy? (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1412594479895175170?s=21)
Google Reader (https://twitter.com/ronamadeo/status/1412909940474265602?s=12)
Sponsors
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14
Carolina VMUG (https://www.vmug.com/vmug2019/events2/power-sessions/network-security-power-session), July 22nd - Coté giving a talk on DevOps metrics, and BEYOND!
THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29, Special Promotion (https://that.us/promo/claim?eventId=7wiuRWI7EZjcdF4e9MDz)
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Some Kind of Heaven (https://decider.com/2021/01/14/where-to-watch-some-kind-of-heaven-doc/)
Coté: Newsify (https://newsify.co)
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7/9/2021 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 1 second
Episode 309: They’re your kids
This week we discuss the future of PaaS and working for home. Plus, some thoughts on kids and zone defense.
Rundown
What AWS Tells Us About Heroku 2.0 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/06/23/aws-heroku/)
This is the Awful Voice Inside My Head (https://warzel.substack.com/p/this-is-the-awful-voice-inside-my)
Amazon, Microsoft lead 40% growth of IaaS public cloud services market in 2020 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-microsoft-lead-40-growth-of-iaas-public-cloud-services-market-in-2020-gartner/).
Relevant to your interests
CentOS replacement Rocky Linux 8.4 arrives, and proves instantly popular | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/centos-replacement-rocky-linux-8-4-arrives-and-proves-instantly-popular/)
“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/mass-data-wipe-in-my-book-devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social)
Ad tech stocks surge as Google delays killing third-party cookies until 2023 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/24/google-pushes-back-deadline-to-deprecate-third-party-cookies-to-2023.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Twilio and Asana first to dual-list shares on Long-Term Stock Exchange (https://www.axios.com/twilio-asana-long-term-stock-exchange-945bad08-c5f0-4968-bd5f-ef3f1a27c71b.html)
BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC (https://www.axios.com/buzzfeed-spac-ba1d9673-b6da-4228-ab58-dd8ab2ef525a.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Amazon buys the secure messaging platform Wickr | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/amazon-aws-buys-wickr-152819656.html)
Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda (https://www.bschaatsbergen.com/behind-the-scenes-lambda)
Discord acquires augmented reality startup Ubiquity6 – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/28/discord-acquires-augmented-reality-startup-ubiquity6/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cDovL2F4aW9zLmxpbmsvS0VOOT91dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249bmV3c2xldHRlcl9heGlvc3Byb3JhdGEmc3RyZWFtPXRvcA&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB0ZS5LFqMvediQoO3h5WSgI9zcWLTpuxxKuDv_KWrX85j3PEhD3iGzBSIiEaH_ci97L2TeqDP1eZ_Lal2cxnhd1XN-oJiSmUbODYyTP5psZpAPdhY4VH5QhXqHm4GuO2FKtzd4va34sMg334PDzKEJaxBRnnB5TTuloMg0fgT5u)
HashiCorp built its own online events platform and it's awesome. Tiny Wins. (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2021/06/28/hashicorp-built-its-own-online-events-platform-and-its-awesome-tiny-wins/)
Intel Delays New Chip in First Setback for CEO Gelsinger’s Turnaround Effort (https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-delays-new-chip-in-first-setback-for-ceo-gelsingers-turnaround-effort-11624988292)
Kindle Vella (https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GR2L4AHPMQ44HNQ7)
AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Cloud (https://about.att.com/story/2021/att_microsoft_azure.html)
A Clubhouse for the office? Slack unveils ‘Huddles’ audio chat rooms (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3623628/a-clubhouse-for-the-office-slack-unveils-huddles-audio-chat-rooms.html)
Meet GitHub Copilot - your AI pair programmer. (https://copilot.github.com)
L (https://jamesthom.as/2021/06/lessons-learnt-in-developer-relations/)essons Learnt in Developer Relations (https://jamesthom.as/2021/06/lessons-learnt-in-developer-relations/)
Nonsense
Owner of venomous zebra cobra previously bitten by green mamba snake (https://www.wral.com/owner-of-venomous-zebra-cobra-previously-bitten-by-green-mamba-snake/19748492/)
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Stuart in Lake Stevens, WA.
Show notes workaround for Apple Podcasts. Example (https://www.instagram.com/p/CQjpA9rHxIs/)
Thanks to Brian White Eagle for enabling Nightbot (https://nightbot.tv) and adding SDT Twitch Commands (https://nightbot.tv/t/sdtpodcast/commands)
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14
THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: A Quiet Place II (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_place_part_ii)
Matt: The Pulsars Lost Transmissions (https://thepulsars.bandcamp.com/album/lost-transmissions)
Coté: Election Profit Makers Episode 100 (https://overcast.fm/+r_rsbYTNw)
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7/2/2021 • 55 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 308: Developer Relations with Josh Long
He's one of the best #devrel avocado person I know, so I asked Josh Long all my questions about how #devrel works, plus the
Spring Framework community, of course. Also: why Josh stays up so late.
If you prefer, see the original, video recording (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1408337754732171270). Special Guest: Josh Long.
6/29/2021 • 52 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 307: I’m bitter about infrastructure
This week we discuss Knative’s purpose, developer marketing and Silverlake’s investment in Splunk. Plus, some advice on cleaning up your home office.
Rundown
Did we market Knative wrong? (https://ahmet.im/blog/knative-positioning/)
Splunk gets a $1bn loan from Silverlake (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/newsroom/press-releases/2021/splunk-announces-1-billion-investment-from-silver-lake.html).
Relevant to your interests
Four Reasons Why Apache Pulsar is Essential to the Modern Data Stack (https://datastax.medium.com/four-reasons-why-apache-pulsar-is-essential-to-the-modern-data-stack-b90a8bddcb9)
ThoughtWorks IPO Details, Software Consultancy Valuation: 10 Things to Know - ChannelE2E (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/thoughtworks-ipo-details/)
Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/spotify-acquires-podz-a-podcast-discovery-app/)
Exclusive: White House debuts new maps showing broadband vacuum (https://www.axios.com/broadband-maps-infrastructure-66a91da4-c0f4-415c-8e84-1f58b829b323.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
HBO Max Subscribers Confused & Amused By Mysterious ‘Integration Test Email # 1’ (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hbo-max-subscribers-confused-amused-042408215.html)
Ferrari, Amazon's AWS enter agreement on data (https://www.reuters.com/technology/ferrari-amazons-aws-enter-agreement-data-2021-06-18/)
Good To Go! — or not: Washington state’s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why? (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/good-go-not-washington-states-tolling-software-switchover-will-take-2-weeks/)
How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/06/21/how-h-e-b-achieved-four-nines-of-reliability-using-kubernetes-and-linkerd/)
Microsoft to announce biggest Windows update in years (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-to-detail-major-windows-update-at-june-24-event-1b386dd1-ef2f-4e59-b3a6-934ddce400b6.html)
Dutch payments startup Mollie raises another $800M at a $6.5B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/22/dutch-payments-startup-mollie-raises-another-800m-at-a-6-5b-valuation/)
Database company Couchbase files for U.S. IPO (https://www.reuters.com/technology/database-company-couchbase-files-us-ipo-2021-06-21/)
PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now (https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/summit-2021-platform-release/)
Bitcoin wipes out 2021 gains as China crackdown continues (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-wipes-out-2021-gains-as-china-crackdown-continues-142206939.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADvOhiBIzA99Wiine1MSCEKIcUNPEcBBfnJuJgPAQOKNcoRBhJq-8CFJmCVpeKDHlw8kQRoZpox0lDs_kf-nI3qV0Ad4xHt71mgVSGGmsky0BWep7AyET6al7b5VP5bCKp_tg_GzXo-nWqEiKCcGs2ZkcdYo4YaeQMBZtjCT-oyc)
The Linux Foundation Appoints Industry Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer (https://linuxfoundation.org/press-release/the-linux-foundation-appoints-industry-veteran-as-chief-marketing-officer/)
Unity acquires 3D data firm Pixyz Software (https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/22/unity-acquires-3d-data-firm-pixyz-software/)
Google will show employees how their pay may change if they move offices (https://www.cnet.com/news/google-rolls-out-tool-to-show-its-employees-compensation-changes-for-transferring-offices/)
CentOS Replacement Rocky Linux Is Now in GA and Under Independent Control (https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/06/21/centos-replacement-rocky-linux-is-now-in-ga-and-under-independent-control/)
Confluent prices IPO above range at $36 a share (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/confluent-prices-ipo-above-range-at-36-a-share-11624487558)
Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/microsoft-announces-windows-11-generally-available-by-the-holidays/)
Insight Partners Has Acquired The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/insight-partners-has-acquired-the-new-stack/)
Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme (https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/23/oracle_support_rewards/)
Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/microsoft-announces-windows-11-generally-available-by-the-holidays/)
Microsoft Teams is integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar (https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-microsoft-teams-integrated-153343398.html)
Microsoft Teams usage jumps to 145 million daily active users (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406472/microsoft-teams-145-million-daily-active-users-stats)
Windows 11's snap layouts and snap groups make multitasking easier (https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-snap-groups-snap-layouts/)
PagerDuty Summit 2021 Platform Release: Digital Operations Now (https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/summit-2021-platform-release/)
State of Digital Operations (https://www.pagerduty.com/state-of-digital-ops/)
Nonsense
Buc-ee’s to build world’s largest convenience store in Sevierville (https://www.wate.com/news/buc-ees-to-built-worlds-largest-convenience-store-in-sevierville/)
24 Hours at the World’s Largest Gat Station (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80oyG1Vl1Vc)
Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank (https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tech-mogul-peter-thiel-turned-a-retirement-account-for-the-middle-class-into-a-5-billion-dollar-tax-free-piggy-bank?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosedge&stream=business)
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Jordi wants you to work at WeaveWorks (https://weaveworks.breezy.hr/).
Conferences
Free Knative Eventing Training (http://bit.ly/learnknative) - June 30
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14
THAT Conference, (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) July 26-29
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1-2
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Listen to my appearance on (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/06/mid-year-cloud-hot-takes.html) The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/06/mid-year-cloud-hot-takes.html)
Framing Britney Spears on Hulu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_John_McAfee)
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_John_McAfee)
Matt: We Are the Champions (https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81034679)
ULTRAIDEAS Cozy Slippers (https://amzn.to/2SUzTAd)
Coté: La La IJs (http://lalaijs.nl).
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/zE007SNgcdE)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/B587f4cdHgw)
6/25/2021 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 306: The Lotus Dream
This week we discuss Salesforce becoming Slack-first and a16z launching a media site. Plus, some thoughts on how to use Twitter.
Rundown
SFDC
Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-on-slack-acquisition-135151402.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAZTuzt_LffvaHAIFHpv23I9rjDmGt1XwjYl4AMPO9BHFYTmw7-9RFppK4J4pjkhVV6Ps8HjRBW3j4pg-QWpkmwmgAbtqZxLbmjIeR3ms__vrbn6YUP3lyHgAkHmLkAEZ8nZ3dJA80yvzUfImTO_FJXAIKYKPxFPz2U1Q2KHDNSo)
Salesforce Targets ServiceNow: Slack Delivers “Human Workflow” (https://cloudwars.co/salesforce/salesforce-targets-servicenow-slack-human-workflow/)
Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/15/andreessen-horowitz-goes-into-publishing-with-future/)
Relevant to your interests
AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Proton (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aws-announces-general-availability-aws-192000056.html)
Amazon rethinks full-time return to office as competitors tout remote flexibility (https://www.axios.com/amazon-office-remote-work-07f05dcc-f716-4fb9-8ed1-242b20e2ef34.html)
Write for DOnations (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/write-for-digitalocean)
Side-by-side comparisons between GCP, AWS, and Azure (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/handy-new-google-cloud-aws-and-azure-product-map)
Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Could Be Transformative For Sight Impaired (https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2021/06/13/mojo-visions-smart-contact-lens-could-be-transformative-for-sight-impaired/)
Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater (https://www.mining.com/scientists-develop-cheap-and-easy-method-to-extract-lithium-from-seawater)
Google Workspace for everyone (https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-workspace-everyone/)
Google’s unified Gmail interface (and Google Chat) launches for everyone (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/gmails-big-merger-with-google-chat-meet-and-docs-launches-for-everyone/)
Google Adopts Hybrid Workweek, With 20% of Its Employees to Work Remotely (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-shifts-to-hybrid-workweek-allowing-20-of-its-employees-to-work-remotely-11620240694?mod=e2tw)
RISC-V and Intel? (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-set-to-address-ai-and-supercomputer-workloads)
Chipmaker SiFive Is Said to Draw Intel Takeover Interest (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chipmaker-sifive-said-draw-intel-182107339.html)
Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud (https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/14/ubuntu_pro_gcp/)
Future - Understand the Future, How Tech Shapes It, and How We Build It (https://future.a16z.com/)
Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu)
Oracle revenue growth accelerates as pandemic recedes (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/15/oracle-orcl-earnings-q4-2021.html)
Slack goes Clubhouse (https://uit.stanford.edu/blog/new-audio-only-space-lets-you-gather-slack-channels-and-talk)
Crypto Mining is Killing All Free CI/CD Platforms (https://dev.to/n3wt0n/crypto-mining-is-killing-all-free-ci-cd-platforms-4chc)
Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market (https://future.a16z.com/community)
Has Serverless Jumped the Shark? (https://thenewstack.io/has-serverless-jumped-the-shark/)
A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners” (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1774162)
Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/spotify-launches-its-live-audio-app-and-clubhouse-rival-spotify-greenroom/)
Neo4j raises $325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/neo4j-series-f/?tpcc=ECTW2020)
The public cloud could evolve like streaming services (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3620963/the-public-cloud-could-evolve-like-streaming-services.html)
Nonsense
10 fully remote engineering jobs? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589)
iOS 4 has been lovingly recreated as an iPhone app (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/10/22527395/ios-4-oldos-iphone-app-testflight)
ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert (https://twitter.com/EvilMopacATX/status/1404500623454838785)
Doom now runs on an Ikea smart light bulb (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/14/22533512/doom-ikea-tradfri-smart-light-bulb-hack)
Peak binge: Consumers are now gravitating towards shows that are released weekly (https://www.axios.com/netflix-disney-amazon-streaming-binge-episodes-47896f59-bec8-4e36-97a3-3f5369a36598.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top)
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Listener Feedback
IBM Cloud Podcast (https://ibm.biz/cloudpodcast) hosted by Dan Bettinger
Conferences
Creating & Sustaining a Culture of Innovation Talk by Cote on June 21st (https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/13490-cloudnative-exchange-forum-21?utm_campaign=eXchange%20Forum%20—%C2%A02021%20–%2002%20–%C2%A0CloudNative&utm_content=169720987&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-16345873#program)
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021)
Free Knative Eventing Training (http://bit.ly/learnknative) - June 30
SpringOne Tour, EMEA (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0017/) - June 15th.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Children of Time (https://www.audible.com/pd/Children-of-Time-Audiobook/B071Y9TTHC?ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_&pf_rd_p=85df3330-9dc4-4a45-ae69-93cc2fc25ca4&pf_rd_r=Q3NWNW35KE913J1E0SRV)
Matt: N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (https://amzn.to/3wD1ODk) and The Obelisk Gate (https://amzn.to/3q5zNBQ)
Coté: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Ra_and_the_Princesses_of_Power), in Netflix. Also: Wooster and Jeeves books narrated by Jonathan Cecil - included in Audible membership!
Cover Art Credit (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1405168707123519491)
Header Art Credit (https://twitter.com/jjasghar/status/1393645064061083649?s=20)
6/18/2021 • 1 hour, 14 seconds
Episode 305: No PTO from picking up your kids
This week we breakdown the upcoming Confluent IPO and rank the announcements from Apple’s WWDC. Plus, some thoughts on picking up kids from school.
Rundown
Confluent IPO
Everything you need to know about the Confluent IPO (https://www.protocol.com/confluent-ipo)
Confluent - Benchmarking the S-1 Data (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/confluent-benchmarking-the-s-1-data)
Confluent (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699838/000119312521178773/d63025ds1.htm) S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1699838/000119312521178773/d63025ds1.htm)
Analysis of Confluent’s S1, Jesse Anderson (https://www.jesse-anderson.com/2021/06/analysis-of-confluents-s1/)
Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22461782/apple-wwdc-2021-recap-biggest-announcements-ios-15-macos-monterey-ipados)
Relevant to your interests
Gong going gangbusters, grabs $250M Series E on $7.25B valuation – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/gong-going-gangbusters-grabs-250m-series-e-on-7-25b-valuation/)
Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/outreach-lands-200-million-pushing-valuation-sales-software-startup-4-4-billion/)
FireEye Announces Sale of FireEye Products Business to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 Billion (https://www.fireeye.com/company/press-releases/2021/fireeye-announces-sale-of-fireeye-products-business-to-symphony-technology-group.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Why Every Cloud Customer Needs FinOps (https://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/why-every-cloud-customer-needs-finops/)
Passport (https://stratechery.com/2021/passport/)
Twitter debuts "Super Follows," other subscription products to help double revenue by 2023 (https://www.axios.com/twitter-subscription-products-revenue-366893aa-4638-4dab-b4d4-8f506106934f.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The Supreme Court hands down very good news for pretty much everyone who uses a computer (https://www.vox.com/2021/6/4/22507896/supreme-court-computer-crime-amy-coney-barrett-van-buren-hacking-fraud-abuse-clarence-thomas)
Medium sees more employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’ – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/medium-exodus-culture-memo)
Blackstone to Acquire International Data Group, a Leading Market Intelligence and Data Platform for the Technology Industry (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210603005559/en/Blackstone-to-Acquire-International-Data-Group-a-Leading-Market-Intelligence-and-Data-Platform-for-the-Technology-Industry)
Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/6/2/22465862/norton-360-crypto-mining-ethereum-coinbase)
Underworld figures nabbed in massive sting involving AFP and FBI using encrypted app (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-crime-bust-an0m-cash-drugs-murder/100197246)
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour) (https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/08/numerous-popular-websites-are-facing-an-outage/)
Snowflake announces new data marketplace and ‘powered’ collaborations (https://www.zdnet.com/article/snowflake-announces-new-data-marketplace-and-powered-collaborations/)
Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/04/google-is-moving-parts-of-youtube-to-its-cloud-service.html)
The biggest announcements from Apple’s WWDC keynote (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22461782/apple-wwdc-2021-recap-biggest-announcements-ios-15-macos-monterey-ipados)
The Oncoming Ransomware Storm (https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/ransomware.html)
Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-seizes-23-million-cryptocurrency-paid-ransomware-extortionists-darkside)
Who is Hacking the U.S. Economy? (https://overcast.fm/+oIe_QB4LY)
Justice Dept. Claws Back $2.3M Paid by Colonial Pipeline to Ransomware Gang (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/justice-dept-claws-back-2-3m-paid-by-colonial-pipeline-to-ransomware-gang/)
Nonsense
MoviePass Deceived Users So They’d Use It Less, F.T.C. Says (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/business/moviepass-settlement-ftc.html)
The Great Wings Rush (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22456930/chicken-wings-delivery-virtual-brands)
AMC is the new meme stock posterchild. (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1400578540601450497?s=21)
Introducing the United supersonic fleet. (https://twitter.com/boomaero/status/1400406948546220036?s=21)
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Listener Feedback
Noe wans you to work as Senior Systems Engineer at Riot Games (https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/job/2459100/senior-systems-engineer-developer-connections-los-angeles-usa) based in L.A.
Come work on Coté’s team, doing k8s/DevOps/etc. devrel: job listing (https://careers.vmware.com/main/jobs/R2106437).
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021)
Free Knative Eventing Training (http://bit.ly/learnknative) - June 30
SpringOne Tour, EMEA (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0017/) - June 15th.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: NYT Games Subscription (https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games)
Matt: Secrets of the Whales (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOySOlB78dM) documentary
Magnetic USB charging cables (https://amzn.to/3gn4eyT) (recommended by Mykel Alvis)
Coté: The Hidden Palace (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36300633-the-hidden-palace).
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/7K_agbqPqYo)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/fgm3VWev8UY)
6/11/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 20 seconds
Episode 304: John Willis on Deming
Coté talks with John about the subject of his new podcast series: Deming.
Find his podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1758599 Special Guest: John Willis.
6/8/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 303: Bring your spreadsheet
This week we discuss Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh, the cost of Public Cloud and more M&A. Plus, Coté published a new book that everyone must read.
Rundown
Matt’s new job at TriggerMesh (https://www.triggermesh.com)
Interview with Sebastien Goasguen Cofounder of TriggerMesh (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278)
Coté’s new book is out: Changing Mindsets (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/changing-mindsets-the-missing-ingredient-to-digital-transformation?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=SDT). Johnny Leadgen’s can get it for free (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/changing-mindsets-the-missing-ingredient-to-digital-transformation?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=SDT).
The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox (https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/)
it's unfeasible to recreate noncommodity (https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1399013516107948037?s=21)
Cloud is great. But we show it hurts share price of public (https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/)
M&A
KKR and CD&R Close to $4.7 Billion Deal to Buy Out Cloudera (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kkr-cd-r-close-4-022454722.html)
Sumo Logic buys Sensu (https://investor.sumologic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sumo-logic-signs-definitive-agreement-acquire-sensu-extend-open)
Prosus buys StackOverflow for $1.8 Billion (https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400)
Relevant to your interests
Docker introduces developer environments in containers (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/27/docker_introduces_developer_environments_in_containers/)
A handy new Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure product map (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/handy-new-google-cloud-aws-and-azure-product-map)
Apple says Malware is a problem on Macs. So how bad is it? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dwightsilverman/2021/05/27/apple-says-malware-is-a-problem-on-macs-so-bad-is-it/?sh=648f84cc36da&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter)
DevRel Collective (https://devrelcollective.fun/#resources)
Wordpress powers 40% of Websites (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2ZyH5gWYAEcyIf.jpg)
Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion (https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399058952336277505)
Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home)
It's Happening. Arm Server CPUs are Coming to the Data Center (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/arm/its-happening-arm-server-cpus-are-coming-data-center)
H1B Visa Salary Database 2021 - By Employer, Job, or City (https://h1bdata.info/)
Why Corporations Won’t Hire Remote Workers in Colorado (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7egp8/why-corporations-wont-hire-any-remote-workers-in-colorado)
Twitter to launch local weather news service (https://www.axios.com/twitter-holthaus-tomorrow-weather-meteorologists-6ca8692a-112c-45a4-92f2-3fae5ea813f0.html)
Life at Google vs. Life at Amazon: From Hiring to Firing (and Everything in Between) (https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/life-at-google-vs-life-at-amazon-from-hiring-to-firing-and-everything-in-between.html)
You'll Have to Wait Until June for Apple's Paid Podcast Subscription Service (https://gizmodo.com/apple-delays-paid-podcast-subscription-launch-until-jun-1846999142)
Zoom reports blowout earnings but warns of a coming slowdown (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/01/zoom-zm-earnings-q1-2022.html)
Pluralsight to Acquire A Cloud Guru (https://acloudguru.com/blog/news/pluralsight-to-acquire-a-cloud-guru)
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/)
The State of Kubernetes 2021 (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/the-state-of-kubernetes-2021)
Hackers hit JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, in ransomware attack (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/01/jbs-cyberattack-meat-supply-chain/)
Nonsense
Formatting show and episode notes (https://learn.acast.com/en/articles/3505626-formatting-show-and-episode-notes)
Massive bitcoin mine discovered in UK after police raid suspected cannabis farm (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/28/bitcoin-mine-discovered-by-uk-police-on-cannabis-farm-raid-.html)
Sponsors
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021)
Knative Eventing Training (https://www.triggermesh.com/knative-eventing-training) - June 30
SpringOne Tour, EMEA (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0017/) - June 15th.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Mare of Easttown (https://www.hbo.com/mare-of-easttown) Finale
Matt: macOS Automator & AppleScript.
Coté: Stir fry sauce (https://www.bonappetit.com/story/tangy-cabbage-stir-fry) with black vinegar (https://www.bonappetit.com/story/black-vinegar#intcid=_bon-appetit-bottom-recirc_598549a4-29e9-4470-9237-96407ad96745_text2vec1).
Photo Credit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu#/media/File:Cthulhu_and_R'lyeh.jpg)
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6/4/2021 • 59 minutes, 36 seconds
Episode 302: Amsterdam hates cars
This week we try to make sense of Snowflake’s stance on open source and review the State of Serverless. Plus, some advice on parking cars in Amsterdam.
Rundown
Striking a balance with ‘open’ at Snowflake (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3617938/striking-a-balance-with-open-at-snowflake.html)
Matt Asay’s Take on Snowflake (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1395809597806366720?s=21)
Data Warehouse Wars: Snowflake Vs. Google BigQuery (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4429909-data-warehouse-wars-snowflake-vs-google-bigquery)
The State of Serverless (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/)
Relevant to your interests
Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus (https://sfciti.org/sf-tech-exodus/)
SolarWinds CEO reveals much earlier hack timeline, regrets company blaming intern (https://www.cyberscoop.com/solarwinds-ceo-reveals-much-earlier-hack-timeline-regrets-company-blaming-intern/)
U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/us-treasury-calls-for-stricter-cryptocurrency-compliance-with-irs.html)
The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told (https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/)
Coinbase suffers outages as cryptos plummet in massive sell-off (https://nypost.com/2021/05/19/coinbase-suffers-outages-as-cryptos-plummet-in-massive-sell-off/)
Snapchat's partner summit this year was done entirely in augmented reality (https://www.axios.com/snapchat-ar-spectacles-partner-summit-8bb68470-aa48-402f-a531-aa6c5a78b17b.html)
Snap says it now has 500 million monthly active users (https://www.axios.com/snapchat-500-users-developer-tools-92932ae6-a26c-445f-87b6-92775a454f71.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Snap buys WaveOptics, a company that makes parts for augmented reality glasses, in $500 million deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/21/snap-buys-augmented-reality-company-waveoptics-in-500-million-deal.html)
Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/20/microsoft_azure_outage/)
Twitter previews Ticketed Spaces, says it’ll take a 20 percent cut of sales (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447328/twitter-ticketed-spaces-monetization-stripe-approval)
Oracle insiders say there is a ‘culture of fear’ under the leadership of its key cloud unit (https://nullednow.in/trending/oracle-insiders-say-there-is-a-culture-of-fear-under-the-leadership-of-its-key-cloud-unit/2021/)
It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/21/linux_5_13_patches/)
The Unstoppable Battery Onslaught (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/the-unstoppable-battery-cavalcade/)
Netflix Reportedly Wants To Get Into The Video Games Industry (https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2021/05/23/netflix-reportedly-wants-to-get-into-the-video-games-industry/)
Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing (https://www.wsj.com/articles/auto-makers-retreat-from-50-years-of-just-in-time-manufacturing-11620051251?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1)
Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds (https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997462169/thousands-of-people-are-dying-from-working-long-hours-a-new-who-study-finds)
Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/25/oracle_ampere_cloud/)
Twilio invests in adaptive communications platform Hyro (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/twilio-invests-in-adaptive-communications-platform-hyro/)
Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News (https://news.microsoft.com/build-2021-book-of-news/)
Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/announcing-general-availability-of-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/)
Microsoft has built an AI-powered autocomplete for code using GPT-3 (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/25/22451144/microsoft-gpt-3-openai-coding-autocomplete-powerapps-power-fx)
Green Software Foundation (https://greensoftware.foundation/)
The 17 Ways to Run Containers on AWS - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-17-ways-to-run-containers-on-aws/)
Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt (https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/please-fix-the-aws-free-tier-before?ck_subscriber_id=512830314)
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack: CISOs React (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack-cisos-react-a-16698)
Privacy on iPhone | Tracked | Apple (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y)
Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine (https://blog.discord.com/happy-blurpthday-to-discord-a-place-for-everything-you-can-imagine-fc99ee0a77c0)
Nonsense
The Ford F-150 Lightning Is the Electric Vehicle of Dystopia (https://www.wired.com/story/ford-lightning-f150-electric-vehicle-dystopia/)
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has an unusual approach to his finance (https://twitter.com/robaeprice/status/1396483218954543113?s=21)
Twitch launches a dedicated "hot tubs" category after advertiser pushback (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447898/twitch-hot-tub-category-launches-amouranth-advertising)
Nonstop flights to Amsterdam back on Austin's horizon (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/05/24/nonstop-flights-to-amsterdam-rescheduled-for-2022.html)
Sponsors
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Jobs
Work with Coté (https://twitter.com/tiffanyfayj/status/1397339215021547521)
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1394655403468804105)
THAT July 26,- July 29, in Wisconsin, Submissions Open Through (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021) June 14 (https://that.us/activities/call-for-counselors/wi/2021)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Last Breath | Netflix (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj5q_Tm9ufwAhVFG80KHUbWCZUQFjAKegQIDBAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com%2Ftitle%2F80215139&usg=AOvVaw2apUD-Dg8ldP5UFF1a7D5H)
Coté:
American Gods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods_(season_3)), season 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods_(season_3))
laylacodesit (https://www.twitch.tv/laylacodesit)’s Twitch Channel
The Leprechauns of Software Engineering (https://leanpub.com/leprechauns)
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5/28/2021 • 58 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 301: Justin McCarthy on Zero Trust and securing hybrid clouds
Brandon interviews Justin McCarthy the CTO and Co-founder of strongDM and they discuss Zero Trust, securing hybrid clouds and keeping auditors happy. Plus, a few tips on gardening during a pandemic.
Links
strongDM Free Trial (https://www.strongdm.com/sdt)
What is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) (https://www.strongdm.com/blog/what-is-zero-trust)
Contact Justin
Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
LinkedIn: justinmccarthy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinmccarthy/)
5/25/2021 • 45 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 300: No more architecture talk
This week we discuss cloud migration strategies, the rise of Serverless and the future of PaaS. Plus, advice on how to start your day.
Rundown
AWS introduces new Application Migration Service (https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-introduces-new-application-migration-service/)
AWS App Runner – Fully managed container application service (https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/)
Develop production-scale modern web apps quickly with Azure Static Web Apps (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/develop-production-scale-modern-web-apps-quickly-with-azure-static-web-apps/)
Relevant to your interests
Only 4% of iOS users in US are opting in to ad tracking, report says (https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/07/only-4-of-ios-users-in-us-are-opting-in-to-ad-tracking-report-says)
Lightstep is joining ServiceNow (https://lightstep.com/blog/lightstep-joins-servicenow/)
Pentagon Weighs Ending JEDI Cloud Project Amid Amazon Court Fight (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-weighs-ending-jedi-cloud-project-amid-amazon-court-fight-11620639001?mod=hp_lead_pos4)
Crypto Markets Are Where the Fun Is (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-11/crypto-markets-are-where-the-fun-is)
You can now buy NFTs on eBay, and ‘blockchain-driven collectibles’ are coming soon (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/11/22430827/ebay-nft-collectibles-blockchain-sale)
TikTok is launching a job hiring service to help find gigs for Gen Z (https://www.axios.com/tiktok-job-hiring-tiktok-576f3b99-602c-46ac-afed-218ddf61a9ba.html)
VMware CEO Raghuram On ‘Vigorously’ Competing With Nutanix (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/vmware-ceo-raghuram-on-vigorously-competing-with-nutanix)
Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432909/apple-petition-hiring-antonio-garcia-martinez-chaos-monkeys-facebook)
A Conversation With a Dogecoin Millionaire (https://overcast.fm/+oIe8VShIo)
Apple’s ‘Find My’ Network Exploited via Bluetooth (https://threatpost.com/apple-find-my-exploited-bluetooth/166121/)
Jeff Blackburn Returns To Amazon To Oversee Combined Media & Entertainment (https://deadline.com/2021/05/jeff-blackburn-returns-amazon-oversee-media-entertainment-operations-1234755875/?stream=top)
Goldman Sachs Executive Quits After Making Fortune on Dogecoin: Report | The Daily Hodl (https://dailyhodl.com/2021/05/14/goldman-sachs-executive-quits-after-making-fortune-on-dogecoin-report/)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2MqBm19mRz9SYLsw4kfQBrC)
Antonio García Martínez’s controversial exit from Apple — Recode Media (https://overcast.fm/+QL2c_llMU)
Google Cloud CEO predicts boom in business-process-as-a-service (https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/13/google-cloud-ceo-predicts-boom-in-business-process-as-a-service/)
GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features (https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/14/github-now-lets-all-developers-upload-videos-to-demo-bugs-and-features/)
1 big thing: The new digital extortion (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-d0286b8d-d3fb-4652-8ad5-14f21c899c8d.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare)
Oracle sues Envisage claiming unauthorized database use amid licensing crackdown (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/17/oracle_sues_envisage/)
Apple robbed the mob's bank | Mobile Dev Memo (https://mobiledevmemo.com/apple-robbed-the-mobs-bank/)
Apple Music subscribers will get lossless and spatial audio for free next month (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apple-music-subscribers-will-get-lossless-and-spatial-audio-for-free-next-month/)
Top 15 Kubernetes Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021 (https://blog.feedspot.com/kubernetes_podcasts/)
Happy Blurpthday to Discord, a Place for Everything You Can Imagine (https://blog.discord.com/happy-blurpthday-to-discord-a-place-for-everything-you-can-imagine-fc99ee0a77c0)
Apple’s M1 is a fast CPU—but M1 Macs feel even faster due to QoS (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apples-m1-is-a-fast-cpu-but-m1-macs-feel-even-faster-due-to-qos/)
First Enterprise-Grade Distribution of the Popular CNCF Project Crossplane Arrives, (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210518005942/en/Industry%E2%80%99s-First-Enterprise-Grade-Distribution-of-the-Popular-CNCF-Project-Crossplane-Arrives-Bringing-the-Kubernetes-Powered-Universal-Control-Plane-Approach-to-Platform-Teams-Everywhere)
PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/18/planetscale_promises_vitess_dbaas/)
Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together (https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/)
Python programming: We want to make the language twice as fast, says its creator (https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-programming-we-want-to-make-the-language-twice-as-fast-says-its-creator/)
Google Workspace turns to "smart chips" to weave Docs, Tasks, and Meet together (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22440226/google-workspace-smart-canvas-features-docs-updates)
Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, a new managed machine learning platform – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/18/google-cloud-launches-vertex-a-new-managed-machine-learning-platform/)
Freenode IRC staff quit after new owner "seizes" control of network (https://boingboing.net/2021/05/19/freenode-irc-staff-quit-after-new-owner-seizes-control.html)
Service Mesh Wars, Goodbye Istio (https://medium.com/polymatic-systems/service-mesh-wars-goodbye-istio-b047d9e533c7)
Google revives RSS (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/undead-again-google-brings-back-rss/)
Google Wants to Make Everyone Use Two Factor Authentication (https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyqe/google-wants-to-make-everyone-use-two-factor-authentication?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/14/cloudflare_cryptographic_attestation_of_personhood_captcha_killer/)
Media Statement Updated May 8, 2021: Colonial Pipeline System Disruption (https://www.colpipe.com/news/press-releases/media-statement-colonial-pipeline-system-disruption)
Snyk Acquires FossID to Accelerate Worldwide Developer-First Security Adoption (https://snyk.io/news/snyk-acquires-fossid-to-accelerate-worldwide-developer-first-security-adoption/)
We raised $100M in our Series F: here’s what we’re building next (Circle CI) (https://circleci.com/blog/series-f/)
Amazon Said to Make $9 Billion Offer for MGM (https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/amazon-mgm-acquisition-talks-9-billion-1234975168/)
What to Know Ahead of the Squarespace's Direct Listing (https://www.barrons.com/articles/squarespace-direct-listing-51621376597?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
WarnerMedia and Discovery combine to create a $150B streaming giant (https://thehustle.co/05182021-WarnerMedia-Discovery/)
Cisco to acquire Indy startup Socio to bring hybrid events to Webex (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/12/cisco-to-acquire-indy-startup-socio-to-bring-hybrid-events-to-webex/)
A Big Day for Business Texting: Twilio Acquires Zipwhip for $850 Million (https://www.zipwhip.com/blog/twilio-acquires-zipwhip-for-850m/)
SoftBank Reports Highest-Ever Annual Profit for a Japanese Company (https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-reports-highest-ever-annual-profit-for-a-japanese-company-11620803131)
Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek and Launches Next Generation of Deploy Previews to Streamline Collaboration for Web Teams (https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acquires-featurepeek-and-launches-next-generation-of-deploy-previews-to-streamline-collaboration-for-web-teams)
Nonsense
Video shows man making slow escape in ride-on mower 'test drive' (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-13/video-shows-alleged-ride-on-mower-thief-cairns-qld/100137376)
Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes (https://www.theolognion.com/company-forgets-why-they-exist-after-11-week-migration-to-kubernetes/)
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks (https://www.amazon.com/Reborn-Notebooks-1947-1963-Susan-Sontag/dp/0312428502/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/131-0459878-9390864?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0312428502&pd_rd_r=f0c639d8-2be9-4acc-a954-350a8fa89913&pd_rd_w=ZJBem&pd_rd_wg=snlZD&pf_rd_p=a0d6e967-6561-454c-84f8-2ce2c92b79a6&pf_rd_r=Y0JR2H6A0SZVRHVH29P1&psc=1&refRID=Y0JR2H6A0SZVRHVH29P1)
Sponsors
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
June 3rd modernization webinar for EMEA (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1394655403468804105).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: ServerlessChats (https://www.serverlesschats.com)
Matt: Apple M1 Macbook Air (https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/)
Coté: OBS (https://obsproject.com)
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5/21/2021 • 54 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 299: Working Backwards
This week we take a deep look inside life at Amazon by discussing the book Working Backwards (https://www.workingbackwards.com) written by two former Amazon Executives.
Rundown
Working Backwards (https://www.workingbackwards.com)
Amazon Leadership Principles (https://aws.amazon.com/careers/culture/)
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611)
AWS Compensation Explained (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-compensation-explained/)
The Everything Store (https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Store-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-ebook/dp/B00BWQW73E)
Nonsense
17 Remarkable Facts About Outdoor Amsterdam Urinals (https://www.nicerightnow.com/destinations/europe/netherlands/amsterdam-urinals/)
Sponsors
CBT Nuggets — Training available for IT Pros anytime, anywhere. Start your 7-day Free Trial today at cbtnuggets.com/sdt (https://cbtnuggets.com/sdt)
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Listener Feedback
Michael wants to work as a Senior DevOps Engineer in EMEA (https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudbees/jobs/3113686)
Dell Jobs Data Governance Lead (https://jobs.dell.com/job/austin/data-governance-domain-lead-senior-manager/375/19221536), Senior Manager Software Engineering (https://jobs.dell.com/job/austin/data-governance-domain-lead-senior-manager/375/19221536), Business Process Management (https://jobs.dell.com/job/bengaluru/sr-analyst-business-process-management-data-governance-quality-and-sustaining/375/18941323)
Doug wants you to work at Ethos Life lots of jobs (https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/) after recent funding
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SLOConf - (https://www.sloconf.com/) Virtual May 17-20 - Matt (https://twitter.com/SLOconf/status/1386643722616676354)’s talk is in the can
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Amazon Unbound (https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Unbound-Invention-Global-Empire/dp/1982132612/ref=asc_df_1982132612/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475873515737&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3773888045350623501&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028293&hvtargid=pla-1167175049944&psc=1) by Brad Stone
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5/14/2021 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 36 seconds
Episode 298: Come on Gophers
This week we discuss Red Hat’s open source strategy, public cloud adoption and Signal’s Instagram ads. Plus, advice on setting your thermostat.
Rundown
Red Hat
Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/04/red_hat_stackrox_kubernetes/)
Red Hat Delivers Full GitOps CI/CD Built on Tekton and Argo (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-delivers-full-gitops-ci-cd-built-on-tekton-and-argo/)
RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/04/rocky_linux_wouldbe_centos_replacement/)
AWS
Earnings Amazon (and AWS) results blow it out of the water while Twitter sinks; IBM buying into the cloud with Turbonomic acquisition for $1.5 billion (https://johnfurrier.substack.com/p/earnings-amazon-and-aws-results-blow?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta)
AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/30/amazon_q1_2021/)
The CloudCast Episode: Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough? (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/05/is-public-cloud-growing-quickly.html)
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Relevant to your interests
Nashville is basically broke, but that didn't stop it from luring Oracle with lavish incentives. Other small cities are also paying top dollar to compete for Big Tech. (https://www.businessinsider.com/austin-nashville-raleigh-miami-oracle-apple-incentives-competition-2021-4)
DigitalOcean data breach exposes customer billing information (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/digitalocean-data-breach-exposes-customer-billing-information/)
How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-university-of-minnesota-banned-open-source)
Microsoft: It's 90 days until the end of Skype for Business Online, here's what to expect (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-its-90-days-until-the-end-of-skype-for-business-online-heres-what-to-expect/)
About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting. (https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1388212468510380034?s=21)
How Basecamp blew up (https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up)
Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/basecamp-employees-quit-ceo-letter/)
The ransomware surge ruining lives (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56933733)
Epic Games Primer (Pt VI): Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations (https://www.matthewball.vc/all/epicprimer6)
The Epic Games trial has exposed the ‘Fortnite’ maker’s inner workings. Here’s what we learned. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/05/04/epic-games-vs-apple-trial-takeaways/)
AirTag Teardown: Yeah, This Tracks (https://www.ifixit.com/News/50145/airtag-teardown-part-one-yeah-this-tracks)
Then a Hacker Began Posting Patients’ Deepest Secrets Online (https://www.wired.com/story/vastaamo-psychotherapy-patients-hack-data-breach/)
Kubernetes at the Edge: Organizations are using edge technologies, but there is room to grow (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/05/04/kubernetes-at-the-edge-organizations-are-using-edge-technologies-but-there-is-room-to-grow/)
Digital Horses Are the Talk of the Crypto World (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/style/zed-run-horse-racing.html)
In huge demand right now: Warehouses (https://thehustle.co/05042021-Warehouses/)
Twitter acquires news startup Scroll in push for subscriptions (https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-acquires-news-startup-scroll-push-subscriptions-2021-05-04/)
Apple reports 2 iOS 0-days that let hackers compromise fully patched devices (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apple-reports-2-ios-0days-that-let-hackers-compromise-fully-patched-devices/)
Messaging app Discord ties up with Sony's PlayStation (https://www.reuters.com/technology/messaging-app-discord-ties-up-with-sonys-playstation-2021-05-03/?taid=609090e9c73c080001080ac8&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:%20Trending%20Content&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&stream=top)
Clubhouse downloads plummet to 900,000 in April as competition grows - 9to5Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/03/clubhouse-downloads-plummet-to-900000-in-april-as-competition-grows/)
Goldman Sachs CEO is summoning workers back to the office by June 14 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/04/goldman-sachs-ceo-is-summoning-workers-back-to-the-office-by-june-14.html)
Signal made Instagram ads that shows users how much Facebook knew about them. (https://twitter.com/sdw/status/1389661120500174856?s=21)
Ethereum’s 27-Year-Old Creator Is Now the World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire (https://observer.com/2021/05/etherum-founder-buterin-billionaire-cryptocurrency-surge-bitcoin/)
New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-relic-open-sources-pixie-its-kubernetes-native-in-cluster-observability-platform/)
How Jeff Bezos outflanked the National Enquirer (https://www.axios.com/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-4ecfbfe6-4640-428e-9c78-e9a609b4f76b.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=email)
Oversight Board upholds former President Trump’s suspension, finds Facebook failed to impose proper penalty (https://www.oversightboard.com/news/226612455899839-oversight-board-upholds-former-president-trump-s-suspension-finds-facebook-failed-to-impose-proper-penalty/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
ForgeRock IPO Expected In 2021 With Valuation Of Over $3B: Report (https://www.crn.com/news/security/forgerock-ipo-expected-in-2021-with-valuation-of-over-3b-report)
Where to start modernizing your legacy portfolio (https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/where-to-start-modernizing-your-legacy-portfolio)
Why Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for about 1% of their peak valuation (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-b57d1701-05a2-4339-8dea-8d7725cfd4b7.html?chunk=4&utm_term=twsocialshare#story4)
Verizon to offload Yahoo, AOL for $5 billion (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apollo-acquire-verizons-media-assets-121009726.html?guccounter=1)
"Act like a scientist, not like a preacher.” (@AdamMGrant) (https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1389642344610160641?s=21)
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms (https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/05/twilio_codecov_attack/)
Nonsense
'Disaster Girl' is 21 now and just made $500,000 off the meme (https://twitter.com/i/events/1387821366146211845)
Wow, so Berkshire Hathaway is so expensive it broke NASDAQ data feeds. (https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1389732069333295104)
Meet Einstein (https://einstein.digitalhumans.com/)
Creepy Expensify video about pending IPO (https://twitter.com/expensify/status/1389205286590681092?s=20)
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Listener Feedback
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Jeffrey want you to become the SRE - World of Warcraft (https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/job/R005960/Software-Engineer-Server-Reliability-World-of-Warcraft)
Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SLOConf - (https://www.sloconf.com/) Virtual May 17-20 - Matt (https://twitter.com/SLOconf/status/1386643722616676354)’s talk is in the can
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Mare of Eastown (https://www.hbo.com/mare-of-easttown?camp=GOOGLE%7CHTS_SEM%7CPID_p62529247201&keyword=mare+of+easttown+hbo+series&utm_id=sa%7C71700000081749821%7C58700006943261024%7Cp62529247201&utm_content=tun&gclid=CjwKCAjwhMmEBhBwEiwAXwFoEfq-huP0xAQl40w6ZhN3ZnCF1QwIIVk2iRvg1QJQ3w9yUebt535gtBoCnxcQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Listen my interview with Grant from Replicated (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/297)
Matt:
Long Service Leave (https://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/employers/nsw-employer-essentials/long-service-leave-entitlement-nsw/)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/vO9-gal54go)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/K-Iog-Bqf8E)
5/7/2021 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 297: Grant Miller from Replicated on delivering and managing Kubernetes apps anywhere
Brandon interviews Grant Miller the CEO of Replicated (https://www.replicated.com). They discuss Grant's background, building enterprise software and how to deliver Kubernetes apps anywhere. Plus, Grant tell us what it's really like to be an intern at an investment bank.
Show Links
The Submarine by Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html)
EnterpriseReady.io (https://www.enterpriseready.io)
EnterpriseReady Podcast (https://www.enterpriseready.io/podcast/)
kURL (https://kurl.sh)
Kots (https://kots.io)
Contact Grant
Twitter: @GrantM (https://twitter.com/GrantM)
LinkedIn: grantlmiller (https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantlmiller/)
Replicated Demo (https://www.replicated.com/contact) Special Guest: Grant Miller.
5/4/2021 • 47 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 296: Fungated into my mind
This week we discuss the Rackspace-Platform9 partnership, Microsoft buying Kinvolk and the commodification of DevOps. Plus, some hot takes on Zoom’s new immersive view.
Rundown
Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room (https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/26/zoom-launches-immersive-view-to-unify-participants-in-the-same-virtual-room/)
M&A
Rackspace Technology Announces Strategic Investment in Platform9 and Launches Rackspace Managed Platform for Kubernetes (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/04/29/2219796/0/en/Rackspace-Technology-Announces-Strategic-Investment-in-Platform9-and-Launches-Rackspace-Managed-Platform-for-Kubernetes.html)
Kinvolk: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk (https://kinvolk.io/blog/2021/04/microsoft-acquires-kinvolk/)
IBM Acquires Turbonomic to Power the Future of AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud (https://blog.turbonomic.com/ibm-acquires-turbonomic-to-power-the-future-of-ai-driven-hybrid-cloud?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=124211037&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8bgvAwh22J1XyhQ904BZseJT0hDZ64fB5OvSvr9lVdQLRHZY0gS8_3E8JGPecL4b7I4lxO2rrnQU4ntmTsPzDG6j0dnQ&utm_content=124211037&utm_source=hs_email)
Microsoft
Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations on strength of cloud and PC sales (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-q3-earnings-2021-164756837.html)
Microsoft books biggest revenue growth since 2018 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/microsoft-msft-earnings-q3-2021.html)
Kubernetes Usability SIG (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-usability)
Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/28/aws_jedi_ruling/)
Earnings
Alphabet reports big earnings beat as revenue grows 34% (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/alphabet-goog-earnings-q1-2021.html)
Apple is on Fire - The Irrelevant Investor (https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2021/04/28/apple-is-on-fire/)
The Commodification of DevOps (https://aparker.io/posts/the-commodification-of-devops/)
7 things wrong with Deloitte’s Agile Tube Map (https://medium.com/tech-sojourna/7-things-wrong-with-deloittes-agile-tube-map-641192e20068)
Atlassian’s Open DevOps (https://sdtimes.com/devops/atlassian-reveals-open-devops-vision/)
Crypto miners are killing free CI (https://layerci.com/blog/crypto-miners-are-killing-free-ci/)
Relevant to your interests
Is Octopus Deploy Australia’s next unicorn? (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2021/is-octopus-deploy-australia-s-next-unicorn-.html)
Panasonic to buy U.S. supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for $7.1 bln (https://www.reuters.com/business/panasonic-says-it-will-buy-us-supply-chain-software-firm-blue-yonder-2021-04-23/)
Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56859357)
Apple to build first East Coast campus in N.C., will spend $430b across U.S. over 5 years (https://www.axios.com/apple-5g-infrastructure-north-carolina-east-coast-b7b3e756-12f5-4b96-ad46-f7ee0defddb3.html)
Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/26/thoma-bravo-buys-cybersecurity-vendor-proofpoin-for-12-3b-in-cash/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Open-source software company SUSE to float in Frankfurt (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-suse-ipo/open-source-software-company-suse-to-float-in-frankfurt-idUSKBN2CD0ND)
SiriusXM Acquires Roman Mars' 99% Invisible Podcast (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/siriusxm-acquires-roman-mars-99-invisible-podcast-301276779.html)
Spotify unveils subscription platform for podcasts (https://www.axios.com/spotify-subscription-podcast-platform-408aa2c6-5a4b-46ce-bbda-851b829f5500.html)
What is Amazon Athena? An Introduction and Walkthrough - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/what-is-amazon-athena-an-introduction-and-walkthrough/)
Snap has acquired Pixel8earth, a 3D mapping developer, for $7.6M – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/26/snap-has-acquired-pixel8earth-a-3d-mapping-developer-for-7-6m/)
How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data (https://www.vox.com/recode/22325420/t-mobile-verizon-att-ad-targeting-data)
Changes at Basecamp (https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5)
Microsoft Teams was down worldwide for many users for two hours (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22405300/microsoft-teams-down-outage-worldwide-issues)
IBM Stock: Things Are Changing (NYSE:IBM) (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4421480-ibm-stock-things-are-changing)
HCSEC-2021-12 - Codecov Security Event and HashiCorp GPG Key Exposure (https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-12-codecov-security-event-and-hashicorp-gpg-key-exposure/23512)
Facebook benefits from pandemic ad spending but Apple could spoil its party (https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-quarterly-revenue-beats-expectations-2021-04-28/)
The Slander Industry (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/24/technology/online-slander-websites.html)
What really happened at Basecamp (https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basecamp)
Changes at Basecamp (https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5)
In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters (https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stupidity-Twenty-Marketing-Disasters/dp/1590597214)
Nonsense
YOO! - Microsoft Sweden 1993 (https://youtu.be/rjQV0U56FVk)
Google Timelapse (https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/)
World's Oldest Known Bottle Of Whiskey Could Fetch $40,000 At Boston-Based Auction (https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/04/25/skinnker-auctioneers-worlds-oldest-whiskey/)
"Microsoft Excel Influencer” (https://twitter.com/adamnash/status/1387236381684944896?s=21)
N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/nypd-robot-dog-backlash.html?referringSource=articleShare)
Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft's next default font (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/04/28/beyond-calibri-finding-microsofts-next-default-font/)
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual (https://email.linuxfoundation.org/e2t/tc/VWml6b55qjqKW2hPD2x5vv5K7W3hB9jJ4qq-fZN5XFYmZ3lGnpV1-WJV7CgLSHW6c6fTc2FfQyxN7g0lPHGRD_6W3jzTZk1pFVwyW2TqJ-y2KjpL1W666rY84ZWYv2W4yllM695TrCZW8bhGxR4f4mq3W39LtnJ6TjCqYVy1jDF2TkR7VW1K9Y5275t_kyN8TQXfWZ3KgfW44qYYk2CCPz7W1GXGWw3BBkG9W2p-LYF6r2s4tW8t1_l_4clKzSW8dhgc05lDwm2W51kqWx8rcLr-W33XLWC2RDQ4MW7szTYq448CMJW8dmjp05HCYvrW1h0y7242lcY1W2K08W81bljrbW3w35h-19DyxzW22rbKg2qW5KrW201w0v1Wzm9vW8Z5fgl57cm6p329f1)
SLOConf - (https://www.sloconf.com/) Virtual May 17-20 - Matt needs to get on his talk (https://twitter.com/SLOconf/status/1386643722616676354)
SpringOne (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3) (https://www.amazon.com/Deaths-End-Remembrance-Earths-Past/dp/0765377101)
Matt: Leeroy Jenkins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4)
Coté: MonitorControl (https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl/releases/tag/v2.1.0). You can change your zoom banner art thing: no more office plants. Saul Pawnson as a kid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAO_81kIug).
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4/30/2021 • 59 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 295: Status Quo Fork
This week we discuss Grafana moving to the AGPL, Signal goes on offense and Grad Students infecting the Linux Kernel. Plus, how many door locks do you need?
Rundown
AGPL
Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 (https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relicensing-to-agplv3/)
Chris Aniszczyk’s take (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1384671780715913219?s=21)
Another Thread Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/juliusvolz/status/1384565189249572866?s=21)
Hacking
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective (https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/)
A Twitter Thread on Signal and Celebrate (https://twitter.com/erratarob/status/1385020198697291777?s=21)
Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on (http://ttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%[email protected]/)
University of Minnesota hacks the Linux Kernel? (https://twitter.com/umncomputersci/status/1384948683821694976?s=21)
Discord took our advice
Discord Ends Deal Talks With Microsoft (https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-ends-deal-talks-with-microsoft-11618938806)
Relevant to your interests
Oracle plans $1.2 billion campus in Nashville, creating 8,500 jobs (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-plans-1-2-billion-campus-in-nashville-creating-8-500-jobs-01618437488)
IBM acquires Italy’s myInvenio to integrate process mining directly into its suite of automation tools (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/ibm-acquires-italys-myinvenio-to-integrate-process-mining-directly-into-its-suite-of-automation-tools/)
New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388184/new-york-affordable-internet-cost-low-income-price-cap-bill)
Once VMware is free from Dell, who might fancy buying it? – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/18/once-vmware-is-free-from-dell-who-might-fancy-buying-it/)
Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA Corporation: public interest intervention (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proposed-acquisition-of-arm-limited-by-nvidia-corporation-public-interest-intervention)
Dollars flow to live audio as moderation problems loom (https://www.axios.com/clubhouse-dollars-live-audio-moderation-problems-a972ad6f-22fc-4ebe-9565-9f179fd97c7f.html)
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes off on historic 1st powered flight on another world (https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-first-flight-success)
IBM beats across the board, posts revenue growth after four quarters of declines (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/19/ibm-earnings-q1-2021.html)
Microsoft’s Visual Studio for Mac getting complete overhaul with native UI and more (https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/19/microsofts-visual-studio-for-mac-overhaul/)
The ascent of Lina Khan, tech antitrust icon (https://www.axios.com/lina-khan-tech-antitrust-icon-84829d38-33d9-4a45-81fe-8600c6aa6bf0.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Apple Podcasts launches in-app subscriptions (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/20/22381980/apple-podcasts-app-subscriptions-new-design)
Emerging storage-based cryptocurrency Chia could jack up SSD/HDD prices in the future (https://www.techspot.com/news/89350-emerging-storage-based-cryptocurrency-chia-could-jack-up.html)
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective (https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/)
IBM and IPwe want to issue patents as NFTs and make them easier to monetize (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ibm-and-ipwe-want-to-issue-patents-as-nfts-and-make-them-easier-to-monetize/)
Security Incident Disclosure (https://brew.sh/2021/04/21/security-incident-disclosure/)
Netflix earnings are out – here are the numbers (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/20/netflix-nflx-q1-2021-earnings.html)
Netflix stock craters after subscriber miss — is now a great time to buy? (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-stock-craters-after-subscriber-miss-is-now-a-great-time-to-buy-110254909.html)
Microsoft Edge, Safari, Firefox have no plans for FLoC yet (https://9to5google.com/2021/04/19/microsoft-edge-safari-firefox-floc/)
Why Brave Disables FLoC (https://brave.com/why-brave-disables-floc/)
Nonsense
RIP, Apple TV remote: There’s finally a replacement and it’s only $15 at Amazon (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rip-apple-tv-remote-finally-123730675.html)
LMAO (https://twitter.com/ohlol/status/1383169345455489026?s=21)
Amazon signs with ULA for rockets to launch Jeff Bezos' Kuiper internet satellites (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/19/amazon-signs-ula-rockets-to-launch-bezos-kuiper-internet-satellites.html)
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Conferences
RabbitMQ Summit (https://rabbitmqsummit.com), July 13-14, 2021.
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 23rd. (https://springone.io/cfp)
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/EMEA_P5_FE_Q122_Event_VMware-Tanzu-Up-Close.html), April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
SpringOne Tour: EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual (https://email.linuxfoundation.org/e2t/tc/VWml6b55qjqKW2hPD2x5vv5K7W3hB9jJ4qq-fZN5XFYmZ3lGnpV1-WJV7CgLSHW6c6fTc2FfQyxN7g0lPHGRD_6W3jzTZk1pFVwyW2TqJ-y2KjpL1W666rY84ZWYv2W4yllM695TrCZW8bhGxR4f4mq3W39LtnJ6TjCqYVy1jDF2TkR7VW1K9Y5275t_kyN8TQXfWZ3KgfW44qYYk2CCPz7W1GXGWw3BBkG9W2p-LYF6r2s4tW8t1_l_4clKzSW8dhgc05lDwm2W51kqWx8rcLr-W33XLWC2RDQ4MW7szTYq448CMJW8dmjp05HCYvrW1h0y7242lcY1W2K08W81bljrbW3w35h-19DyxzW22rbKg2qW5KrW201w0v1Wzm9vW8Z5fgl57cm6p329f1)
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Brandon: iPad Stand (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071K5XXVX/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&aaxitk=DMbvaqerhvb2I.g2h1n6jA&hsa_cr_id=2868944090001&pd_rd_plhdr=t&pd_rd_r=e50b481c-bad9-4ee8-905e-dfc4dfe905d5&pd_rd_w=Ws4hU&pd_rd_wg=2YGg2&ref_=sbx_be_s_sparkle_mcd_asin_0_img).
Matt: Boyue Likebook P10 (https://amzn.to/3eo5kJV)
Coté: “ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit)On Bullshit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit).” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit)
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4/23/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 294: I already have a job
This week we discuss IBM’s Kyndryl, AWS launches OpenSearch and what makes a good strategy. Plus, how much do you really need to know about wine?
Rundown
Kyndryl (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-name-infrastructure-services-business-134441587.html)
IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' after spinoff (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-name-infrastructure-services-business-134441587.html)
IBM spinoff joins a long list of questionable corporate names (https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/business/kyndryl-ibm-corporate-names/index.html)
Introducing OpenSearch (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-opensearch/)
Relevant to your interests
Social Media Use in 2021 (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/04/07/social-media-use-in-2021/)
Next Chapter for Gitpod (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/next-chapter-for-gitpod)
Reddit is secretly exploring a Clubhouse-like voice chat feature (https://mashable.com/article/reddit-clubhouse-voice-chat/)
JetBrains 2020/21 Annual Highlights (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/annualreport-2020/)
Apple M1 hardware support merged into Linux 5.13 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/apple-m1-hardware-support-merged-into-linux-5-13/)
Apple TV Digital Signage: Low up-front cost and easy to deploy (https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/10/apple-tv-digital-signage-2/)
Amazon defeats warehouse union push, RWDSU challenges results (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/09/amazon-defeats-warehouse-union-push-challenges-expected/)
China Fines Alibaba Record $2.8 Billion After Monopoly Probe (https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/china-fines-alibaba-group-2-020455410.html)
Microsoft accelerates industry cloud strategy for healthcare with the acquisition of Nuance (https://news.microsoft.com/2021/04/12/microsoft-accelerates-industry-cloud-strategy-for-healthcare-with-the-acquisition-of-nuance/)
Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/12/22379414/microsoft-buys-nuance-ai-speech-tech)
Glow – Glow joins Libsyn (https://www.glow.fm/blog/glow-joins-libsyn)
Cloud transformation challenges in 9 cartoons (https://acloudguru.com/blog/business/cloud-transformation-challenges-in-9-cartoons)
Epic reportedly set to lose at least $330m in efforts to compete with Steam (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-04-12-epic-reportedly-set-to-lose-at-least-usd330m-in-efforts-to-compete-with-steam)
Sony adds $200M to its investment in Epic Games (https://www.polygon.com/22381613/epic-games-valuation-billion-sony-stake-ownership-funding-round-metaverse-statement)
FreeBSD gives ARM64 green light for production over x86 alternative's 'growth trajectory' (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/12/freebsd_promotes_arm64_to_be/)
MicroStrategy Pivots to Bitcoin Payouts for Board of Directors (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-12/microstrategy-pivots-to-bitcoin-payouts-for-board-of-directors)
Neelan Choksi posted on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/neelan_thrilled-to-announce-this-im-grateful-activity-6786299336914563072-689E)
Senior execs Forsyth, Frasca and Lemieux leaving Shopify (https://obj.ca/article/techopia/senior-execs-forsyth-frasca-and-lemieux-leaving-shopify)
Bash Uploader Security Update (https://about.codecov.io/security-update/)
Parallels 16.5 with native Apple Silicon support now available, up 30% faster VM performance than Intel (https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/14/parallels-16-5-with-native-apple-silicon-support-now-available-up-30-faster-vm-performance-than-intel/)
Docker Desktop for Mac Updated With Apple Silicon Support (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/15/docker-for-mac-apple-silicon/)
Dell Selling Boomi Cloud iPaaS Business? (https://www.channele2e.com/business/finance/dell-selling-boomi/)
Dell is spinning out VMware in a deal expected to generate over $9B for the company (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/14/dell-is-spinning-out-vmware-in-a-deal-expected-to-generate-over-9b-for-the-company/)
1Password acquires SecretHub and launches new enterprise secrets management tool (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/13/1password-acquires-secrethub-and-launches-new-enterprise-secrets-management-tool/)
1Password targets developers with Secrets Automation, acquisition of SecretHub (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/13/1password_secrethub_automation/)
Here’s how the FBI managed to get into the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/14/22383957/fbi-san-bernadino-iphone-hack-shooting-investigation)
Nonsense
No more vests (https://twitter.com/2PMinc/status/1380264030368055301)
Software Defined Baby? (https://twitter.com/darylwiest/status/1381388962292506628?s=21)
The Problem with Time & Timezones (https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY)
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Come work on Coté’s team - developer advocate role (https://careers.vmware.com/main/jobs/R2106437?lang=en-us): “The Technical Advocacy team at VMware is looking for a Technical Advocate focused on Kubernetes.”
Conferences
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 23 (https://springone.io/cfp)rd.
SpringOne Tour: EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/EMEA_P5_FE_Q122_Event_VMware-Tanzu-Up-Close.html), April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 - Virtual (https://email.linuxfoundation.org/e2t/tc/VWml6b55qjqKW2hPD2x5vv5K7W3hB9jJ4qq-fZN5XFYmZ3lGnpV1-WJV7CgLSHW6c6fTc2FfQyxN7g0lPHGRD_6W3jzTZk1pFVwyW2TqJ-y2KjpL1W666rY84ZWYv2W4yllM695TrCZW8bhGxR4f4mq3W39LtnJ6TjCqYVy1jDF2TkR7VW1K9Y5275t_kyN8TQXfWZ3KgfW44qYYk2CCPz7W1GXGWw3BBkG9W2p-LYF6r2s4tW8t1_l_4clKzSW8dhgc05lDwm2W51kqWx8rcLr-W33XLWC2RDQ4MW7szTYq448CMJW8dmjp05HCYvrW1h0y7242lcY1W2K08W81bljrbW3w35h-19DyxzW22rbKg2qW5KrW201w0v1Wzm9vW8Z5fgl57cm6p329f1)
Coté’s webinar, April 20th at 6pm CET (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14883/481167): a “book tour” for his upcoming Mindset book.
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Coherence (https://www.amazon.com/Coherence-Emily-Foxler/dp/B00MFDZJAG)
Coté: Montreal Steak Seasoning
Matt: Soviet-era Lord of the Rings (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/4/7/22371380/soviet-era-lord-of-the-rings-tv-adaptation-low-budget-delight)
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4/16/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 293: Don’t steal my kid’s bike, steal my bike
This week we discuss the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Google vs. Oracle and the future of open source business models. Plus, do you really need a yard?
Rundown
API’s for Everyone
Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367851/google-oracle-supreme-court-ruling-java-android-api)
SCOTUS Decision Oracle vs. Google (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf)
Xinuos—owners of what used to be SCO—file suit against Red Hat and IBM (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/xinuos-finishes-picking-up-scos-mantle-by-suing-red-hat-and-ibm/)
OSS Business Models
The Identity Crisis Facing Open Source Companies in the Cloud (https://www.tomtunguz.com/open-source-cloud-identity-crisis/)
GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/community)
Everyone uses OpenSSL, but nobody's willing to fix it — except the Linux Foundation (https://venturebeat.com/2014/05/29/everyone-uses-openssl-but-nobodys-willing-to-fix-it-except-the-linux-foundation/)
Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-source-gig-economy-and-sustainability-tip-jar/)
Tidelift | A managed open source subscription backed by creators and maintainers (https://tidelift.com/)
Relevant to your interests
Briefing: Amazon Plans for Return to ‘Office-Centric Culture’ (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/11454c)
Theme Studio: Create VS Code Themes! (https://themes.vscode.one/)
Software development is a losers game (https://thehosk.medium.com/software-development-is-a-losers-game-fc68bb30d7eb)
Amazon apologizes (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/3/22365330/amazon-apology-pee-bottles-worker-warehouse-union-pocan)
Gitlab acquired Peach Fuzzer Pro then open-sourced most of it (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/protocol-fuzzer-ce)
VMware Taps Knative for Tanzu Kubernetes Abstraction - SDxCentral (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vmware-taps-knative-for-tanzu-kubernetes-abstraction/2021/04/)
LG confirms it’s getting out of the smartphone business (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/4/22346084/lg-exits-smartphone-business)
Personal data of 533 million Facebook users leaks online (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/4/22366822/facebook-personal-data-533-million-leaks-online-email-phone-numbers)
Spotify opens a second personalized playlist to sponsors, after ‘Discover Weekly’ in 2019 (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/05/spotify-opens-a-second-personalized-playlist-to-sponsors-after-discover-weekly-in-2019/)
Google will stop using Oracle's finance software and adopt SAP instead (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/05/google-will-stop-using-oracle-finance-software-switch-to-sap.html)
Biden allows Trump admin's H-1B visa program suspension to expire (https://www.ciodive.com/news/h1B-program-suspension-biden/597813/)
Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-06/clubhouse-is-said-to-discuss-funding-at-about-4-billion-value)
Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/06/note-taking-app-mem-raises-5-6-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/)
IBM Delivers on Cloud Promise for Financial Services - Container Journal (https://containerjournal.com/features/ibm-delivers-on-cloud-promise-for-financial-services/)
IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/07/ibm_cobol_x86_linux/)
Target CIO Mike McNamara makes a cloud declaration of independence (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/target-cio-mike-mcnamara-multicloud)
T-Mobile’s 5G home internet service has become a reality (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/7/22312155/t-mobile-5g-home-internet-wireless-broadband)
KKR hands Box a $500M lifeline (https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/08/kkr-hands-box-a-500m-lifeline/)
Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud (https://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/cisco-and-hashicorp-join-forces-to-deliver-infrastructure-as-code-automation-across-hybrid-cloud)
Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round (https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/07/redis_labs_doubles_value_to/)
Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know. (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres)
JAB Guidance on CentOS Linux End of Life (https://www.fedramp.gov/2021-03-30-CentOS-Linux-End-of-Life/)
Nonsense
Inside a viral website (https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-website)
Engineers Sneakily Upgrade Apple M1 Mac Mini With More Storage, RAM (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mac-m1-mod)
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Conferences
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp).
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/EMEA_P5_FE_Q122_Event_VMware-Tanzu-Up-Close.html), April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Brandon: Formula 1: Drive to Survive (https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890).
Coté: Peanut M&M’s; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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Photo Credit (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf)
4/9/2021 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 292: Wrap Around Analysis
This week we discuss a potential Box/Dropbox merger, Discord rumors and the meaning of work. Plus, what happens when you spill water on your laptop?
Rundown
Could Box and Dropbox Merge? @themotleyfool #stocks $BOX $DBX $MSFT (https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/03/28/could-box-and-dropbox-merge/)
Prof. Galloway likes MSFT buying Discord (https://twitter.com/pivotpod/status/1375824932785909760?s=21)
Amazon Twitter War (https://twitter.com/delrey/status/1376278015680843779?s=21)
Work / Life
Tech Support: How can I cope with my meaningless job, and maddening manager? (https://techworker.com/2021/03/29/tech-support-how-can-i-cope-with-my-meaningless-job-and-maddening-manager/)
Solomon Hykes is back (https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1376725608747593731)
McKinsey’s advice to European banks (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1377487540102569984): don’t bring an entourage to meetings.
Relevant to your interests
IBM doubles down on OpenShift (https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-enterprise/ibm-red-hat-openshift?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1)
VMware Cloud announcement (https://twitter.com/VMware/status/1377277520102428679)
The New York Times x NFT | Foundation (https://foundation.app/kevinroose/the-new-york-times-x-nft-13129)
Software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users under new order: draft (https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2LN3E)
Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have (https://erikmcclure.com/blog/factorio-is-best-interview-we-have/)
Fintech comes to America at last (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/27/fintech-comes-to-america-at-last)
Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-license-violations-and-bad-code-freebsd-13s-close-call/)
PHP's Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phps-git-server-hacked-to-add-backdoors-to-php-source-code/)
T-Mobile is the first US carrier to make Google Messages its default SMS app (https://www.engadget.com/t-mobile-google-messages-212527575.html)
Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images (https://unsplash.com/blog/unsplash-getty/)
Introducing the Echo subsea cable (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/introducing-the-echo-subsea-cable/)
LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/linkedin-confirms-its-working-on-a-clubhouse-rival-too/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5vcmVhZGVyLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJNB71cjWYjYTRsUHIQfk7c1dJLL2Af1wKSJBWK5a5-oUxWNhPIQhCbfmqU_X2Sd3O7EVZ3WH2Yi3mc7eYWOqiPRHgAaoSPagsMJO9F3bWeJ-R-D7GgqJvetSKUwaLEC385YjSNeGFM9fjCmCahqjz-xW7juccwvSvMpRZ17lcmf)
SSRF vulnerability in NPM package Netmask impacts up to 279k projects (https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/ssrf-vulnerability-in-npm-package-netmask-impacts-up-to-279k-projects)
Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/)
Ubiquiti, Inc. Investigated for Possible Securities Laws Violations by Block & Leviton LLP; Investors Should Contact the Firm (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shareholder-alert-ubiquiti-inc-investigated-184800904.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9rcmVic29uc2VjdXJpdHkuY29tLzIwMjEvMDMvd2hpc3RsZWJsb3dlci11YmlxdWl0aS1icmVhY2gtY2F0YXN0cm9waGljLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANxzrnuYLGOPmunKjgVOWxc_KbH4rGobv0StOq5Ze80l5-XyX9O12gngluP6MBoSxz0XxAOvkoszFURecya8TaMSVyk6XkgfegqaLR3LnlQvGBTus1iBuuh8FelG1--Pc1u9IGHFs2mlu61HKGw3FRNwhs6qAK9dFslKLAjygggd)
ARM introduces v9, its first new chip architecture in a decade (https://www.engadget.com/arm-armv9-architecture-180043435.html)
Facebook's new hookup: A pair of submarine cables to link North America, Indonesia, Singapore (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/30/facebook_new_submarine_cables/)
Google is accelerating partial reopening of offices and putting limits on future of remote work (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html)
Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22356682/discord-stage-channels-clubhouse-like-feature-voice?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4)
Common Room, Community Management Startup Used By Confluent, Figma And Notion, Launches With $52 Million In Funding (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/03/31/common-room-launches-community-software-with-52-million-funding/)
Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-metric-streams-send-aws-metrics-to-partners-and-to-your-apps-in-real-time/)
GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/2021-cloud-report/)
Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/26/slack-wants-to-be-more-than-a-text-based-messaging-platform/)
Substack raising $65 million in venture capital amid newsletter boom (https://www.axios.com/substack-andreessen-horowitz-newsletter-36cb98ea-a7b3-43b1-883a-fa45586eaad4.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Nonsense
'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia (https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/worst-mice-plague-ever-seen-millions-rodents-descend-eastern-australia-rcna513)
Silicon Valley Season 2 - Jared Dunn explains what is SWOT Analysis to the team (https://youtu.be/XfB0g_JDIds)
Burritos Or Bitcoin: Chipotle To Give Away $200k In Free Burritos And Bitcoin To Celebrate National Burrito Day (https://newsroom.chipotle.com/2021-03-30-Burritos-Or-Bitcoin-Chipotle-To-Give-Away-200k-In-Free-Burritos-And-Bitcoin-To-Celebrate-National-Burrito-Day)
Steer through the Suez Canal (https://technologyreview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=47c1a9cec9749a8f8cbc83e78&id=4fd9ae043e&e=84061c219a)
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4/2/2021 • 59 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 291: Master of the Coin
This week we discuss Discord rumors, Slack Connect, the new AWS CEO and what would make Tableau and Salesforce better. Plus, why did Google Reader really get canceled…?
Rundown
Messaging
Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10 billion (https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/22/discord-exploring-sale-that-could-be-worth-more-than-10-billion/)
Box shares rise on report company is exploring sale (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/22/box-shares-rise-on-report-company-is-exploring-sale/)
Slack Is About to Become a Nightmare (https://gizmodo.com/slack-is-about-to-become-a-nightmare-1846542909)
The next Jassy
Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/23/amazon-taps-former-executive-adam-selipsky-to-run-aws.html)
Nine things you need to know about the new AWS CEO (https://www.protocol.com/aws-ceo-adam-selipsky-tableau)
Why Google Killed Reader (https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1374512142192275461?s=21)
Relevant to your interests
COVID Accelerated the Future: Now Seize It (https://medium.com/sequoia-capital/covid-accelerated-the-future-now-seize-it-6a9e1d89a2c0)
Google buy real estate
Google lays out real estate plans for Texas in 2021 (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/03/18/google-announces-this-years-texas-investment-plan.html)
Google announces expansion of Bakery Square campus (https://triblive.com/local/regional/google-announces-expansion-of-bakery-square-campus/)
Google picks Durham for engineering hub, aims to create 1,000 jobs (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/03/18/google-picks-durham-for-engineering-hub-aims-to-create-1000-jobs/)
Google to Invest $7 Billion in Bet on Post-Pandemic Office (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-invests-7-billion-across-u-s-as-it-bets-on-the-post-pandemic-office-11616069081)
Worklife
Goldman CEO says he’ll try to get exhausted, 100-hour-a-week workers Saturdays off (https://nypost.com/2021/03/22/goldman-ceo-tells-exhausted-workers-hell-try-to-give-them-saturdays-off/)
Citigroup CEO ordains Zoom-free Fridays to ease 'relentless' pandemic workday (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/23/citigroup-ceo-ordains-zoom-free-fridays-to-ease-relentless-pandemic-workday)
Rackspace Technology gains on takeover speculation (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3674422-rackspace-technology-gains-on-takeover-speculation)
Kelsey Hightower on S3 Object Lambda (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1373086372576120835?s=21)
Hackers are exploiting a server vulnerability with a severity of 9.8 out of 10 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/to-security-pros-dread-another-critical-server-vulnerability-is-under-exploit/)
HAMR and MAMR will bring us giant hard drives | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/upscaled-mamr-hamr-140023504.html)
Apple’s HomePod mini reportedly has a secret temperature and humidity sensor (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/22/22344279/apple-homepod-mini-temperature-humidity-sensor-secret)
Twilio and ValueFirst Come Together to Improve Customer Engagement (https://www.twilio.com/blog/twilio-acquires-valuefirst)
Apple Developing New 'HomePod' Models With Screens and Cameras (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/22/apple-speakers-with-screens-and-cameras-report/)
Google is gunning for faster hardware, whether or not you see it (https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/03/22/google-is-gunning-for-faster-hardware-whether-or-not-you-see-it/)
Powell calls cryptocurrencies 'not really useful stores of value' and says Fed will move slowly (https://link.thehustle.co/click/23294709.97230/aHR0cDovL2NuYmMuY29tLzIwMjEvMDMvMjIvY3J5cHRvY3VycmVuY2llcy1hcmUtbm90LXVzZWZ1bC1zdG9yZXMtb2YtdmFsdWUtc2F5cy1mZWRzLXBvd2VsbC5odG1s/5f3be10f2c81bf6314610498Bc6655824)
Managed open-source software startup Aiven raises $100M in Series C funding (https://siliconangle.com/2021/03/23/managed-open-source-software-startup-aiven-raises-100m-series-c-funding/)
Hopin buys two more companies as it triples down on video focus – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/23/hopin-buys-two-more-companies-as-it-triples-down-on-video-focus/)
Robinhood Is Said to Have Filed Confidentially for U.S. IPO (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/robinhood-is-said-to-have-filed-confidentially-for-u-s-ipo)
Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp (https://www.wsj.com/articles/prince-harry-is-taking-on-a-new-job-title-chief-impact-officer-at-betterup-11616500802)
How Google really feels about Amazon Redshift… (https://twitter.com/jonathan_oliver/status/1374551849731121160)
A Brief History of Semiconductors: How The US Cut Costs and Lost the Leading Edge (https://employamerica.medium.com/a-brief-history-of-semiconductors-how-the-us-cut-costs-and-lost-the-leading-edge-c21b96707cd2)
Kubecost raises $5.5 million to help teams monitor and reduce their Kubernetes spend (https://medium.com/kubecost/kubecost-raises-5-5-million-to-help-teams-monitor-and-reduce-their-kubernetes-spend-44e718e62335)
Cisco and HashiCorp Join Forces to Deliver Infrastructure as Code Automation Across Hybrid Cloud - Cisco Blogs (https://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/cisco-and-hashicorp-join-forces-to-deliver-infrastructure-as-code-automation-across-hybrid-cloud)
Intel
Intel invests $20 billion in two Arizona factories, 7nm chips coming in 2023 | Engadget (https://www.engadget.com/intel-7nm-2023-meteor-lake-213933055.html)
Pat Gelsinger Hype Video (https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1374673380079587332?s=21)
SiFive collaborates with new Intel Foundry Services to enable innovative new RISC-V computing platforms (https://www.sifive.com/blog/sifive-collaborates-with-new-intel-foundry-business)
DigitalOcean IPO (https://a16z.com/2021/03/24/digitalocean-ipo/)
Nonsense
Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/krispy-kreme-free-doughnut-every-day-2021-covid-19-vaccination-card/)
Silverwood Grove Is A Board Game Bringing Aussie Culture To Tabletop Gaming (https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/03/silverwood-grove-board-game/)
Goldman CEO says he’ll try to get exhausted, 100-hour-a-week workers Saturdays off (https://nypost.com/2021/03/22/goldman-ceo-tells-exhausted-workers-hell-try-to-give-them-saturdays-off/)
Each State's Favorite Easter Treat (Spoiler: Apparently some people DO like Peeps) - Zippia (https://www.zippia.com/advice/best-easter-candy/)
So, the #SuezCanal is blocked… (https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864?s=21)
Report: Houses in Austin selling for more over asking price than any major U.S. city (https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/report-houses-in-austin-selling-for-more-over-asking-price-than-any-major-u-s-city/)
You Can’t Trade Football Futures (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-24/nfl-futures-betting-you-can-t-trade-on-pro-football-odds)
A Message From the Skype CEO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E)
Winter storm causes Austin home sales to dip in February for first time since (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/february-home-sales-austin-texas-winter-storm/269-6a3d8d78-87ef-4fa1-8bf0-dc722a29e4cd)
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March 31st VMware Tanzu event (https://www.vmware.com/app-cloud-event.html?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=TanzuTalk&utm_content=AjayInterview).
Cloud Native Rust Day (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-native-rust-day/program/schedule/)
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3/26/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 290: Make your own slides
This week we discuss tech’s rich valuations, Airtable vs. Excel and the Goldman Analysts’ Presentation. Plus, some advice on when to buy a house.
Rundown
VC
Stripe is now valued at $95 billion (https://www.axios.com/stripe-is-now-valued-at-95-billion-e04c5d89-ea62-4d75-8526-131735c28722.html)
Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2021/03/15/airtable-tops-57-billion-valuation-on-growing-enterprise-sales-and-a-soaring-cloud-market/)
Airtable is now valued at $5.77B with a fresh $270 million in Series E funding – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/airtable-is-now-valued-at-5-77b-with-a-fresh-270-million-in-series-e-funding/)
Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done (https://www.docker.com/blog/helping-dev-teams-get-ship-done/)
Coinbase Backers Register 114.9 Million Shares for Listing (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-17/coinbase-backers-register-up-to-114-9-million-shares-for-listing)
Work Life
This Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout (https://thenewstack.io/this-cant-be-normal-the-tech-industry-after-a-year-of-burnout/)
Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/four-day-work-week-gains-popularity-around-the-world)
Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/can-we-stop-pretending-sms-is-secure-now/)
Goldman Analysts Work Too Hard (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-18/goldman-analysts-work-too-hard)
Relevant to your interests
Netflix cracking down on password sharing: ‘You need your own account to keep watching’ (https://wgntv.com/news/netflix-cracking-down-on-password-sharing-you-need-your-own-account-to-keep-watching/)
Why you should use pyenv + Pipenv for your Python projects | Hacker Noon (https://hackernoon.com/reaching-python-development-nirvana-bb5692adf30c)
Google’s plan to disrupt higher education (https://thehustle.co/03152021-Google-higher-education/)
Nokia and AWS to enable cloud-based 5G radio solutions (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nokia-aws-enable-cloud-based-120000051.html)
Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant cites ‘glut of innovation’ in data science and ML (https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/14/gartners-2021-magic-quadrant-cites-glut-of-innovation-in-data-science-and-ml/)
Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration (https://thenewstack.io/stop-talking-about-multicloud-and-hybrid-cloud-and-start-talking-about-integration/)
Swiss Police Raid Apartment of Verkada Hacker, Seize Devices (https://nz.news.yahoo.com/swiss-police-raid-apartment-verkada-161703433.html)
China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules (https://www.ft.com/content/520ccdae-202f-45f9-a516-5cbe08361c34)
Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/15/clubhouse-promises-its-accelerator-participants-either-brand-deals-or-5k-per-month-during-the-program/)
Open-source team details the complexities in bringing Linux to Apple's M1 Macs (https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/15/asahi-linux-project-port-m1-macs/)
Michael Dell: Public Cloud Isn’t More Secure Than On-Premise (https://www.crn.com/news/managed-services/michael-dell-public-cloud-isn-t-more-secure-than-on-premise)
CD Foundation Announces Industry Initiative to Standardize Events from CI/CD Systems - CD Foundation (https://cd.foundation/blog/2021/03/16/cd-foundation-announces-industry-initiative-to-standardize-events-from-ci-cd-systems/)
Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-apologizes-deeply-for-worldwide-azure-teams-outage)
Boosting developer success on Google Play (https://link.thehustle.co/click/23235305.126250/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmRyb2lkLWRldmVsb3BlcnMuZ29vZ2xlYmxvZy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy9ib29zdGluZy1kZXYtc3VjY2Vzcy5odG1s/5f3be10f2c81bf6314610498Bdecac5b2)
IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/17/ibm_exec_payouts/)
AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/17/ec2_graviton_x2gd_memory_intensive/)
Historical trends in the usage statistics of content management systems, March 2021 (https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all)
Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/16/squarespace-raises-300m-at-staggering-10b-valuation/)
Azure Active Directory issue takes down Teams, Office, Dynamics and more for some users (https://www.zdnet.com/article/azure-active-directory-issue-takes-down-teams-office-dynamics-and-more-for-some-users/)
Microsoft's latest cloud authentication outage: What went wrong (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-latest-cloud-authentication-outage-what-went-wrong/)
Google Nest Hello, IQ cams go down in partial outage - 9to5Google (https://9to5google.com/2021/03/17/google-nest-outage-takes-down-live-video-history-on-some-devices/)
Oso announces $8.2M Series A to simplify authorization for developers (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/oso-announces-8-2m-series-a-to-simplify-authorization-for-developers/)
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams)
IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/iam-access-analyzer-update-policy-validation/)
Nonsense
Air travel is picking up as TSA records highest passenger screenings in nearly a year (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/13/air-travel-tsa-records-highest-passenger-screenings-in-nearly-a-year.html)
Zoom Escaper lets you sabotage your own meetings with audio problems, crying babies, and more (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22331744/zoom-escaper-sabotage-meetings-fake-audio-problems)
Elon Musk crowns himself ‘Technoking’ of Tesla (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/15/22331315/elon-musk-tesla-technoking-title-ceo)
IRS expected to delay filing deadline to May 15, as agency grapples with a backlog of 24 million unprocessed tax returns (https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/17/irs-deadline-delay-tax-backlog/)
So, When Will You Be Able To Get A PS5? (https://kotaku.com/so-when-will-you-be-able-to-get-a-ps5-1846495060?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=kotaku_twitter)
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Conferences
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Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
VMware Tanzu Up Close Virtual Event (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/EMEA_P5_FE_Q122_Event_VMware-Tanzu-Up-Close.html), April 27, 2021, 10:00am - 5:50pm CET
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Recommendations
Matt: 1917 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8579674/) & Thin Red Line (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120863/)
Coté: Patagonia (https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-torrentshell-rain-pants/83812.html) Torrentshell Pants (https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-torrentshell-rain-pants/83812.html). (Repeat?)
Brandon: What you do is who you are (https://www.audible.com/pd/What-You-Do-Is-Who-You-Are-Audiobook/0062967584) by Ben Horowitz, Companies & Culture (https://overcast.fm/+BlzFlM4dQ) a16z Podcast
Photo Credit (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/18/goldman-sachs-junior-bankers-complain-of-crushing-work-load-amid-spac-fueled-boom-in-wall-street-deals.html)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/XFLY0Yp3Gow)
3/19/2021 • 50 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 289: The sabbatical is not going well
This week we discuss how corporate life changes in a post-pandemic world, security startups raising VC and the adoption of Zero Trust. Plus, we test Coté’s geography skills.
Rundown
Post-pandemic Predications?
Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/what-pandemic-doing-our-brains/618221/)
VC
Aqua Security reaches ‘unicorn’ status with $135M late-stage funding round (https://siliconangle.com/2021/03/10/aqua-security-reaches-unicorn-status-135m-series-e-funding-round/)
Snyk raises $300 million at a $4.7 billion valuation as employees cash in and the security company beefs up (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/10/snyk-raises-300-million-at-a-4-7-billion-valuation-as-employees-cash-in-and-the-security-company-beefs-up/)
How to pronounce Snyk (https://support.snyk.io/hc/en-us/articles/360000890358-How-do-you-pronounce-Snyk-)
Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/09/sign_of_the_primes_linux/)
Programming Languages / Follow Up — Brandon can also mention this in follow up
Excel Never Dies (https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies)
Microsoft's New Programming Language for Excel Now Turing Complete (https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2021/01/27/excel-lambda.aspx)
Pickle Rick (Pure CSS) (https://codepen.io/aitchiss/pen/jOWBbNO)
Relevant to your interests
Move over, SolarWinds: 30,000 orgs’ email hacked via Microsoft Exchange Server flaws (https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/5/22316189/microsoft-exchange-server-security-exploit-china-attack-30000-organizations)
India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees (https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-threatens-jail-for-facebook-whatsapp-and-twitter-employees-11614964542)
Hackers are using home office selfies to steal your personal data (https://www.techradar.com/news/hackers-are-using-home-office-selfies-to-steal-your-personal-data)
McAfee Announces Sale of Enterprise Business to Symphony Technology Group for $4.0 Billion (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210308005291/en/McAfee-Announces-Sale-of-Enterprise-Business-to-Symphony-Technology-Group-for-4.0-Billion)
Facebook is now testing Reels…because how else will it beat TikTok? (https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2021/03/09/facebook-reels-instagram-tiktok-test-analysis/)
Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging he launched probe in retaliation for Trump ban (https://www.axios.com/twitter-sues-texas-ag-ken-paxton-trump-retaliate-claim-c13d327e-60e7-4ae6-8c04-7ea7642521cb.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/08/in_brief_security/)
Blame the Intern (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfs1IIeq5n0)
Vista Equity buys controlling stake in Austin startup AlertMedia (https://fortune.com/2021/03/10/vista-equity-buys-controlling-stake-in-alertmedia/)
What CEOs Need to Know About the Cloud in 2021 (https://hbr.org/2021/03/what-ceos-need-to-know-about-the-cloud-in-2021)
Presentations — Benedict Evans (https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations)
Amazon staffers reportedly fear secret ‘Vesta’ robot will be a pricey flop (https://nypost.com/2021/03/10/amazon-staffers-fear-vesta-robot-will-be-a-flop-report/)
Apple picks German city of Munich for major chip lab (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/10/apple-picks-german-city-of-munich-for-major-chip-lab.html)
Tetrate, the company born out of Istio’s open source app networking project, raises $40 million (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/10/tetrate-the-company-born-out-of-istios-open-source-app-networking-project-raises-40-million/)
Spot raises $1.9 million to bring back conference calls (https://www.axios.com/spot-raises-19-million-to-bring-back-conference-calls-f15dcb60-47c6-4655-b8ca-01e9b057779a.html)
Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/dropbox-to-acquire-secure-document-sharing-startup-docsend-for-165m/)
Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/08/zapier-buys-no-code-focused-makerpad-in-its-first-acquisition/)
- Multicloud deployments surge as Microsoft Azure duels with AWS (https://www.zdnet.com/article/multicloud-deployments-surge-as-microsoft-azure-duels-with-aws/)
Identity and Access Management
Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/04/making-sense-of-the-6-5b-okta-auth0-deal/)
IGA - Identity Governance & Administration | Gartner Magic Quadrant 2019 (https://www.sailpoint.com/identity-library/identity-governance-leader-gartner-magic-quadrant/)
Farewell Gartner Magic Quadrant for IGA (https://saviynt.com/blog/farewell-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-iga/)
Brandon interviews Squire Earle (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/279)
Nonsense
That Mitchell and Webb Look - Discoverer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOBhf8f7cXM)
IBMDeveloper - JJ Hates Computers (https://clips.twitch.tv/HardHardCobblerSuperVinlin-Mrzkh4-L03-r5IoV)
The Absurd Nike Scandal That Has Sneakerheads Losing Their Minds (https://slate.com/business/2021/03/joe-hebert-nike-bloomberg-sneaker-scandal.html)
Man Makes $300,000 Racking up $6.4 Million in Credit-Card Charges (https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/man-makes-300000-racking-up-6-4-million-in-credit-card-charges)
Sponsors
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Conferences
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp).
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Matt: William Gibson’s (https://amzn.to/3bBFVvR)Agency (https://amzn.to/3bBFVvR)
Brandon: WandaVision (https://www.disneyplus.com/series/wandavision/4SrN28ZjDLwH)
Coté: Werther’s Originals (https://www.werthers-original.us/en/home/)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/EDvTdFa2VyU)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/9PivUW7l1m4)
3/12/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 288: The EULA of Life
This week we discuss Redmonk’s Language Rankings, Okta buys Auth0 and Zoom Fatigue. Plus, Matt gets a puppy and explains why he needs a longer sabbatical.
Rundown
Blameless Post Mortem Redux
John Allspaw says we got it wrong (https://twitter.com/allspaw/status/1365310289781137411)
How to run a blameless postmortem (https://www.atlassian.com/incident-management/postmortem/blameless)
Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak (https://cnn.it/3pWdZqx)
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/03/01/language-rankings-1-21/)
Okta Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Auth0 to Provide Customer Identity for the Internet (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210303005911/en/Okta-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Auth0-to-Provide-Customer-Identity-for-the-Internet)
Zoom fatigue causes: 1 easy solution according to a Stanford professor (https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/four-causes-of-zoom-fatigue-study)
Relevant to your interests
Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you (https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/25/google_kubernetes_autopilot/)
Twitter pulls a Patreon (https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-pulls-a-patreon)
Enriching Excel with higher-order functional programming (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/)
SolarWinds
SolarWinds To Pay Ex-CEO $312K To Assist With Investigations (https://www.crn.com/news/security/solarwinds-to-pay-ex-ceo-312k-to-assist-with-investigations)
Rep. Katie Porter ask SolarWinds CEO about password (https://twitter.com/repkatieporter/status/1365435633422856192?s=21)
LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe (https://every.to/divinations/linkedins-alternate-universe-21780381?utm_source=labnotes.org)
AWS reorganizes DeepRacer League to encourage more newbies – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/01/aws-reorganizes-deepracer-league-to-encourage-more-newbies/)
Flash is back? Sort of in Rus (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1366971514789253126?s=21)t
Update Your Browser ASAP! (https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/new-chrome-0-day-bug-under-active.html)
Announcing Our Series C: What's Next for Hopin (https://hopin.com/blog/announcing-our-series-c-whats-next-for-hopin)
Microsoft’s Azure Arc multi-cloud platform now supports machine learning workloads (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/02/microsofts-azure-arc-multi-cloud-platform-now-supports-machine-learning-workloads/)
Cloud’s trillion-dollar prize is up for grabs (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/clouds-trillion-dollar-prize-is-up-for-grabs)
People are spending millions on NFTs. What? Why? (https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq)
Jack Dorsey's Square buys Jay-Z's Tidal music streaming service (https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/square-buys-tidal-1.5936232)
Nonsense
Sheep She (https://twitter.com/GoodNewsCorres1/status/1365697950211596292)a (https://twitter.com/GoodNewsCorres1/status/1365697950211596292)ring (https://twitter.com/GoodNewsCorres1/status/1365697950211596292)
CEO of Texas power grid operator "terminated" in aftermath of winter storm (https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/14329704/ercot-texas-bill-magness)
Building an External 9.7” Monitor from an iPad (https://mattray.github.io/2021/03/02/building-an-external-monitor-from-an-ipad.html)
(https://twitter.com/GoodNewsCorres1/status/1365697950211596292)
Sponsors
strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT)
Conferences
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp).
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Matt History vs. Hollywood (https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/the-dig/)
The Eggnoggin Toboggan feat. Briggs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJYUJpSxGJs)
Brandon: Defending Jacob on Apple TV+ (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/defending-jacob/umc.cmc.5h5mr0shyyqqahqdv55ywyilr?itscg=MC_20000&itsct=atvp_brand_omd&mttn3pid=a_google_adwords&mttnagencyid=1625&mttncc=US&mttnsiteid=143238&mttnsubad=OUS2019841_1-438245971120-c&mttnsubkw=98966426145_kwd-299906108774_hXtCDwFt_&mttnsubplmnt=) with Chris Evans
Coté: Nat that's what i reckon (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nat+that%27s+what+i+reckon)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/zGuBURGGmdY)
3/5/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 287: The Bureaucracy Episode
This week we discuss LinkedIn’s new marketplace, Platform9, TriggerMesh and Event-based Architectures. Plus, are meetings always bad?
Rundown
LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. What you need to know. (https://thehustle.co/02222021-linkedin-gig-marketplace/?amp=1)
Microsoft’s New Gig: A LinkedIn Freelancer Market Rivaling Upwork, Fiverr (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new-gig-a-linkedin-freelancer-market-rivaling-upwork-fiverr)
Platform9 Raises Additional Series-D Funding (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/platform9-raises-additional-series-d-140000245.html)
HEY World experiment (https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1363956784600281088?s=20)
Relevant to your interests
Clouds
The Google Cloud Surge: 5 Slides from Thomas Kurian Tell the Story (https://cloudwars.co/google-cloud/google-cloud-at-goldman-sachs-5-slides-explain-surge/)
HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/hpe-acquires-cloud-assessment-crown-jewel-cloudphysics)
Watson
IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-explores-sale-of-ibm-watson-health-11613696770)
IBM Is Said to Consider Sale of Watson Health Amid Cloud Focus (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-said-consider-sale-watson-020948431.html)
Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old today: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time (https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/20/happy_birthday_python_youre_30/)
IPOs and M&A
Airbrake has been acquired by LogicMonitor (http://bwhichard:grinning: 7:46 PM https://twitter.com/airbrake/status/1364214679569072130?s=21)
TransferWise rebrands as Wise ahead of an expected IPO (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/21/wise/)
HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/hpe-acquires-cloud-assessment-crown-jewel-cloudphysics)
Security
SolarWinds hack was work of 'at least 1,000 engineers', tech executives tell Senate (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/23/solarwinds-hack-senate-hearing-microsoft)
SolarWinds Hack Grabs Senate Spotlight With CEO in the Hot Seat (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-23/key-lawmaker-prepares-for-first-public-hearing-on-major-hack)
Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security (https://www.wired.com/story/apple-platform-security-guide-researchers/)
New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/new-malware-found-on-30000-macs-has-security-pros-stumped/)
RubyGems dependency confusion attack side of things - Running with Ruby (https://mensfeld.pl/2021/02/rubygems-dependency-confusion-attack-side-of-things/)
Investing
The GameStop Craze Was Mostly Just Crazy (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/opinion/gamestop-price-congress-robinhood.html?smid=url-share)
Bitcoin Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap, Soars To Another Record High (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bitcoin-market-cap_n_602fee6bc5b66dfc101e4ac1)
Chips
Chip Shortage (https://twitter.com/anjani_trivedi/status/1364392820761522177?s=20)
Biden signs executive order to address chip shortage through a review to strengthen supply chains (https://link.thehustle.co/click/23038968.125304/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25iYy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMi8yNC9iaWRlbi1zaWducy1leGVjdXRpdmUtb3JkZXItdG8tYWRkcmVzcy1jaGlwLXNob3J0YWdlLXRocm91Z2gtYS1zdXBwbHktY2hhaW4tcmV2aWV3Lmh0bWw/5f3be10f2c81bf6314610498B60246b50)
IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015 (https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/24/aix_7_3_announced/)
Salesforce is building a private CRM for the State Department (https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/salesforce-private-crm-state-department?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Overcast overhauls its Apple Watch app (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22300649/overcast-podcast-app-new-watch-update)
As Power BI aces Gartner's new Magic Quadrant, what's the story behind Microsoft's success? (https://www.zdnet.com/article/as-power-bi-aces-gartners-new-magic-quadrant-whats-the-story-behind-microsofts-success/)
Nonsense
Fry's Electronics suddenly went out of business (https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/business/frys-electronics-closure/index.html)
New next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your (https://twitter.com/samjmintz/status/1364321263439724544)
Alexa Has No Place on Your Face. The Echo Frames Prove it (https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-echo-frames/)
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Cloudbees is looking for a Remote DevOps Consultant-Continuous Delivery (https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudbees/jobs/2928508) anywhere in North America.
Conferences
DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-texas/welcome/)
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp).
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Read this book we are going to discuss it: Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (https://amzn.to/3km4hMV)
Brandon: I Care a Lot (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_care_a_lot)
Coté: LoseIt! (https://loseit.com) The Golem and the Jinni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golem_and_the_Jinni).
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/PqkuJqzghew)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/ahi73ZN5P0Y)
2/26/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 286: Press the turbo button on that one
This week we discuss the demise of the blameless post mortem, a $500 Million mistake and some forgiveness for Red Hat. Plus, a live update on the Texas Winter Apocalypse.
Rundown
Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-can-t-have-its-900-million-back)
Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy (Ep. 115) (https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/brian-armstrong/)
Operating Systems
CentOS Stream: Why it’s awesome (https://jaymzh.medium.com/centos-stream-why-its-awesome-5c45d944fb22)
The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-worlds-second-most-popular-desktop-operating-system-isnt-macos-anymore/)
Relevant to your interests
‘Millions’ of Ford cars to be powered by Android in major Google deal (https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/ford-google-connected-cars-cloud)
Miami Pushes Crypto With Proposal to Pay Workers in Bitcoin (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/miami-mayor-pushes-crypto-with-offer-to-pay-workers-in-bitcoin)
Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/12/notion-outage-dns-domain-issues/)
Penpot | Design Freedom for Teams (https://penpot.app/)
Taiga: Your opensource agile project management software (https://www.taiga.io/)
Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ (https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-meets-apple-in-clash-of-the-tech-titanswe-need-to-inflict-pain-11613192406)
CEOs of Reddit and Robinhood and ‘Roaring Kitty’ slated to testify in GameStop hearing (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/13/22281698/ceo-reddit-robinhood-roaring-kitty-testify-gamestop-hearing-congress-stocks)
Building a tool to measure real-time behavior of Wikipedia users (https://medium.com/apache-pinot-developer-blog/analyzing-wikipedia-in-real-time-with-apache-kafka-and-pinot-4b4e5e36936b)
Excel Is The World’s Most Used “Database” (http://jasonlbaptiste.com/startups/microsoft-excel-is-the-worlds-most-used-database/)
Code With Me Beta: Support for Audio and Video Calls (https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/02/16/code-with-me-beta-support-for-audio-and-video-calls/)
The four reasons AWS succeeded, according to Andy Jassy (https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1361789872432771073?s=20)
The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/the-mars-relay-network-connects-us-to-nasas-martian-explorers)
Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/elon-musks-spacex-raised-850-million-at-419point99-a-share.html)
This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/technology/corey-quinn-amazon-aws.html?referringSource=articleShare)
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook (https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Security
Logging startups are suddenly hot as CrowdStrike nabs Humio for $400M (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/logging-startups-are-suddenly-hot-as-crowdstrike-nabs-humio-for-400m/)
Datadog bolsters app security and observability data with Sqreen and Timber acquisitions (https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/12/datadog-bolsters-app-security-and-observability-data-management-with-sqreen-and-timber-acquisitions/)
The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro).
Passwords
LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both (https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkd88v/lastpass-free-accounts-will-now-work-on-either-your-phone-or-computer-not-both?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=technology)
Apple releases Chrome extension for iCloud passwords (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/31/22259720/apple-icloud-passwords-chrome-browser-extension-released)
Hardware highlights…?
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020 (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/).
Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/12/22280262/qualcomm-microsoft-google-nvidia-arm-acquisition-investigations-concerns)
Audio is the future?
Clubhouse’s Inevitability (https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/)
The new media mogul: Andreessen Horowi (https://www.axios.com/the-new-media-mogul-andreessen-horowitz-969145da-43f0-4153-8da2-0a35f2f21632.html)
Nonsense
90-year-old man spends $10,000 on Wall Street Journal ads to shame AT&T (https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/man-90-spends-10k-on-wall-street-journal-ads-to-shame-att/)
Elon Musk predicts Austin, Texas, will be 'the biggest boomtown that America has seen in 50 years' (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-austin-joe-rogan-biggest-boom-town-50-years-2021-2)
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Listener Feedback
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Conferences
DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-texas/welcome/)
SpringOne.io (https://springone.io), Sep 1st to 2nd - CFP is open until April 9th (https://springone.io/cfp).
Two SpringOne Tours: (1.) developer-bonanza in for NA, March 10th and 11th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0014/), and, (2.) EMEA dev-fest on April 28th (https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/springone-tour/0015/).
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: HDMI LCD controllers (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001623726553.html?spm=a2g0s.12269583.0.0.5aad98bbnSzTR4).
Brandon: Fake Famous (https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/fake-famous).
Coté: Susan Sontag’s first book, Against Interpretation (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52374.Against_Interpretation_and_Other_Essays).
2/19/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 285: "Work is Punishment"
This week, we discuss Googler’s ideas for making open source more secure, obsessing over top of funnel influencer lifestyle management, and a bit of surfing. The power at Brandon’s house went out just as we were starting, so it’s mostly just Matt and Coté.
Mood board:
I have three screens. I have enough screen space.
I don’t need my shit moved, I moved my own shit.
This direct shit.
Thank goodness for holidays in Singapore and Japan.
I think about this every day “Work is punishment.”
We’ll skip the Brandon things and get to the Cote’ things.
It’s ready to be PowerPointed.
Members Only Security Discussion.
Hackin’ the mainframe.
They love themselves the McGlauglin group.
Back on the Funnel.
“Work is Punishment.”
Label maker go brrrr.
Rundown
Open source: Google wants new rules for developers working on 'critical' projects (https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-google-wants-new-rules-for-developers-working-on-critical-projects/)
No unilateral changes to code. Changes would require code review and approval by two independent parties
Authenticate participants. This means owners and maintainers cannot be anonymous; contributors are required to use strong authentication (eg 2FA)
There need to be notifications for changes in risk to the software
Enabling transparency for software artifacts
Create ways to trust the build process
Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies (https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610)
Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researcher-hacks-over-35-tech-firms-in-novel-supply-chain-attack/)
Steve(n) Sinofsky is serialising a book about h is time at Microsoft (https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/authors-note)
a16z pushing product - “DIRECT”
The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz (https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreessen)
Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the world's buzziest social network to talk about the future (https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-on-clubhouse-2021-2)
CartaX - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2021/02/04/cartax/)
Security
SolarWinds CEO Confirms Office 365 Email ‘Compromise’ Played Role In Broad-Based Attack (https://www.crn.com/news/security/solarwinds-ceo-confirms-office-365-email-compromise-played-role-in-broad-based-attack)
Cyberpunk 2077 developer hit with ransomware attack (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/cyberpunk-2007-developer-hit-with-ransomware-attack/)
Apple Patches 10-Year-Old macOS SUDO Root Privilege Escalation Bug (https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/apple-patches-10-year-old-macos-sudo.html)
Monitoring and Observability (https://twitter.com/rickdonohue/status/1357738745634541569?s=21)
Announcing Change Intelligence (https://lightstep.com/blog/announcing-lightsteps-change-intelligence/)
Anchor it around what’s changed.
Go Serverless! (https://bweagle.medium.com/go-serverless-a5c2180408ef)
Bitcoin HODL Chart (https://twitter.com/michaelbatnick/status/1357510579188084736?s=21)
Migrate Everything to OpenBSD…? (https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/why-you-should-migrate-everything-from-linux-to-bsd.html)
Relevant to your interests
SoftBank
SoftBank: piecing the puzzle together (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdsCjokUGi0)
SoftBank getting their slide of the year nominee early (https://group.softbank/system/files/pdf/ir/presentations/2020/earnings-presentation_q3fy2020_01_en.pdf)
M&A, VC and Partners
Palantir surges on partnership with IBM, COO says the tie-up is its largest (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-surges-on-partnership-with-ibm-131247025.html)
Reddit raises $250 million at $6 billion valuation (https://www.axios.com/reddit-raises-250-million-at-6-billion-valuation-c2f8746d-21d9-49e8-a28e-edd69e296e66.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs)
Kong Raises $100M Series D to Accelerate Cloud Connectivity (https://konghq.com/blog/announcing-100m-series-d-funding-to-accelerate-cloud-connectivity/)
Box acquires e-signature startup SignRequest for new content workflows (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/03/box-acquires-esignature-startup-signrequest-for-new-content-workflows/)
It’s AWS not A.W.S.
How Andy Jassy, Amazon’s Next C.E.O., Was a ‘Brain Double’ for Jeff Bezos (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/andy-jassy-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos.html?ck_subscriber_id=512840665)
Amazon to buy half of the energy produced by huge offshore wind farm in the Netherlands (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/amazon-to-buy-50percent-of-energy-created-by-shell-wind-farm-in-netherlands.html)
diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards (https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards)
Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/03/apple-and-hyundai-kia-driving-towards-deal-on-apple-car.html)
Facebook's not the only one worried about Apple's privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about it (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/04/snap-unity-warn-of-impact-from-apple-ios-14-idfa-privacy-changes.html)
Tickets to Space (https://thehustle.co/02052021-tickets-to-space/)
They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html)
Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/08/clubhouse-is-now-blocked-in-china-after-a-brief-uncensored-period)
Sorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-iphone-12-mini-hasnt-sold-well-according-to-multiple-estimates/). (https://group.softbank/system/files/pdf/ir/presentations/2020/earnings-presentation_q3fy2020_01_en.pdf)
Salesforce to allow permanent remote work for most employees, with big implications for S.F. (https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Salesforce-to-allow-permanent-remote-work-for-15937086.php)
Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed? (https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxb94/is-this-beverly-hills-cop-playing-sublimes-santeria-to-avoid-being-livestreamed)
Greater fool theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory)
Nonsense
Texas public-safety officials accidentally sent an Amber Alert warning that the killer doll Chucky was on the loose (https://www.insider.com/killer-doll-chucky-is-subject-of-texas-amber-alert-message-2021-2)
MIT researchers devised a way to allow spinach plants to send emails (https://www.axios.com/mit-spinach-emails-pollution-04e21941-f692-477d-a5b4-894dabb4e894.html)
Mass Over-The-Air Update Of Tesla Cars Captured On Video (https://insideevs.com/news/486637/mass-over-air-update-tesla-cars-video/amp/)
Naming (https://twitter.com/nathangloverAUS/status/1359178660364750851?s=20)
Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/facebook-building-product-clubhouse.html)
Suspend his comments and figure out why he is upside down (https://twitter.com/jackfitzdc/status/1359591651396767749?)
“I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” (https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1359207169091108864?s=21)
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Conferences
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Matt: Manly Surf School (https://manlysurfschool.com)
Dymo Label Maker (https://amzn.to/3aaP6Te)
Coté: The Paris Review (https://www.theparisreview.org). Sarah Manguso (https://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/7564/perfection-sarah-manguso).
[Banner image from wikipedia/Junkyardsparkle](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dymoembossinglabelmakercirca1967.jpg)_
2/11/2021 • 48 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 284: That’s Mr. Jeff to you
This week we discuss Amazon’s new CEO, AWS & GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse…?
Rundown
Bezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings
Email from Jeff Bezos to employees (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees)
Amazon's cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/aws-earnings-q4-2020.html)
Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-reports-4q-2020-earnings-results-152012181.html)
Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-to-take-over-in-q3.html)
Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210202006100/en/Amazon.com-Announces-Financial-Results-and-CEO-Transition)
GCP Earnings
Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22263048/google-cloud-loss-alphabet-q4-2020-earnings)
Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-3914ced2-78c9-4856-929f-e802e8c474e6.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare)
Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/google-cloud-lost-5point61-billion-on-13point06-billion-revenue-last-year.html)
VC Money
Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycombio-closes-series-b-funding-round/)
Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation (https://databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raises-1-billion-series-g-investment-at-28-billion-valuation)
EOL’d
Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/1/22260803/google-stadia-game-development-studio-shut-down-jade-raymond?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
The writing’s on the wall for Google Stadia (https://www.theverge.com/22260994/google-stadia-platform-white-label-option)
IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources (https://www.coindesk.com/ibm-blockchain-revenue-misses-job-cuts-sources)
Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook (https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/tim-cook-may-have-just-ended-facebook.html)
Apple and Facebook (https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-and-facebook/)
Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort (https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2021/01/pentagon-hints-it-could-abandon-jedi-cloud-effort/171753/)
Relevant to your interests
Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store)
Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth (https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/2/1/robinhood-raises-34-billion-to-fuel-record-customer-growth)
Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/politics/gamestop-robinhood-democrats-republicans.html?referringSource=articleShare)
A Brief History of Web Design Tools (https://medium.com/relate/a-brief-history-of-web-design-tools-9a75aff2d861)
WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately (https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-in-talks-to-combine-with-spac-or-raise-money-privately-11611857306)
What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? (https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/)
No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees (https://sahillavingia.com/work)
iCloud Passwords Chrome Windows extension now available (https://9to5google.com/2021/01/31/apple-icloud-passwords-chrome-windows/)
Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users (https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/docker-jfrog-partnership/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global)
Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-faces-familiar-opponent-in-alabama-union-election-11612098000)
Here’s Why We’re Co-Creating Our Future with Google (https://medium.com/@ford/heres-why-we-re-co-creating-our-future-with-google-d6bd49bf497b)
Why You Should Also Switch to Linux (https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/why-you-should-also-switch-to-linux/)
Elon Musk: Neuralink enabled monkey to 'play video games using his mind' (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-monkey-plays-video-games-using-his-mind-2021-2?amp)
Ford and Google sign six-year deal for in-car connectivity and cloud services (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/ford-and-google-sign-six-year-deal-for-android-in-car-apps-cloud.html)
IBM cuts back on blockchain as COVID cuts hit (https://www.axios.com/ibm-blockchain-bitcoin-7742b4be-d935-4060-ab78-501e3fd6175a.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with the Apple Watch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/01/mask-wearers-will-be-able-to-unlock-their-iphone-with-the-apple-watch/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Quantum (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2021/02/01/azure-quantum-preview/)
Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/atos-and-dxc-technology-deal-not-for-the-faint-of-heart-analyst?cid=nl_alert&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RKak1tTXdNR1ptTmpkbCIsInQiOiJRcitJSDJqN1FPWGorbFhIalVGclllRkZrZkRTZXFlWnQ5TnFvbm02cUtNbStibFVNRUJMdzBtT0VHOElWdCtcL3Z5QW9iYmF1N1RuYzJvbktnaXJIMWo4aVlNXC95dG9Yb2JcL1gxZkxpVW5ZdXo3SVwvSkRyTCticEJ4WTNcL0xVTmljIn0%3D)
Tesla to recall more than 130,000 cars following regulators' pressure (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/tesla-to-recall-more-than-130000-cars-following-regulators-pressure.html)
Nonsense
Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice (https://gizmodo.com/refrigerators-are-finally-embracing-the-good-ice-1846044367)
AWS CEO fake Job Post (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtQN0w_XEAYcNMB.jpg)
20,000 honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown (https://qz.com/work/1965925/20000-honey-bees-took-over-a-tech-office-during-covid-19/)
Battle Chess : Interplay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/battle_chess_1988)
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Listener Recommend Jobs
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Conferences
DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. (https://devopsdays.org/events/2021-texas/welcome/)
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SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Matt: Search Party (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5460226/)
Sun Run 10k SAFE Animal Rehoming (https://sunrun2021.grassrootz.com/saferehoming/matt-ray/)
Brandon: In & Of Itself (https://www.hulu.com/movie/derek-delgaudios-in-of-itself-19b9d405-40b2-483e-8e1f-e25fe10c7299?&cmp=14618&utm_source=google&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=CM_SEM_InOfItself&utm_term=in%20and%20of%20itself&gclid=CjwKCAiAsOmABhAwEiwAEBR0ZigIVGF4t2KLZ7ceMshE5FheyVxQKJAKm1_qcbSz77Rtmuy1tqEHxRoCGCYQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Photo Credit (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtQN0w_XEAYcNMB.jpg)
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2/5/2021 • 57 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 283: There are no chicken tenders in calendaring
This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?
Rundown
Matt Ray finds a snake…? (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1353461981248806912?s=21)
The Battle of GameStop (https://paranoidenough.com/2021/01/25/The-Battle-of-Gamestop.html)
VC
Clubhouse Gets Investment Interest at $1 Billion Valuation (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/clubhouse-gets-investment-interest-at-1-billion-valuation)
How Atlanta’s Calendly turned a scheduling nightmare into a $3B startup (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/how-atlantas-calendly-turned-a-scheduling-nightmare-into-a-3b-startup/)
Bitcoin Follow up
Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it. (https://twitter.com/GrahamJenson/status/1353120527183794177)
Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “
Central bank digital currency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank_digital_currency)
Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/bitcoin)
Earnings
IBM revenue slide continues in Q4 2020 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/ibm-earnings-q4-2020.html)
Microsoft reports 17% revenue growth as cloud business accelerates (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2021.html)
Relevant to your interests
https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?)
Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/)
Vagrant First Commit (https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1352302672578154496)
Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law (https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/google-threatens-to-block-search-engine-in-australiagoogle-threatens-to-shut-off-search-engine-in-australia-over-news-law/)
Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242936/otter-ai-google-meet-chrome-extension-transcriptions-closed-captions)
Tucows closes its once-popular software download site (https://www.engadget.com/tucows-downloads-has-finally-been-shut-down-103036388.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIYHiHrsIv_lVu8RNqY46BjFzlgU4pFDBXmk1gQxq2wlQOz02b5tuepColb1KJFoYYwQVWy2SjTUKWVY2oAEMzfkYXlXs97_PE0gpwNUA4RjnDwE_YEm7FB323M9oOBQJNHboj1t77QC9HriDL8cJP-VcplJ5UlJvvwHZRzMn9PC)
Advice on Lambda (https://rockyj.in/2021/01/15/aws-lambda-usecases.html)
End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/22/end-to-end-operators-are-the-next-generation-of-consumer-business/)
Google employees have formed another union, this one international (https://www.inputmag.com/culture/google-employees-have-formed-another-union-this-one-international)
Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue (https://www.axios.com/twitter-newsletter-publishing-revue-8a74f20d-61c9-4095-9b3c-202c3b3fe77c.html)
Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots (https://www.axios.com/discord-online-chat-expansion-slack-non-work-aee1d240-64d2-4128-98d0-810a5c977ee3.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/raspberry-pi-foundation-launches-4-microcontroller-with-custom-chip)
I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1 - James Dawson (https://blog.jmdawson.co.uk/i-bought-200-raspberry-pi-model-bs-and-im-going-to-fix-them-part-1/)
How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3604370/how-a-linux-migration-led-to-the-creation-of-amazon-web-services.html)
Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/four-security-vendors-disclose-solarwinds-related-incidents/)
Nonsense
Costco Prices (https://i.redd.it/52eqad6tcqc61.jpg)
California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/travel-outdoors/article/California-man-blasts-Texas-dystopia-in-Op-Ed-15887614.php) (originally from a 2016 Quora answer (https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-moved-from-the-Bay-Area-to-Austin-What-were-your-reasons-What-would-you-advise-anyone-looking-to-make-the-move-to-consider-before-making-a-decision/answer/Brett-Alder?ch=10&share=a7d9612f&srid=XxIvD)).
Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist (https://twitter.com/caswellcharles/status/1352797534536667136)
US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar (https://www.coindesk.com/us-man-installs-crypto-mining-rig-in-hybrid-bmw-sportscar)
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Conferences
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Matt: Earth at Night in Colour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obAL0k7GaOo)
Transferwise (https://bit.ly/2YeVHFI)
Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam (https://wyze.com/wyze-cam-outdoor.html)
Coté: Money. micro.blog (https://micro.blog)
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1/29/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 282: The Engine Should Not Be the Differentiator
This week we discuss Elasticsearch changing their license and the merits of Bitcoin. Plus, what is the prefect age for reincarnation.
Rundown
Elasticsearch and SSPL
The SSPL is Not an Open Source License (https://opensource.org/node/1099)
Give 'em SSPL, says Elastic. No thanks, say critics: 'Doubling down on open' not open at all (https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/18/elastics_doubling_down_on_open/)
Truly Doubling Down on Open Source | Logz.io (https://logz.io/blog/open-source-elasticsearch-doubling-down/)
Bitcoin and Blockchain
Is blockchain coming to your bank? (https://thehustle.co/01082021-blockchain-banks/)
85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk (https://www.coindesk.com/85-of-italian-banks-are-exchanging-interbank-transfer-data-on-corda)
Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html)
Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-12/don-t-forget-your-bitcoins)
Relevant to your interests
Intel lured new CEO Pat Gelsinger with a package valued at $116 million (https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2021/01/intel-lured-new-ceo-pat-gelsinger-with-a-package-valued-at-116-million.html)
New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects (https://www.anandtech.com/show/16438/new-intel-ceo-making-waves-rehiring-retired-cpu-architects)
Cloud Native Predictions for 2021 and Beyond (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2021/01/19/cloud-native-predictions-for-2021-and-beyond/)
How China Took Western Tech Firms Hostage (https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/19/china-huawei-western-tech-hostages-national-firms/)
The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz (https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreessen?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy)
AWS is creating a 'new open source design system' with React (https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/18/aws_creating_new_open_source/)
Malwarebytes said it was hacked by the same group who breached SolarWinds (https://www.zdnet.com/article/malwarebytes-said-it-was-hacked-by-the-same-group-who-breached-solarwinds/)
The SolarWinds and US government breach is not a marketing opportunity (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-solarwinds-and-us-government-breach-is-not-a-marketing-opportunity/)
Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-facebook-ad-deal-antitrust.html)
Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/)
What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting (https://theintercept.com/2021/01/18/leak-zoom-meeting/)
Apple Plans Podcasting Subscription Service in Threat to Spotify (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-plans-podcasting-subscription-service-in-threat-to-spotify)
We all love Atlassian ... the $60B SaaS leader that came out of Australia (https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1349393447199797250)
GitLab CEO weighing options for going public after employee share sale valued company at $6 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/gitlab-ceo-eyes-public-market-after-secondary-valued-it-at-6-billion-.html)
Apple AirPods did ~$18 billion in revenue in 2020. (https://twitter.com/finvelt/status/1349052078195400705)
Man who called Cloud a Bookstore hasn’t learned any lessons. (https://twitter.com/techmeme/status/1350129672529481728)
BlackBerry (TSX:BB) Stock Soars 14% After Huge Win Over Facebook - The Motley Fool Canada (https://www.fool.ca/2021/01/20/blackberry-tsxbb-stock-soars-14-after-huge-win-over-facebook/)
Wasmer - The Universal WebAssembly Runtime (https://wasmer.io/)
CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/)
Nonsense
President Biden’s Peloton exercise equipment under scrutiny (https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113552/iot/joe-biden-peloton-risks.html)
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Recommendations
Matt: MF DOOM X Tasuro Yamashita rabbithole (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqkOQ46lxj8)
The Day the Mixtape Died: DJ Drama (https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/928307301/the-day-the-mixtape-died-dj-drama)
Brandon: The Dark Forest (https://www.audible.com/ep/title/?asin=B010PKSKBA&source_code=GO1GB12609141890JF&device=d&cvosrc=ppc.google.the%20dark%20forest%20audiobook&cvo_campaign=1679154702&cvo_crid=468277763726&Matchtype=e&gclid=CjwKCAiA6aSABhApEiwA6Cbm_465mn1dRy3LmJGl_LPrZZYfpb7fvGNo5YmXA1IgfygmfWf_s2WDKxoCExoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Coté: Baudolino (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10507.Baudolino).
Nutella Videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiVGmMo9cPPWITyimvyH740E)
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1/22/2021 • 1 hour, 6 minutes
Episode 281: That’s a thing, I don’t need to read about it
This week we discuss VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger jumping to Intel and what is going on with DevSecOps. Plus, lots advice on picking movies both you and your partner will enjoy.
Rundown
VMware CEO → Intel
What’s the latest Solarwinds hack news?
Coté is figuring out “DevSecOps” - or is it “DevOpsSec”?
Relevant to your interests
M&A
Red Hat to Acquire Kubernetes-Native Security Leader StackRox (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquire-kubernetes-native-security-leader-stackrox)
F5 to acquire @Volterra_ (https://twitter.com/f5/status/1347291942363811841?s=21)
VMware/Intel
VMware has the strategy and culture to thrive after CEO Pat Gelsinger's exit to Intel (https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/14/pat_gelsinger_vmware_legacy/)
VMware Names Zane Rowe As Interim CEO (https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/vmware-names-zane-rowe-as-interim-ceo)
Prodigal Son Gelsinger Returns As Intel CEO (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/prodigal-son-gelsinger-returns-as-intel-ceo/)
Bitcoin and Blockchain
Is blockchain coming to your bank? (https://thehustle.co/01082021-blockchain-banks/)
85% of Italian Banks Are Exchanging Interbank Transfer Data on Corda - CoinDesk (https://www.coindesk.com/85-of-italian-banks-are-exchanging-interbank-transfer-data-on-corda)
Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html)
Don’t Forget Your Bitcoins (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-12/don-t-forget-your-bitcoins)
RISC-V
BeagleBoard BeagleV (https://beagleboard.org/beaglev)
Raspberry PI
Why We Love the Raspberry Pi (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/raspberry-pi/)
Buy a Raspberry Pi Zero W – Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/)
Solarwinds
Details on SolarWinds Hack (https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1348828797966147584?s=21)
SolarWinds hires former Trump cyber security chief Chris Krebs (https://www.ft.com/content/df641e33-9150-4846-b4f7-db4e3175d290)
NYT JetBrains story, I'm calling it - the story was irresponsibly released. (https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1347650824416227331)
Deplatforming
Parler accuses Amazon of breaking antitrust law in suspending hosting services. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/business/parler-amazon.html)
Parler Finds Refuge With the Far-Right's Favorite Webhost (https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad7dp/parler-finds-refuge-with-the-far-rights-favorite-webhost)
Parler loses data (https://twitter.com/salmeron_manny/status/1348604719934173185)
Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/parlers-amateur-coding-could-come-back-to-haunt-capitol-hill-rioters/)
The balkanization of the cloud is bad for everyone (https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/17/1014967/balkanization-cloud-computing-bad-everyone/)
Decentralization Is A Necessity Now (https://pomp.substack.com/p/decentralization-is-a-necessity-now)
It happened. Twitter shut down @realDonaldTrump for good (https://thehustle.co/01112021-Twitter-Trump/)
State of the World 2021 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/510/State-of-the-World-2021-page01.html)
Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys | Joe's website (https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API)
‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom (https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7apnn/your-cock-is-mine-now-hacker-locks-internet-connected-chastity-cage-demands-ransom)
Video games have replaced music as the most important aspect of youth culture | Sean Monahan (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/11/video-games-music-youth-culture)
Intel CEO Bob Swan to be replaced with VMWare's Pat Gelsinger (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-ceo-bob-swan-reportedly-set-to-depart-in-february-to-be-replaced-with-vm-wares-pat-gelsinger-142520631.html?guccounter=1)
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/)
First Oracle said it powered Zoom. Then AWS claimed it. Now Zoom says it uses co-located kit (https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/13/zoom_prospectus_reveals_colo_infrastructure/)
Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/poland-plans-to-make-censoring-of-social-media-accounts)
Dropbox to cut workforce by 11% (https://www.axios.com/dropbox-to-cut-workforce-by-11-75f8c050-29bb-46ea-a7dc-d9fa972dcee2.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Nonsense
I'm glad you have passed the certification! I just don't want to see it. (https://github.com/antonbabenko/you-have-passed-the-certification)
Coté in TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@drunkandretired/video/6917223569395174658?lang=en).
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Michael wants to be a Solution Architect at Cloudbees (https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudbees/jobs/2582391)
More info in SDT Slack (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) see channel #jobs
Conferences
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SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: Apple TV’s Ted Lasso (https://tv.apple.com/au/show/ted-lasso/umc.cmc.vtoh0mn0xn7t3c643xqonfzy)
Brandon: Possessor (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/possessor_uncut).
Coté: Descript (https://www.descript.com), so far. Bear app (https://bear.app). Don’t spike your mind during family time with inserting work.
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1/15/2021 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 59 seconds
Episode 280: It would be nice if calendaring were fixed
This week we offer advice to Zoom on why they should build a calendar and what companies they should acquire. Plus, Matt explains why you want to mount your browser tabs as files.
Rundown
Zoom to build a calendar
Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/buoyed-by-video-success-zoom-explores-email-calendar-services)
Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft (https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/23/22197057/zoom-email-service-calendar-app-microsoft-google-competition)
Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem (https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1344837715976572929)
Relevant to your interests
A round-up of our favourite charts of 2020 (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/12/24/a-round-up-of-our-favourite-charts-of-2020)
Google, Alphabet employees unionize (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/04/google-alphabet-employees-union/)
How Google workers secretly built a union (https://www.protocol.com/google-union-awu)
Warren Ellis Returns For 2021 (https://bleedingcool.com/comics/warren-ellis/)
AWS IAM Talk (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1343642150605520896?s=21)
Stripe’s Developer Coefficient (https://stripe.com/files/reports/the-developer-coefficient.pdf)
VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company (https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/29/vmware-files-suit-against-former-exec-for-moving-to-rival-company/)
VMware Issues Statement Regarding Litigation Against Rajiv Ramaswami (https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/vmware-statement-litigation-rajiv-ramaswami.html)
Wondery to join Amazon Music (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/wondery-to-join-amazon-music)
SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious (https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263)
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month (https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN29922L)
Haven will shut down, ending joint healthcare bid by Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/haven-will-shut-ending-joint-healthcare-bid-amazon-berkshire-jp-morgan/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content (https://www.wsj.com/articles/roku-nears-deal-to-buy-rights-to-quibis-content-11609725389)
When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/?sh=5abd13031166)
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/ticketmaster-pays-10-million-criminal-fine-for-hacking-a-rival-company/)
Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million Fine to Settle Federal Charges It Hacked Rival’s System (https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/ticketmaster-10-million-fine-hack-songkick-competitor-1234877108/)
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/)
Quest Software Acquires Data Governance Company Erwin - ChannelE2E (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/private-equity/quest-software-acquires-data-governance-company-erwin/)
The FAA just moved drone deliveries one step closer to your front door (https://thehustle.co/01062021-Amazon-drone-delivery/)
CNCF Annual Report 2020 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/cncf-annual-report-2020/)
Introduction to WebAssembly (https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-webassembly-runtime)
Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform (https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa)
Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22216843/georgia-runoff-net-neutrality-fcc-jon-ossoff-raphael-warnock-democrats-senate)
Reproducible builds and docker (https://twitter.com/lorenc_dan/status/1343921451792003073?s=21)
Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds (https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-story-from-the-new-york-times-regarding-jetbrains-and-solarwinds/)
Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html)
Storageless storage is the 'answer' to Kubernetes data challenges – Blocks and Files (https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/22/the-storageless-storage-paradox/)
An open source, drop-in replacement for CentOS is on its way (https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/CloudLinux-Commits-Over-1-Million-Dollars-to-CentOS-Replacement)
Nonsense
KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer (https://www.gamesradar.com/kfc-launches-4k-240fps-gaming-console-with-a-built-in-chicken-warmer/)
In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner. (https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-mcdonalds-spam-burger-oreo-china-20201221-sjiyjndirzdudahsgo6ftw7az4-story.html)
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55475433)
Sponsors
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Conferences
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Recommendations
Matt:
Uncivil (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil) podcast
MF DOOM Will Never Really Die (https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/mf-doom-dead-rapper-producer-madvillain.html)
Brandon:
Listen to the recent interviews with Sebasti (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278)e (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278)n on Serverless (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278) and Squire on Security (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/279).
Listen to Brandon’s guest appearance on The Cloudcast talking hybrid cloud (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/01/a-hybrid-cloud-look-ahead-for-2021.html)
Soul (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/soul_2020)
Coté: Coconut Rice (https://youtu.be/i9EmC0pM1YE). Raised by Wolves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_series)).
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1/8/2021 • 49 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 279: Squire Earle on securing the Enterprise
Brandon interviews Squire Earle (https://www.linkedin.com/in/squire-earle-3620b64/) who offers practical advice on how to secure your Enterprise. Plus, Squire shares some personal finance tips and explains how and why he takes mini-retirements.
Show Links
The 20 CIS Controls & Resources (https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/cis-controls-list/)
Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps (https://www.daveramsey.com/dave-ramsey-7-baby-steps)
Mr Money Mustache (https://www.mrmoneymustache.com)
Dan Balcauski interview on sabbaticals (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/266)
Contact Squire
@squireearle (https://twitter.com/squireearle)
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/squire-earle-3620b64/)
Cloudentity (https://cloudentity.com)
Sponsor
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1/5/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 278: Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh on becoming Serviceful
Brandon interviews Sebastien Goasguen from TriggerMesh (https://www.triggermesh.com/). They discuss his time in academia, how he got into cloud computing and why he started TriggerMesh. Plus, Sebastien tells us why South Carolina is the OpenStack capital of the world!
Show Links
Register for the TriggerMesh Webinar Jan 12, 2021 11:30 AM EST (https://triggermesh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2CuBwQfbRLqlDZUou4D4AQ)
Kubecon Presentaton: Serverless or Servicefull (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1A5bTRmuPI)
Contact Sebastien
LinkedIn: sebastiengoasguen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiengoasguen/)
Twitter: @sebgoa (https://twitter.com/sebgoa)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/OKOOGO578eo) Special Guest: Sebastien Goasguen.
12/29/2020 • 52 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 277: This episode was way better than I expected
This week we answer listener questions, recap the year’s top stories and make a few predictions. Plus, we select the slides of the year!
Slides of the Year
SoftBank Unicorn (https://www.businessinsider.com/softbank-earnings-slides-presentation-features-flying-unicorns-valley-of-coronavirus-2020-5)
Forrester Survey (https://explore.digital.ai/state-of-agile/14th-annual-state-of-agile-report)
The State of Kubernetes 2020 from VMware (https://k8s.vmware.com/state-of-kubernetes-2020/?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=sdtama2020)
Cloud Native Survey 2020 (https://www.cncf.io/cncf-cloud-native-survey-2020)
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Listener Feedback
Justin Garrison from AWS recommends Containers from the Couch (https://youtube.com/c/ContainersfromtheCouch) YouTube Channel
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: Anti-pick Jabra Elite 75t Sport
Domino’s Anywhere Delivery (https://www.dominos.com.au/)
Brandon: Mini Motorways (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mini-motorways/id1453901000) on Apple Arcade
Coté: Transmetropolitan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan). The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50623864-the-invisible-life-of-addie-larue).
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12/23/2020 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 276: I don’t understand how that works but I want to learn more
This week we discuss the state of virtual events, recent AWS re:Invent Announcements and the SolarWinds Hack. Plus, is YouTube Premium worth it…?
The Rundown
AWS re:Invent
AWS CloudShell (https://aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/?nc2=h_ql_re_cs)
AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Fully managed chaos engineering service (https://aws.amazon.com/fis/?nc2=h_ql_re_fis)
Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | Fully Managed Grafana Data Visualization (https://aws.amazon.com/grafana/?nc2=h_ql_re_gf)
Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options (https://grafana.com/blog/2020/12/15/announcing-amazon-managed-service-for-grafana/)
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/otel/)
AWS and Zoom Extend Strategic Relationship (https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/aws-and-zoom-extend-strategic-relationship)
State of Cloud 2018 Report (https://respond.apptio.com/ebook-state-of-cloud-2018.html)
Solarwinds
Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-government-spies-are-behind-a-broad-hacking-campaign-that-has-breached-us-agencies-and-a-top-cyber-firm/2020/12/13/d5a53b88-3d7d-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html)
Solar Winds, probably hacked by Russia, serves White House, Pentagon, NASA (https://www.newsweek.com/solar-winds-probably-hacked-russia-serves-white-house-pentagon-nasa-1554447)
SolarWinds Exposed FTP Credentials Publicly in a Github Repo (https://savebreach.com/solarwinds-credentials-exposure-led-to-us-government-fireye-breach/)
~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/18000-organizations-downloaded-backdoor-planted-by-cozy-bear-hackers/)
SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/solarwinds-hackers-have-a-clever-way-to-bypass-multi-factor-authentication/)
Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it (https://www.reuters.com/article/global-cyber-solarwinds-idUSKBN28P2N8)
New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor (https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/new-evidence-suggests-solarwinds.html)
SolarWinds attack explained: And why it was so hard to detect (https://www.csoonline.com/article/3601508/solarwinds-supply-chain-attack-explained-why-organizations-were-not-prepared.html)
More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack-trump.html?referringSource=articleShare)
iOS 14.3 now available, here are the new features (https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/14/ios-14-3-features-now-available/)
Relevant to your Interests
Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not (http://www.nextplatform.com/2020/12/10/nobody-owns-linux-but-you-can-pay-for-it-or-not/)
Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-wants-to-train-29-million-people-to-work-in-the-cloud-11607621622)
SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai (https://www.engadget.com/softbank-boston-dynamics-hyundai-motors-sale-080541059.html)
Oracle reports slow revenue growth as licensing and hardware businesses decline (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/10/oracle-orcl-earnings-q2-2021.html)
Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/11/oracle-is-moving-its-headquarters-from-silicon-valley-to-austin-texas.html)
After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving)
New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/new-relic-acquires-kubernetes-observability-platform-pixie-labs/)
AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge (https://www.wired.com/story/ai-algorithms-slimming-fit-fridge/)
Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight (https://www.wsj.com/articles/vista-equity-partners-nears-deal-to-buy-software-maker-pluralsight-11607910720)
Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage (https://www.reuters.com/article/alphabet-outages/googles-youtube-gmail-recover-after-global-outage-idUSKBN28O1F5)
Nonsense
‘Damn Good Taco’ Maker Torchy’s Sells Stake to General Atlantic (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-20/-damn-good-taco-maker-torchy-s-sells-stake-to-general-atlantic)
The Office (https://people.com/tv/the-office-brian-baumgartner-make-1-million-2020-from-cameo-bookings/)’s Brian Baumgartner to Make $1 Million in 2020 from Cameo Bookings (https://people.com/tv/the-office-brian-baumgartner-make-1-million-2020-from-cameo-bookings/)
AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines (https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-program/aadvantage-program-updates.jsp?c=EML%7C%7C20201210%7CADV%7CMKT%7CSOLO%7C%7CEliteUpdates_2021)
The 71 Best Podcasts of 2020 | Discover the Best Podcasts | Discover Pods (https://discoverpods.com/best-podcasts-2020/)
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From Slack Flow by Moleskine · Flow (https://moleskinestudio.com/support/flow/introduction/flow-overview/)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: AppleTV (https://tv.apple.com/?itscg=MC_20000&itsct=atvp_brand_omd&mttn3pid=a_google_adwords&mttnagencyid=1625&mttncc=US&mttnsiteid=143238&mttnsubad=OUS2019801_1-474761844208-c&mttnsubkw=71610384867_kwd-666377756329_zfocTOVi_&mttnsubplmnt=)+ (https://tv.apple.com/?itscg=MC_20000&itsct=atvp_brand_omd&mttn3pid=a_google_adwords&mttnagencyid=1625&mttncc=US&mttnsiteid=143238&mttnsubad=OUS2019801_1-474761844208-c&mttnsubkw=71610384867_kwd-666377756329_zfocTOVi_&mttnsubplmnt=) and Tiny World (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/tiny-world/umc.cmc.1sid6bqjoez4sxonuulq12af7). (https://tv.apple.com/us/show/tiny-world/umc.cmc.1sid6bqjoez4sxonuulq12af7)
Brandon: Tenet (https://www.tenetfilm.com/).
Coté: Eve strip lights (https://www.evehome.com/en/eve-light-strip).
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12/17/2020 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 275: Your competition should not be your community
This week we discuss CentOS going upstream, Kubernetes removes Docker support and who’s buying the AirPods Max. Plus, Coté critiques Apple’s Notes App.
The Rundown
CentOS
CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream (https://lwn.net/Articles/839257/)
Red Hat resets CentOS Linux and users are angry (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-resets-centos-linux-and-users-are-angry/)
Meet Rocky Linux: New RHEL Fork by the Original CentOS Creator (https://news.itsfoss.com/rocky-linux-announcement/)
Docker
Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/)
Kubernetes dropping Docker is not that big of a deal (https://www.zdnet.com/article/kubernetes-dropping-docker-is-not-that-big-of-a-deal/)
Mirantis to take over support of Kubernetes dockershim (https://www.mirantis.com/blog/mirantis-to-take-over-support-of-kubernetes-dockershim-2/)
Apple introduces AirPods Max, the magic of AirPods in a stunning over-ear design (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/12/apple-introduces-airpods-max-the-magic-of-airpods-in-a-stunning-over-ear-design/)
Relevant to your Interests
Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-23/golden-geese-and-unicorns-inside-the-eccentric-presentations-of-masayoshi-son?sref=U0wOqcqE)
SoftBank Is Discussing a ‘Slow-Burn’ Buyout to Go Private (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/softbank-is-said-to-discuss-going-private-in-slow-burn-buyout?sref=3Ac2yX40)
Stocks, M&A and VCs
Why Snowflake's stock price just jumped 16% (https://fortune.com/2020/12/04/snowflake-earnings-stock-price-ipo/)
DoorDash skyrockets 80% in market debut, opening at $182 per share (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/doordash-ipo-dash-trading-nyse.html)
SoftBank Vision Fund turns $680 million DoorDash investment into $11.5 billion based on Wednesday's opening price (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/softbank-vision-fund-turns-680-million-doordash-investment-into-11point5-billion.html)
Firebolt raises $37M to take on Snowflake, Amazon and Google with a new approach to data warehousing (https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/09/firebolt-raises-37m-to-take-on-snowflake-amazon-and-google-with-a-new-approach-to-data-warehousing/)
Cisco to buy software firm IMImobile in $730 million deal (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imimobile-m-a-cisco/cisco-to-buy-software-firm-imimobile-in-730-million-deal-idUSKBN28H0L8)
Calm raises $75M more at $2B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/08/calm-raises-75m-more-at-2b-valuation/)
Chips
Why Is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? (https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2)
New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/new-risc-v-cpu-claims-recordbreaking-performance-per-watt/)
Apple's 2021 Mac CPU roadmap reportedly includes 32-core chips (https://www.engadget.com/apple-silicon-mac-cpu-roadmap-leak-142247372.html)
Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary (https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2020/12/04/tony-hsiehs-american-tragedy-the-self-destructive-last-months-of-the-zappos-visionary/)
IBM bet the company on hybrid cloud. Analysts just rated it a mere 'contender' for hybrid management (https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/08/forrester_wave_hybrid_cloud_management/)
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol (https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/08/cloudflare-and-apple-design-a-new-privacy-friendly-internet-protocol/)
Austin's popularity knows no limits | LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/austins-popularity-knows-no-limits-5336354)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2020 Recap (https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/kubecon-cloudnativecon-na-2020-recap/)
U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/technology/facebook-antitrust-monopoly.html)
The Google Disease Afflicting AWS - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-google-disease-afflicting-aws/)
The Return to the Office Gets Put on Hold (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-09/coronavirus-resurgence-has-office-workers-back-at-home-again)
Puppet’s journey into Continuous Compliance (https://puppet.com/blog/puppets-journey-into-continuous-compliance/)
Nomad 1.0 is released! (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-hashicorp-nomad-1-0)
GitHub introduces dark mode and auto-merge pull request (https://thenextweb.com/dd/2020/12/08/github-introduces-dark-mode-and-auto-merge-pull-request/)
Daily Insights (https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/the-spirit-of-snacking)
VMware COO Jumps Ship To Become New Nutanix CEO (https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/vmware-coo-jumps-ship-to-become-new-nutanix-ceo)
The State of the Octoverse (https://octoverse.github.com/)
Nonsense
Warner’s 2021 releases also going to HBO Max (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-5ca3909e-ed8a-4bc7-8519-f58cff64e40b.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3)
Hyundai spends almost $1B to buy Boston Dynamics, makers of Spot dog robot (https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/hyundai-purchases-boston-dynamics-for-921m-makers-of-spot-dog-robot/)
Elon Musk confirms he has moved to Texas (https://www.kvue.com/article/money/business/elon-musk-foundation-texas-move-austin/269-fc551b6f-8df4-46ae-9aba-f0c84a848e48)
Handwonden door ontpitten avocado's groeiend probleem (https://nos.nl/artikel/2359768-handwonden-door-ontpitten-avocado-s-groeiend-probleem.html)
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SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Matt: Factorio (https://factorio.com/).
Brandon: The Good Shepard (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343737/).
Coté: 1Blocker (https://1blocker.com).
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Photo Credit (https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/3g6hsa/electrical_outlets_around_the_world/)
12/11/2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 274: Can we start a Slack Channel to discuss this?
This week we discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack and recap all the important announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some advice on chopping onions and robot vacuums.
The Rundown
AWS Outage
Amazon Web Services outage takes a portion of the internet down with it (https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-a-portion-of-the-internet-down-with-it/)
The cold reality of the Kinesis Incident (https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/the-cold-reality-of-the-kinesis-incident)
AWS re:Invent
AWS re:Invent: Top Announcements for 2020 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-reinvent-announcements-2020/)
Compute
AWS launches EC2 computing instances that run Apple's MacOS operating system (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/aws-launches-ec2-computing-instances-running-apple-macos.html)
Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/)
EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-ec2-c6gn-instances-100-gbps-networking-with-aws-graviton2-processors/)
How An Acquisition Made By Amazon In 2016 Became Company's Secret Sauce (https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/03/10/how-an-acquisition-made-by-amazon-in-2016-became-companys-secret-sauce/?sh=26ef6d42f67a)
Databases
Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/want-more-postgresql-you-just-might-like-babelfish/)
Kubernetes
Introducing Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/)
Introducing Amazon ECS Anywhere (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-amazon-ecs-anywhere/)
Amazon EKS Anywhere (https://aws.amazon.com/eks/eks-anywhere/)
New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/)
AWS quietly enters the multicloud era (https://www.protocol.com/aws-multicloud-era)
Serverless
Amazon Aurora Serverless | MySQL PostgreSQL Relational Database (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/?nc2=h_ql_re_gev)
New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/)
DevOps Guru
New- Amazon DevOps Guru Helps Identify Application Errors and Fixes (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-devops-guru-machine-learning-powered-service-identifies-application-errors-and-fixes/)
Hybrid Cloud or a cloud close to you
In the Works – 3 More AWS Local Zones in 2020, and 12 More in 2021 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-more-aws-local-zones/)
AWS Outposts 1U and 2U form factors (https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/1u-2u/)
Slack
Best analysis ever (https://ftrain.medium.com/lets-skim-the-slack-salesforce-press-release-22e941ddc1e0)
Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions (https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/11/26/salesforce_slack_acquisition_rumour/)
How a Merger of Salesforce and Slack Would Change the SaaS Landscape (https://www.tomtunguz.com/slack-salesforce-rumors/)
Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced Tuesday after market close (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/salesforce-deal-to-buy-slack-expected-to-be-announced-tomorrow.html)
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack - Salesforce News (https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2020/12/01/salesforce-definitive-agreement-update/)
Slack + Salesforce Emergency Pod with Packy McCormick of Not Boring | Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/slack-salesforce-emergency-pod-with-packy-mccormick-of-not-boring)
Slack: The Bulls are typing... (https://notboring.substack.com/p/slack-the-bulls-are-typing)
Salesforce Picks Up (The) Slack To Extend CRM’s Reach Into Collaboration, But Won’t Dethrone Microsoft Teams (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/salesforce-picks-up-the-slack-to-extend-crms-reach-into-collaboration-but-wont-dethrone-microsoft-teams/)
Relevant to your Interests
Splunk acquires network observability service Flowmill (https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/splunk-acquires-network-observability-service-flowmill/)
Productivity Scores in Office 365 (https://twitter.com/wolfiechristl/status/1331221942850949121?s=21)
IBM Planning 10,000 Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-25/ibm-planning-about-10-000-job-cuts-in-europe-ahead-of-unit-sale)
Apple Plans to Run Most of Its ‘Compute Management’ on Kubernetes (https://thenewstack.io/apple-plans-to-run-most-of-its-compute-management-on-kubernetes/)
Tony Hsieh, iconic Las Vegas tech entrepreneur, dies aged 46 (https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/28/tony-hsieh-iconic-las-vegas-tech-entrepreneur-dies-aged-46/)
Linus Torvalds doubts Linux will get ported to Apple M1 hardware (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/__trashed-6/)
Robert Smith Breakup Exclusive: Billionaire Brian Sheth Reveals Why He’s Leaving Vista Following Tax Evasion Case (https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2020/11/26/billionaire-breakup-robert-smiths-tax-fraud-and-a-bout-of-covid-send-vistas-brian-sheth-packing/?sh=26345c18733c&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in Production (https://lambda.grofers.com/learnings-from-two-years-of-kubernetes-in-production-b0ec21aa2814)
Should we really be worried about vendor lock-in in 2020? (https://www.protocol.com/manuals/new-enterprise/vendor-lockin-cloud-saas)
Future of Online Security and Privacy is being decided now (https://thehustle.co/12022020-online-security-privacy/)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/hpe-is-relocating-headquarters-to-houston-from-california.html)
Nonsense
People Can't Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon's Cloud Servers Are Down (https://eminetra.com.au/people-cant-vacuum-or-use-their-doorbell-because-amazons-cloud-servers-are-down/74505/)
Listener Feedback
Brett from Slack recommends Upptime an open source Status Page (https://github.com/upptime/upptime)
Sponsors
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SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: 99% Invisible: You (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/youve-got-enron-mail/)’ve Got Enron Emails (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/youve-got-enron-mail/)
Bruce Sterling: How to Be Futuristic (https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/02018/oct/16/how-be-futuristic-bruce-sterling/)
Brandon:
iRobot Roomba 985 Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum (https://www.costco.com/irobot-roomba-985-wi-fi-connected-robot-vacuum.product.100428595.html)
Yahoo Mail discontinues automatic email forwarding for free users (https://www.zdnet.com/article/yahoo-mail-discontinues-automatic-email-forwarding-for-free-users/#:~:text=ZDNet%20Academy-,Yahoo%20Mail%20discontinues%20automatic%20email%20forwarding%20for%20free%20users,to%20get%20a%20Pro%20account.&text=Verizon%20is%20removing%20the%20ability,for%20Yahoo%20Mail%20free%20users)
Coté: Photoshop Express (https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-express.html).
12/4/2020 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 273: Look at my iPad
This week we preview AWS re:Invent, breakdown the latest CNCF Survey and discuss container adoption. Plus, a review of banking apps, Google Pay and an update on Coté’s quest to achieve the iPad Lifestyle.
The Rundown
AWS RE:invent (https://virtual.awsevents.com/agenda)
CNCF survey (https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CNCF_Survey_Report_2020.pdf)
Datadog Report 11 facts about real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/)
Relevant to your Interests
Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21573109/epic-tim-sweeney-apple-app-store-fee-cut-reduction-criticize)
Cloud gaming services use iPhone's web browser door (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-765269c9-3841-4958-aa1d-839cb1e51e04.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3)
Roblox IPO (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-be45e818-9f5c-4fd5-a285-5f00beef25e3.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1)
2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi (https://puppet.com/resources/report/2020-state-of-devops-report/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldSbVpUbGtaVEZtWVRFMiIsInQiOiJhYWtBcEcxQ3Z2TitXcCtkbXJDZTBIbVcrb25qMEtTR1VvWXZNaDV2QmZEXC96ekJxZGxIRmxcL0JwaHdjN1FVYWMrUm9rRG8rYTE3QmozRlo4QU9IdFhvRWt3WUNvdDVvZWJSVmpLaFEzZnhNMllocGZNZUlUS0RmcVwvTDVZSEh3RSJ9)
FireEye acquires Respond Software for $186M, announces $400M investment – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/19/fireeye-acquires-respond-software-for-186m-announces-400m-investment/)
Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools (https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/)
CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract (https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/11/exclusive-cia-awards-secret-multibillion-dollar-cloud-contract/170227/)
The Substackerati (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2904)
Act against Deep fakes (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2904)
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/21/science/artificial-intelligence-fake-people-faces.html)
Nonsense
The Ultimate Texas Tacopedia — Texas Monthly (https://apple.news/Am6Utkw2LT3ef1xCA3R4Q7A)
Professor Cold Takes 2: Freeze Harder (https://twitter.com/vcbrags/status/1330510704441503744?s=21)
Kubernetes Services explained (https://twitter.com/rpkatz/status/1330511026849275909?s=21)
Apple’s biggest App Store critics are not impressed with its new fee cut for small developers (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21573109/epic-tim-sweeney-apple-app-store-fee-cut-reduction-criticize)
(https://twitter.com/rpkatz/status/1330511026849275909?s=21)
Sponsors
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SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Matt: Shot: Build a DIY screen out of recycled parts for cheap (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfirQC99xPc)
Brandon: Chefman 1.8 Liter Electric Glass Kettle With Removable Tea Infuser (https://www.costco.com/chefman-1.8-liter-electric-glass-kettle-with-removable-tea-infuser.product.100412554.html)
Coté: PDF Expert (https://pdfexpert.com/ios). Dithering (https://dithering.fm) podcast is still good.
Photo Credit (https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CNCF_Survey_Report_2020.pdf)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/unRkg2jH1j0)
11/27/2020 • 56 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 272: This time we’re doing it in green
This week we discuss IBM buying Instana, highlights from Kubecon and the rise of Substack. Plus, Coté updates us on his quest to live the iPad lifestyle.
The Rundown
IBM To Acquire Instana For Undisclosed Terms (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/ibm-to-acquire-instana-for-undisclosed-terms-quick-facts-2020-11-18)
Instana Crunch Base Overview (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/instana)
KubeCon Review
Envoy Mobile Joins the CNCF (https://medium.com/@mike.schore/99aee4bdb32e)
Open Source Web Engine Servo to be Hosted at Linux Foundation - The Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/11/open-source-web-engine-servo-to-be-hosted-at-linux-foundation/)
Relevant to your Interests
The Evolution of Cloud (https://greylock.com/jerry-chen-the-evolution-of-cloud/)
2020 State of DevOps Report | presented by Puppet, & CircleCi (https://puppet.com/resources/report/2020-state-of-devops-report/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldSbVpUbGtaVEZtWVRFMiIsInQiOiJhYWtBcEcxQ3Z2TitXcCtkbXJDZTBIbVcrb25qMEtTR1VvWXZNaDV2QmZEXC96ekJxZGxIRmxcL0JwaHdjN1FVYWMrUm9rRG8rYTE3QmozRlo4QU9IdFhvRWt3WUNvdDVvZWJSVmpLaFEzZnhNMllocGZNZUlUS0RmcVwvTDVZSEh3RSJ9)
Amazon's Inferentia AI Chip Is Ready For Prime Time, Now Powers the Alexa Service (https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/11/12/amazons-inferentia-ai-chip-is-ready-for-prime-time/)
FinOps Foundation launches Kubernetes Whitepaper with CNCF, adds vendor members, Densify, SoftwareOne, Virtasant and more... (https://www.finops.org/blog/finops-foundation-launches-kubernetes-whitepaper-with-cncf-adds-vendor-members-cloudcmx-densify-softwareone-and-virtasant/)
Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more (https://blog.google/products/google-pay/reimagined-pay-save-manage-expenses-and-more/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
New Zoom feature can alert room owners of possible Zoombombing disruptions (https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-zoom-feature-can-alert-room-owners-of-possible-zoombombing-disruptions/)
Fast Facts
Your Pa$$word doesn't matter (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-active-directory-identity/your-pa-word-doesn-t-matter/ba-p/731984)
11 facts about real world container use (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/)
Half of all containers are now managed by cloud provider and third-party registries (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/#10)
Apple
Apple to lower commissions for small businesses on App Store (https://www.axios.com/apple-to-lower-commissions-for-small-businesses-on-app-store-a385a49b-9558-411d-bd1b-6cb57f2d44cc.html)
Safely open apps on your Mac (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away (https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro-is-powerful-but-its-the-battery-life-that-will-blow-you-away/)
Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/12/21563092/apple-mac-apps-load-slow-big-sur-downloads-outage-down-issues)
Nonsense
Welcome to Slow Boring (https://www.slowboring.com/p/welcome-to-slow-boring)
Zoom Is Temporarily Removing Its 40 Minute Limit on Video Calls for Thanksgiving Day (https://www.news18.com/news/tech/zoom-is-temporarily-removing-its-40-minute-limit-on-video-calls-for-thanksgiving-day-3083945.html)
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Little Snitch (http://Little Snitch 4) from Jordy
Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/12/21563092/apple-mac-apps-load-slow-big-sur-downloads-outage-down-issues)
Conferences
Mykel Alvis All Day DevOps Talk (https://youtu.be/cttjekzVEqU?t=1945)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/ads)!
Recommendations
Matt: Rewatching Veep (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1759761/).
Brandon: The Undoing (https://www.hbo.com/the-undoing?camp=GOOGLE%7cHTS_SEM%7cPID_p56310902692&keyword=the+undoing+hbo+show&utm_id=sa%7c71700000070858786%7c58700006239587173%7cp56310902692&utm_content=tun&gclid=Cj0KCQiA48j9BRC-ARIsAMQu3WSxjOpeoiBA6i3bBzeC-IL0JpPrwhoPrBOmtfTcNA37YokcAcnFo54aAtPnEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-undoing?camp=GOOGLE%7cHTS_SEM%7cPID_p56310902692&keyword=the+undoing+hbo+show&utm_id=sa%7c71700000070858786%7c58700006239587173%7cp56310902692&utm_content=tun&gclid=Cj0KCQiA48j9BRC-ARIsAMQu3WSxjOpeoiBA6i3bBzeC-IL0JpPrwhoPrBOmtfTcNA37YokcAcnFo54aAtPnEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) and Serverless Data APIs (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2020/11/serverless-data-apis.html) from the Cloudcast
Coté: Dithering (https://dithering.fm/)) podcast (https://dithering.fm/)) (https://dithering.fm/ (https://dithering.fm/)); Ted Laso. (https://tv.apple.com/show/umc.cmc.vtoh0mn0xn7t3c643xqonfzy?itscg=MC_20000&itsct=atvp_brand_omd&mttn3pid=a_google_adwords&mttnagencyid=1625&mttncc=US&mttnsiteid=143238&mttnsubad=OUS2019863_1-469980364686-c&mttnsubkw=106182847425_kwd-937070194980_rdMG7cVq_&mttnsubplmnt=)
Photo Credit from Red Hat Container Coloring Book (https://developers.redhat.com/books/container-coloring-book-whos-afraid-big-bad-wolf)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/wBzam0EPbXU)
11/20/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 271: The Defaults Lifestyle
This week we breakdown Apple’s new M1 chip, the new MacBook Air and discuss why so many devs still use vi. Plus, a discussion about when to use the default Documents Folder.
The Rundown
Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs? (https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/11/09/modern-ide-vs-vim-emacs/)
Everything Apple Announced, From New Macs to New Chips (https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-november-2020/)
Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-gains-shrinking/)
Relevant to your Interests
Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, and many others fall at China's top hacking contest (https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-ios-chrome-and-many-others-fall-at-chinas-top-hacking-contest/)
375% Return on One Startup to Help SoftBank Get Past WeWork Woes (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-08/375-return-on-one-startup-to-help-softbank-get-past-wework-woes?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true)
Google Cloud’s Big Win: the Remarkable 2-Year Journey of CEO Thomas Kurian (https://cloudwars.co/google-cloud/google-cloud-the-remarkable-2-year-journey-of-ceo-thomas-kurian/)
Spotify acquires podcast monetization company Megaphone (https://www.axios.com/spotify-megaphone-monetization-podcasts-cc13b729-56f9-489a-bc94-d79b9f50a54c.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Every last Slingbox will become a brick in two years (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/9/21557578/slingbox-discontinued-servers-sunset)
Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks got crushed on the positive vaccine news (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/09/zoom-and-other-stay-at-home-stocks-are-getting-crushed-on-the-positive-vaccine-news.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up (https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21559677/tiktok-cfius-court-petition-ban-deadline)
EU charges Amazon in antitrust lawsuit, alleges unfair competition (https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-eu-antitrust-1.5796672)
Austin software maker Planview sold in $1.6B deal (https://www.statesman.com/business/20201110/austin-software-maker-planview-sold-in-16b-deal)
Nonsense
Steve Nouri on LinkedIn: #datascience #business #strategy | 404 comments (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6727194101655191552-93Zn)
Ugliest App (https://ugliest.app/)
Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/)
Train caught by Whale (https://www.010fotograaf.nl/3445/metro-bungelt-op-8-meter-hoogte-na-ongeval-spijkenisse/)
Why I Still Use an Old PowerPC Mac in 2020 (https://www.howtogeek.com/682300/why-i-still-use-an-old-powerpc-mac-in-2020/)
Chipotle to open its first digital-only restaurant as online orders soar (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/chipotle-to-open-its-first-digital-only-restaurant-as-online-orders-soar.html)
Sponsors
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Conferences
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020 (https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/Kubecon_North_America_Virtual_OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_2020.html)
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Matt: Things you can make from old dead laptops - DIY Perks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLP_L7Mgz6M)
Brandon: The Queen’s Gambit (https://www.netflix.com/title/80234304) on Netflix
Coté: Patagonia (https://eu.patagonia.com/nl/en/product/mens-torrentshell-3l-rain-pants-regular/85265.html) Men's Torrentshell (https://eu.patagonia.com/nl/en/product/mens-torrentshell-3l-rain-pants-regular/85265.html).
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11/13/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 270: The Crossover Episode
A special crossover episode from our friends at Drunk and Retired. Visit drunkandretired.com (https://drunkandretired.com/) to subscribe to the podcast.
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/3ywqZsZUoHY) Special Guest: JJ Asghar.
11/10/2020 • 52 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 269: I like the no friction
This week we discuss Docker Hub's new rate limits, Tech Earnings and what Apple’s shift to ARM means for the industry. Plus, some advice on gaming for kids.
The Rundown
Big Tech earnings weren't slowed by the coronavirus pandemic (https://www.axios.com/tech-earnings-sales-costs-apple-amazon-facebook-6eabc3dd-0132-4b47-a1de-4e4dfcdef5bf.html)
Amazon posts strong Q3 results despite ongoing pandemic costs (https://www.axios.com/amazon-posts-strong-q3-results-despite-ongoing-pandemic-costs-23ad0523-2a73-4a09-bd89-52ac489917ee.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sendto_newslettertest&stream=top)
Alphabet revenue up 14% after second-quarter slump (https://www.axios.com/alphabet-revenue-up-14-after-second-quarter-slump-8353f573-a291-48de-ad45-70a9dac6a1ee.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Apple sets September quarter sales record despite later iPhone launch (https://www.axios.com/apple-sets-september-quarter-sales-record-despite-later-iphone-launch-776b6418-99c6-4555-bc7e-a6b81a8d4e72.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sendto_newslettertest&stream=top)
Facebook beats on earnings (https://www.axios.com/facebook-earnings-third-quarter-2020-eded83b7-b040-42cd-85dd-73b6989ada82.html)
Container Registry
Advice for customers dealing with Docker Hub rate limits, and a Coming Soon announcement | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/advice-for-customers-dealing-with-docker-hub-rate-limits-and-a-coming-soon-announcement/)
AWS to create its own public container registry in response to Docker pull rate limit (https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/03/aws_container_reg/)
Consuming Public Content (https://opencontainers.org/posts/blog/2020-10-30-consuming-public-content/)
Download rate limit (https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/download-rate-limit/)
Relevant to your Interests
The new H-1B rules make finding talent a lot harder for startups (https://thehustle.co/11042020-H-1B-rules/)
ARM has launched an Nvidia CPU monster that will get Intel and AMD very worried (https://www.techradar.com/news/arm-has-launched-an-nvidia-cpu-monster-that-will-get-intel-and-amd-very-worried)
SiFive Is Launching The Most Compelling RISC-V Development Board Yet - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=sifive-riscv-unmatched&num=1)
Cloud Native Applications: Stateless or Stateful Services? (https://thenewstack.io/cloud-native-applications-stateless-or-stateful-services/)
AWS is opening yet another cloud computing region | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-is-opening-yet-another-cloud-computing-region/)
An Open Source Leader Is Gone, a Remembrance of Dan Kohn (https://thenewstack.io/an-open-source-leader-is-gone-a-remembrance-of-dan-kohn/)
Why NerdWallet Is Buying Fundera (https://pulse2.com/why-nerdwallet-is-buying-fundera/)
Pulumi raises Series B to build the future of Cloud Engineering (https://www.pulumi.com/blog/series-b/)
Descript | Create podcasts, videos, and transcripts (https://www.descript.com/)
D2iQ Takes the Next Step Forward | D2iQ (https://d2iq.com/blog/d2iq-takes-the-next-step-forward)
Netflix is raising the price of its most popular plan to $14 today, premium tier increasing to $18 (https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/29/21540346/netflix-price-increase-united-states-standard-premium-content-product-features)
The man who brings the human touch to Google Cloud (https://www.protocol.com/kelsey-hightower-google-cloud)
Sponsors
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Nonsense
Steve Nouri on LinkedIn: #datascience #business #strategy | 404 comments (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6727194101655191552-93Zn)
Ugliest App (https://ugliest.app/)
Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/)
Train caught by Whale (https://www.010fotograaf.nl/3445/metro-bungelt-op-8-meter-hoogte-na-ongeval-spijkenisse/)
Why I Still Use an Old PowerPC Mac in 2020 (https://www.howtogeek.com/682300/why-i-still-use-an-old-powerpc-mac-in-2020/)
Listener Feedback
Chetan wants you to work as InfraCloud as a Product Engineer (https://infracloud.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0uhxg/)
Conferences
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020 (https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/Kubecon_North_America_Virtual_OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_2020.html)
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
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Recommendations
Matt: Back in Time for Dinner (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4511974/).
Brandon: Whistleblower Podcast (https://whistleblowerpod.com/).
Coté: Sorted app (https://staysorted.com/). By Force Alone (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52375499-by-force-alone) vs. Mists of Avalon (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40605251-the-mists-of-avalon).
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11/6/2020 • 59 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 268: Drew Firment on teaching the world to cloud
Brandon interviews Drew Firment from A Cloud Guru. (https://acloudguru.com/) They discuss Drew's career, how Capital One embraced the cloud and A Cloud Guru's mission to teach the world to cloud. Plus, Drew offers advice on deciding which cloud certifications to get first.
Show links
The Phoenix Project (https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262592)
Hygieia (https://www.capitalone.com/tech/solutions/hygieia/)
The cloud resume challenge (https://forrestbrazeal.com/2020/04/23/the-cloud-resume-challenge/)
Contact Drew
A Cloud Guru (https://acloudguru.com/)
Drew's LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewfirment/)
Twitter: @drewfirment (https://twitter.com/drewfirment)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/a96M-pnoUQA) Special Guest: Drew Firment.
11/3/2020 • 56 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 267: Databases are at the end of a network connection
We discuss Zoom’s new phone system, debate the merits of Serverless and reflect on how SaaS has taken over the enterprise. Plus, Coté explains why he is trying to live the iPad Pro life.
The Rundown
Zoom
Get Zoom Phone Service in 40+ Countries & Territories for One Flat Monthly Price (https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-phone-service-in-40-plus-countries-territories-one-flat-monthly-price/)
Introducing Zapps, Bringing Best-of-Breed Apps Into the Zoom Experience (https://blog.zoom.us/introducing-zapps-bringing-best-of-breed-apps-into-zoom/)
Severless or Serverful
Serverlessconf New York 2019: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones | Simon Wardley (https://acloud.guru/series/serverlessconf-nyc-2019/view/crossing-river-feeling-stones)
TheNewStack - From DevOps to DevApps (https://triggermesh.com/2020/10/the-new-stack-from-devops-to-devapps/)
IBM Introduces IBM Cloud Code Engine (https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/10/ibm-cloud-code-engine/)
When (and why) not to go serverless (https://www.serverless.com/blog/when-why-not-use-serverless)
Relevant to your Interests
2020, the unexpected Requirement (https://medium.com/libertyit/2020-the-unexpected-requirement-c409b432037)
AMD to buy chip peer Xilinx for $35 billion in data center push (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-xilinx-m-a-amd/amd-to-buy-chip-peer-xilinx-for-35-billion-in-data-center-push-idUSKBN27C1EP?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker | Brave Browser (https://brave.com/)
Can We Replace YAML With an Easier Markup Language? - Slashdot (https://developers.slashdot.org/story/20/10/25/1949258/can-we-replace-yaml-with-an-easier-markup-language)
OpenStack at 10 years old: A failure on its own terms, a success in its own niche (https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/22/openstack_at_10/)
PayPal to let you buy and sell cryptocurrencies in the US – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/21/paypal-to-let-you-buy-and-sell-cryptocurrencies-in-the-us)
Backstage Pass with Arctiq - Migrate Cloud Foundry Applications to Anthos with Kf (https://www.arctiq.ca/events/2020/11/5/backstage-pass-with-arctiq-migrate-cloud-foundry-applications-to-anthos-and-kf/)
Cloud Foundry coalesces around Kubernetes (https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/20/cloud-foundry-coalesces-around-kubernetes-in-beautiful-harmony/)
Turing Pi 2 announcement - Turing Pi Cluster Board (https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-2-announcement/)
Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html)
Sponsors
Linode — Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit. Find all the details at linode.com/SDT. (http://go.thoughtleaders.io/2020020201026) Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started.
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Nonsense
AWS Multicloud Snark Tweet (https://mobile.twitter.com/cloud_opinion/status/1321160722701676546)
168 AWS services in 2 minutes (https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1301182968766107656)
Researchers 3D-printed a cell-sized tugboat (https://www.engadget.com/researchers-3-dprinted-a-microscopic-boat-to-see-how-bacteria-swim-105633277.html)
Hema's veggie smoked sausage is ok but original is a 'culinary high point' - DutchNews.nl (https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/10/hemas-veggie-smoked-sausage-is-ok-but-original-is-a-culinary-high-point/)
Conferences
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020 (https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/Kubecon_North_America_Virtual_OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_2020.html)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Song Exploder Run the Jewels: Ju$t (https://songexploder.net/run-the-jewels)
100 Strong kettlebells (https://100strong.com.au/a/refer-a-friend/redeem/zzr8ixqnkazxmkag7uuhntapjoocyt97p3l11hvm/3755)
Brandon: Otter.ai (https://otter.ai/) see example transcript (https://assets.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images/podcasts/transcripts/9/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/episodes/8/81513f74-feca-4a44-964a-3eb47f7bf376/transcript.txt) in interview with Dan Balcauski (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/266)
Coté: Darondo (https://open.spotify.com/track/6Dq2LzijkY9WNPwBGDah4L?si=cDEHAAMhSRizn_wxaNbNeQ).
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10/30/2020 • 49 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 266: Dan Balcauski on sabbaticals, consulting and reducing product churn.
Brandon interviews Dan Balcauski from Product Tranquility (https://www.producttranquility.com/). They discuss Dan's mid-career "mini retirement", what it's like to be a consultant and some strategies for B2B companies to reduce churn. Plus, Dan shares two of the most interesting places he visited on his trip around the world.
Show links
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris (https://fourhourworkweek.com/)
Kellogg School of Management (https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/)
Conway's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law)
Contact Dan
Product Tranquility (https://www.producttranquility.com/)
Dan's LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/balcauski/)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/e1sTn8-hGEE) Special Guest: Dan Balcauski.
10/27/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 265: Configuring DNS? Pull up a chair.
Coté, Matt and Brandon discuss the latest news from the Cloud Foundry and OpenStack conferences, Docker alternatives, Google getting sued and the downfall of Quibi.
The Rundown
Cloud Foundry coalesces around Kubernetes (https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/20/cloud-foundry-coalesces-around-kubernetes-in-beautiful-harmony/)
It's Time to Forget About Docker (https://martinheinz.dev/blog/35)
The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation (https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/19/the-openstack-foundation-becomes-the-open-infrastructure-foundation/)
Quibi Is Shutting Down as Problems Mount (https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-weighs-shutting-down-as-problems-mount-11603301946?mod=djemalertNEWS)
Relevant to your Interests
2020 State of the API Report | Brought to You by Postman (https://www.postman.com/state-of-api/)
Zoom is getting into ticketed online events (https://www.engadget.com/on-zoom-end-to-end-encryption-rollout-164126517.html)
Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent (https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/15/stripe-acquires-nigerias-paystack-for-200m-to-expand-into-the-african-continent/)
Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps (https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520315/microsoft-install-office-pwa-web-app-without-permission-update-word-powerpoint-excel)
Come on, Amazon: If you're going to copy open-source code for a new product, at least credit the creator (https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/16/aws_headless_recorder/)
China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee (https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/china-is-building-its-github-alternative-gitee/)
Justice Department Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google (https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-file-long-awaited-antitrust-suit-against-google-11603195203)
Intel to sell its NAND business to South Korean rival for $9 billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/intel-to-sell-its-nand-business-to-south-korean-rival-for-9-billion.html)
Atlassian to end sale and support of on-premise server products by 2024 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-to-end-sale-and-support-of-on-premise-server-products-by-2024/)
Turing Pi 2 announcement - Turing Pi Cluster Board (https://turingpi.com/turing-pi-2-announcement/)
Backstage Pass with Arctiq - Migrate Cloud Foundry Applications to Anthos with Kf (https://www.arctiq.ca/events/2020/11/5/backstage-pass-with-arctiq-migrate-cloud-foundry-applications-to-anthos-and-kf/)
Sponsors
Linode — Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit. Find all the details at linode.com/sdt (http://go.thoughtleaders.io/2020020201026). Click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started.
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Nonsense
Emacs is a multi-generational project (https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1317183497933500416?s=20).
How it started, How it’s going (https://twitter.com/allspaw/status/1317584451514368005?s=21), DevOps Edition.
Southern Conundrum: Can You Use Soap to Clean Your Cast Iron? (https://gardenandgun.com/articles/southern-conundrum-can-you-use-soap-to-clean-your-cast-iron/)
Conferences
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020 (https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/Kubecon_North_America_Virtual_OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_2020.html)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: New PC build out (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mattraydev/saved/2fknt6)
Dell 32” UHD curved monitor (https://www.dell.com/en-au/shop/dell-32-curved-4k-uhd-monitor-s3221qs/apd/210-axhp/monitors-monitor-accessories)
Brandon: Jabra 40 USB Headset (https://www.jabra.com/business/office-headsets/jabra-evolve/jabra-evolve-40##6399-829-209)
Coté: Anatomy of Norbiton (http://www.anatomyofnorbiton.org/index.php). Camo (https://reincubate.com/camo/) to use your iPhone as a webcam on your computer.
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10/23/2020 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 264: I poisoned the security well with my children
Matt and Brandon discuss Hashicorp’s recent product announcements and Twilio buying Segment. Plus, Matt gives his thoughts on the new iPhone 12 mini.
The Rundown
New iPhones… iPhone SE vs. iPhone 12 mini (https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/14/compared-iphone-12-mini-versus-iphone-11-versus-iphone-se)
Boundary by HashiCorp (https://www.boundaryproject.io/)
Waypoint by HashiCorp (https://www.waypointproject.io/)
Twilio buys Segment and employees share in success (https://twitter.com/rbranson/status/1315731261772582912)
Companies with Extended Exercise Windows (https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows)
Relevant to your Interests
Apple made ProtonMail add in-app purchases, even though it had been free for years (https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21506995/apple-forced-in-app-purchase-protonmail-ceo-wordpress-iap)
IBM shrinks with plans to spin-off managed infrastructure services arm (https://www.ciodive.com/news/ibm-shrinks-with-plans-to-spin-off-managed-infrastructure-services-arm/586713/)
How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020 #Drama (https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama)
Waymo’s driverless cars are open to the public. And Elon’s not impressed. (https://thehustle.co/10122020-Waymo/)
Carahsoft is trying to trademark DevSecOps (https://twitter.com/USSJoin/status/1316078768390172672) (already withdrawn) (https://twitter.com/USSJoin/status/1316078768390172672)
Gitpod - Dev environments built for the cloud (https://www.gitpod.io/)
Podcast Data (https://thehustle.co/10092020-data-podcasts-have-on-you/)
Azure Arc Is a Control Plane to Orchestrate Hybrid Cloud Systems (https://thenewstack.io/azure-arc-is-a-control-plane-to-orchestrate-hybrid-cloud-systems/)
Forget 5G: MagSafe could be the biggest reason to buy an iPhone 12 (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2020/10/14/21515490/apple-iphone-12-magsafe-accessories-ecosystem)
A few words on Git (https://hadihariri.com/2020/10/14/a-few-words-on-git/)
Introducing DigitalOcean App Platform (https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-digitalocean-app-platform-reimagining-paas-to-make-it-simpler-for-you-to-build-deploy-and-scale-apps/)
Google will give up direct control of the Knative open-source project (https://www.protocol.com/google-gives-up-direct-control-knative-open-source-project)
Twilio Set To Acquire Cloud Customer Data Startup Segment For $3.2 Billion (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/10/09/twilio-to-acquire-cloud-startup-segment-for-3-billion/#29cfa3262020)
Nonsense
Gartner Hype Cycle Visualization (https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1314225336742146049?s=21)
Netflix plans to have even more originals in 2021 (https://www.engadget.com/netflix-q2-sarandos-202146135.html)
The Netherlands goes into partial lockdown; face masks will be compulsory - DutchNews.nl (https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/10/the-netherlands-goes-into-partial-lockdown-face-masks-will-be-compulsory/)
Listener Feedback
Dan wants you to work at IBM (http://PaaS Digital Product Marketing Manager | IBM Careers)
Conferences
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
OpenShift Commons Gathering November 17, 2020 (https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/Kubecon_North_America_Virtual_OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_2020.html)
DevOps World Sessions (https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world/sessions)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Radiolab: No Special Duty (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-special-duty)
This Particular Album is Very, Very Important to Me: Devo’s Freedom Of Choice with Al Yankovic (https://wearecampfire.media/episodes/devos-freedom-of-choice-with-al-yankovic/)
Brandon: Three Body Problem (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Three-Body-Problem-Audiobook/B00P0277C2)
Translator Ken Liu (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/magazine/ken-liu-three-body-problem-chinese-science-fiction.html)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/5zMN9hdy3ag)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/hd-l_8As3Bo)
10/16/2020 • 54 minutes, 1 second
Episode 263: End of an Era
Brandon is joined by JJ Asghar and they discuss the recent changes at Chef and what it means for the Chef Community going forward.
Show Links
Progress Announcement (https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-details/progress-announces-acquisition-chef)
Chef Blog Post (https://blog.chef.io/the-fourth-chapter-of-chef-has-arrived-progress-to-purchase-chef/)
Register Article (https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/08/chef_staff_axed/)
Adam Jacob Interview (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/211)
CINC (https://cinc.sh/)
Paul’s How to make a Hamburger Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qztzj8sb-fE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1O8ajeQek83IiaYmSTn0DUiSs33DXpMa1fSlBgT6V613XwdhG-2UAaq14)
JJ on the Web
Drunk & Retired Podcast (https://drunkandretired.com/)
IBMDeveloper on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/ibmdeveloper)
@jjasghar (https://twitter.com/jjasghar)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/Mm_cz9t0LYc)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/TgjSku4-g6Q) Special Guest: JJ Asghar.
10/13/2020 • 48 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 262: It’s be a shame if something were to happen to that nice API implementation of yours
It’s be a shame if something were to happen to that nice API implementation of yours
This week, Matt and Coté talk about possible implications of the Google vs. Oracle fight over API stuff. YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
Mood-board
A clean approach to streaming
Then we can synchronize it with a GitHub
Chyron: Could have big repercussions
Light on details, like us
Your New Zealand bug out sheep farm
You’re not helping. Getting out of your head.
When it comes to law stuff, it’s hard for us to be experts
Back to back victories.
You should buy it, yarr!
There’ll be a lot of shakedowns
The Era of API Troll Companies
Those guys, those guys are getting their own company!
The Rundown
Oracle vs. Google (not the DoD one) (https://cote.io/2020/10/08/how-the-oracle-vs-google-fight-over-java-use-by-inspiration-on-android-could-effect-how-software-is-done/) - scenarios and implications! If Oracle wins: more charging for using “ideas”/APIs (even data formats?!) in code? If Google wins: less legal control over people using your code (e.g., lessons GPL, etc, powers)?
Google will give up direct control of the Knative open-source project (https://www.protocol.com/google-gives-up-direct-control-knative-open-source-project).
Breaking Up Big Blue
IBM to break up 109-year old company to focus on cloud growth (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ibm-divestiture/ibm-to-break-up-109-year-old-company-to-focus-on-cloud-growth-idUSKBN26T1TZ)
IBM plans to spin off infrastructure services as a separate $19B business (https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/08/ibm-plans-to-spin-off-infrastructure-services-as-a-separate-19b-business/).
@NaomiEide (https://www.ciodive.com/news/ibm-shrinks-with-plans-to-spin-off-managed-infrastructure-services-arm/586713/): “Once split, IBM expects the new company to earn $19 billion in annual revenue, with IBM bringing in $59 billion in annual revenue. The new company is expected to have 90,000 employees; In 2019, IBM had more than 350,000 employees worldwide.”
Relevant to your Interests
See #sdt-topics-back for link for more.
Chef leaves a bad taste: Staff cut in 'horrid, bleak' week after Progress swallows DevOps darling for $220m (https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/08/chef_staff_axed/).
Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Anton in Sweden
Sent to stickers to Kari in Minnesota
Robert sent us the Spell Checker algorithm (https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html) discussed in episode 260
Jordy sent Brandon some fun stickers.
Conferences
EnvoyCon 2020 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon/) October 15, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: 30 Rock (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496424/), the TV show.
Coté: Paste app (https://pasteapp.io/), available in SetApp (https://setapp.com/) too.
10/9/2020 • 51 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 261: Arnav Hiray on High School, Tech and Debate
Brandon interviews Arnav Hiray from Stony Point High School. Arnav is an accomplished High School Senior who has a passion for learning and technology. They discuss what it's like to go to High School during a pandemic, Arnav's tech projects and Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Plus, Arnav tells us why he joined the IB Diploma Programme.
Show Links
Stock Talk (https://www.stock-talk.net/)
Techsavvygen (http://www.techsavvygen.org/)
Global Hack (https://theglobalhack.com/education)
Contact Arnav
LinkedIn: Arnav Hiray (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnav-hiray-924aa5199/)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/4zIJSD9Xn8M)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/9zTAPCyjxZ4)
Special Guest: Arnav Hiray .
10/3/2020 • 54 minutes, 42 seconds
Episode 260: Show me what you got
This week we recap the latest announcements at VMworld, discuss App Modernization and rate the best software features of all time. Plus, lots of talk on what makes for a great EBC experience.
The Rundown
VMware Announces Intent to Acquire SaltStack (https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/intent-to-acquire-saltstack.html)
VMworld 2020 Media Kit (https://www.vmware.com/company/news/media-resources/vmworld-2020-media-kit.html)
VMware's conversion into a cloud-agnostic management and development platform (https://diginomica.com/vmwares-conversion-cloud-agnostic-management-and-development-platform)
A little bit of the Dormain presentation (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dormain_vmworld2020-ugcPost-6716819141812088832-dk9z) we mention.
Coté’s thoughts on EBCs from earlier today (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBAsF6wWWPY&list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U&index=1).
Relevant to your Interests
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number (https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram)
We have a few questions about Amazon’s flying indoor security camera drone (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/9/24/21454943/amazon-ring-always-home-cam-drone-security-biggest-questions)
Nikola shows Silicon Valley can’t stop worshipping founders (https://www.theverge.com/21454738/nikola-cult-founder-worship-trevor-milton-general-motors)
Can TikTok help Oracle stay relevant in the cloud-computing age? (https://www.economist.com/business/2020/09/23/can-tiktok-help-oracle-stay-relevant-in-the-cloud-computing-age)
Deloitte Consulting ‘Doubling Down’ On $750M AWS Business (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/deloitte-consulting-doubling-down-on-750m-aws-business)
Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-durable-objects/)
No one likes a heart-stopping AWS bill shock so now there's a machine learning tool to help detect cost anomalies (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/28/aws_cost_anomaly_detection/)
Release notes | Anthos GKE on-prem | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/release-notes)
VMware to Acquire SaltStack for Advanced Multicloud Automation (https://thenewstack.io/vmware-to-acquire-saltstack-for-advanced-multicloud-automation/)
How to Change the Default Mail App in iOS 14 – The Sweet Setup (https://thesweetsetup.com/how-to-change-the-default-mail-app-in-ios-14/)
With so many cloud services dependent on it, Azure Active Directory has become a single point of failure for Microsoft (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/29/onedrive_azure_active_directory_outage/)
(https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/intent-to-acquire-saltstack.html)## Nonsense
The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download (https://happymag.tv/bbc-sound-effects-archive/)
Sponsors
Twilio (http://twilio.com) is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit http://twilio.com to learn more.
Listener Feedback
Jonathon suggested Raspbernetes (https://raspbernetes.github.io/) an opensource project for aspiring SREs or DevOps engineers to learn how to cut their teeth on kubernetes using a distilled set of security, networking and enablement tools.
Conferences
EnvoyCon 2020 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon/) October 15, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon:
Under the Radar: #201: Widgetsmith (https://www.relay.fm/radar/201)
The Talk Show with David Smith (https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2020/09/30/ep-297)
Coté: iOS 14 bed time alarm (https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/adjust-wake-up-alarm-iphone-apple-watch/). Also, Coté does daily streams for the moment in VMware Tanzu land (https://www.twitch.tv/vmwaretanzu). Check out the archives in YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPRNuA52_34wh5VTBC-0Rz7U).
10/2/2020 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 259: Michael Levan on Developer Relations, Go Programming and Code Quality.
Brandon interviews Michael Levan from Octopus Deploy. (https://octopus.com/) They discuss developer relations, Go Programming and Code Quality. Plus, Michael offers some tips for lighting your home office.
Show Links
From Desktop to Developer in under Seven years (https://medium.com/@michael.levan/from-desktop-to-developer-in-under-seven-years-207bcd39dc18)
Quality Code with Go on Gumroad (https://gumroad.com/l/ASyXy)
Michael on the Web
Blog: clouddev.engineering (https://www.clouddev.engineering/)
LinkedIn: michaellevan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellevan/)
Twitter: @TheNJDevOpsGuy (https://twitter.com/thenjdevopsguy?lang=en) Special Guest: Michael Levan.
9/29/2020 • 57 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 258: One more adjustment and then we can start
Cote and Brandon discuss PagerDuty's acquisition of Rundeck, the current state of AIOps and why is Reed Hastings writing a book about Netflix’s Culture. Plus, some advice on haircuts.
The Rundown
PagerDuty
PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck to Expand DevOps Automation Capabilities Across Digital Operations | PagerDuty (https://www.pagerduty.com/newsroom/pagerduty-to-aquire-rundeck/)
PagerDuty Acquires DevOps Automator Rundeck (https://www.enterpriseai.news/2020/09/21/pagerduty-acquires-devops-automator-rundeck/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pagerduty-acquires-devops-automator-rundeck)
Exclusive: Netflix, Google, GitHub top employer survey (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-e09b1c2a-94a2-4b80-ab8f-619eb195df0b.html?chunk=3&utm_term=emshare#story3)
Survey (https://hired.com/state-of-software-engineers#intro).
Relevant to your Interests
Apple surprised iPhone users with a next-day iOS 14 release. App developers are pissed. (https://mashable.com/article/apple-iphone-ios-14-app-developers-release/)
Judge blocks US ban on WeChat that was set to go into effect today (https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/20/21447540/judge-blocks-ban-wechat-tiktok-trump)
New downloads of TikTok, WeChat to be blocked in U.S. on Sunday (https://www.axios.com/tiktok-wechat-ban-downloads-app-store-sunday-trump-8b67a773-de33-4d2f-9fa5-4fff21b2179f.html)
Larry Ellison’s statement about the TikTok (https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1307495138625642496?s=21)
Snowflake May Melt Before Your Eyes (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4375251-snowflake-may-melt-your-eyes)
Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network, coming to Echo and Tile devices soon – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/21/amazon-details-its-low-bandwidth-sidewalk-neighborhood-network-coming-to-echo-and-tile-devices-soon/)
Chef Gets Gobbled Up (Whiteboard Confessional) - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/chef-gets-gobbled-up-whiteboard-confessional/)
Who wants to buy a video service no one watches? Quibi is trying to find out. (https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/9/21/21449795/quibi-sale-video-buyers)
Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm (https://cacm.acm.org/news/247515-huangs-law-is-the-new-moores-law-and-explains-why-nvidia-wants-arm/fulltext)
How BT is shifting its engineers into the fast lane (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3575414/how-bt-is-shifting-its-engineers-into-the-fast-lane.html)
Microsoft unveils Azure Orbital, competing with Amazon to connect satellites to the cloud (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/22/microsoft-azure-orbital-satellite-service-to-compete-with-amazon-aws-.html)
SUSE Announces Third Quarter Financial Results - insideHPC (https://insidehpc.com/2020/09/suse-announces-third-quarter-financial-results/)
Still not dead: The mainframe hangs on, sustained by Linux and hybrid cloud (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3576290/still-not-dead-the-mainframe-hangs-on-sustained-by-linux-and-hybrid-cloud.html#tk.rss_all)
What Do Agile, Lean, and ITIL Mean to DevOps? (https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/10/247595-what-do-agile-lean-and-itil-mean-to-devops/fulltext)
TransferWise reports accelerating revenue growth to 70% in its March, 2020 fiscal year (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/transferwise-reports-accelerating-revenue-growth-to-70-in-its-march-2020-fiscal-year/?guccounter=1)
Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff' (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/22/microservices_talk_gotopia/)
Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/22/google-launches-a-work-tracking-tool-and-airtable-rival-tables/?guccounter=1)
State of Cloud Learning Report 2020 (https://go.acloudguru.com/2020-state-of-cloud-learning-report)
Nonsense
LAMBDA - A Serverless Musical (Hamilton "My Shot" Parody) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMua0cuhFnc&feature=youtu.be)
Classic crispy tacos | Homesick Texan (https://www.homesicktexan.com/2020/09/classic-crispy-tacos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HomesickTexan+%28Homesick+Texan%29)
Qantas' 'Flight to Nowhere' Sells Out in Just 10 Minutes (https://www.complex.com/life/2020/09/qantas-flight-to-nowhere-sells-out-just-10-minutes)
Costco co-founder once said ‘I will kill you’ to CEO who wanted to hike the price of the $1.50 hot dog combo (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/costcos-founder-once-threatened-the-ceo-over-raising-hot-dog-prices-and-the-internet-is-eating-it-up-11600712231)
Sponsors
Twilio (http://twilio.com) is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com (http://twilio.com) to learn more.
strongDM (http://strongdm.com/SDT) — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT)
Conferences
EnvoyCon 2020 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon/) October 15, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon:
The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season One (https://youtu.be/gUnxzVOs3rk)
How to use iOS 14’s App Library to organize your apps (https://www.theverge.com/21443994/ios-14-app-library-iphone-organize-how-to)
Coté: Pilot G-2 07, blue (https://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Retractable-Rollerball-Refillable-BL-G2-7/dp/B00MELLCW8/).
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/6CSJWMs6JVA)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/waFSpCxzSH4)
9/25/2020 • 40 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 257: Once again, I have not read the report
This week we discuss Snowflake’s IPO, Forrester’s Multicloud Container Wave and Nvidia buying ARM. Plus, an extensive discussion of what constitutes a breakfast taco.
The Rundown
IPOs
Snowflake shares more than double. It's the biggest software IPO ever (https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/investing/snowflake-ipo/index.html)
Worth more than VMware (https://twitter.com/cloud_opinion/status/1306301196659953665).
Sumo Logic's IPO prices above the expected range (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sumo-logics-ipo-prices-above-the-expected-range-2020-09-17)
Tech investors await IPO bonanza next week, highlighted by Snowflake and Unity, even as market looks shaky (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/11/ipo-bonanza-is-coming-next-week-highlighted-by-snowflake-and-unity.html)
Multicloud
Red Hat Named a Leader in Forrester Multicloud Container Development Platforms Wave (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-named-leader-independent-research-firm-multicloud-container-development-platforms-evaluation)
VMware Bets On Enterprises Wanting Kubernetes And Virtualization Mashup (https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/09/15/vmware-bets-on-enterprises-wanting-kubernetes-and-virtualization-mashup/)
Simplify Your Approach to Application Modernization with 4 Simple Editions for the Tanzu Portfolio (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/simplify-your-approach-to-application-modernization-with-4-simple-editions-for-the-tanzu-portfolio)
Tiffany’s overview (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1306572820500172800) of VMware Tanzu kubernetes stuff.
ARM
SoftBank is reportedly preparing to sell ARM to Nvidia for more than $40 billion (https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/12/21434110/softbank-may-sell-arm-to-nvidia)
Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/arm-co-founder-starts-save-arm-campaign-to-keep-independence-amid-40b-nvidia-deal/)
Nvidia’s Integration Dreams (https://stratechery.com/2020/nvidias-integration-dreams/)
It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40B To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut (https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/09/13/its-officialnvidia-acquires-arm-for-40b-to-create-what-could-be-a-computing-juggernaut/amp/?__twitter_impression=true)
SiPearl Lets Rhea Design Leak: 72x Zeus Cores, 4x HBM2E, 4-6 DDR5 (https://www.anandtech.com/show/16072/sipearl-lets-rhea-design-leak-72x-zeus-cores-4x-hbm2e-46-ddr5)
AWS is bursting with pride for its Arm CPU cores – so much it’s put them behind a burstable instance type (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/15/aws_t4g_burtable_arm_instance/)
Relevant to your Interests
Hyland enters definitive agreement to acquire Alfresco (https://news.hyland.com/hyland-enters-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-alfresco/)
Mellanox Technologies now called NVIDIA Networking after acquisition (https://www.tweaktown.com/news/74857/mellanox-technologies-now-called-nvidia-networking-after-acquisition/index.html)
Oracle's stock jumps as company returns to growth (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/oracle-orcl-earnings-q1-2021.html)
Michael Dell: ‘We Are Not Selling VMware’ (https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/michael-dell-we-are-not-selling-vmware-)
VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/vmware-twitter-cut-pay-for-remote-workers-fleeing-bay-area)
Kubernetes is an enterprise architecture (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/kubernetes-is-an-enterprise-architecture/)
Using JAAS in the Cloud Era (https://www.clever-cloud.com/blog/engineering/2020/09/09/using-jaas-in-the-cloud-era/)
GitLab’s radical vision for the future of remote work (https://www.fastcompany.com/90548691/extremely-transparent-and-incredibly-remote-gitlabs-radical-vision-for-the-future-of-work)
Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought. (https://roamresearch.com/)
Marc Andreessen On Productivity (https://a16z.com/2020/09/07/on-productivity-scheduling-reading-habits-marc-andreessen/)
Building YouTube Shorts, a new way to watch & create on YouTube (https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/building-youtube-shorts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosmediatrends&stream=top)
Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54146718)
The S-1 Club | Unity is Manifesting the Metaverse (https://thegeneralist.substack.com/p/the-s-1-club-unity-is-manifesting)
Amazon's profits, AWS and advertising — Benedict Evans (https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/9/6/amazons-profits)
A $200 Million Seed Valuation - Shows Investor Frenzy for Note-Taking Apps (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a-200-million-seed-valuation-for-roam-shows-investor-frenzy-for-note-taking-apps)
A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo)
Microsoft Says Its Bid for TikTok Was Rejected in U.S.-China Standoff (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/technology/tiktok-microsoft-oracle-bytedance.html)
TikTok Reaches Deal to Sell U.S. Operations to Oracle | Digital Trends (https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/tiktok-reaches-deal-to-sell-us-operations-to-oracle-report/)
Oracle poised to become TikTok's U.S. technology partner after Chinese owners reject Microsoft's bid (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/14/microsoft-bid-for-tiktoks-us-operations-rejected-by-bytedance.html)
Nonsense
The billionaire behind 'Fortnite' has played over 1,600 matches without anyone knowing it was him (https://www.businessinsider.com/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-secret-fortnite-player-2020-9)
Paul Rudd, Certified Young Person (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ngNuuPpmj8)
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Conferences
Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins (https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world). September 22-24, 2020
EnvoyCon 2020 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon/) October 15, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Supersizers Go (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL43578495DCF519A0).
Brandon: Raised by Wolves (https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX0WFcAlf5r5cuAEAAADu?gclid=CjwKCAjwkoz7BRBPEiwAeKw3q-6AJiaGSGgaelpZSaB3UtSVuhGdBZrvpejX5oZ_jfhlFIN8L11F0BoCfmMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds).
Coté: Beyond the Phoenix Project (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38714647-beyond-the-phoenix-project).
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9/18/2020 • 1 hour, 39 seconds
Episode 256: There is no passion in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Cote and Brandon discuss Chef being acquired, the Private Equity Operating Model and Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Magic Quadrant. Plus, Cote offers advice on peanut better and jelly sandwiches.
The Rundown
Chef
Progress Announces Acquisition of Chef | Progress Software Corporation (https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-details/progress-announces-acquisition-chef)
Adam Jacob on Chef’s acquisition (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1303405859557355520)
Progress snags software automation platform Chef for $220M – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/progress-snags-software-automation-platform-chef-for-220m/?guccounter=1)
The Fourth Chapter of Chef Has Arrived: Progress to Purchase Chef - Chef Blog (https://blog.chef.io/the-fourth-chapter-of-chef-has-arrived-progress-to-purchase-chef/)
Chef launched careers (https://twitter.com/lusis/status/1303439819843022858?s=21)
Gartner MQ Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-242R58F3&ct=200902&st=sb)
Relevant to your Interests
JEDI
Oracle loses $10B JEDI cloud contract appeal yet again – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/03/oracle-loses-10b-jedi-cloud-contract-appeal-yet-again/)
Pentagon Awards JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft for the Second Time (https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/09/pentagon-awards-jedi-cloud-contract-microsoft-second-time/168259/)
Epic v. Apple
Tim Sweeney on Fortnite's Metaverse ambitions (from Epic's Friday filings in Epic v Apple) (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1302746785933398016?s=21)
Apple will seek damages from Epic Games for breach of App Store contract (https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/8/21427779/apple-epic-games-breach-of-contract-lawsuit-fortnite-app-store)
Netflix Culture
Work from home? (https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1303063102225702912?s=21)
Reed Hastings on Netflix's ‘Hunger Games’ culture: Only focus on employees you'd fight to keep (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/netflix-co-ceo-reed-hastings-focus-on-employees-you-would-fight-to-keep.html)
JFrog
JFrog sets terms for Nasdaq IPO at valuation of over $3b (https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-jfrog-plans-nasdaq-ipo-at-valuation-of-over-3b-1001342041)
JFrog Video (https://www.retailroadshow.com/presentation/#/?presid=743834&isretail=true)
Security
Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/09/snyk-bags-another-200m-at-2-6b-valuation-9-months-after-last-raise/)
Giving developers the tools to do security checks (https://cote.io/2020/09/10/giving-developed-the-tools-to-do-security-checks/)
Yubico’s new USB-C security key with NFC could be the one key to unlock them all (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEAV36x-ezjIt6DyB9TVwRt8qFggEKg4IACoGCAow3O8nMMqOBjD38Ak?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
Kube Corner
No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/08/kubernetes_app_portability_problems/)
Why Adopting Kubernetes for Application Portability Is Not a Good Idea - Marco Meinardi (https://blogs.gartner.com/marco-meinardi/2020/09/04/adopting-kubernetes-application-portability-not-good-idea/)
Should You Run a Database in Docker? (https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/5414/should-you-run-a-database-in-docker/)
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is set to plow more than $550 million into Snowflake when the cloud-data company goes public | Markets Insider (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-invest-550-million-snowflake-ipo-2020-9-1029571458)
CloudBees Supports General Public License (GPL) Cooperation Commitment (https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/general-public-license-issue)
Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic | APNIC Blog (https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/)
SaaS and Moving Downmarket - MongoDB’s Transformation (https://www.moritzplassnig.com/saas-and-moving-downmarket-mongodbs-transformation/)
TikTok plans Los Angeles "transparency center" to assuage critics (https://www.axios.com/tiktok-los-angeles-china-6b4be5e0-a7ac-4a5c-a929-8538382d4bd3.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Red Hat Launches an OpenShift-Based Marketplace to Aid Multicloud Portability (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-launches-an-openshift-based-marketplace-to-aid-multicloud-portability/)
Nonsense
These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat (https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/2/21419012/edgenuity-online-class-ai-grading-keyword-mashing-students-school-cheating-algorithm-glitch)
CNCF Landscape Puzzle | Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/listing/854562986/cncf-landscape-puzzle)
Carol Baskins Recommends Emacs (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/igitos/carol_baskins_recommends_emacs/)
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Conferences
Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins (https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world). September 22-24, 2020
EnvoyCon 2020 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon/) October 15, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Epic Games episode of Acquired Podcast (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/epic-games).
Coté: Kubernetes and portability (Simon Sharwood summary (https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/08/kubernetes_app_portability_problems/), original from (https://blogs.gartner.com/marco-meinardi/2020/09/04/adopting-kubernetes-application-portability-not-good-idea/) Marco Meinardi).
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9/11/2020 • 54 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 255: We should not emphasise this behaviour
Matt and Brandon discuss VMware’s flex, recap Kubecon and aww at the sight of Zoom’s latest earnings. Plus, we are enlisting all listeners to come help stress test Slack Threads.
The Rundown
VMware’s app modernization chief: ‘We’ve put to bed the debate about containers versus virtual machines’ (https://siliconangle.com/2020/09/01/vmwares-app-modernization-chief-weve-put-bed-debate-containers-versus-virtual-machines/)
Zoom — Fad or new dominant over lord
Zoom crushes Q2 analyst expectations amid pandemic (https://www.axios.com/zoom-crushes-q2-analyst-expectations-amid-pandemic-8d2efec7-0aa4-4a8d-9fba-b278709c6a4f.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
I have never seen such numbers in my life. $ZM. (https://twitter.com/_ram_/status/1300538139971260416?s=21)
What happened at Kubecon: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary (https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/08/kubecon-cloudnativecon-summary/)
BPF Performance Tools (http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html)
Security
Valley private equity firm pays Dell $2.1B for RSA security business (https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/02/19/palo-alto-private-equity-firm-buys-rsa-security.html)
Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts (https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/former_cisco_engineer_aws_webex_teams/)
Stolen Fortnite Accounts Sold as Part of $1 Billion Black Market (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/stolen-fortnite-accounts-sold-as-part-of-1-billion-black-market)
Follow up
Discord is a thing…Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-d2587314-f65c-4cf0-b20f-50ab02564d47.html?chunk=1&utm_term=twsocialshare#story1)
Apple
New Apple TV in the works with 'upgraded' remote, Find My Apple TV remote feature (https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/31/bloomberg-apple-tv-new-remote/)
Opinion | Apple's image is angelic, but it's actually the devil (https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/apple-google-or-facebook-fortnite-lawsuit-shows-who-s-been-ncna1238775)
Is anyone going to buy TikTok
Poll: Google is the best fit to buy TikTok (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-7faca673-ebfe-4d17-acd4-de2c17c60823.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
Relevant to your Interests
AWS launches its Bottlerocket container operating system into general availability (https://siliconangle.com/2020/08/31/aws-launches-bottlerocket-container-operating-system-general-availability/)
Facebook may block news from being shared on its platforms in Australia (https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/8/31/21409644/facebook-block-news-australia-legislation-google-publishers)
Tencent's Dreams, Part II: Investing In The Metaverse (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4371548-tencents-dreams-part-ii-investing-in-metaverse?utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&mail_subject=must-read-tencent-s-dreams-part-ii-investing-in-the-metaverse&utm_campaign=nl-must-read&utm_content=link-1)
Dell enjoys solid earnings beat thanks to remote-work demand surge (https://siliconangle.com/2020/08/27/dell-enjoys-solid-earnings-beat-thanks-remote-work-demand-surge/)
Nonsense
The Resilience of Costco (https://issuu.com/slowappreciation/docs/costco_deck)
Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com | email with nuance (https://heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com/)
Airline pilots reported seeing 'a guy in a jetpack' flying 3,000 feet over Los Angeles (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/airline-pilots-reported-seeing-guy-jetpack-flying-3-000-feet-n1239027?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)
Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790) (https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/joseph-ducreux-self-portraits)
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Listener Feedback
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Sent to stickers to Sacha in Belgium
Conferences
Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins (https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world). September 22-24, 2020
EnvoyCon 2020 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon/) October 15, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 17 – 20 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Listen to Brandon’s Interview Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/254)
Recommendations
Matt Ray: FTL: Faster Than Light (https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html)
Brandon: The Vow on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-vow)
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9/4/2020 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 254: Alexandra Martinez on MuleSoft and API Design
Brandon interviews Alexandra Martinez (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-n-martinez/) and they discuss the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, API Design and ProstDev. Plus, Alexandra recommends the best tacos in Monterrey, Mexico.
Show links
ProstDev (https://www.prostdev.com/)
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (https://www.mulesoft.com/platform/enterprise-integration-c?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=g-brands-na-search-anypoint-platform&utm_term=%2Bmulesoft%20%2Banypoint&utm_content=g-b-c&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1qL6BRCmARIsADV9Jtai-IvZwkHzjPub5fqPMYbhvo_CBmYs7E8tIq4uFXB4XSTcfeV_NkoaAne7EALw_wcB)
Contact Alexandra (https://www.prostdev.com/alexandramartinez)
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Special Guest: Alexandra N. Martinez.
9/1/2020 • 39 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 253: People don’t understand how pay works
This week we give our “expert analysis” of all the impending enterprise IPO’s, discuss Multi-Cloud and try to make sense of Roblox and TikTok. Plus, are salary bands good or bad…?
The Rundown
IPOs
the Palantir IPO mission statement is an amazing artifact (https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1298370679033573376).
Software Developer Tools Company JFrog Adds to Tech IPO Rush (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-24/software-developer-tools-company-jfrog-adds-to-tech-ipo-rush).
Asana files to go public via direct listing (https://www.axios.com/asana-files-to-go-public-via-direct-listing-679fe73c-e249-44b3-b501-dc6e287ab587.html).
Snowflake files for IPO, taking on Amazon and Microsoft cloud database businesses (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/24/snowflake-files-s-1-for-ipo.html).
Unity’s IPO filing shows how big a threat it poses to Epic and the Unreal Engine (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/24/21399611/unity-ipo-game-engine-unreal-competitor-epic-app-store-revenue-profit).
Redis Labs, Maker Of Database Software, Hits $1 Billion Valuation With New Fundraise (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2020/08/25/redis-labs-database-startup-series-f-unicorn/#59b5fe6c3b3a).
Gamers are logging millions of hours a day on Roblox (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/08/21/gamers-are-logging-millions-of-hours-a-day-on-roblox).
Relevant to your Interests
Apple
A14X Bionic to Be ‘Nearly on Par’ With 8-Core Intel Core i9-9880H, According to Fresh Performance Analysis (https://wccftech.com/apple-a14x-bionic-leaked-performance-results-comparable-to-core-i9-9880h/).
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/22/21397424/apple-wordpress-apology-iap-free-ios-app).
Epic Games wins temporary ruling barring Apple from retaliation (https://www.axios.com/epic-apple-court-app-store-fortnite-temporary-ruling-3f80074b-d4d6-42d8-88c6-c68c5d1afac5.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top).
Online Retailing Executives
The second-most important Jeff at Amazon is leaving the company (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21395776/amazon-executive-wilke-retire-logistics-consumer-division).
Downtown Las Vegas fixture Tony Hsieh leaves Zappos (https://vegasinc.lasvegassun.com/business/2020/aug/24/downtown-las-vegas-fixture-tony-hsieh-leaves-zappo/).
Tony Hsieh out as CEO of shoe and clothing giant Zappos (https://www.ktnv.com/news/tony-hsieh-out-as-ceo-of-shoe-and-clothing-giant-zappos?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top).
MSFT
Cloud Revenue: Microsoft Bigger than Amazon and Google, 2X IBM (https://cloudwars.co/microsoft/cloud-revenue-microsoft-bigger-amazon-google-ibm/).
Microsoft plans cloud contract push with foreign governments after $10 billion JEDI win (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/21/microsoft-plans-cloud-push-with-foreign-governments-after-jedi-win.html).
Microsoft’s new Transcribe in Word feature is designed for students, reporters, and more (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21400623/microsoft-transcribe-in-word-transcription-audio-microsoft-365).
TikTok Plans to Challenge Trump Administration Over Executive Order (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/technology/tiktok-lawsuit-trump-executive-order.html?referringSource=articleShare).
At scale, all B2B products converge. It’s reports, alerts, workflow, permissions and approvals all the way down. (https://twitter.com/parkerconrad/status/1297696630355816448?s=21)
Malicious Chinese SDK In 1,200 iOS Apps With Billions Of Installs Causing ‘Major Privacy (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/24/malicious-chinese-sdk-in-1200-ios-apps-with-billions-of-installs-causing-major-privacy-concerns-to-hundreds-of-millions-of-consumers).
Concerns To Hundreds Of Millions Of Consumers (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/24/malicious-chinese-sdk-in-1200-ios-apps-with-billions-of-installs-causing-major-privacy-concerns-to-hundreds-of-millions-of-consumers). (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/24/malicious-chinese-sdk-in-1200-ios-apps-with-billions-of-installs-causing-major-privacy-concerns-to-hundreds-of-millions-of-consumers)’ (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/24/malicious-chinese-sdk-in-1200-ios-apps-with-billions-of-installs-causing-major-privacy-concerns-to-hundreds-of-millions-of-consumers)
Freedom of cloud choice: The myths and truths about multi-cloud (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-myths-and-truths-about-multi-cloud/).
Application modernization requires more than just technology, lots of consultative analysis (https://cote.io/2020/08/26/application-modernization-requires-more-than-just-technology-lots-of-consultative-analysis/).
Fun fact: Nvidia is now worth more than Intel + AMD combined. (https://twitter.com/jwangark/status/1297993022278377475?s=21)
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns (https://www.axios.com/tiktok-ceo-kevin-mayer-resigns-4b9e53f6-3785-41c7-938b-33b0a325704f.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Then he asked me “Is Kubernetes right for us?” (https://medium.com/@alexellisuk/then-he-asked-me-is-kubernetes-right-for-us-78695ee35289)
Nonsense
@PopeyesChicken mobile app doesn't think @heyhey email addresses are real (https://twitter.com/t3rabytes/status/1297979836271558660?s=21).
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Conferences
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/2020/sessions?utm_campaign=cote), Sep 2nd and 3rd.
Devops World 2020 by CloudBees | The Future of DevOps & Jenkins (https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world). September 22-24, 2020
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Connected:Digits (https://www.netflix.com/title/81031737) Benford’s Law.
Anti-recommendation: San Miguel Nacho Cheese (https://latindeli.com.au/product/san-miguel-nacho-cheese-can-2-8k/).
Brandon: Yellowstone Season 3 Finale (https://www.paramountnetwork.com/shows/yellowstone). (https://www.paramountnetwork.com/shows/yellowstone) (https://www.paramountnetwork.com/shows/yellowstone)
Coté: Microsoft OneNote…?
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/uJhgEXPqSPk)
8/28/2020 • 52 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 252: It can be exciting, but excitement ends.
Why would Oracle buy TikTok? Why would Amazon invest in Rackspace? We answer these questions and discuss the state of cloud migrations. Plus, Matt and Coté offers advice on hot dogs.
The Rundown
Oracle and Tik Tok?
Oracle interested in buying TikTok: report (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracle-interested-in-buying-tiktok-report-2020-08-17)
Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations (https://www.ft.com/content/272cfc69-b268-45ac-88d6-d55821f27e78)
Amazon invests in Rackspace?
Amazon reportedly eyes Rackspace minority stake (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3606270-amazon-reportedly-eyes-rackspace-minority-stake-reuters)
Exclusive: Amazon in talks to invest in cloud services company Rackspace (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-rackspace-tech-exclusive/exclusive-amazon-in-talks-to-invest-in-cloud-services-company-rackspace-say-sources-idUSKCN25D1Q6)
Relevant to your Interests
Monitoring
Why Grafana: Part II (https://medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners/why-grafana-part-ii-2e7e42e0f7bb)
Thanos Takes Scalable, Highly-Available Prometheus Monitoring to CNCF Incubation (https://thenewstack.io/thanos-takes-scalable-highly-available-prometheus-monitoring-to-cncf-incubation/)
Docker shocker: Cash-strapped container crew threatens to delete 4.5 petabytes of unloved images (https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/docker_container_retention_policy/)
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200813005776/en/AWS-Announces-General-Availability-Amazon-Braket)
Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams (https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/)
IBM rolls out newest processor chip, taps Samsung for manufacturing (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-rolls-newest-processor-chip-041604337.html)
Michigan is devoting a 40-mile stretch of highway to testing self-driving cars and improving public transportation (https://www.businessinsider.com/michigan-sets-40-mile-highway-aside-for-self-driving-infrastructure-2020-8)
Codice Software joins Unity Technologies to bring version control to real-time 3D workflows (https://blogs.unity3d.com/2020/08/13/codice-software-joins-unity-technologies-to-bring-version-control-to-real-time-3d-workflows/)
Professor Cold Takes (https://twitter.com/vcbrags/status/1295505519021633539?s=21)
Laying the foundation for Rust's future | Rust Blog (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-for-rusts-future.html)
Hot Chips 2020: Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs - Up to 60 Cores Per Die, 96 Dual-Die in 2021 (https://www.anandtech.com/show/15995/hot-chips-2020-marvell-details-thunderx3)
R281-T94 (rev. 100) | ARM Servers - GIGABYTE Global (https://www.gigabyte.com/ARM-Server/R281-T94-rev-100#ov)
WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Bets on Office-Based Work With Expansion in Major Cities (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-bets-on-office-based-work-with-expansion-in-major-cities-11597741203?mod=djemalertNEWS)
Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You (https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc)
Apple and Epic are still fighting: Epic Games Newsroom (https://twitter.com/EpicNewsroom/status/1295430127455596544)
Nonsense
AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines (https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-program/aadvantage-program-updates.jsp) - credit cards dollars/miles count for Milljon Miles program.
The Qwerty Effect (https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/qwerty-effect.php)
An Australian surfer saved his wife from a great white shark attack by leaping on the predator's back and repeatedly punching until it let go (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-surfer-saves-wife-shark-attack-punching-repeatedly-2020-8)
No worries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_worries)
Harry Potter's invisibility cloak is almost a reality, but only for likely military use (https://mashable.com/video/harry-potter-invisibility-cloak-hyperstealth-biotechnology/)
Conferences
GitLab Commit: You Belong Here (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) on Aug 26th.
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/2020/sessions?utm_campaign=cote), Sep 2nd and 3rd.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Arch Linux, so fun? IKEA veggie dogs (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/this-is-ikea/sustainable-everyday/veggie-hot-dog-plant-based-goodness-pub166a3131)
Brandon: The Wubi Effect from Radiolab (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/wubi-effect)
Coté: hot dogs, Danish red and American.
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/OzUJa5Q9m1g)
8/21/2020 • 1 hour, 59 seconds
Episode 251: Don’t you use my words against me
We discuss all the latest M&A rumors including: MSFT buying TikTok, Nvidia buying ARM and Salesforce.com buying Datadog. We also weigh in on the latest fight between Fortnite and Apple over the App Store. Plus, we offer advice on air conditioning and cars.
The Rundown
Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366438/apple-fortnite-ios-app-store-violations-epic-payments)
TikTok
Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveoutRelevant to your interests (https://isp.netscape.com/tech/story/0002/20200810/KCN256100_4?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL3I3TkJVVXY1NnY_YW1wPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAL2nsHYXGEi21zKAvxi9DgfKi3ciW_4TUfuWCXkfxkgloSjolJ7hJE2QV_hK1U6fg60M9rPcdMVsxmGjQzZMMcbjH4nh-8SD2fvklxGnEfc7fWOLKxfGetWMzTNptWFcYjDBoztN6COQzTU9LE05yCiC-wKpEhehH_ZIZf2t-Sdk&_guc_consent_skip=1597066473)
We Tested Instagram Reels, the TikTok Clone. What a Dud. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/personaltech/tested-facebook-reels-tiktok-clone-dud.html)
Datadog
Why Datadog Stock Was Slammed on Friday @themotleyfool #stocks $DDOG (https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/08/07/why-datadog-stock-was-slammed-on-friday.aspx)
Datadog Acquires Undefined Labs to Provide Visibility into CI/CD Workflows (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200806005801/en/Datadog-Acquires-Undefined-Labs-Provide-Visibility-CICD)
Why Datadog Stock Popped Today @themotleyfool #stocks $DDOG $CRM (https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/08/13/why-datadog-stock-popped-today/)
Google
Can Brian Hall Fix What Ails Google Cloud? (https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/07/can-brian-hall-fix-what-ails-google-cloud/)
Google Cloud's expanding enterprise footprint and the rise of the 10 year deal (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2020/07/31/google-clouds-expanding-enterprise-footprint-and-the-rise-of-the-10-year-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-clouds-expanding-enterprise-footprint-and-the-rise-of-the-10-year-deal)
****- Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh based on Envoy – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/05/microsoft-launches-open-service-mesh/)
Matt’s corner
Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/google-music-shutdown-starts-this-month-music-deleted-in-december/)
Nvidia in Advanced Talks to Buy SoftBank’s Chip Company Arm (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/nvidia-said-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-softbank-s-chip-company-arm)
Relevant to your Interests
The Ten Commandments of Container Security - InfraCloud Technologies (https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/top-10-things-for-container-security/)
The Second Edition of “The State of the Kubernetes Ecosystem” (https://thenewstack.io/ebooks/kubernetes/state-of-kubernetes-ecosystem-second-edition-2020/)
Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns (https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/03/linux_foundation_forms_openssf/)
Apple Buys Startup to Challenge Square in Mobile Payments (https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/08/03/apple-buys-startup-to-challenge-square-in-mobile-p.aspx)
IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim Whitehurst Isn't Even Using GNU/Linux (http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/red-hat-layoffs/)
Rackspace IPO prices at bottom of target range to raise about $703 million (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rackspace-tech-ipo/rackspace-ipo-prices-at-bottom-of-target-range-source-idUSKCN2502W8)
Mistake by Apple kills all Mac developer's apps - 9to5Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/05/mistake-by-apple/)
Resigning from AWS on Ethical Grounds with Tim Bray — Screaming in the Cloud (https://overcast.fm/+RWDWDrv5M)
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates)
Toshiba Will No Longer Make Laptops (https://interestingengineering.com/toshiba-will-no-longer-make-laptops)
VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately (https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/10/vmware_ends_datrium_orders_and_support/)
Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-lays-off-250-employees-while-it-refocuses-on-commercial-products/)
Google rolls out virtual visiting card in India – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/10/google-people-card-virtual-business-card-search-india)
Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/13/mirantis-acquires-lens-an-ide-for-kubernetes/)
Working in Public and the Economics of Free (https://diff.substack.com/p/working-in-public-and-the-economics)
“Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights."
Nonsense
Decision making IS FUN | Spin The Wheel App (https://spinthewheel.app/)
AAirpass (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAirpass)
kelseyhightower/mesh (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/mesh)
Conferences
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th.
GitLab Commit: You Belong Here (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) on Aug 26th.
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/2020/sessions?utm_campaign=cote), Sep 2nd and 3rd.
Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Sachin in NSW Australia
Sent stickers to Jesse in Georgia, he says we are like family.
Colin tweeted at us. (https://twitter.com/cwestwater/status/1289994700288659457)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Google Docs → Tools → Voice typing: Matt’s SDT 251 Transcript (https://docs.google.com/document/d/16vBjBfYkK_nzuTt0c3oqNmPIqYf7uTJVBlDY4Y3hetE/edit?usp=sharing)
Brandon: Anker Wireless Charger (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DBXZZN3/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/xWkRYoSf8_c)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/ZvWBcnv6KZs)
8/14/2020 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 39 seconds
Episode 250: Jana Werner, a Head of Transformation
Slide decks, paper proposals and steering group sessions all take a significant investment to prepare, avoiding “difficult” conversations by socializing and re-socializing in advance of exec meetings, deferring decisions, requesting a raft of meeting minutes to document, correcting, amending and signing them off—the majority of which few people read.... The speed of these cycles determines the heartbeat of the organization.
This week, Coté talks with Jana Werner about a recent paper she co-authored about changing how a large financial institution does software.
Check out the paper (https://twitter.com/JanaWernerSays/status/1278414903209050112) and Jana in LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janawerner1/) Also, check out the talk she has coming up at SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/2020/sessions/how-not-to-develop-a-modern-product-management-practice-at-speed). Special Guest: Jana Werner.
8/7/2020 • 46 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 249: Was Tom Landry cool?
The week we discuss New Relic’s open source plans, why monitoring is so complicated and try to unravel the mystery of enterprise pricing. Plus, Coté finds out that you can indeed use too much soap.
The Rundown
Friend us and follow SDT on Twitch: sdtpodcat (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast)
New Relic Changes Business Model, Open Sources Agents and Instrumentation (https://thenewstack.io/new-relic-changes-business-model-open-sources-agents-and-instrumentation/)
Analysts Estimate New Relic (NEWR) to Report a Decline in Earnings: (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/analysts-estimate-relic-newr-report-163304199.html)
Relevant to your interests
How Kubernetes adds agility in challenging times (https://cote.io/2020/07/29/how-kubernetes-adds-agility-in-challenging-times/)
The Impact of AI on Organizations (https://m-cacm.acm.org/news/246457-the-impact-of-ai-on-organizations/fulltext)
The Opportunity in App Modernization (https://www.infoq.com/articles/app-modernization-opportunity/)
Cloudflare Wants to Eat AWS’s Serverless Lunch (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/cloudflare-wants-eat-aws-s-serverless-lunch)
Amazon reportedly invested in startups and gained proprietary information before launching competitors, often crushing the smaller companies in the process (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-startup-investment-competitors-wsj-report-echo-nucleus-ubi-2020-7?r=US&IR=T)
Huawei overtook Samsung in global smartphone shipments for Q2 – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/30/huawei-overtook-samsung-in-global-smartphone-shipments-for-q2/)
Transformation case study (https://cote.io/2020/07/30/transformation-case-study/)
Growth+Sales: The New Era of Enterprise Go-to-Market (https://a16z.com/2020/07/29/growthsales-the-new-era-of-enterprise-go-to-market/)
Can Brian Hall Fix What Ails Google Cloud? (https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/07/can-brian-hall-fix-what-ails-google-cloud/)
Taiwan is now Arrakis | Epsilon Theory (https://www.epsilontheory.com/taiwan-is-now-arrakis/)
Congress's historic tech hearing suggests antitrust crackdown could come soon (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/29/congress-tech-hearing-mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos)
The new Teams experience (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/new-meeting-and-calling-experience-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/1537581?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=IokOf8qagZo&ranSiteID=IokOf8qagZo-RB2H0XGhSA5R2_QEYO1RSw&epi=IokOf8qagZo-RB2H0XGhSA5R2_QEYO1RSw&irgwc=1&OCID=AID2000142_aff_7593_1243925&tduid=(ir__rcc90e3pfgkftwbpkk0sohzgcu2xim0r6ogxvzpw00)(7593)(1243925)(IokOf8qagZo-RB2H0XGhSA5R2_QEYO1RSw)()&irclickid=_rcc90e3pfgkftwbpkk0sohzgcu2xim0r6ogxvzpw00)
Op-Ed: Kubernetes May Be Google’s Last Great Open Project (https://thenewstack.io/op-ed-kubernetes-may-be-googles-last-great-open-project/)
Nonsense
How to Sell Books in 2020: Put Them Near the Toilet Paper (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/books/books-coronavirus-retail-walmart-target-costco.html)
Parents with children forced to do school at home are drinking more (https://theconversation.com/parents-with-children-forced-to-do-school-at-home-are-drinking-more-143164)
Conferences
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/2020/sessions?utm_campaign=cote), Sep 2nd and 3rd.
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th.
GitLab Commit: You Belong Here (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) on Aug 26th.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/sdtpodcast), Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Anti-picks Cisco WebEx, Sabrent (no links, no recommendations)
Brandon: Audio Hijack (https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/).
Coté: AU apostrophe’s (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-02/apostrophe-protection-society-closes-down-john-richards/11756830).
7/31/2020 • 57 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 248: They want cloud grade
We recap the recent announcements from Google Next and discuss Rackspace's upcoming IPO. Plus, Coté reviews the ambient noise videos on YouTube.
The Rundown
Google Next
Google Cloud details Confidential Computing 'breakthrough' (https://9to5google.com/2020/07/14/google-cloud-confidential-computing/)
BigQuery Omni for multi-cloud data analytics (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-bigquery-omni)
Assured Workloads for Government: Compliance without compromise (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/assured-workloads-for-government-compliance-without-compromise)
Rackspace
Rackspace IPO S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1810019/000119312520190902/d915709ds1.htm)
Rackspace IPO Plan: How Multi-Cloud MSP Pivoted Under Private Equity Ownership (https://www.channele2e.com/business/finance/rackspace-ipo-business-evolution/)
Long Term Stock Exchange (https://longtermstockexchange.com)
Relevant to your interests
VC
Puppet announces $40 million debt round from BlackRock (https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/16/puppet-announces-40-million-debt-round-from-blackrock/)
Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/portland-cloud-automation-startup-puppet-raises-40m/)
Auth0 Announces $120M in Series F Funding (https://auth0.com/blog/auth0-announces-120m-seriesf-funding/)
Messaging
Slack has filed an antitrust complaint over Microsoft Teams in the EU (https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/22/slack-has-filed-an-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft-teams-in-the-eu/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIllSRtHgcGS7g6oto1maWCCQ890CSmZ84JdsJKJBaN03YDoQxpd3-_1eGnXMPZNiOaygWKkQ5MgJzFPgHWrc523cAcMVFfKMdU4SjGqEMITr4NGPkGkm7LfVMMTw4Cv6BhiPfI8zDXhfprunrEtjEb_qByhLU7sCgJNq3sUExmk)
Major Gmail redesign will bring Chat, Meet, Tasks and Docs into one interface (https://www.techradar.com/news/major-gmail-redesign-integrates-chat-meet-tasks-and-docs-collaboration-into-one)
Share screens using Messages on Mac (https://support.apple.com/guide/messages/screen-sharing-icht11883/mac)
AWS
Salesforce, AWS launch Amazon Connect integration with Service Cloud | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/salesforce-aws-launch-amazon-connect-integration-with-service-cloud/)
Announcing AWS App2Container - Containerize and Migrate Applications to the AWS Cloud (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/announcing-aws-app2container/)
Just Too Efficient (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/05/Too-Efficient) from Tim Bray
Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/technology/tiktok-amazon-security-risk.html?referringSource=articleShare)
The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS (https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/07/20/the-growing-dependence-of-vmware-on-aws/)
Hacks and Outages
Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html)
Twitter explains outage on Twitter (https://twitter.com/twittersupport/status/1284331132255756288?s=21)
Cloudflare outage takes down Discord, Shopify, Politico and others – TechCrunch (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEFCrt1oQs_NAsoBZB4gnL4YqFAgEKg0IACoGCAowlIEBMLEXMOc_?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story - Tony Chen, Microsoft - Platform Security Summit 2019 (https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/)
IBM
IBM improves gross margins in Q2 under new CEO (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/20/ibm-earnings-q2-2020.html)
IBM Earnings Preview: Red Hat Merger Is The Future, But Pandemic Timing Couldn't Be Worse (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4359079-ibm-earnings-preview-red-hat-merger-is-future-pandemic-timing-couldnt-be-worse)
Kube Corner
Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community - DevOps.com (https://devops.com/google-exposes-old-wounds-in-open-source-community/)
Operator Framework (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/07/09/toc-approves-operator-framework-as-incubating-project/)
More
16 Must-Listen Podcasts for IT/Tech Professionals (https://www.bmc.com/blogs/tech-it-podcasts/)
Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle (https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/10/digicert_pulls_certs/)
JetBrains Technology Day for Java (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FNNO3X_go0)
Aerial fiber deployment, faster and more efficient - Facebook Engineering (https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/aerial-fiber-deployment/)
You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot (https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/13/if_customer_service_for_verizon/)
TrickBot Sample Accidentally Warns Victims They’re Infected (https://threatpost.com/trickbot-sample-accidentally-warns-victims/157390/)
Samsung’s 6G White Paper Lays Out the Company’s Vision for the Next Generation of Communications Technology (https://news.samsung.com/global/samsungs-6g-white-paper-lays-out-the-companys-vision-for-the-next-generation-of-communications-technology)
The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2020 Infographic (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2020)
It would cost us $3 million a year to give our employees email addresses (https://twitter.com/thecitywanderer/status/1283160448192446466?s=21)
Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale (https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/07/14/softbank_considering_arm_sale_report/)
Dell Says It’s Exploring Potential Spinoff of VMware Unit (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-15/dell-says-it-s-exploring-the-spinoff-of-vmware-unit)
OKD4 is now Generally Available (https://www.openshift.com/blog/okd4-is-now-generally-available)
VS Code grows, Emacs holds steady (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1283939343334346752?s=21)
Airbnb Was Like a Family, Until the Layoffs Started (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/airbnb-coronavirus-layoffs-.html)
How to setup Role based access to Kubernetes Cluster - InfraCloud Technologies (https://www.infracloud.io/role-based-access-kubernetes/)
A $100 Million Investment to Reshape the Economics of the Web (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/100-million-investment-reshape-economics-web/)
Ireland donates its COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation (https://www.nearform.com/blog/ireland-donates-contact-tracing-app-to-linux-foundation/)
How Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves (https://napkinmath.substack.com/p/how-costco-convinces-brands-to-cannibalize)
Straddling the firewall: cloud from 2010 to 2020 (& what to do next) (https://cote.io/2020/07/22/straddling-the-firewall-cloud-from-2010-to-2020-what-to-do-next/)
SUSE releases major Linux update | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-releases-major-linux-update/)
How to broadcast to Twitch and Zoom with OBS (https://tech.paulcz.net/blog/obs-broadcast-to-zoom-and-twitch/)
Nonsense
Travel Dress Pant Sweatpants (https://www.betabrand.com/travel-dress-pant-sweatpants)
IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old (https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/13/ibm_kubernetes_experience_job_ad/)
British Airways retires its entire fleet of Boeing 747 jets (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/17/british-airways-retires-its-entire-fleet-of-boeing-747-jets.html)
I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBrbdU_y0s)
Coté’s ambient noise videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiXXWnYOt2H47MvTGAIjiqV_)
Conferences
SpringOne Platform (https://springone.io/2020/sessions?utm_campaign=cote), Sep 2nd and 3rd.
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th.
GitLab Commit: You Belong Here (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) on Aug 26th.
SDT news & hype
Listen to Richard Seroter interview (http://Richard Seroter)
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Palm Springs (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9484998/).
Brandon: Reckoning (https://www.netflix.com/title/81277909).
Coté:
Vivino wine app (https://www.vivino.com/app) (you can order wine, next day!)
Apple Magic Touch pad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Trackpad_2) thing.
Setapp (https://setapp.com/).
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/seagal)
7/24/2020 • 46 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 247: Richard Seroter on App Modernization
On this episode Brandon interviews Richard Seroter from Google. They discuss Richard's career, Product Management & Marketing, Google Anthos and what App Modernization really means. Plus, Richard tells us how a doctor removes a wedding ring when you have a fractured finger.
Mentioned on the Show
Richard joins Google (https://seroter.com/2020/05/26/im-joining-google-cloud-for-the-same-reasons-you-should-be-a-customer/)
Richard on the web
Blog: Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings (https://seroter.com/)
Twitter: @rseroter (https://twitter.com/rseroter)
LinkedIn: seroter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/seroter/)
Phote Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/__Hw50q04FI) Special Guest: Richard Seroter.
We discuss: the trademark moves of Google; open source skullduggery; why Slack has the upper-hand on Teams…or not?; and Coté’s growing love of .docx files.
Mood board:
I read a lot of Wikipedia when I should be working
After all this, time people probably think that whatever you’re doing is “working.”
Did you respond with an emoji thumbs-up?
I read the email. Thought about it for a few hours. Then thought “I’m just going to archive that email.”
He’s big in the Angular community - works all the angels.
Little components that talk with each other over the network. Gotta do a whole bunch of shit for that.
You don’t sue people who are using it if you want them to use it.
Service mesh is Greek for “service mesh.”
Lady Cathemhouse’s Rules.
Chekhov’s Trademark.
Couple thousand stores.
…and maybe integrate with their Active Directory.
“Federated Slacks.”
I think I like the Word file.
No one can poop all over your stuff in a way that you forgot what it looked like when it was clean.
De-headwind yourself from the COVID.
I’m mad about The Edit by Default.
I can’t find my tongs, they’ve gone somewhere.
I wouldn’t say that I’d recommend it, I’m just saying I enjoy it.
The Rundown
Commons cause: IBM, Oracle, CNCF protest over Google's handling of Istio governance (https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/09/ibm_oracle_cncf_protest_commons/)
SUSE corrals Rancher Labs
SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs (https://rancher.com/press/suse-to-acquire-rancher/)
SUSE acquires Kubernetes management platform Rancher Labs (https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/08/suse-acquires-kubernetes-management-platform-rancher-labs/)
Linux company SUSE outbids competitors for fast-growing start-up Rancher Labs (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/suse-acquires-rancher-labs.html)
Slack
The Slack Social Network (https://stratechery.com/2020/the-slack-social-network/)
swyx Writing | Slack is Fumbling Developers (https://www.swyx.io/writing/slack-fumble/)
Slack acquires SaaS start-up Rimeto (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/slack-acquires-saas-startup-rimeto.html)
State of Developer Relations 2020 Report (https://www.wip.org/post/state-of-developer-relations-2020-report)
Redis
The end of the Redis adventure (http://antirez.com/news/133)
New Governance for Redis | Redis Labs (https://redislabs.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/)
Relevant to your interests
Tim Bray Blogs
Anti monopoly (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/08/Anti-monopoly)
Amazon profit from AWS (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/14/Amazon-profit-from-AWS)
A Cloud PR FAQ (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/21/A-Cloud-PR-FAQ)
Break up Google (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/25/Break-Up-Google 7:02 Interesting reads for sure.)
Why Buybacks & Boeing are Public Enemy Number One (w/ Dr. William Lazonick) (https://youtu.be/UAjQLYEQ9dc?t=3206)
iOS 14 Snitches on LinkedIn and Reddit's Snooping Practices (https://gizmodo.com/linkedin-and-reddit-are-the-latest-apps-found-to-be-sno-1844268155)
Quibbi Gossip (http://bwhichard:grinning: 1:57 PM https://twitter.com/dkthomp/status/1280150657018855424?s=21)
Third Base | No Mercy / No Malice (https://www.profgalloway.com/third-base?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NMNM20190703)
Uber Buys Postmates for $2.65 Billion (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/technology/uber-postmates-deal.html)
Digital Contact Tracing's Mixed Record Abroad Spells Trouble for US Efforts to Rein in COVID-19 (https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2020/07/digital-contact-tracings-mixed-record-abroad-spells-trouble-us-efforts-rein-covid-19/166649/)
FBI Opens a New China-Related Counterintelligence Investigation Every 10 Hours, Director Says (https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2020/07/fbi-opens-new-china-related-counterintelligence-investigation-every-10-hours-director-says/166706/)
Oracle: Low Revenue Growth And Excessive Buybacks Have Pushed Oracle Out Of Competition (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4357400-oracle-low-revenue-growth-and-excessive-buybacks-pushed-oracle-out-of-competition)
The collaborative browser based IDE (https://repl.it/)
How to add a README to your GitHub profile (https://dev.to/natterstefan/how-to-add-a-readme-to-your-github-profile-2bo9)
Nonsense
How to make incredible juicy burgers from extra lean ground beef (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qztzj8sb-fE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1O8ajeQek83IiaYmSTn0DUiSs33DXpMa1fSlBgT6V613XwdhG-2UAaq14)
The Blue Label Burger Blend Recipe (https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/10/the-blue-label-burger-blend-recipe.html)
Sponsor
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Conferences
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype
Listen to the Adam Jacob Interview on Open Source (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/211)
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: The Missing (https://www.starz.com/us/en/series/22387/episodes?season=2)
Matt Ray: Watchmen (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7049682/)
Coté: Oatly Milk (https://us.oatly.com/products/barista-edition-oatmilk).
7/11/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 245: Michael Coté’s Discount Webinar Barn, aka, The Webinar Episode
Come with us as we solve life’s greatest mystery: lead-genless webinars. Coté also gives his 10 day in review of Hey email. Also, theories on grilling hamburgers.
Mood board:
They got money, kicking out the Nazis
Have you tried saying it louder?
It came out fine.
The burger meat here is like a bunch of little worms.
Long form commercials.
Webinar as conference.
Sitting in a Zoom.
People don’t want to show up and consensually watch a YouTube video.
The Wine Bottle Leads.
The Minecraft Yellers.
The pink slurry of enterprise software content.
There’s nothing at the bottom of their funnel.
I know all those things, I just don’t like them.
HigherGradeWebinars.biz
The conclusion of the plutes.
Today was the last day of school for the kids. Tomorrow, the nightmare begins.
The Rundown
The New Conference
Apple’s virtual WWDC wasn’t just okay—it could be the future of keynotes (https://www.fastcompany.com/90519618/apples-virtual-wwdc-wasnt-just-okay-it-could-be-the-future-of-keynotes)
Google Next over 9 Weeks (https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf/)
In the first cohort of HEY signups, 37% have converted to a paid account! (https://twitter.com/heyhey/status/1277959957053243392)
Relevant to your interests
Email Is Broken (https://mikestone.me/email-is-broken)
Analysis: Here are five strategic options for Dell and VMware (https://siliconangle.com/2020/06/29/analysis-five-strategic-options-dell-vmware/)
Arm Macs and AMD rising: How Intel's endless 10nm struggles cost it so much (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3563786/arm-macs-and-amd-rising-how-intels-endless-10nm-struggles-cost-it-so-much.html)
US police using Chinese drones are ‘at risk’ of data breach, DHS warns (https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/us-police-using-chinese-drones-at-risk-of-data-breach-dhs/)
Amazon jumps into self-driving taxis with purchase of Zoox (https://www.axios.com/amazon-jumps-into-self-driving-taxis-with-purchase-of-zoox-99cffedd-d3ef-4ce9-84d9-94ca4d84d865.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
Discord Was Once The Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Now It’s Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation (https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/06/30/discord-was-once-the-alt-rights-favorite-chat-app-now-its-gone-mainstream-and-scored-a-new-35-billion-valuation/#54d0bbd2b6b2)
Your Place to Talk (https://blog.discord.com/your-place-to-talk-a7ffa19b901b)
An Infrastructure Arms Race Is Fueling the Future of Gaming (https://www.wired.com/story/cloud-gaming-infrastructure-arms-race/)
Ranking the Observability Offerings - APM Experts (https://www.apmexperts.com/observability/ranking-the-observability-offerings/)
Flying
Secret Flying | Cheap Flights & Error Fares (https://www.secretflying.com/)
Jack's Flight Club | Cheap Flights, Flight Deals & Alerts (https://jacksflightclub.com/)
Interactive Route Map of Low Cost Airline flights in Europe (http://www.low-cost-airline-guide.com/en/airline-route-map.htm)
Alternative Airlines | Book Flights on 100s of Airlines (https://www.alternativeairlines.com/)
Nonsense
Coming soon to a 3D printer near you: Plant-based steaks (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-food-alternative-meat/coming-soon-to-a-3d-printer-near-you-plant-based-steaks-idUSKBN2411OL)
Big Red soda is the secret to make deliciously tender smoked pork chops (https://youtu.be/q9ezbJFK-FU)
Conferences
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype
Listen to interview with Kylie Grenier about Digital Transformation (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/244)
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Land of the Giants (https://www.vox.com/land-of-the-giants-podcast) podcast (https://www.vox.com/land-of-the-giants-podcast).
Matt Ray: Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway (https://amzn.to/38ymBgd).
Coté: Euro breakfast on the go.
7/3/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 244: Kylie Grenier on Digital Transformation
Brandon interviews Kylie Grenier from DXC Technology (https://www.dxc.technology/). They discuss Kylie's experience in leading digital transformation in the public sector, her time as a Cloud Futurist at Cisco and how she helps clients build digital transformation strategies today. Plus, Kylie offers some tips on how to get a new job.
Kylie on the web
Twitter: @CurrentKylie (https://twitter.com/CurrentKylie)
LinkedIn: kyliegrenier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyliegrenier/)
Image credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/yhFdxUYkgA8) Special Guest: Kylie Grenier.
6/30/2020 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 243: This one goes out to all the cross-country truckers
Extracting configs with awk, Apple announces stuff, and salad dressing. That’s the topics. Mostly.
Mood board:
One
How come Slack doesn’t have a DropBox yet?
I got the Call Recorder!
Brand Police.
You’d get to do a lot of writing, but you’d get a lot of editing.
Dunning Keurig
Yeet your email.
I don’t know where it comes from, but my kids got me saying it.
People just throwing tickets into the wind.
Awk yeah
You should sanitize your inputs every day, Matt Ray.
I’ve been treating Apple news like Star Wars news.
The Builders.
We got piles of clip art.
Elfin robot children on a sea of green binary.
MacOS 11.1, “Green Goddess”
There’s only one MC who talks about space and cross-country truck driving.
Watch the get to school on time tapes.
John Irving Parenting.
Until then, I’ll just ground him from his iPad.
The Rundown
Kool Keith interview (https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/rapper-and-producer-kool-keith-on-creating-your-own-worlds/): “I’m dis-attached from reality on my own terms.”
Luxury Email
Cote reviews HEY
Outlook update: ^e works in the Mac desktop app.
Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced (https://www.theverge.com/21299681/superhuman-email-app-review-price-gmail-iphone-mac)
Basecamp is good at PR — How Basecamp bent Apple (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/issues/how-basecamp-bent-apple-258687?utm_campaign=Issue&utm_content=view_in_browser&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Interface)
Wait — Slack is killing email with Slack Connect
M&A
ServiceNow to acquire Belgian configuration management startup Sweagle (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/servicenow-to-acquire-belgian-configuration-management-startup-sweagle/)
Not sure about people who use the word “infra.”
I think it’s a configuration store that plugs into CI pipelines - sort of like a ConfigMap for Jenkins.
“SWEAGLE provides a quality gate for your configuration data. Includes versioning, management, and validation of all types of config data.” https://github.com/jenkinsci/sweagle-plugin (https://github.com/jenkinsci/sweagle-plugin)
It will run validates to make sure the hostname is valid, there are no empty values, etc. Has a JavaScript SDK for writing validation code.
ServiceNow integration that extracts confit from CMDB. https://github.com/sweagleExpert/integrations/tree/master/ServiceNow (https://github.com/sweagleExpert/integrations/tree/master/ServiceNow)
Microsoft confirms acquisition of CyberX to boost security in its Azure IoT business (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/microsoft-confirms-acquisition-of-cyberx-to-boost-security-in-its-iot-business/)
Apple has acquired Fleetsmith, a startup that helps IT manage Apple devices remotely (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/24/apple-has-acquired-fleetsmith-a-startup-that-helps-it-manage-apple-devices-remotely/)
Apple Talk
Apple will let you emulate old apps and run iOS apps on ARM Macs – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/apple-will-let-you-emulate-old-apps-and-run-ios-apps-on-arm-macs/)
The End of OS X (https://stratechery.com/2020/the-end-of-os-x/)
Apple Docker Tweet (https://twitter.com/TALlama/status/1275175905749417984?s=20)
Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21295475/apple-mac-processors-arm-silicon-chips-wwdc-2020)
Are you actually changing? (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/are-you-actually-changing/)
Relevant to your interests
Google pushes “text fragment links” with new Chrome extension (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-pushes-text-fragment-links-with-new-chrome-extension/#p3)
Spotmicro - robot dog by KDY0523 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3445283)
The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs (https://onezero.medium.com/the-segways-inventor-has-a-new-project-manufacturing-human-organs-7a6a2da7c8f4)
Fortnite’s new season has flooded the map (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/17/21292876/fortnite-chapter-2-season-3-splashdown-launched-trailer-battle-pass)
The Next Step for Mixer - From the Myxer (https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/)
Announcing the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-cloud-platform/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Dell Explores Spinoff of $50 Billion Stake in VMware (https://www.wsj.com/articles/dell-explores-options-for-81-vmware-stake-11592942687)
Amazon is looking to add live TV to Prime Video (https://www.protocol.com/amazon-prime-live-tv)
kelseyhightower/nocode (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode)
Containers to capture 15 percent of all enterprise apps across 75 percent of business by 2024 (https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/25/container_forecast_gartner/)
Inside the Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-23/golden-geese-and-unicorns-inside-the-eccentric-presentations-of-masayoshi-son)
Nonsense
Chocolate Digestives (https://mcvities.co.uk/products/chocolate-digestives)
Scottish Man tries Southern Snacks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_IlrGLBuzw)
Emoji Search Finally Coming to iOS in iOS 14 (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/22/emoji-search-ios-14/)
Not enough public toilets in Amsterdam especially for women, wheelchair users (https://nltimes.nl/2020/06/24/enough-public-toilets-amsterdam-especially-women-wheelchair-users)
BYE (https://bye.fyi/)
Sponsor
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Conferences
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype
Listen to interview with Brian Gracely (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/242)
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: ** (https://www.amazon.com/ZeroZeroZero/dp/B084GJTDYV)The Data Coach - Against the Rules with Michael Lewis (https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-data-coach-s1!68200); Trust Fall : Invisibilia (https://www.npr.org/2020/06/02/868001948/trust-fall).
****- Matt Ray: The Coup: Party Music (https://amzn.to/3dyODcb)
Coté: Razer Kiyo (https://www.bol.com/nl/p/razer-kiyo-streaming-camera-webcam/9200000084404822/).
Outro: "Livin' Astro," Kool Keith.
6/26/2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 242: Brian Gracely on OpenShift
On this episode Brandon interviews Brian Gracely from Red Hat. They discuss Brian's early career at Cisco, his experience with OpenStack, why he joined Red Hat and what's happening with OpenShift. Plus, Brian tells us what it's like to be a VP of Product at a startup and recommends some College Football Podcasts to get us through the off season.
Mentioned on the Show
Solid Verbal (https://www.solidverbal.com/)
The Andy Staples Show (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-andy-staples-show-a-show-about-college-football/id1477536795)
The POPCAST with Dan POP (https://overcast.fm/itunes1503966242/the-popcast-with-dan-pop)
OpenShift
learn.openshift.com (https://learn.openshift.com/)
demo.openshift.com (https://demo.openshift.com/en/latest/)
try.openshfit.com (https://www.openshift.com/try)
Brian on the web
Podcast: The Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/)
Twitter: @bgracely (https://twitter.com/bgracely)
LinkedIn: briangracely (https://www.linkedin.com/in/briangracely/) Special Guest: Brian Gracely.
6/22/2020 • 53 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 241: Ask more questions, send more one line emails
Can email ever be fixed, or is GMail good enough? We discuss. Plus, Coté complains about how he should probably start asking more questions instead of answering them at length. Also, we don’t know what a “digestive” is and do not recommend the Mexican bakery pastries.
Mood board:
I’m perfectly willing to burn my own time on boondoggles.
I introduced my kids to King of the Hill yesterday - they did not like it. Or Beavis and Butthead, or South Park.
How many instructions are in the ARM chip?
Are we gonna start the show?
That looks boring.
What is a biscuit in Australia? A hazy space between crackers and cookies.
More sugar than a Ritz
It’s a medical grade cookie.
The Mexican Bakery Trap.
Just get the tacos.
Hey!
I’ve got 500 email addresses, how am I supposed to disappear?
I think there’s like, 12, 13 calendars on my Mac.
We got to the bottom of HEY!
Marketing Oblique Strategies.
The Seth Godin problem.
The Purple Moo.
Welcome to the Halo Effect.
For your 6 to 50 page strategy memo, email me at [email protected].
You didn’t make a TV show that people wanted to watch.
The Rundown
Hey, do we need a new email service?
Hey is a wildly opinionated new email service from the makers of Basecamp (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21286466/hey-email-basecamp-price-availability-platforms-launch)
DHH calls Apple a monopoly (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1272968382329942017?s=21)
Market Power
Apple’s App Store policies are bad, but its interpretation and enforcement are worse (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/17/21293813/apple-app-store-policies-hey-30-percent-developers-the-trial-by-franz-kafka)
Apple’s App Store fees are "highway robbery," says House Antitrust Committee chair (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295778/apple-app-store-hey-email-fees-policies-antitrust-wwdc-2020)
Google brings Meet to Gmail on mobile (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/16/google-brings-meet-to-gmail-on-mobile/)
Hey Larry Ellison: Microsoft’s #1 Priority Is Replacing Oracle Database (https://cloudwars.co/microsoft/hey-larry-ellison-top-microsoft-priority-is-replacing-oracle-database/)
Epic Games seeking to sell stake for $750 million at $17 billion valuation (https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/15/epic-games-shareholders-seeking-to-sell-stake-for-750-million-at-17-billion-valuation/)
Too much typing from Coté, from Coté’s newsletter last week (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/008d9a22-a534-4b9b-9a71-bf656e9f95dd).
Relevant to your interests
Softbank invested in Credit Suisse funds financing its Vision Fund bets (https://www.cityam.com/softbank-invested-in-credit-suisse-funds-financing-its-vision-fund-bets/).
Nintendo now says 300,000 accounts breached by hackers (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/09/nintendo-accounts-affected-breach).
Big Footy data breach exposed private details of up to 100,000 users (https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/big-footy-data-breach-exposed-private-details-of-up-to-100-000-users-20200529-p54xnz.html).
Adobe Flash Player End of Life (https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html).
Dropbox officially launches its own password manager and a secure vault for your files (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/16/21290101/dropbox-passwords-manager-vault-computer-backup-hellosign-app-center).
Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500 (https://www.theverge.com/21292684/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-on-sale-price).
Panera adds geofencing to curbside pickup (https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technology/panera-adds-geofencing-curbside-pickup).
T-Mobile offers an explanation for its twelve-hour outage on Monday (https://www.engadget.com/t-mobile-outage-092021962.html).
Zoom will offer full encryption to free users after all (https://www.cnet.com/news/zoom-will-offer-full-encryption-to-free-users-after-all/).
Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-asks-court-block-former-aws-marketing-vp-working-google-cloud-next-speeches/).
Nonsense
Toilet advocates plead for more public facilities during corona (https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/06/toilet-advocates-plead-for-more-public-facilities-during-corona/).
Sponsor
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Listener Feedback
Sent to stickers to Robert in the U.K. He tell us big data is happening in the UK were retailer was able to save millions by using big data to optimize when they stock their shelves.
Sent stickers to Daniel in Vancouver. He tell us he loves the show.
Conferences
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
SDT moment of bureaucracy
Listen to interview with Todd Gardner (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/240)
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: USPS Informed Delivery (https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action) and 1917 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1917_2019)
Matt Ray: Massive Attack vs Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes ’98) (https://store.massiveattack.com/products/massive-attack-vs-mad-professor-part-ii-mezzanine-remix-tapes-98-lp). Humble Fight for Racial Justice Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/fight-for-racial-justice-bundle).
Coté: Short Life in a Strange World (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46178718-short-life-in-a-strange-world?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=neither-urgent-nor-important), short review (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/008d9a22-a534-4b9b-9a71-bf656e9f95dd) in Coté’s newsletter last week. KUTX streaming (https://kutx.org/).
Outro: Ice-cream and Chips (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1IQHMpniQg).
6/19/2020 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 240: Todd Gardner on building Web Apps with JavaScript
Brandon interviews Todd Gardner from TrackJS (https://trackjs.com/). They discuss Todd's career and how his consulting projects led him to start TrackJS. Plus, Todd offers advice on how to build web apps using JavaScript and how to decide which JS Framework is right for your next project. His answer may surprise you...
Show Links
Lemon (https://ahoylemon.xyz/)
OVHCloud (https://us.ovhcloud.com/)
Contact Todd
Twitter: @toddhgardner (https://twitter.com/toddhgardner)
Company: TrackJS (https://trackjs.com/)
Latest Project: Request Metrics (https://requestmetrics.com/)
Email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Personal Website: todd.mn (https://todd.mn/)
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/imlD5dbcLM4) Special Guest: Todd Gardner.
6/15/2020 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 239: Coté got up at 2am
We dream of video conferencing in Zoom, ask whatever happened to Big Data, discuss how little agile practices are followed despite their proven success, and contemplate the meaninglessness of Apple moving to ARM. Also, how to prioritize those early morning calls with Singapore.
Mood board:
Is that guacamole talk Amazon approved?
Why don’t you listen to a few episodes?
“What generation did they have in the Black Plague?”
I have a lot of thoughts on OmniFocus and Evernote. Note gonna talk about it.
The Timezone Tax.
We win video conferencing bingo!
Video conferencing Magic Quadrant.
Remember Blue Jeans!
They’re gonna go to The Big Data.
Hadoop: not as big as we once thought it would be.
Grocery store magazine agile.
The only thing that’s shocking, is that we’re still shocked.
The Rundown
Coté got up at 2am.
Slack and Amazon
Amazon licenses Slack for all employees, while Slack adopts AWS video-calling tech (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/amazon-licenses-slack-for-workers-as-slack-adopts-aws-video-call-tech.html)
Slack partners with Amazon to take on Microsoft Teams (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-partnership-amazon-chime-voice-video-calls)
Who Will Acquire Zoom: Amazon, Oracle, or IBM? (https://cloudwars.co/amazon/who-will-acquire-zoom-amazon-oracle-ibm-cloud-wars/)
Chiming in on Slack with Sid Rao - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/chiming-in-on-slack-with-sid-rao/)
This is going to get ugly, real fast (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2020/06/10/google-meet-switches-on-jaw-dropping-feature-to-beat-zoom--microsoft-teams/#189f39b732ba).
Google Meet Switches On Jaw-Dropping Feature To Beat Zoom & Microsoft Teams (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2020/06/10/google-meet-switches-on-jaw-dropping-feature-to-beat-zoom--microsoft-teams/#189f39b732ba)
Cloudera to Explore Sale After Receiving Takeover Interest (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-09/cloudera-said-to-explore-sale-after-receiving-takeover-interest?srnd=deals)
what happened with Big Data?
State of Agile Survey (https://content.cdntwrk.com/files/aT0xMjUxNDE3JnY9MSZpc3N1ZU5hbWU9MTR0aC1hbm51YWwtc3RhdGUtb2YtYWdpbGUtcmVwb3J0JmNtZD1kJnNpZz0xOWMzMWE1ODBiZjBjOTFhN2E1NWNhNmFkNjZiYzdiNw%253D%253D):
Coté’s choice cuts (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1269856569807851520).
Practices followed, benefits achieved.
CI/CD still not widely practiced.
Low TDD.
Apple and ARM
Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month, says report (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/9/21284960/apple-arm-based-macs-wwdc-2020-report-intel-laptops-desktops-power-efficiency)
Apple plans to announce ARM transition for all Macs at WWDC 2020 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/apple-plans-to-announce-arm-transition-for-all-macs-at-wwdc-2020/)
Sinofsky: Apple going to bring ARM to chips to Mac (https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1270465602570686464)
Relevant to your interests
VMware acquires network security firm Lastline, said to lay off 40% of staff – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/04/vmware-lastline-staff-cuts/)
Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier Talks About IBM and His Vision for the Future (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/open-source/red-hat-ceo-paul-cormier-talks-about-ibm-and-his-vision-future)
Canonical pushes out MicroK8s installer for Mac and Windows, with Multipass VM tech lurking behind the scenes (https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/02/canonical_microk8s_installer/)
Apple releases new open source 'Password Manager Resources' project for developers - 9to5Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/05/apple-releases-new-open-source-password-manager-resources-project-for-developers/)
Unity, the $6.3 billion startup that quietly powers some of the biggest video games in the world, is reportedly ramping up for an IPO as soon as this year (https://www.businessinsider.com/unity-ipo-bloomberg-fall-2020-2020-6)
Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’ (https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-france-gaia-x-cloud-platform-eu-tech-sovereignty/)
States are leaning toward a push to break up Google's ad tech business (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/states-lean-toward-pushing-to-break-up-googles-ad-tech-business.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain)
Why boring is the way forward for businesses (https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/why-boring-is-the-way-forward-for-businesses)
Three Reasons Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Open Source Consortium - Software Research and the Industry (https://dirkriehle.com/2020/06/08/three-reasons-why-companies-are-creating-their-own-open-source-foundation-consortium/)
sickcodes/Docker-OSX (https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX)
Container technologies at Coinbase (https://blog.coinbase.com/container-technologies-at-coinbase-d4ae118dcb6c)
Rackspace Technology: New Name, Continued Multi-Cloud Services, Eventual IPO? (https://www.channele2e.com/channel-partners/msps/rackspace-technology-name-multi-cloud-focus/)
Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-sues-former-aws-marketing-vp-brian-hall-accepts-google-cloud-job/)
Migrate for Anthos streamlines legacy Java app modernization | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/migrate-for-anthos-streamlines-legacy-java-app-modernization)
IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage (https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/09/ibm-cloud-suffers-prolonged-outage/)
The RuboCop Name Drama Redux (https://metaredux.com/posts/2020/06/08/the-rubocop-name-drama-redux.html)
Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe Systems Programming (https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-rust-is-the-industrys-best-chance-at-safe-systems-programming/)
## Nonsense
8 things that surprised me about moving from the US to the UK (https://www.insider.com/surprising-things-about-moving-from-us-to-uk)
New Sims 4 patch adds ladders but also a bug where Sims pee fire (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/6/4/21280278/sims-4-fire-piss-patch-bug-firefighter-npc-eco-lifestyle-expansion-pack)
Sponsor
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Conferences
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype
Listen to the Shannon Williams (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/238) interview from earlier this week.
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Listen to the Shannon Williams (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/238) SDT interview from earlier this week.
Matt Ray: TuringPi.com (https://turingpi.com/)
Coté: Marten Beck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Beck); Mindless mining in Minecraft; Solar Dial in Apple Watch (https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/d73r1q/the_new_solar_dial_face_explained/).
https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_0BCED5D369E6A11E6B9EFD27C41F02991DBB5738F683F90B44AE9A1AD8DEFE71_1591907253793_image.png
6/12/2020 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 36 seconds
Episode 238: Shannon Williams on Kubernetes-as-a-Service
Brandon interviews Shannon Williams from Rancher Labs (https://rancher.com/). They discuss Shannon's journey from journalism to startup founder and how Rancher delivers Kubernetes-as-a-Service. Plus, Shannon recommends his top ski resort in North America and reveals who really decided to buy the cloud.com domain.
Contact Shannon:
Twitter: smw355 (https://twitter.com/smw355)
LinkedIn: smw355 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/smw355/)
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/BG534RSsuKk) Special Guest: Shannon Williams.
6/9/2020 • 50 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 237: Cisco’s string of pearls, also, “daddy, are pirates real?”
What is a ThousandEyes, Cisco’s acquired businesses and oddly named BUs, nailing your bi-annual performance review. Plus, a review of ChefCon online.
Mood board:
Sounds normal for now.
It was kinda cool, kinda sad.
Covered in yoke.
We just had to speed test it out.
Katamari Damacy M&A.
I hate network monitoring, shut it all down!
The ProductTK.
7G.
What’s the plural of Kubernetes?
Managers are really into career development, what’s the deal with that?
Chernobyl as a metaphor for corporate life.
Return the Jewels.
The Rundown
Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/28/cisco-acquires-thousandeyes-to-make-deeper-push-into-software.html)
Chef Turns Its Focus to Security with Compliance, Desktop Additions (https://thenewstack.io/chef-turns-its-focus-to-security-with-compliance-desktop-additions/)
DevOps from above! US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will run Kubernetes (https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/03/kubernetes_b_21_bomber/)
Relevant to your interests
What recession? Dell, VMware vaporize Wall Street earnings estimates (https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/28/recession-dell-vmware-vaporize-wall-street-earnings-estimates/)
Google and Microsoft worked together to improve spellcheck in Chrome and Edge (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21273934/microsoft-google-chrome-edge-chromium-spellcheck-improvements)
GitHub Supply Chain Attack Uses Octopus Scanner Malware (https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/github-supply-chain-attack-uses-octopus-scanner-malware/d/d-id/1337943)
Microsoft is cutting dozens of MSN news production workers and replacing them with artificial intelligence (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/microsoft-is-cutting-dozens-of-msn-news-production-workers-and-replacing-them-with-artificial-intelligence/)
Priyanka Sharma Joins CNCF as General Manager (https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2020/06/01/priyanka-sharma-joins-cncf-as-general-manager/)
Google’s “overpromising” led to Stadia “disappointment,” says RDR2 publisher (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/one-of-stadias-biggest-publishers-says-streaming-is-not-a-game-changer/)
Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump’s threat of violence (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/29/21275044/facebook-trump-tweets-employee-reaction-criticism)
Google’s Anthos Expansion Follows Technical Track - SDxCentral (https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/625794592/0/sdxcentral~Google%e2%80%99s-Anthos-Expansion-Follows-Technical-Track/)
Behind tech layoffs lay systemic cash flow negative companies (https://medium.com/@watfly/behind-tech-layoffs-lay-systemic-cash-flow-negative-companies-bd8592110422)
Is a trillion-dollar worth of programming lying on the ground (https://blog.cerebralab.com/Is_a_trillion-dollar_worth_of_programming_lying_on_the_ground)
Police scanner apps get record downloads (https://www.axios.com/police-scanner-apps-record-downloads-33354228-ee1c-4ba7-9ee4-70c2c82838ff.html)
Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit-idUSKBN23933H)
Mirantis’ Docker Enterprise 3.1 Adds Windows Support, Enterprise SLAs (https://thenewstack.io/mirantis-docker-enterprise-3-1-adds-windows-support-enterprise-slas/)
Where GREP Came From - Computerphile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk)
Software Engineering Within SpaceX (https://yasoob.me/posts/software_engineering_within_spacex_launch/)
Nonsense
Autonomous Zen Work Pod. Built for all creatives (https://www.autonomous.ai/zen-work-pod)
the CEO of Zoom, Eric Yuan, just started talking on his company's blowout earnings call on Zoom and he was on mute (https://twitter.com/jordannovet/status/1267933627620503554?s=21)
Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Daniel from Paris. He is going to put it on his bike helmet. Excellent idea.
Andrew from Long Beach says he loves the show so I sent him stickers too.
Conferences
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey (https://forms.gle/KGhcUAaiuDmSHbgE9)
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Pod Save America (https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-america/) and Pod Save the People (https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/) podcasts.
Matt Ray: Upload (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7826376/); Run The Jewels 4 (https://runthejewels.com/).
Coté: DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast (https://drunkandretired.com/); The Xero Music Hour (https://open.spotify.com/show/42eOu1T4v6FtbRjAa0cEAJ?si=aCYSceG5R6CzlkcgAJxZrA); Magma notebooks (https://magma-shop.com/collections/all-products/stationery).
Header photo from Andrew (https://twitter.com/littleidea), probably.
6/5/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 236: Margaret Staples from Twilio on Building Games, Dev Evangelism and Owls.
Brandon interviews Margaret Staples from Twilio (https://www.twilio.com/) and they discuss building games, Dev Evangelism, working at Twilio and her latest project TwilioQuest.
Margaret on the Web:
@dead_lugosi (https://twitter.com/dead_lugosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Github: mstaples (https://github.com/mstaples)
LinkedIn: Margaret Staples (https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretstaples/)
TwilioQuest
TwilioQuest (https://www.twilio.com/quest)
@TwilioQuest (https://twitter.com/TwilioQuest)
Photo by Richard Lee on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/iobEsH91mbk) Special Guest: Margaret Staples.
6/2/2020 • 59 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 235: The Real Kube MoMs of Cloud Candy Land
Microsoft nails the Linux desktop and it’s cloud MoM’s for everyone. Plus, Coté goes over the thrilling world of Outlook email rules.
Mood board:
“The triumphant return to the home office. “
Net Ninety.
Software Stockholm Syndrome.
Office Mail 360 Whatever.
I had a lot of time, when I wasn’t fucking going crazy.
I never read those emails.
I hear Trump is shutting down Twitter.
Neck-deep in archaic 2FA.
Aggressively defensive.
Microsoft wins the Linux desktop vision.
MoMs are important.
Cloud Candyland.
I don’t know how to pronounce the Ø in RØDE. I was never into heavy metal.
Feed the baby.
New sign-off catch-phrease: that’s a bunch of information for you.
The Rundown
Microsoft Build
Azure Arc and Kubernetes: a Developer Story (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/42d3ed24-6773-45c8-82bd-6dec4a583c89?source=sessions)
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10 (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263377/microsoft-windows-10-linux-gui-apps-gpu-acceleration-wsl-features)
The new Windows command-line: Windows Terminal and WSL 2 (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/5b3a111b-ea47-452c-be4d-8387501efbd2?source=sessions)
New Terminal with all the bells and whistles customized via JSON
Linux in Windows Explorer with Faster File Access
Lightweight VM that supports 100% system calls
Linux GUI Apps on Windows
Remote Work
Remote working from Sid Sijbrandij (https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1264341436138270720?s=21)
Working from home works fine now because we've built up lots of social capital (https://twitter.com/spignal/status/1264894800265916417?s=21)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2020)
Loved: Rust, Dreaded: VBA, Wanted: Python
GitHub and Slack: 1,2, Teams toward the bottom
50/50 DevOps vs. No DevOps
Primary OS: Windows at ~45%, macOS and Linux split ~25% and who is using BSD
Relevant to your interests
What Just Happened? Flash Report on Q1 SaaS Sales | Scale Venture Partners (https://www.scalevp.com/blog/what-just-happened-flash-report-on-q1-saas-sales)
How TechCrunch is like the Iliad (https://lukekanies.com/how-techcrunch-is-like-the-iliad/)
IBM to cut jobs for first time under new CEO Arvind Krishna (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/ibm-to-cut-jobs-for-first-time-under-new-ceo.html)
Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/22/21267321/broadband-internet-speed-record-australia-researchers-micro-comb-fiber)
Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/hertz-bankruptcy-coronavirus-car-rental.html?referringSource=articleShare)
What the hell, SaaS valuations? – TechCrunch (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiQGh0dHBzOi8vdGVjaGNydW5jaC5jb20vMjAyMC8wNS8yMi93aGF0LXRoZS1oZWxsLXNhYXMtdmFsdWF0aW9ucy_SAURodHRwczovL3RlY2hjcnVuY2guY29tLzIwMjAvMDUvMjIvd2hhdC10aGUtaGVsbC1zYWFzLXZhbHVhdGlvbnMvYW1wLw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet (https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/)
Linus Torvalds Switches To AMD Ryzen Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel Systems - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Torvalds-Threadripper)
Migrating To Kubernetes: Moving To A Better World | Top Business Tech (https://tbtech.co/migrating-to-kubernetes-moving-to-a-better-world/)
ARM's Cortex-X custom CPU program may finally make Android flagship performance competitive with Apple (https://www.xda-developers.com/arm-announces-cortex-x-custom-cpu-program/)
Collaboration Tools (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1265860249371566080?s=20)
A smaller, simpler Docker looks to get its groove back (https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/27/smaller-simpler-docker-looks-get-groove-back/)
Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/choosing-2fa-authenticator-apps-can-be-hard-ars-did-it-so-you-dont-have-to/)
Nonsense
This 25-minute video is the most riveting sudoku puzzle you will ever watch (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2020/5/18/21262771/sudoku-puzzle-cracking-the-cryptic-watch-this-video-simon-anthony)
Sponsors
MongoDB
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Build a Newsletter Website With the MongoDB Data Platform (https://developer.mongodb.com/article/build-newsletter-website-mongodb-data-platform)
Conferences
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey (https://forms.gle/KGhcUAaiuDmSHbgE9)
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: ZeroZeroZero (https://www.amazon.com/ZeroZeroZero/dp/B084GJTDYV) on Amazon Prime.
Matt Ray: 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/).
Coté: RØDE Wireless Go (https://wirelessgo.rode.com/).
Meanwhile... https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_92596A08B89D484A9E9FD8C175E26CE81FA371356174D325A271391508349CB5_1590711383817_Screen+Shot+2020-05-29+at+6.06.20+am.png
5/29/2020 • 1 hour, 27 seconds
Episode 234: The “severe ramifications” episode
We discuss Facebook’s remote work policy, predictions of 8% less IT spending, the good Slack has done for humanity, and the mystery of a beloved blog that had no RSS feed. Also: Coté is back!
Moodboard:
3rd kids and pandemics
Severe consequences - just another way for companies to fuck you. (The exact wording was “severe ramifications.”)
It’s all just a spatula.
Downwardness.
You should talk less.
“Show Less” not working as expected.
All the complaints flow through my hammer.
Bruce Markup Language.
It is what it is, Matt Ray.
So much trash.
I was already kind of full of webinars.
Shit content is shit content.
Even Screenflow doesn’t do ripple delete by default.
A webinar Renaissance.
I wanna be a software vegan.
The Rundown
This whole never return to the office thing. Facebook says you can work from wherever you want if they can pay you less (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/zuckerberg-50percent-of-facebook-employees-could-be-working-remotely.html).
Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3544008/gartner-it-spending-will-drop-8-as-covid-19-hits-enterprise-wallets.html#tk.rss_all)
“devices and data-center (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3223692/what-is-a-data-centerhow-its-changed-and-what-you-need-to-know.html) systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.”
Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerworld.com/article/3543788/slack-mobile-app-gets-ui-refresh-for-easier-navigation.amp.html)
“Slack’s goal is to have as much of your working life spent there as possible.”
Topic: is Slack making work better? (Coté: yeah, the normals all use it, so it brings in more collaboration, different norms for doing so. But, do sales people use it? It’s fun to observe who doesn’t use it at work.)
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond (https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2020/05/farewell-beyond-beyond/)
Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly.
Relevant to your interests
Gartner: IT spending will drop 8% as COVID-19 hits enterprise wallets (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3544008/gartner-it-spending-will-drop-8-as-covid-19-hits-enterprise-wallets.html#tk.rss_all)
“devices and data-center (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3223692/what-is-a-data-centerhow-its-changed-and-what-you-need-to-know.html) systems experiencing the largest drops in spending.”
Slack mobile app gets UI refresh for easier navigation (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerworld.com/article/3543788/slack-mobile-app-gets-ui-refresh-for-easier-navigation.amp.html)
“Slack’s goal is to have as much of your working life spent there as possible.”
Topic: is Slack making work better? (Coté: yeah, the normals all use it, so it brings in more collaboration, different norms for doing so. But, do sales people use it? It’s fun to observe who doesn’t use it at work.)
Google Cloud VMware Engine is now generally available | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-cloud-vmware-engine)
yaml-is-not-a-programming-language (https://github.com/mirceaulinic/yaml-is-not-a-programming-language)
New York’s Newest Unicorn: DigitalOcean Raises $50M At $1.15B Valuation (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/new-yorks-newest-unicorn-based-digitalocean-raises-50m-at-1-15b-valuation/)
Virtana Raises $15M In Funding (http://www.finsmes.com/2020/05/virtana-raises-15m-in-funding.html)
Facebook to acquire Giphy in a deal reportedly worth $400 million (https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/15/facebook-to-acquire-giphy-in-a-deal-reportedly-worth-400-million/)
Aren't there lots of copyright violations?
Software Maker Chef Hires Guggenheim to Help Raise Funds (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-12/software-maker-chef-hires-guggenheim-to-help-raise-funds)
Airlines vs. Zoom (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYGl-bBWAAEcG3h.jpg)
Andreessen Horowitz leading deal for voice chat app Clubhouse (https://www.axios.com/clubhouse-andreessen-horowitz-79107413-e83f-4203-8cfe-9f1e7dde0e2c.html)
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond (https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2020/05/farewell-beyond-beyond/)
Coté: I could never find the RSS feed for this so I missed out on it, mostly.
Matt to tell Coté what a “Redis” is.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYGl-bBWAAEcG3h.jpg)## Nonsense
The Great Asshole Fallacy (https://medium.com/m/global-identity?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2F500ish.com%2Fthe-great-asshole-fallacy-82e108a755c7)
This is What Peak Hello World Looks Like (https://h313.info/blog/cpp/2020/05/17/this-is-what-peak-hello-world-looks-like.html)
Ditching Zoom for Red Dead Redemption (https://www.boredpanda.com/red-dead-redemption-work-team-meeting/)
Sponsors
MongoDB
Sign up at: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register. After you create your account enter code ATLASSDT in the payments & billing section and get $200 in free credits.
Conferences.
FlylessConf (https://flylessconf.com/) May 27
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th-20th
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey (https://forms.gle/KGhcUAaiuDmSHbgE9).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Coté: ftrain’s newsletter (https://ftrain.substack.com/archive); LumaFusion (https://luma-touch.com/lumafusion-for-ios-2/) for video editing; My short videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/bushwald/videos?view_as=subscriber). Also available in TikTok (https://twitter.com/thepacketrat/status/1260641184713760768).
Matt Ray: Quiet fans; Anti-pick- Google Meeting links getting added to invitations.
5/22/2020 • 57 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 233: There’s no space for startups here
On this episode we discuss Tik Tok, OpenShift vs. VMware, Amazon simplifying YAML, Eclipse moving to Europe, Unreal Engine 5 and Datadog wins big.
The Rundown
Sanjay Poonen On VMware Vs. Red Hat OpenShift: ‘May The Best Product Win’ (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/sanjay-poonen-on-vmware-vs-red-hat-openshift-may-the-best-product-win-)
Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-and-aws-extend-collaboration-introducing-amazon-red-hat-openshift)
AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/14/red_hat_openshift_aws/)
More Amazon
AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use (https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/13/aws-open-sources-cdk8s-make-kubernetes-easier-use/)
Amazon Web Services announces the Alpha release of Cloud Development Kit (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/introducing-the-cdk-for-kubernetes-a-new-software-development-framework-and-open-source-project-for-defining-kubernetes-applications-using-code/)
CDK for Kubernetes (https://cdk8s.io/)
AMC shares jump 17% after sources say Amazon is circling the theater chain (NYSE:AMC) (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3572552-amc-shares-jump-17-after-sources-say-amazon-is-circling-theater-chain)
Why AMC Networks Stock Soared Today $AMCX vs $AMC (https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/05/12/why-amc-networks-stock-soared-today.aspx)
Jeff Bezos Can’t Lose (https://www.cringely.com/2020/05/11/jeff-bezos-cant-lose/)
New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-m6g-ec2-instances-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton2/)
The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe (https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2020/05/12/moving-to-europe/)
Security
Ohio Has Stopped Kicking Workers Off Unemployment After A Hacker Targeted Its Website (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wwdw/ohio-has-stopped-kicking-workers-off-unemployment-after-a-hacker-targeted-its-website)
Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking (https://www.wired.com/story/thunderspy-thunderbolt-evil-maid-hacking/)
Microsoft adds protection against Reply-All email storms in Office 365 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-protection-against-reply-all-email-storms-in-office-365/)
Microsoft adds initial support for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Windows Insiders (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-initial-support-for-dns-over-https-doh-in-windows-insiders/)
Some of the world's best cloud talent is assembling in an unlikely place: Apple (https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engineers)
Epic Games announces Unreal Engine 5 with stunning PlayStation 5 demo (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/13/21256079/epic-unreal-engine-5-playstation-5-demo-next-gen-graphics-release-date)
Cofounders Of Datadog Become Billionaires After The Cloud Computing Firm’s Shares Surge (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/05/13/billionaires-datadog-cloud-computing/#36b2c90176ca)
Relevant to your interests
Podcaster Luminary Seeks Fresh Cash to Buoy Struggling Business (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-13/podcaster-luminary-seeks-fresh-cash-to-buoy-struggling-business?srnd=technology-vp)
Atlassian acquires Halp to bring Slack integration to the forefront – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/atlassian-acquires-halp-to-bring-slack-integration-to-the-forefront/)
CyberArk Acquires Identity as a Service Leader Idaptive (https://investors.cyberark.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2020/CyberArk-Acquires-Identity-as-a-Service-Leader-Idaptive/default.aspx)
Uber Technologies Makes Takeover Approach to Grubhub (https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-technologies-makes-takeover-approach-to-grubhub-11589296216)
Twitter Says Employees Can Work Remote Forever (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/twitter-says-employees-can-work-remote-forever)
Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/business/media/jeffrey-katzenberg-quibi-coronavirus.html)
VMware to acquire Kubernetes security startup Octarine and fold it into Carbon Black (https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/vmware-to-acquire-kubernetes-security-startup-octarine-and-fold-it-into-carbon-black/)
Open Sourcing Tinkerbell (https://www.packet.com/blog/open-sourcing-tinkerbell/)
Nonsense
Pretty cool stuff happening at WeWork (https://twitter.com/jmillstein/status/1259907300342415360)
Why we at $FAMOUSCOMPANY Switched to $HYPEDTECHNOLOGY (https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/05/10/why-we-at-famous-company-switched-to-hyped-technology/)
Oil Trader Owes $9 Million After Starting The Day With $77,000 | OilPrice.com (https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Trader-Owes-9-Million-After-Starting-The-Day-With-77000.html)
Sponsors
strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT (http://strongdm.com/SDT)
Conferences.
FlylessConf (https://flylessconf.com/) May 27
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Virtual Conference (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) on August 17th — 20th
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey (https://forms.gle/KGhcUAaiuDmSHbgE9).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Jobs mentioned from the SDT Slack
Ryan says there are jobs at DataDog (https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering/), DataDog now worth $20B
LoopRock says they are hiring at Ethos (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1812595956)
Dominic say they are hiring at MongoDB (https://www.mongodb.com/careers)
Recommendations
Brandon — Facebook Trilogy of Audiobooks:
Chaos Monkeys (https://www.audible.com/pd/Chaos-Monkeys-Revised-Edition-Audiobook/B07DFM9W2V?qid=1589428019&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=J13DX31VJNDS8G4QG3KS)
Facebook (https://www.audible.com/pd/Facebook-Audiobook/1524755478?qid=1589427957&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=Q86QJD38KTH24H15RDF5)
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (https://www.audible.com/pd/No-Filter-Audiobook/1797102958)
Matt Ray:
Starship (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1260738961619603456?s=21)
5/15/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 232: Amazon’s doing OK
AWS and Azure announce earnings, Backblaze takes on Amazon, Cloud Native Survey Results and Fortnite takes our suggestions. Plus, Matt updates us on his quest to turn a smartphone into a webcam.
The Rundown
Tech Giant Earnings
AWS tops $10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/aws-earnings-q1-2020.html)
Microsoft Azure update (https://twitter.com/chetanp/status/1256259448462405632?s=21)
The Immunity of the Tech Giant (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/tech-companies-coronavirus.html)
The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/bridge-post-pandemic-world-already-collapsing/611089/)
Backblaze challenges AWS by making its cloud storage S3 compatible (https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/04/backblaze-challenges-aws-by-making-its-cloud-storage-s3-compatible/)
The State of Cloud Native Development: A new survey report! - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/05/04/the-state-of-cloud-native-development-a-new-survey-report/)
Salesforce will help businesses return to work with a new set of tools it just announced (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/04/salesforce-announces-tools-that-help-businesses-return-to-work.html)
Fortnite's no-combat mode is its next bold step towards creating a metaverse (https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-05-04-fortnites-no-combat-party-royale-is-its-next-bold-step-towards-creating-a-metaverse)
Relevant to your interests
M&A
DocuSign acquires Seal Software for $188M to enhance its AI chops (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/27/docusign-acquires-seal-software-for-188m-to-enhance-its-ai-chops/)
Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks (https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/05/04/hot-on-the-heels-of-mellanox-nvidia-snaps-up-cumulus-networks/)
Intel's Mobileye targets urban mobility growth with Moovit deal (https://www.axios.com/intels-mobileye-targets-urban-mobility-growth-with-moovit-deal-52e883e8-6862-45b9-93d8-8b67bce46cb6.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Keybase joins Zoom (https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom)
Announcements
IBM Cloud Satellite (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/ibm-cloud-satellite)
Abby Kearns takes over as Puppet CTO (https://www.zdnet.com/article/abby-kearns-takes-over-as-puppet-cto/)
Microsoft to establish first datacenter region in New Zealand (https://news.microsoft.com/en-nz/2020/05/06/aotearoa-disclosure/)
SaltStack Security
Critical Salt Vulnerability: Thousands Exposed, Bug Gives Full RCE as Root (https://www.cbronline.com/cybersecurity/threats/salt-vulnerability-f-secure/)
Hackers are Running Rampant Exploiting the SaltStack Vulnerability (https://www.cbronline.com/news/salt-bug)
Departures
VMware Confirms Employee Salary Freeze, CEO Pay Cut (https://www.crn.com/news/virtualization/vmware-confirms-employee-salary-freeze-ceo-pay-cut)
A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky (https://news.airbnb.com/a-message-from-co-founder-and-ceo-brian-chesky/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Tim Bray, Goodbye (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon)
Nutanix cuts 1,500 (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/nutanix-confirms-furloughs-of-nearly-1-500-employees)
Google
Google Cloud training available at no cost for 30 days (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/google-cloud-training-available-at-no-cost-for-30-days/)
Google Authenticator’s first Android update in years lets you move your account between devices (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/6/21249621/google-authenticator-update-transfer-account-between-devices-2fa)
Google tells employees they can't expense food or other perks when working from home (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/google-tells-employees-not-to-expense-food-perks-in-work-from-home.html?campaign_id=4&emc=edit_dk_20200507&instance_id=18283&nl=dealbook®i_id=96663344&segment_id=26792&te=1&user_id=3b9974c0611611c30bec718ef4367430)
Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/7/21250790/google-android-messaging-duo-phone-g-suite-javier-soltero-hangouts-chat)
Nonsense
Fortnite hosted a Diplo concert in its new party mode (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/5/1/21244874/fortnite-diplo-concert-jordan-fisher-party-royale)
About Those Asian Giant Hornets... (https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=41391)
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
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Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/spring-live-videos/michael-cot%C3%A9-intro-spring-live)
FlylessConf (https://flylessconf.com/) May 27
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
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Brandon: American Factory (https://www.netflix.com/title/81090071) on Netflix
Matt Ray: Small Victories: The True Story Of Faith No More (https://amzn.to/3c6qZnC)
5/8/2020 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 29 seconds
Episode 231: Now Oracle has their Spotify
Google (maybe) acquiring D2IQ, Zoom picks Oracle, Chef’s latest release and more Fortnite discussion. Plus, Matt Ray updates us on his quest to turn an old camera into a Webcam.
The Rundown
Google Negotiating to Buy Enterprise Cloud Software Company D2iQ (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/google-d2iq-acquisition-talks-cloud)
Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-popularity-and-canonical-profitability/)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Released | ServeTheHome (https://www.servethehome.com/ubuntu-20-04-lts-focal-fossa-released/)
Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code (https://devops.com/chef-updates-tool-for-managing-it-infrastructure-as-code/)
Zoom
Zoom CFO explains how the company is grappling with increased demand (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/zoom-cfo-explains-how-the-company-is-grappling-with-increased-demand.html)
Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/zoom-taps-oracle-for-cloud-deal-passing-over-amazon-microsoft.html)
Why Zoom Chose Oracle Cloud Over AWS and Maybe You Should Too - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-zoom-chose-oracle-cloud-over-aws-and-maybe-you-should-too/)
Digitial Ocean: It's all about the bandwidth (https://blog.digitalocean.com/its-all-about-the-bandwidth-why-many-network-intensive-services-select-digitalocean-as-their-cloud/)
Zoom’s Biggest Rivals Are Coming for It (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/technology/zoom-rivals-virus-facebook-google.html)
Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21240509/google-meet-video-conferencing-free-gmail)
Fortnite
Travis Scott Fortnite Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1254478396517691392)
Fortnite Stats (https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/1253524351376330752)
Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud for $145M to beef up cloud security (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/rapid7-is-acquiring-divvycloud-for-145m-to-beef-up-cloud-security/)
Relevant to your interests
Deploy Cloud Foundry to Google Kubernetes in 10 minutes (https://starkandwayne.com/blog/deploy-cf-for-k8s-to-google-in-10-minutes/)
Red Hat Expands OpenShift to Ease Developer Use (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-expands-openshift-to-ease-developer-use/)
Cote.pizza (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiW8N1RpUUWzG-nmITQWb02V)
Google is shutting down Shoelace, the social app you’ve probably never heard of (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/29/google-is-shutting-down-shoelace-the-social-app-youve-probably-never-heard-of/)
Why we can’t build (https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus)
It’s Time To Learn (https://scottberkun.com/2020/its-time-to-learn/)
Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products’ (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/23/amazon-sellers)
How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio - Nicolas Chaillan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZ4AZ7hRM0)
AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/att-ceo-retiring-as-telco-plans-for-three-years-of-cost-cuts-and-layoffs/)
Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/24/apple-and-google-update-joint-coronavirus-tracing-tech-to-improve-user-privacy-and-developer-flexibility/)
Nonsense
What if you could control Kubernetes with Excel? (https://twitter.com/danielepolencic/status/1254330583380979712)
Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) | Twitter (https://twitter.com/ratemyskyperoom)
All-day happy hour? Americans drinking while working at home in pandemic, surveys say (https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article242132721.html)
Microservices Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ) — why we can’t add the users birthday to the profile
Old french safe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwz34logZ04)
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together (https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/chef-tools-and-terraform-better-together) from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/spring-live-videos/michael-cot%C3%A9-intro-spring-live)
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
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Recommendations
Brandon: Sony X950G (https://thewirecutter.com/out/link/33355/154852/4/104712?merchant=Amazon)
Matt Ray: Privacy Redirect (https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect)
Auto Close Zoom Tab (https://github.com/andymckay/auto-close-zoom-tab)
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5/1/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 230: Who is Travis Scott?
On this week’s episode: Andreessen says it’s time build, Verizon buys Bluejeans, Splunk maybe watching and Google is giving Istio to a foundation. Plus, we offer informed opinions on Travis Scott and Fortnite.
The Rundown
Hot Take — IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/)
Conferencing
Verizon will buy video conferencing company BlueJeans (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/verizon-will-buy-video-conferencing-company-blue-jeans.html)
The Zoom fatigue is real (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-fd52acf6-65aa-4dab-9a2e-528aa392852d.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0 9:46 https://www.protocol.com/google-cloud-kurian-istio-foundation)
Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/google-meet-launches-improved-zoom-like-tiled-layout-low-light-mode-and-noise-cancellation/)
Introducing Splunk Remote Work Insights: Our Solution for the New Work-from-Home Reality (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/introducing-splunk-remote-work-insights-our-solution-for-the-new-work-from-home-reality.html)
Apollo readies IPO of cloud company Rackspace (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rackspace-ipo-exclusive/exclusive-apollo-readies-ipo-of-cloud-company-rackspace-sources-idUSKBN21Y39S)
Alibaba Cloud will invest $28 billion more into its infrastructure over the next three years (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/19/alibaba-cloud-will-invest-28-billion-more-into-its-infrastructure-over-the-next-three-years/)
Zhao KaiXian x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips (https://www.tomshardware.com/features/zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-x86-cpu-tested)
AWS announces new single-purpose on-prem hardware and tie-in storage tier (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/21/aws_elemental_link/)
AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/aws-launches-amazon-appflow-its-new-saas-integration-service/)
Google Cloud CEO: Istio is going to a foundation (https://www.protocol.com/google-cloud-kurian-istio-foundation)
Google Cloud’s fully managed Anthos is now generally available for AWS (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/google-clouds-fully-managed-anthos-is-now-generally-available-for-aws/)
Over the past 20 years, IBM has bought back $140 billion of its stock. Its current market cap: $105 billion. $IBM (https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1252404198148157443?s=21)
Apple will reportedly use 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/23/21232441/apple-arm-mac-2020-5nm-processor-12-cores)
Relevant to your interests
University of Sydney using cloud to prevent the Tasmanian devil from extinction (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMibmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnpkbmV0LmNvbS9hcnRpY2xlL3VuaXZlcnNpdHktb2Ytc3lkbmV5LXVzaW5nLWNsb3VkLXRvLXByZXZlbnQtdGhlLXRhc21hbmlhbi1kZXZpbC1mcm9tLWV4dGluY3Rpb24v0gF5aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuemRuZXQuY29tL2dvb2dsZS1hbXAvYXJ0aWNsZS91bml2ZXJzaXR5LW9mLXN5ZG5leS11c2luZy1jbG91ZC10by1wcmV2ZW50LXRoZS10YXNtYW5pYW4tZGV2aWwtZnJvbS1leHRpbmN0aW9uLw?hl=en-AU&gl=AU&ceid=AU%3Aen)
Facebook employees won't return to offices until at least the end of May, and is cancelling events until June 2021 (https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-work-remote-until-end-may-events-cancelled-2021-2020-4)
Hundreds of asylum seekers' names made public in government data breach (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-31/federal-court-in-protection-visa-data-breach-published-names/12102536)
Top virtual tech conferences to attend in 2020 (https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/top-virtual-tech-conferences-to-attend-in-2020-2004.html?chatsrc=em-en&jumpid=ba_pbwv8cfiqk_aid-520023674)
Who Makes the Best CPUs? Intel vs. AMD CPUs | Tom's Hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/amp/features/amd-vs-intel-cpus#click=https://t.co/9Vw2YYsG9Z)
Bezos Takes Back the Wheel at Amazon (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/technology/bezos-amazon-coronavirus.html)
Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/21/confluent-lands-another-big-round-with-250m-series-e-on-4-2b-valuation/)
I Took a COBOL Course and It Wasn't The Worst | Hacker Noon (https://www.hackernoon.com/i-took-a-cobol-course-and-it-wasnt-the-worst-z1ba3yrp)
Nonsense
Emacs way to listen podcasts (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/g1o36p/emacs_way_to_listen_podcasts/)
How to watch Travis Scott’s Fortnite concerts (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/23/21231142/travis-scott-fortnite-concert-watch-astronomical-astroworld)
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Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/spring-live-videos/michael-cot%C3%A9-intro-spring-live)
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
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Recommendations
Brandon: HBO’s (https://www.hbo.com/westworld) Westworld (https://www.hbo.com/westworld)
Matt Ray: Yeti cups/mugs (https://www.yeti.com/en_US/home?&gclid=CjwKCAjw-YT1BRAFEiwAd2WRtuXDKev5tw1KUbR0kzupn5FGjTY-S7UqMOvuutc1HoIOv9jfJdKQ3RoCcGwQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&utm_content=__iv_p_1_g_27908074949_c_403542308348_w_aud-321363013345:kwd-102062560_n_g_d_c_v__l__t__r__x__y__f__o__z__i__j__s__e__h_9028321_ii__vi__&utm_id=google_475534229_27908074949_403542308348_aud-321363013345:kwd-102062560_c&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google)
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4/24/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 229: Does it work with JSON? That’s what I do
On this episode: Apple and Google team up, AWS Fargate has a new release, Github gives stuff away, Coder gets funding and Matt offers his advice to college students. Plus, the definitive iPhone SE review.
The Rundown
Contact Tracing
Apple, Google Will Require Case Verification for Coronavirus Contact Tracing Tech (https://gizmodo.com/apple-google-will-require-case-verification-for-corona-1842859127)
How Google Plans to Push Its Coronavirus Tracing Feature to Android Phones (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygbmj/how-google-coronavirus-contact-tracing-feature-update)
Apple and Google launch a joint contact-tracing system for iOS and Android (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/10/21216484/google-apple-coronavirus-contract-tracing-bluetooth-location-tracking-data-app)
Answering the 12 biggest questions about Apple and Google’s new coronavirus tracking project (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/11/21216803/apple-google-coronavirus-tracking-app-covid-bluetooth-secure)
Fargate
AWS revamps Fargate serverless containers, but wait – where's Docker Engine? Ah, 'deemed unnecessary' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/09/aws_revamps_fargate_serverless_containers/)
Under the hood: AWS Fargate data plane (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/under-the-hood-fargate-data-plane/)
Coding
Austin Startup Coder Gets $30M from GGV Capital and In-Q-Tel (https://www.americaninno.com/austin/funding/a-growth-story-austins-coder-raises-30m-and-plans-to-double-team/?mc_cid=480cd4555e&mc_eid=825c180d0b)
GitHub is now free for teams (https://github.blog/2020-04-14-github-is-now-free-for-teams/)
Pentagon Watchdog Clears Microsoft’s Cloud Win Over Amazon (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/pentagon-watchdog-clears-microsoft-s-10-billion-cloud-contract)
Relevant to your interests
Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat (https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21215588/google-chat-hangouts-meet-g-suite-name-change-rebranding)
Zoom is now 'the Facebook of video apps' (https://www.engadget.com/zoom-is-now-the-facebook-of-video-apps-190024369.html)
The Thing With Zoom (https://findthethread.postach.io/post/the-thing-with-zoom)
A perfect alternative to Zoom doesn't exist (https://qz.com/1836278/zoom-alternatives-have-their-own-video-conferencing-drawbacks/)
IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/ibm-scrambles-to-find-or-train-more-cobol-programmers-to-help-states/)
7 cobol examples with explanations. (https://medium.com/@yvanscher/7-cobol-examples-with-explanations-ae1784b4d576)
No new emojis in 2021 because of coronavirus (https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52277325)
Microsoft Teams has 20% adoption rate, says Slack CEO (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3560336-microsoft-teams-20-adoption-rate-says-slack-ceo)
How IBM’s New CEO Plans to Beat Microsoft, Amazon & Google in Cloud (https://cloudwars.co/ibm/how-ibms-new-ceo-plans-to-beat-microsoft-amazon-google-in-cloud/)
Non Sense
Invite a Ilma or goat to your next corporate Zoom meeting or video call for under $100 (https://www.businessinsider.com/zoom-video-goat-2-meeting-llama-sweet-farm-animals-cameo-2020-4?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar)
Sponsors
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together (https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/chef-tools-and-terraform-better-together) from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/spring-live-videos/michael-cot%C3%A9-intro-spring-live)
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
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SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Facebook The Inside Story (https://www.audible.com/pd/Facebook-Audiobook/1524755478?qid=1586992376&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=3TEVKPSFR18WMV682XDM)
Matt Ray: Iriun Webcam (http://iriun.com/)
QEMU Raspberry Pi postmortem (https://mattray.github.io/2020/04/16/qemu-chef-cinc-arm-builds.html)
A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/us-coronavirus-outbreak-out-control-test-positivity-rate/610132/)
Image credit One (https://unsplash.com/photos/YlVjrBkfXt8) & Image credit Two (https://unsplash.com/photos/r-fJkCbZEkw)
4/17/2020 • 1 hour, 28 seconds
Episode 228: Professor Jeremy Hajek on IT Education
Brandon interviews Professor Jeremy Hajek from Illinois Tech (https://www.iit.edu/) about what it's like to teach Information Technology in today's rapidy changing IT landscape. Plus, we offer advice to new grads on how to get a job and what cloud certifications are most valuable.
Jermey's Links:
Twitter: @JeremyHajek (https://twitter.com/JeremyHajek)
Illinois Tech Contact (https://www.iit.edu/directory/people/jeremy-hajek)
Illinois Tech Admissions Information (https://www.iit.edu/admissions-aid)
Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/8CqDvPuo_kI) Special Guest: Jeremy Hajek.
4/14/2020 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 227: The Hot Take Episode
This week we offer hot takes on a whole bunch of topics including: COBOL, Unikernels, AWS Bottlerocket, Zoom, Slack, Circle CI, Marketplaces and IBM.
Relevant to your interests
Unikernels are unfit for production (https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-production)
Knative Crowds out Other Serverless Software (and Other CNCF Survey Takeaways) (https://thenewstack.io/knative-crowds-out-other-serverless-software-packages-and-other-cncf-survey-takeaways/)
Bottlerocket: a special-purpose container operating system (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/bottlerocket-a-special-purpose-container-operating-system/)
Slack, Teams and Conferencing
Slack is working on integrating with rival Microsoft Teams for calls, says CEO Stewart Butterfield (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/slack-is-working-on-microsoft-teams-calling-integration-says-ceo.html)
DHH is not happy with Zoom (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1245097507488583681?s=21)
Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all (https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/)
Microsoft’s Skype struggles have created a Zoom moment (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21200844/microsoft-skype-zoom-houseparty-coronavirus-pandemic-usage-growth-competition)
Zoom responds with a Blog Post (https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/)
Google Has Banned Zoom Software From Employees' Computers, Citing Security Vulnerabilities (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans-zoom)
Zoom isn’t Malware. (https://medium.com/@0xamit/zoom-isnt-malware-ae01618e2046)
IBM
New IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says hybrid cloud will be bigger than mainframes, services, middleware (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/07/arvind_krishna_becomes_ibm_ceo_letter_to_staff/)
IBM Taps Former Bank of America CTO to Oversee Cloud Business (https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/06/business/06reuters-ibm-moves.html)
My first day as CEO - our journey together (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-first-day-ceo-our-journey-together-arvind-krishna/)
RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/06/red_hat_ceo_paul_cormier/)
Email to associates from Red Hat president and CEO, Paul Cormier (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/email-associates-red-hat-president-and-ceo-paul-cormier)
CircleCI
CircleCI Raises $100M Series E (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/circleci-raises-100m-series-e/)
CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment (https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/07/circleci-100-million-automate-app-testing-and-deployment/)
Apple
Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21201666/apple-acquires-weather-app-dark-sky-shut-down-android-wear-os-ios)
Apple's SMS one-time passcode proposal moves forward with help from Google (https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/07/apples-sms-one-time-passcode-proposal-moves-forward-with-help-from-google)
Apple to Buy Virtual Reality Streaming Company NextVR for $100 Million (https://wccftech.com/apple-to-buy-virtual-reality-streaming-company-nextvr-for-100-million/)
iOS 14: Keychain password manager to gain new 1Password-like features (https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/01/ios-14-keychain-password-features/)
The a16z Marketplace 100 - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2020/02/18/marketplace-100/)
Simplified global game management: Introducing Game Servers (https://cloudblog-withgoogle-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/cloudblog.withgoogle.com/products/gaming/introducing-google-cloud-game-servers/amp/)
Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation (https://thenewstack.io/forresters-surprising-discovery-about-robotic-process-automation/)
Next frontier in Microsoft, Google, Amazon cloud battle is over a world without code (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/01/new-microsoft-google-amazon-cloud-battle-over-world-without-code.html)
Booz Allen analyzed 200+ Russian hacking operations to better understand their tactics (https://www.zdnet.com/article/booz-allen-analyzed-200-russian-hacking-operations-to-better-understand-their-tactics/)
Update #2 on Microsoft cloud services continuity (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity/)
The Next Chapter of Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/blog/the-next-chapter-of-meetup/)
SoftBank May Not Buy $3 Billion in WeWork Shares (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/softbank-wework-shares.html)
Portland technology companies lay off dozens amid coronavirus outbreak (https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/03/portland-marketing-technology-startup-opal-lays-off-20-amid-coronavirus-outbreak.html)
OneWeb goes bankrupt, lays off staff, will sell satellite-broadband business (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/oneweb-goes-bankrupt-wont-challenge-spacex-in-satellite-broadband-race/)
HashiCorp Joins the CNCF (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-the-cncf/)
Welcoming 3D Spatial Mapping Leader 6D.ai to Niantic: Accelerating Real-World AR Innovation - Niantic (https://nianticlabs.com/blog/6d/)
MongoDB’s field-level encryption protects private data—even from DBAs (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/mongodbs-field-level-encryption-protects-private-data-even-from-dbas/)
Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production (http://newsroom.medtronic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/medtronic-shares-ventilation-design-specifications-accelerate)
Microsoft announces agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks to deliver new opportunities for a global 5G ecosystem (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/03/26/microsoft-announces-agreement-to-acquire-affirmed-networks-to-deliver-new-opportunities-for-a-global-5g-ecosystem/)
Founded by Ex-Googlers, Tailscale Launches to Secure and Simplify Remote Network Access With $3M (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200402005017/en/Founded-Ex-Googlers-Tailscale-Launches-Secure-Simplify-Remote)
Kpt: Packaging up your Kubernetes configuration with git and YAML since 2014 (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/03/kpt-packaging-up-your-kubernetes.html)
Why Covid-19 has resulted in New Jersey desperately needing COBOL programmers (https://qz.com/1832988/covid-19-results-in-new-jersey-desperately-needing-cobol-coders/)
Don’t Mute, Get a Better Headset (https://ma.tt/2020/03/dont-mute-get-a-better-headset/)
Non Sense
Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic (https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-pandemic/)
Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights... (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/01/lobsters_coronavirus_australia/)
50,000 Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email. (https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1243293912049090566?s=21)
My boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting (https://twitter.com/PettyClegg/status/1244649528285855746)
HP TouchPad History: A Fire Sale 49 Days After Release (https://tedium.co/2020/03/31/hp-touchpad-history/)
Trump order encourages US to mine the moon (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/SDT-227--Ax2Uwny~HBV2GC0LqlnGLoEDAg-tTxEENZQ7Uw3eBuH3P5GB)
CNCF Puzzle (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVB5M3vWoAAVg9C.jpg)
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together (https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/chef-tools-and-terraform-better-together) from Matt Ray
Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/spring-live-videos/michael-cot%C3%A9-intro-spring-live)
Mykel Alvis (https://www.alldaydevops.com/addo-speakers/mykel-alvis) is speaking at All Day DevOps (https://www.alldaydevops.com/spring-break) Virtual Conference on April 17, 2020
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, 2020 All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
MongoDB’s virtual event MongoDB.Live (http://MongoDB.Live) on June 9-10, 2020
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
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SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Ozark (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552) and Tiger King (https://www.netflix.com/title/81115994)
Matt Ray:
The Memory Palace Music to Wash Hands By (https://thememorypalace.us/2020/04/music-to-wash-hands-by/)
Disunited Nations (https://amzn.to/34tDWow)
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4/11/2020 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 226: Justin Garrison on Cloud Native Infrastructure
This week Coté interviews Justin Garrison coauthor of Cloud Native Infrastructure (https://www.cnibook.info/). They discuss all things "Cloud Native" and what it's like to be a software engineer who helps make movies.
Photo by David Brooke Martin on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/dxtEFmAfkOk) Special Guest: Justin Garrison .
4/3/2020 • 42 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 225: All my kids have opinions on Scratch
We discuss micoVMs vs. Containers and Intel vs. ARM. Plus, Matt offers advice on when to teach your children about Github. Big congrats to Coté and his wife on their new baby!!!
Relevant to your interests
Containers are Not the Future (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/containers-future-ian-eyberg/)
Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances - Honeycomb (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/observations-on-arm64-awss-amazon-ec2-m6g-instances/)
No more O’Reilly Conferences (https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/from-laura-baldwin.html)
Lightspeed-backed WorkOS launches to help startup services become enterprise-ready (https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/lightspeed-backed-workos-launches-to-help-startup-services-become-enterprise-ready/)
The Demise Of Symantec (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2020/03/16/the-demise-of-symantec/amp/)
Ex-Uber engineer pleads guilty to trade secret theft from Google (https://www.axios.com/ex-uber-engineer-guilty-trade-secret-theft-google-b83051eb-0afc-4bb4-bffa-837cbec0c12b.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic)
Non Sense
These are the hotels and airlines offering elite status extensions for those impacted by coronavirus (https://thepointsguy.com/news/coronavirus-hotels-airlines-elite-status-extension/)
Peak Cory Doctrow! Pluralistic: 24 Mar 2020 (https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/grandparents-optional-party/)
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Conferences, Videos et. al.
Request Metrics (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIklNDcnPT8_eVFM1oOoQyA?view_as=subscriber) from TrackJS (https://trackjs.com/) Request Metrics is a web performance tool that records how fast your production Page and API endpoints are from your users' perspective.
Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together (https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/chef-tools-and-terraform-better-together) from Matt Ray
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
SDT news & hype
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Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: The Rewatchables (https://art19.com/shows/the-rewatchables)
Matt Ray: Generation Kill (https://amzn.to/3anOOGm)
Reggae: Toots & The Maytals (https://amzn.to/3brdY7c), Jimmy Cliff (https://amzn.to/2QLRfL2)
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3/27/2020 • 59 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 224: Miles Matthias on getting started with Containers and Kubernetes
Brandon interviews Miles Matthias from Container Heroes and they discuss how to get started with Containers, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and Spinnaker. Plus, Miles tells us a story about Warren Buffet.
Links:
* Container Hereos (https://www.containerheroes.com/)
* @miles_matthias (https://twitter.com/miles_matthias)
* Miles talk at Spinnaker Summit 2019 (https://www.containerheroes.com/appearances/spinnaker-summit-2019)
Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/GYQl88LcLok) Special Guest: Miles Matthias.
3/24/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 223: What’s a Terraform?
Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.
Mood Board:
Blur my foreground, that’s what I want.
No Yodas
Lot of rubber gloves in your youth?
I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book.
Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set
You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix.
I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life.
It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class.
As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint
The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams.
Why can’t they make it 100% OK?
You’ve got a big TV, put me on it!
Relevant to your interests
Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Skype
Does anyone really know what the deal is with this JEDI thing? - The Pentagon says it 'wishes to reconsider' the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/pentagon-reconsider-jedi-microsoft-amazon-web-services-2020-3?r=US&IR=T)
HashiCorp - Vagrant sure is valuable!
HashiCorp Scores $175M Funding Round, $5B Valuation (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/hashicorp-scores-175m-funding-round-5b-valuation/2020/03/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
Exclusive: DevOps unicorn HashiCorp could be valued at $5.25B in new round (https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/devops-company-hashicorp-seeks-525b-valuation-in-new-round)
Rancher - EDGE, BABY!
Rancher Labs Raises $40 Million Series D Round to Accelerate Growth of Its Kubernetes Management Platform (https://rancher.com/press/rancher-labs-raises-series-d-fundraising-to-accelerate-growth-of-kubernetes-management-platform)
Platform9 Announces Freedom for Kubernetes Users with New, 'Freedom' and 'Growth' SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Plans (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/platform9-announces-freedom-for-kubernetes-users-with-new-freedom-and-growth-saas-managed-kubernetes-plans-301025164.html)
npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/)
Next Phase Montage (https://blog.npmjs.org/post/612764866888007680/next-phase-montage?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=84796364&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_EuORWSkYIHmS8nqMc0WCk8B2JPOcD3eOpqljJX0aaD_hQpOJ2QucYIFMw8Z8vsLz1_j2JZjRSHbvrbZVXqW2h80901EglStEJDlhLyQmH1NcjGSk&_hsmi=84796364)
CNCF starts new artifact hub (https://devclass.com/2020/03/12/cncf-starts-new-artifact-hub/) - “pre-alpha stadium.”
Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions (https://medium.com/@inowland/using-6-page-and-2-page-documents-to-make-organizational-decisions-3216badde909)
Book review: The Real Deal - technology deal making in the 2020's (https://diginomica.com/book-review-real-deal-technology-deal-making-2020s)
Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21175785/wwdc-2020-online-only-apple-keynote-announced-coronavirus)
Righting a Wrong: IBM is a Leader in the Cloud... (http://blog.enterprisemanagement.com/righting-a-wrong-ibm-is-a-leader-in-the-cloud)
Trump Surprised Google With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Claim (https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/)
Google: G Suite now has 2 billion users (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-g-suite-now-has-2-billion-users/)
Coronavirus quarantine enforced for all people entering Australia, lockdowns on the table (https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-15/coronavirus-covid19-self-isolation-announced-for-australia/12057772?pfmredir=sm)
Coronavirus Will Change How We Shop, Travel and Work for Years (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/coronavirus-will-change-how-we-shop-travel-and-work-for-years)
Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21181300/microsoft-teams-down-outage-europe-remote-working-coronavirus?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
NSW govt pledges to introduce mandatory data breach reporting (https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nsw-govt-pledges-to-introduce-mandatory-data-breach-reporting-539109)
What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/pivotal-platform-vmware-tanzu)
Announcing OpenShift Serverless 1.5.0 Tech Preview - A sneak peek of our GA (https://blog.openshift.com/announcing-openshift-serverless-1-5-0-tech-preview-a-sneak-peek-of-our-ga/)
Google indefinitely delays the digital version of its Cloud Next conference (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/17/21183701/google-cloud-next-delay-indefinitely-coronavirus-digital-event-postponed)
Microsoft starts a grand unification attempt with .NET 5 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/17/dotnet_5_preview_1/)
Apple unveils new iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support in iPadOS (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/03/apple-unveils-new-ipad-pro-with-lidar-scanner-and-trackpad-support-in-ipados/)
Spectro Cloud Launches With $7.5 Million to Help Enterprises Realize the Promise of Kubernetes (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/03/17/2002043/0/en/Spectro-Cloud-Launches-With-7-5-Million-to-Help-Enterprises-Realize-the-Promise-of-Kubernetes.html)
Not just video-conferencing apps taking a dive: IBM Cloud hit by partial Tuesday outage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/17/ibm_cloud_tuesday_partial_outage/)
Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ansible-devops-comes-to-the-mainframe/)
Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/mainframe-developers-get-boost-from-bmc-acquisition-of-compuware/)
Non Sense
How Much Toilet Paper?! The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator (https://howmuchtoiletpaper.com/)
You can now get alcohol delivered with your food when you order from Texas restaurants, Gov. Abbott says (https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2020/03/19/you-can-get-alcohol-delivered-with-your-food-when-you-order-from-texas-restaurants-gov-abbott-says/)
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Conferences, et. al.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 — Cancelled or Postponed. (https://twitter.com/DoDAustin/status/1240645494440894465?s=20)
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) June 2, All Digital. (https://www.chefconf.io/)
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Devs (https://www.fxnetworks.com/news/devs/) on FX/Hulu .
A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1081584611?i=1000448075759)
Matt Ray: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money (https://amzn.to/2vDZnpQ).
Tim Hartford’s Cautionary Tales podcast (http://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/).
Coté: Look Up.
Outro: “They’ll work until the very last minute,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRv1De7Hjs&t=231s) Dune.
3/19/2020 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 222: Self quarantining with half-baked bread
Self quarantining with half-baked bread
Most of our time is spent discussing the joys of eating half-baked bread. We also discuss what a Tanzu is, kubernetes konspiracy theories, and Oxide the new private cloud hardware startup...wait, wut? Hey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDqRlMeJ4U)! Spring Live (https://connect.tanzu.vmware.com/Spring_Live_Q221.html) next week, March 19th starting at 9am California-time - 24 hours! Attend!
Mood Board:
Fresh Bread Talk
I’ve mentioned this before
You’re suppose to listen
Hamthrax?
A tall glass of ice-tea.
The most Dutch thing ever.
Half-baked bread.
American’s tea innovation lead.
Strong opinions loosely held is canceled.
Relevant to your interests
VMware
If you run (VCF) VMware stuff, you can have kubernetes now. TAS/PAS will be moved to run on that sometime later - same stack as we’ve had at Pivotal is still, of course, alive and well.
Interview with Pat Gelsinger on VMware (http://www.kbcmtech.com/podcasts/key10%20-%20Keynote%20-%20The%20Evolution%20of%20the%20Enterprise%20Stack%20-%20Pat%20Gelsinger.mp3)
VMware Rejuvenates Once Again With Kubernetes Injection (https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/03/10/vmware-rejuvenates-once-again-with-kubernetes-injection/)
VMWare KeyBanc Capital Markets Write Up (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/9dd430df-7e1e-43fd-a953-c00ce649c0bf.pdf)
VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, built on VMware NSX is Now Available! (https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2020/03/vmware-tanzu-service-mesh-built-on-vmware-nsx-is-now-available.html/)
Docker
Docker Defines Roadmap with Developer-Focused API Integrations (https://thenewstack.io/docker-defines-roadmap-with-developer-focused-api-integrations/)
Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/10/docker_development_pipeline_service/)
AWS
A Peek Into Graviton2: Amazon's Neoverse N1 Server Chip First Impressions (https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/a-peek-into-the-physics-of-graivton2-amazons-neoverse-n1-server-chip-first-impressions)
Bottlerocket – Open Source OS for Container Hosting | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/bottlerocket-open-source-os-for-container-hosting/)
Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-store-technology/amazon-launches-business-selling-automated-checkout-to-retailers-idUSKBN20W0OD?utm_source=Memberful&utm_campaign=bb2e2c1e3a-daily_update_2020_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4c7fece27-bb2e2c1e3a-111062493)
Kube Corner
EngineerBetter/k8s-is-not-a-paas (https://github.com/EngineerBetter/k8s-is-not-a-paas/blob/master/README.md)
Windows NT 4 into Kubernetes (https://twitter.com/MaartjeME/status/1236697317421580289)
Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison (2020) (https://devopsdirective.com/posts/2020/03/managed-kubernetes-comparison/)
HPE Plunges Into Red Hot Kubernetes Market (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/hpe-plunges-into-red-hot-kubernetes-market)
NVIDIA to Acquire SwiftStack (https://www.swiftstack.com/blog/2020/03/05/nvidia-to-acquire-swiftstack/)
Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math | Quanta Magazine (https://www.quantamagazine.org/landmark-computer-science-proof-cascades-through-physics-and-math-20200304/)
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets to keep his job — for now (https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/9/21171482/twitter-jack-dorsey-elliott-deal-jesse-cohn-silver-lake)
Robinhood goes down again, (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-during-another-historic-trading-day.html)
Assessing ERP upgrades in the 21st century (https://diginomica.com/assessing-erp-upgrades-21st-century)
Vista Equity mulls options for IT automation and security provider Infoblox (https://www.pehub.com/vista-equity-mulls-options-for-it-automation-and-security-provider-infoblox/)
Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/vpn-and-ad-blocking-apps-sensor-tower)
Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/before-it-sued-google-for-copying-from-java-oracle-got-rich-copying-ibms-sql/)
This startup now has millions in no-strings-attached money because one of Silicon Valley's most famous VC firms had to walk away from the deal (https://www.businessinsider.com/sequoia-capital-leaves-finix-payments-millions-2020-3)
Australia sues Facebook for $529 billion. That's more than the government makes in a year. (https://mashable.com/article/facebook-australia-cambridge-analytica-sue-privacy-529-billion/)
This little server startup wants to take on a horde of tech giants (https://www.protocol.com/oxide-computer-cloud-server)
Who’s staying home because of COVID-19? (https://stayinghome.club/)
Non Sense
Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of fuel flying empty 'ghost' planes so they can keep their flight slots during the coronavirus outbreak (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coronavirus-airlines-run-empty-ghost-flights-planes-passengers-outbreak-covid-2020-3?r=US&IR=T)
What's in your wallet? A lot less interest, unless you notice this one word... (https://bobsullivan.net/syndication/whats-in-your-wallet-a-lot-less-interest-unless-you-notice-this-one-word/)
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Conferences, et. al.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th.
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4.
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
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SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Save money and buy a subscription to NY Times via gift certificate (https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/gift) for yourself.
Coté: treat yourself with a black Uber. Scott on Pivot (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot) as strong opinions loosely held.
3/13/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 221: How to turn $2bn into $5bn
Coté probably messed up his math on the Thoma Bravo profit from Compuware. Maybe it's more like $5bn (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/they-found-5-billion-in-the-couch/). But, obviously, he's just farting around with incomplete information. He apologies and will sit in the corner for awhile. For entertainment only!
With the virus shutting down conferences and keeping people in the home office, we discuss the value of in-person conferences and how remote ones might could be better. Also, GKE’s kubernetes cluster pricing (and Amazon’s drop to match the price) gives us an anchoring point for pricing running a cluster. Coupled with the recent CNCF survey you could make an interesting stew. Finally, Coté tries to run some numbers to figure out how much Thoma Bravo profited from taking Compuware private. (Also, he always mispronounces it as Thom-oh Bravo.)
Hey! If you want to understand VMware’s new strategy and portfolio around application development, tune into the March 10th webinar on the topic (https://www.vmware.com/app-modernization.html): register now (https://www.vmware.com/app-modernization.html)!
Mood Board:
The Hello Boss episode.
You mean I gave my kids a lecture all for nothing?
Shit the living room door.
Espresso macchiato.
Blue bonnet coffee.
What am I missing out on?
Sitting, trapped in your head.
I’m hoping we realize no one needs to be working.
Why blockchain is important for corn
Containers and the mainframes,
Too unqualified to speculate?
This post-conference era
You can’t do your dishes in the office
Those poor developers: having to pay for things!
$879/year per cluster helps someone keep their job.
It’s always Monte Carlo simulations with you
So adult.
I’m trying Matt Ray.
We IPO’d because we were running out of money, what a time to be alive.
This week’s white guys talking about white guys.
Relevant to your interests
How Marc Benioff’s Vision for Salesforce’s Future Triggered Executive Shuffle (https://cloudwars.co/marc-benioff-executive-shuffle-keith-block-salesforce/)
VMware exceeds $10B in sales in FY 2020 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-exceeds-10b-in-sales-in-fy-2020/)
Cisco begins new round of layoffs (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3546902-cisco-begins-new-round-of-layoffs)
How much money do SREs make? (https://www.gremlin.com/site-reliability-engineering/how-much-money-do-sres-make/)
Coronavirus 2020 tech conference cancellations list (https://www.zdnet.com/article/coronavirus-2020-tech-conference-cancellations-list/)
Google and Microsoft just canceled two conferences ahead of their major ones (https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21162185/google-microsoft-io-2020-build-tech-conference-coronavirus)
HP Enterprise suspends nearly all events (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3548025-hp-enterprise-suspends-nearly-all-events)
Important OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2020 Update: Shifts to Digital Conference – Red Hat OpenShift Blog (https://blog.openshift.com/important-openshift-commons-gathering-amsterdam-2020-update-shifts-to-digital-conference/)
Google cancels its biggest annual event over coronavirus fears (https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/tech/google-i-o-canceled-coronavirus/index.html)
BMC to Acquire Compuware (https://newsroom.bmc.com/news-releases/news-release-details/bmc-acquire-compuware)
Baron’s has a bunch of numbers:
https://www.barrons.com/articles/bmc-backed-by-kkr-is-buying-compuware-in-biggest-deal-yet-51583264075
Probably sold for about $2bn.
Selling about $650m of Dynatrace stock.
Got several $100m’s in dividends from DT.
Still owns 52% of DT ($9.294bn valuation, so $4.83bn asset in equity).
Original purchase price: $2.5bn
2 + 0.65 + 0.150 + 9.294 = $12.09bn cash out, plus $4.83bn equity - $16.92bn profit on $2.5bn…?!
Undated Forrester chart (https://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/252479530/Mainframe-software-market-shrinks-with-BMC-Compuware-deal) showing increasing mainframe spend.
Agile software development is dead. Deal with it (https://siliconangle.com/2020/02/03/agile-software-development-dead-deal/).
Coronavirus Updates: Epidemic Slows in China but Spreads Globally (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEKgN5u7JvjHJHytxo42U6oMqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwt4QY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen) - Check out the Ali app angle
Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle lawsuit over slow iPhones (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/02/apple-to-pay-up-to-500-million-to-settle-lawsuit-over-slow-iphones.html)
Google makes Hangouts Meet features free in the wake of coronavirus (https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/03/google-makes-hangouts-meet-features-free-in-the-wake-of-coronavirus/)
CNCF survey
No lead-gen on the PDF (https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CNCF_Survey_Report.pdf)! CLASSY.
Demographics:
“September and October 2019 and received 1,337 responses.”
30% of respondents from orgs with 5,000+ employees.
??? “The top job functions were software architect (41%), DevOps manager (39%), and back-end developer (24%)”
Most respondents from “Software,” “Technology,” and “Financial Services” - all the bleeding edge.
Amazon is #1, Google probably #2.
CI/CD (loosely applied) is at 40% to 50% - which is close Coté’s ongoing estimates (https://noti.st/cote/2ChRh3/the-blinking-cursor-or-kubernetes-for-developers-architects-other-people-who-arent-supposed-to-use-it#sp2hATg) (and, considering that most of the respondents are from tech and banks, if we’re cynical, probably less for the other industries).
The jump in production is really quick, maybe (Page 5, “Use of Containers since 2016”? It took about 4 years for prod use to be broadly done (in Dec 17, prod reached 75% which matches test)
Use of containers over time https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_ED3FAAE6EB8DCA991BF78F6CB5BCF05A0BFA699799537BB76BD43F42093FDAC7_1583424884691_image.png
Most figures like these (e.g., number of containers in production) would be a lot more interesting/useful if they were broken out by company size. E.g., larger companies probably use more containers in production, tech and banks probably have put containers in production earlier, also telcos - T-Mobile alone has 34,000 containers in production (https://www.altoros.com/blog/t-mobile-handles-1m-transactions-per-day-on-kubernetes/) (probably even more by now).
Similarly, how many clusters are in production would be interesting to see by organization size.
# of clusters in production https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_ED3FAAE6EB8DCA991BF78F6CB5BCF05A0BFA699799537BB76BD43F42093FDAC7_1583426321342_image.png
Challenges https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_ED3FAAE6EB8DCA991BF78F6CB5BCF05A0BFA699799537BB76BD43F42093FDAC7_1583425630448_image.png
Challenges are sort of interesting, as always.
I don’t like “culture” as a broad category. That usually just means “people don’t do what I think they should do [and instead have their own ideas of what’s best].”
However: obviously “security”…”complexity” is another broad category - and, boy, long-time SDT sponsors must love “monitoring” as a money-pot to go after!
Side-note: so, “servishmesh” means (https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul/) a registry to look-up how to connect to other pods/components in your kubes (like, JNDI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Naming_and_Directory_Interface)); getting the actual network connection to that other component; securing the network connection; load balancing (this term is getting way over-blown, I think?); and then doing the layer whatever networking to account for dynamically assigned IP addresses and stuff in kubernetes. Maybe, like microservices stuff like circuit breakers, or is that too far?
Not that many people use their own serverless framework (10%), but 34% of those who do use knative.
The “why you use kubernetes” chart (pg. 11) didn’t force people to rank enough: pretty much everyone agrees that All The Value-Props are great.
Helm wins for packaging.
Autoscaling https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_ED3FAAE6EB8DCA991BF78F6CB5BCF05A0BFA699799537BB76BD43F42093FDAC7_1583426553765_image.png
I don’t know enough about auto-scaling to say much, but it looks like most people don’t do auto-scaling unless it’s for purely stateless apps, which makes sense. The drop-off after that (queues, batch-jobs, stateless, and DB) seems to indicate that auto-scaling other stuff is difficult, untrusted.
“nginx kept its lead this year as the top Kubernetes ingress provider (62%), followed again by HAProxy (22%)” - F5 got a good control-point on the kubernetes market for $670 million (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/f5-acquires-nginx-for-670m-to-move-into-open-source-multi-cloud-services/), plus the entire rest of the nginx business.
“40% of respondents get their info from Twitter” - humanity had a good run!
Non Sense
Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/public-enemy-flavor-flav-bernie-sanders-960272/)
SETI@home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/seti-home-search-for-alien-life-project-shuts-down-after-21-years/)
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Conferences, et. al.
KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam, July/August, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop (https://kccnceu20.sched.com/event/ZJZE)
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th.
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4.
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
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SDT news & hype
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Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Dark Towers (https://www.audible.com/pd/Dark-Towers-Audiobook/0062878840?ref=a_author_Da_c19_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=1ae0e65e-ad09-4aa7-aa73-772cefb1b5e1&pf_rd_r=24SC19H1SFVCKQYH01C5)
Press Box Pod (https://www.theringer.com/the-press-box) - Strain pun headline segment
Tasty Meats Paul’s Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/paulczar/)
Matt: SelfControl.app (https://selfcontrolapp.com/)
Humble Bundle Cybersecurity 2020 (https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-2020-wiley-books?partner=8443)
Coté: First 30% of the first Jack Reacher book, The Killing Floor (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40105393-killing-floor). Also, see other books Matt Yglesias is reading (https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5255248-matthew-yglesias).
Cover art from Marcingietorigie in wikicommons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caff%C3%A8_Espresso_Macchiato_Schiumato.jpg).
3/5/2020 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 220: Everyone loves white papers
Everyone loves white papers
Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension.
Mood board:
“A Quote from the episode…”
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
“I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.”
We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’
Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring?
Crank up the YouTube
Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway
Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now
Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch
Garbage trash proposals
Uniquely sourced
Why are we still doing this?
They’re busy running their business.
“Can you write me a business case.”
PDFs a Plenty
The White Paper Album
Speaking of BS phrases
The white paper to take down white papers
“Walking into the door feeling”
The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever.
Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon.
The Idempope.
Relevant to your interests
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? (https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html) - related, from 2006 (http://econobonics.blogspot.com/).
The secret sauce graphics (http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/10/operations-is-a-competitive-ad.html), 2007. Andrew Shafer’s 2010 update (http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/operations-as-the-secret-sauce.html).
White papers (best one ever (https://www.chef.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Chef-Standard-Bank-WhitePaper.pdf): “Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey,” Chef)
Collateral.
Sales tools.
Case studies.
Thought-leadership/definition.
Education.
Guidance (vs. Gartner Burton papers).
Writing down chunks of sales-hustle lore.
How it effects the business.
Have opinions.
Millennials Want Credible Digital Content — So Give It To Them! (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1232545180013731840)
Amazon AMI thing.
Salesforce secures $1.3B+ deal for Vlocity (https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/salesforce-secures-13b-deal-for-vlocity), also co-CEO left (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/keith-block-steps-down-as-salesforce-co-ceo-marc-benioff-is-chair-and-ceo-301011142.html) (what’s up with two CEOs?)
VMware, Tanzu
Signal signal - Matt’s paranoid security.
The Tech Revolt Finally Comes for Oracle (https://gizmodo.com/oracle-ceos-trump-fundraiser-incites-employee-work-stop-1841791696)
Morgan Stanley Is Buying E*Trade, Betting on Littler Customers (https://www.wsj.com/articles/morgan-stanley-is-buying-e-trade-betting-on-littler-customers-11582201440)
Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses (https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=technology)
Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fightNonsense (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-7b0cc14c-ef6d-4211-813f-6a2400e1869b.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-cloud-president-tariq-shaukat-vacating-his-role)
DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/digitalocean-raises-100m-in-debt-as-it-scales-towards-revenue-of-300m-profitability/)
HP adopts poison pill after Xerox's buyout attempts (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hp-m-a-xerox-hlngs/hp-adopts-poison-pill-after-xeroxs-buyout-attempts-idUSKBN20E2XZ)
VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger (https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/02/vmware-pivotal-tanzu-merger/)
Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department - Slashdot (https://developers.slashdot.org/story/20/02/23/2043239/oracles-allies-against-google-include-scott-mcnealy-and-americas-justice-department)
Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plots-course-to-overtake-cloud-rivals-11582383601)
Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-20/apple-weighs-loosening-restrictions-on-rival-iphone-music-apps?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/the-ars-technica-semi-scientific-guide-to-wi-fi-access-point-placement/)
Google Cloud beefs up Chronicle, reCaptcha Enterprise and Web Risk API hit general availability (https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/24/google-cloud-beefs-up-chronicle-recaptcha-enterprise-and-web-risk-api-hit-general-availability/)
When Speakers are Ears (https://moniotrlab.ccis.neu.edu/smart-speakers-study/)
Why Those Gaps in Kubernetes Are Really a Good Thing (https://thenewstack.io/why-those-gaps-in-kubernetes-are-really-a-good-thing/)
Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/24/redhat_launches_openstack_16/)
Google Jumps to #4 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Behind #1 Microsoft, #2 AWS, #3 Salesforce (https://cloudwars.co/google-jumps-4-cloud-wars-top-10/)
MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/25/what_mwcs_cancellation_means_for_smaller_firms/)
Firefox now encrypts domain name requests by default in the US (https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/25/firefox-dns-over-https-default-us/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAANMCttaVUn7q3tSVj58X3_a_3l3AceIJjxzxOTi3Psv6gBOVQOP7rmb7sk0yKtKUQ8RpzQMfjabXr4phF509Bakuyw_5nqibjt0bQRgxIOXvjKD5FAHQM7tJyDZtG6JN-z9ADZ1r0oZGY1lzgtPs8bYXxmHaAUqns7p1CoeSqeK)
Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace' (https://slashdot.org/story/367584)
Keith Block Steps Down as Salesforce Co-CEO; Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/keith-block-steps-down-as-salesforce-co-ceo-marc-benioff-is-chair-and-ceo-301011142.html)
Non Sense
Report: Austin Ranks No. 1 in the Nation for Jobs (https://www.americaninno.com/austin/inno-news/report-austin-ranks-no-1-in-the-nation-for-jobs/)
The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/25/21147389/jif-peanut-butter-giphy-settle-gif-pronunciation-debate)
Costco’s Famous Hot Dog Could Cost You $60 (https://slickdeals.net/article/news/costco-food-courts-deals-and-news/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=595532-Adobe%20Newsletter%20DM15903%20-%202020-02-25%2009%3A50%3A05&utm_source=29000-adobe_editorial_content&utm_term=cmsarticle&sdxt00=19473079)
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Conferences, et. al.
QCon London (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote/speaker_talks/178127-the-blinking-cursor-or-kubernetes-for-developers-architects-other-people-who-aren-t-supposed-to-use-it), March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking on March 2nd.
Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions (https://www.agilescotland.com/sessions), tickets (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-scotland-dynamic-earth-march-2020-tickets-81226262939).
KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop (https://kccnceu20.sched.com/event/ZJZE)
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st.
Listener Talk
Ryan Kitchens (https://twitter.com/this_hits_home) talk “The Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdMMLPBMnw&list=WL&index=8&t=0s)a (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdMMLPBMnw&list=WL&index=8&t=0s)t of It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdMMLPBMnw&list=WL&index=8&t=0s).”
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Recommendations
Brandon: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (https://www.netflix.com/title/80148180) on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80148180).
Matt: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (https://www.harrypottertheplay.com/).
Coté: Hild (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332243-hild). SpringOne Platform 2019 CFP (https://springone.io/cfp). My book, The Business Bottleneck (https://cote.io/books/), is out for free (https://cote.io/books/).
Outro: “Hey Now.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdHpQW-pEs)
2/27/2020 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 219: Paranoid security, not paranoid schizophrenic
We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats.
Relevant to your interests
Google
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is taking a page from the enterprise sales handbook against Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-targeting-five-industries-c-suite.html)
Politics around Istio and Knative within Google are fascinating (https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1229513048378888193?s=21)
“People frequently conflate "open governance" and "neutral IP ownership." It depends greatly on the foundation, but in the case of the CNCF, there are literally zero governance requirements enforced on projects. CNCF projects can be (and are) single vendor governed.”
Welcoming Looker to Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-completes-looker-acquisition)
Google Cloud reveals major restructuring plans (https://www.techradar.com/news/google-cloud-reveals-major-restructuring-plans)
Google Cloud acquires mainframe migration service Cornerstone (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/19/google-cloud-acquires-mainframe-migration-service-cornerstone/)
Security
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/?stream=technology&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter)
The CIA’s ‘coup of the century (https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/the-cias-coup-of-the-century/)’ Podcast (https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/the-cias-coup-of-the-century/)
The End of Privacy as We Know It? (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/podcasts/the-daily/facial-recognition-surveillance.html)
Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout (https://www.zdnet.com/article/average-tenure-of-a-ciso-is-just-26-months-due-to-high-stress-and-burnout/)
DOJ charges four China-backed hackers with Equifax breach – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/10/justice-department-breach-equifax/)
Ring enables mandatory two-factor authentication and new privacy controls in response to scandals (https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/18/21141948/ring-two-factor-authentication-default-mandatory-data-sharing-third-party-analytics-advertising)
The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony (https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/)
Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/13/iana_dnssec_ksk_delay/)
M&A and Going Bust
Dell Nears Deal to Sell RSA Security Business to Private-Equity Firm STG (https://www.wsj.com/articles/dell-nears-deal-to-sell-rsa-security-business-to-private-equity-firm-stg-11581996327?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Koch Industries acquires Infor in deal pegged at nearly $13B – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/04/koch-industries-acquires-infor-in-deal-pegged-at-nearly-13b/)
Xerox raises takeover offer for HP (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hp-m-a-xerox-hlngs/xerox-raises-takeover-bid-for-hp-idUSKBN2041J2)
Android founder's next phone company goes bust (https://www.axios.com/android-founder-phone-company-essential-shut-down-73b83ef8-921f-4acd-b4c6-f43f5b4abcef.html)
HQ, maker of the once-popular HQ Trivia, is shutting down (https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/14/21138408/hq-trivia-shutting-down-employee-layoffs-app-game)
Rancher Labs Achieves 169% Revenue Growth, Doubles (https://rancher.com/press/momentum-announcement)
Alibaba Cloud revenue reaches $1.5B for the quarter on 62% growth rate – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/14/alibaba-cloud-revenue-reaches-1-5b-for-the-quarter-on-62-growth-rate/)
dgarros/netdevops-survey (https://github.com/dgarros/netdevops-survey/)
The History of Git: The Road to Domination (https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/btc-history-git)
Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/13/amazon-gets-restraining-order-to-block-microsoft-work-on-pentagon-jedi.html)
Amazon lawyers want to depose Trump (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/amazon-lawyers-want-depose-trump-it-s-hard-blame-them-n1134331)
Your .com could soon cost you more .cash (https://thehustle.co/02132020-verisign-namecheap-domains/)
Wi-Fi 6E isn’t here yet—but Broadcom is clearly banking on it (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/wi-fi-6e-gets-a-little-closer-to-reality-with-broadcoms-new-chipset/)
New Relic: New Report: For the Love of Serverless - New Relic Blog (https://blog.newrelic.com/product-news/for-the-love-of-serverless/)
GSMA cancels Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus concerns (https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/12/gmsa-cancels-mobile-world-congress-due-to-coronavirus-concerns/)
Red Hat kicks off long goodbye for CoreOS Container Linux • DEVCLASS (https://devclass.com/2020/02/06/red-hat-kicks-off-long-goodbye-for-coreos-container-linux/)
Meet JJ Asghar - DevRel.net (https://devrel.net/dev-rel/meet-jj-asghar)
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/amazon-empire/)
## Nonsense
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html)
My travel habits (https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2019/11/25/my-travel-habits/)
Private equity, explained — The Weeds (https://overcast.fm/+FOOTjqFjI)
They recorded the Seinfeld theme separately for EVERY EPISODE (https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1229378614824701958?s=21)
Chasing Colombia's 'cocaine hippos' (https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-02-09/uc-san-diego-biologist-colombia-cocaine-hippos-pablo-escobar)
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Conferences, et. al.
HashiTalks (https://events.hashicorp.com/hashitalks2020) Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech)
QCon London (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote/speaker_talks/178127-the-blinking-cursor-or-kubernetes-for-developers-architects-other-people-who-aren-t-supposed-to-use-it), March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking at some point.
Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions (https://www.agilescotland.com/sessions), tickets (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-scotland-dynamic-earth-march-2020-tickets-81226262939).
KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4
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THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st.
Book Giveaway
Free digital copy of Code Your Way Up: Rise to the Challenge of Software Leadership (https://www.amazon.com/Code-Your-Way-Challenge-Leadership/dp/1777076501/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Code+Your+Way+Up%3A+Rise+to+the+Challenge+of+Software+Leadership&qid=1582139704&sr=8-1) to the first person to direct message bwhichard in the SDT Slack (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) or on Twitter (https://twitter.com/bwhichard).
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Recommendations
Brandon: McMillions (https://www.hbo.com/mcmillions) on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/mcmillions)
Matt: Casey Handmer’s Blog (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/) space-related blog posts are fascinating
Subscribe to Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com/) for space news
2/20/2020 • 58 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 218: Kubernetes for developers, with Charles Lowell
"I don't care about networking...and load balancing."
There's a lot of new concepts and stuff to learn when it comes to developing applications that will run on kubernetes. In this episode, Coté talks with Charles Lowell (https://twitter.com/cowboyd) about his experience. Also, we imagine measuring the humidity of mayonnaise.
If you need some excellent app coding, check out Charle's company, Frontside (https://frontside.io/)! They also have a podcast (https://frontside.io/podcast) where they discuss recent programming frameworks and idea, and relating coding cool stuff.
You may recall that Charles was the co-host of Coté's first podcast empire, DrunkAndRetired.com (https://archive.org/details/DrunkAndRetired).
Special Guest: Charles Lowell.
2/14/2020 • 52 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 217: You’re eating your hamburger wrong - IBM, unlocking value at Compuware, microservices are dead
With a new CEO and president at IBM, we talk about what’s been going on good and bad at IBM in recent years. Big bets were made and that whole cloud things overshadowed things. We also talk about the mysteries of private equity, here what Thoma Bravo has done to make billions of dollars of Dynatrace and Compuware. Finally, we briefly talk about the whole microservices and serverless are silly trend - monoliths rule! (Oh, and some small Java talk.)
(Sorry there’s so much high-volume on Coté's end. Hopefully your ear-holes won’t hurt too much. Coté needs to get a new pop-filter.)
Mood board:
Interpol can’t find me in Australia, right?
Digital transformation is bad.
Did they decide that the kids are all right?
Thought leader me into happiness.
You are so much more cynical than me.
What does IBM do?
Reverse halo effect.
Surviving the trough of disillusionment.
We’ll stick up for digital transformation - No!
For the rest of your life, do better.
Minor bread talk.
Relevant to your interests
IBM
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down, Arvind Krishna to take over (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-steps-down-arvind-krishna-to-take-over.html)
1 big thing: Ginni Rometty out at IBM (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-5a7bbb49-ba2e-448b-92b1-997a5006be88.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0)
IBM’s Lost Decade (https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/02/ibms-lost-decade/)
IBM didn’t spent much CAPEX (https://www.platformonomics.com/2018/05/follow-the-capex-separating-the-clowns-from-the-clouds/), three others did.
Coté: what’s there to say that’s new? Cloud wasn’t executed well (I guess?) and Watson was a poor choice for such a high priority.
Thoma Bravo to Explore $2 Billion Sale of Compuware (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-30/thoma-bravo-is-said-to-explore-2-billion-sale-of-compuware?srnd=deals)
So, did Thoma Bravo do well here?
“could value the mainframe software provider at around $2 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“Thoma Bravo took Compuware private in 2014 in a deal valued at $2.5 billion. It carved out Compuware’s application performance management division, renamed it Dynatrace Inc. and took it public last year.”
Dynatrace market cap is ~$9.1bn (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DT?p=DT&.tsrc=fin-srch), was ~$6.7bn on IPO day (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GrEhTb9AZgUJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/thoma-bravo-controlled-dynatrace-s-ipo-raises-570-million+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nl) (August 2019).
Brenon@451 on the IPO (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/infrastructure-software/dynatraces-dynamic-debut/), August 2019: “Post-offering, the PE firm still owns about 70% of Dynatrace.”
And: “Dynatrace raised roughly $570m in its offering, some of which will go toward paying down its nearly $1bn in debt.”
451’s note on the 2014 going private (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/thoma-bravo-gets-better-than-face-value-from-compuware/).
So, if Thoma Bravo still owns 70%, then have ~$6.37bn worth of equity (70% of market cap of $9.1bn)…sounds… really good for laying for laying down $2.5bn, plus you might get $2bn more from the rest of Compuware.
That’s crazy, right? That Compuware was sitting on that much extra value?
This week in cloud architecture patterns
tl;dr: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The State of Serverless (https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-serverless/)
This is just about AWS Lambda. (That said, what else is there?)
“Among the companies with the largest infrastructure footprints, more than three quarters have adopted Lambda.”
Lots of node.js and python use, not much Java and .Net use. Java and python were added in the same year (2015), node.js since the start in 2014.
Coté’s summary of their analysis: Lambda used with lots of data processing, primarily with python and node, at mostly large orgs. Not used by Java devs.
Modular Monolithic Architecture, Microservices and Architectural Drivers (https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/monolith-architectural-drivers/)
“Monoliths are the future,” (https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future) Kelsey Hightower.
“Now that our industry is finally recovering from the mass delusion that microservices was going to be the future, it's surely time to for the even bigger delusion that serverless is what's going to provide the all-purpose salvation.” @dhh (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1225117740962181120?s=21) Also: his 2016 suggestion (https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith/) that monoliths work best for small teams, microservices for huge orgs.
Related: Reframing and Retooling for Observability, James Governor (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2020/02/05/reframing-and-retooling-for-observability/) - overview of observability, in serious James mode.
JRebel Java survey:
Over 60% use Java 8 or older. Java 8 was released in March 2014, no more updates to Java 8 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history).
Tomcat dominates app server use at 60%+. Free and works is a hell of a combination (https://memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/46d6e34c-6a40-4edb-bead-f7132543ff82).
Spring and Spring Boot very dominate.
“It was very surprising to see how many of our survey respondents are paying for Oracle JDK. I fully expected the open source options to have a much larger market share.”
(https://www.platformonomics.com/2020/02/ibms-lost-decade/)- 1 big thing: Software disaster sinks Iowa caucus (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-bf16b6d8-a2f7-4493-99d5-221968175e2a.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0)
Google Numbers
Google parent Alphabet Q4 earnings: Revenue disappoints (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-google-q4-earnings-191155754.html)
Alphabet discloses YouTube ad revenues of $15.15 billion, Cloud revenues of $8.92 billion for 2019 (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/alphabet-discloses-youtube-cloud-revenues-for-the-first-time.html)
Related: Instagram brought in an estimated (https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-20-billion-ad-revenue-2019-report-2020-2?international=true&r=US&IR=T) $20bn in 2019.
That’s a lot of money.
Security
Google releases open-source 2FA security key platform called OpenSK (https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/30/google-releases-open-source-2fa-security-key-platform/)
Apple Engineers Propose Standardized Format for SMS One-Time Passcodes (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/01/31/apple-standardized-format-sms-one-time-passcodes/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9fb8b1f9a9-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+321&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-9fb8b1f9a9-70424493&mc_cid=9fb8b1f9a9&mc_eid=288b3f86c8)
HPE acquires identity management startup Scytale (https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/03/hpe-acquires-identity-management-startup-scytale/)
Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate (https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21120248/microsoft-teams-down-outage-certificate-issue-status)
Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances (https://multipass.run/)
Nonsense
Podcast app Overcast adds automatic intro skipping and overhauled Voice Boost feature (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117380/overcast-podcast-app-new-features-voice-boost-2-intro-skipping)
I Have a Costco Credit Card. I Never Use It at Costco. Here’s Why. (https://thewirecutter.com/money/credit-cards/co-branded-costco/)
Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business (https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21123904/spotify-bill-simmons-ringer-deal)
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Conferences, et. al.
KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th
QCon London (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote/speaker_talks/178127-the-blinking-cursor-or-kubernetes-for-developers-architects-other-people-who-aren-t-supposed-to-use-it), March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking at some point.
Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions (https://www.agilescotland.com/sessions), tickets (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-scotland-dynamic-earth-march-2020-tickets-81226262939).
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4
Dev (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)O (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ps (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)D (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/)ays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st.
HashiTalks (https://events.hashicorp.com/hashitalks2020) Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: NeverSSL (http://neverssl.com/).
Matt: Code the Classics (https://store.rpipress.cc/products/code-the-classics). Faith No More’s coming to Australia & New Zealand (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP9BfLIXsAAH7Mr.jpg)
Cote: Beyond the Phoenix Project (https://amzn.to/31v2CeJ), from 2018 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38714647-beyond-the-phoenix-project).
2/8/2020 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 216: I would give it 5 stars if you still did stars.
How do we fix Privacy? How do you compete with AWS? Is the iPad a hit product? We discuss all this and Matt Ray teaches us how to decouple applications from the operating system. Plus, we offer more advice about tacos.
Relevant to your interests
Privacy
“Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software” (https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1222285606635614208?s=21)
Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/health-records-company-pushed-opioids-to-doctors-in-secret-deal)
Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21111865/scroll-ad-free-website-subscription-launches)
Avast antivirus harvested user data, then sold to Google, Microsoft (https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/27/avast-antivirus-harvested-user-data-then-sold-to-google-microsoft)
Disruption
Clayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67 (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/business/clayton-christensen-dead.html)
How to Compete With AWS (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/01/24/how-to-compete-with-aws/)
After Kubernetes’ Victory, Its Former Rivals Change Tack (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/business/after-kubernetes-victory-its-former-rivals-change-tack)
Slack Stock Could Be One of the Biggest Opportunities in Software, Analyst Says (https://www.barrons.com/articles/slack-stock-opportunity-in-software-51580231541)
Acquired | WhatsApp (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/whatsapp)
Chef Habitat Gains a Foothold in the Enterprise, Streamlines Packaging (https://thenewstack.io/chef-habitat-gains-a-foothold-in-the-enterprise-streamlines-packaging/)
Google
Google aims to unify its workplace tools and messaging apps into one service (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21112596/google-messaging-communications-app-hangouts-chat-meet-g-suite)
Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021 (https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/27/google-will-shut-down-app-maker-on-january-19-2021/)
Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products (https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/29/google-record-reward-researchers-hack-security-bug-bounty/)
Apple
The 10th Anniversary of the iPad: A Perspective from the Windows Team (https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/the-10th-anniversary-of-the-ipad-a-perspective-from-the-windows-team-eaca7f94c5cc)
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 (https://daringfireball.net/2020/01/the_ipad_awkwardly_turns_10)
Apple Holiday Results Top Estimates on Rebounding iPhone Demand (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiUWh0dHBzOi8vZmluYW5jZS55YWhvby5jb20vbmV3cy9hcHBsZS1ob2xpZGF5LXJlc3VsdHMtdG9wLWVzdGltYXRlcy0yMTQ1MzA4NjMuaHRtbNIBWWh0dHBzOi8vZmluYW5jZS55YWhvby5jb20vYW1waHRtbC9uZXdzL2FwcGxlLWhvbGlkYXktcmVzdWx0cy10b3AtZXN0aW1hdGVzLTIxNDUzMDg2My5odG1s?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
A new chapter for Kohsuke (https://jenkins.io/blog/2020/01/23/a-new-chapter-for-kohsuke/)
COBOL on Kubernetes - stackconf (https://stackconf.eu/talks/cobol-on-kubernetes/)
VMware’s vRealize $236M Patent Infringement Loss: 5 Things To Know (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/virtualization/vmware-s-vrealize-236m-patent-infringement-loss-5-things-to-know)
VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/28/vmware_layoffs_confirmed/)
LastPass is discontinuing its native Mac app and replacing it with a more universal web app (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/29/21113505/lastpass-native-mac-app-store-replacement-web-safari-extension-update)
Nonsense
Google caves on unpopular favicon change in Search and promises to test more designs (https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/24/google-caves-on-unpopular-favicon-change-in-search-and-promises-to-test-more-designs/)
Old Bay hot sauce is here: McCormick launches new way to season wings ahead of Super Bowl (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/29/old-bay-hot-sauce-now-thing-and-heres-where-buy/4607149002/)
Internal Monologue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_monologue) vs. Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech (https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/pristine-inner-experience/201110/not-everyone-conducts-inner-speech)
Australia slips further in internet speed rankings (https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2020/australia-slips-further-in-internet-speed-rankings.html)
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Conferences, et. al.
KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/) in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th
ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) in Seattle June 1-4
Devopsdays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st.
HashiTalks (https://events.hashicorp.com/hashitalks2020) Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech)
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff Newsletter (http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-signup&hash=54223001ca3ffcf40f2629c25acea67a)
The Animal Spir (https://animalspiritspod.libsyn.com/)i (https://animalspiritspod.libsyn.com/)ts Podcast (https://animalspiritspod.libsyn.com/)
The Compound YouTube Channel from Josh Brown and Michael Batnick (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBRpqrzuuqE8TZcWw75JSdw)
Matt:
A16Z Podcasts (https://a16z.com/podcasts/)
Daniel Suarez’s Freedom (https://amzn.to/2RG0cGD), the sequel to Daemon
1/31/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 215: The Jez Humble/Life Insurance Renewal PDF Continuum
Coté proposes that there’s three types of apps to pay attention to in enterprises. Or something like that. Also, he has a magical method for doing digital transformation: actually do it. We open up discussing the delightful adventure of doing analyst feature matrixes. Also, some brief discussion of Apple Watches in the impeachment trial.
Mood board:
The game is won or lost before the spreadsheet it sent.
Incrementally updating apps, vs. making new businesses (digitizing) - like, maybe there just needs to be more programmers.
It’s not “stupid,” it’s “antiquated.”
Don’t make them think it is a big deal, or they’ll be afraid.
Finding business case loopholes, or ignoring them.
Can you base practices on loopholers?
Wearing Apple Watches to senate hearings - a real ok boomer moment - gadgets in meetings in general.
Audio books.
I just made myself a sandwich, wow.
Relevant to your interests
Google
AppSheet. Gesundheit! Oh, we see – it's Google pulling no-code development into a cloudy embrace (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/15/google_cloud_embraces_nocode_development_with_appsheet_acquisition/)
Epic Systems, a major medical records vendor, is warning customers it will stop working with Google Cloud (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/epic-systems-warns-customers-it-will-stop-supporting-google-cloud.html)
Not sure what to think about this.
Google will have to make clear that it doesn't filch data, agreed on or not.
Can they ever convince paranoid enterprise buyers that their data will be safe, not from hackers, but from Google?
Google offers IBM AS/400 apps new home in its cloud (https://www.cio.com/article/3514989/google-offers-ibm-as400-apps-new-home-in-its-cloud.html)
Google to phase out third-party cookies (https://www.axios.com/google-cookies-phase-out-third-party-5368ef6d-4c2c-40b7-865c-0f6a333f7377.html) - does this mean ads will disappear for me, or just that Google and Facebook will be the only ones who can do it?
Forrester study highlights benefits of Google Anthos hybrid cloud app platform (https://siliconangle.com/2020/01/22/forrester-study-highlights-financial-benefits-google-anthos/) - and same with Pivotal (https://content.pivotal.io/analyst-reports/the-total-economic-impact-of-the-pivotal-platform-2020).
IBM
IBM forecasts full-year profit above estimates on cloud growth (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-reports-surprise-revenue-rise-211453080.html)
Six months after IBM spent $34 billion to acquire an open source software company, IBM's Q4 results showed that 'Red Hat goodness is kicking in' (https://apple.news/A27zjXAg2R3KvxxcuHXir1A)
IBM Stock Rose More Today Than in the Last 10 Years. It’s Time For A Shake-Up (https://apple.news/AQhRI3vfZQS6UqjsnMVr8uw)
Bad News
DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected (https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/17/digitalocean-layoffs/)
Report: Firefox maker Mozilla is laying off 70 people (https://www.fastcompany.com/90452530/firefox-maker-mozilla-is-reportedly-laying-off-70-people-in-search-of-revenue-beyond-search?partner=feedburner)
Good News
AI for code, serverless, monitoring, SD-WAN.
Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code (https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/21/snyk-raises-150-million-at-1-billion-valuation-for-ai-that-protects-open-source-code/)
TriggerMesh 2020 - Cloud Native Integration (https://triggermesh.com/2020/01/triggermesh-2020-cloud-native-integration/)
DevOps Startup Sysdig Raises $70M Series E (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/devops-startup-sysdig-raises-70m-series-e/)
VMware to acquire Nyansa for AI-based network analytics (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-to-acquire-nyansa-for-ai-based-network-analytics/)
Australia
Australians Stick With Their Banks Through Years of Scandal (https://apple.news/AjCsVk8vdSFG4DrMPHQLaow)
Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/games/australia-fire-relief)
Phone Hacking
Here Is the Technical Report Suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’ Phone (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74v34/saudi-arabia-hacked-jeff-bezos-phone-technical-report?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top)
U.N. Experts Call for Inquiry into Hack of Bezos’s Phone (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/middleeast/un-experts-call-for-inquiry-into-hack-of-bezoss-phone.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share)
Apple reportedly scrapped plans to fully secure iCloud backups after FBI intervention (https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-scrapped-fbi-reuters-report)
Grab Bag
Istio as an Example of When Not to Do Microservices (https://blog.christianposta.com/microservices/istio-as-an-example-of-when-not-to-do-microservices/)
VCs are just tired (https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/16/vcs-are-just-tired/)
An introduction to VMware vRealize Operations Cloud (https://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/An-introduction-to-VMware-vRealize-Operations-Cloud?amp=1#click=https://t.co/pASAzDcJXW)
Nearly 200 CEOs just agreed on an updated definition of "the purpose of a corporation" (https://qz.com/work/1690439/new-business-roundtable-statement-on-the-purpose-of-companies/)
2020: The year of seeing clearly on AI and machine learning (https://www.zdnet.com/article/2020-the-year-of-seeing-clearly-on-ai-and-machine-learning/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
2019 CNCF Annual Report - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/01/21/2019-cncf-annual-report/)
Flow Time - How Fast are We Delivering Business Value? - Tasktop Blog (https://www.tasktop.com/blog/flow-time/)
DuckDuckGo Traffic (https://duckduckgo.com/traffic)
The billion-dollar battle over .org registry ownership intensifies (https://www.axios.com/org-registry-ownership-battle-d73a356f-4b94-4cb3-8769-9cbbc3526440.html)
What Senators Wearing Apple Watches During the Impeachment Trial Teach Us About Invisible Tech (https://apple.news/AnOZnSgFFRje9eTWY0Eqy7w) - seems like an “ok boomer” story.
Nonsense
Why Texans Love H-E-B So Much (https://www.kut.org/post/why-texans-love-h-e-b-so-much)
Travel company’s sneaky ad trick (https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/accommodation/trivago-fined-for-misleading-customers-on-pricing/news-story/30074634a8f3b90ddee445468a7216ce)
Frozen iguanas falling from trees in South Florida (https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/22/frozen-iguanas-falling-from-trees-in-south-florida/)
Sunshine Map (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EO4ssJnXsAA9Q4w.jpg)
To Your Brain, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’ (https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/listening-to-a-book-instead-of-reading-isnt-cheating.html)
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Conferences, et. al.
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), March 30 – April 2, use discount code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th
Devopsdays Minneapolis, (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/) August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
Listener Brett wants you to go to THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6, 2020 - Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st.
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: The Outsider (https://www.hbo.com/the-outsider) on HBO (https://www.hbo.com/the-outsider)
Coté: Tasty Meats Paul’s latest kubernetes and Spring talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn5gfbJcJ4A). Also, Paul’s food in Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/paulczar/).
1/24/2020 • 58 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 214: VPNs, Windows 7 EoL, & Crapplications
This week the title says it all. There’s also some more bread talk.
Mood board:
“I love the talk about bread, can I get some stickers.”
Do they have markdown in Intranets now?
Kicking to fit use cases.
Porting of Ports
Crapplications, aka, “Crappity crap”
Relevant to your interests
Microsoft will stop supporting millions of computers running Windows 7 on Tuesday — here's what you need to know (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/13/microsoft-windows-7-support-ends-jan-14.html)
“According to Net Applications (https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx) figures from December, 32.74% of all laptops and desktops still run Windows 7, behind Windows 10. Windows 10 runs on more than 900 million devices (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/12/microsoft-rolls-out-november-2019-windows-10-update.html).”
Now It's Really, Truly Time to Give Up Windows 7 (https://www.wired.com/story/time-give-up-windows-7/)
Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud (http://axios.link/JlHc)
Check out that Agriculture Inspection app (https://www.appsheet.com/samples/A-mobile-app-for-agricultural-fieldcrop-inspections-and-reports?appGuidString=b3accf6f-4aac-48fa-bce3-be0d7400f932)!
Stack Overflow Bolsters Leadership Team With New Chief Product Officer, Teresa Dietrich (https://apnews.com/Business%20Wire/fc8d802729a94adfa795266ab3aecd52)
Spotify Is Now the Single Biggest Podcasting Platform (https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/01/14/spotify-is-now-the-single-biggest-podcasting-platf.aspx)
Rob Bearden takes over as Cloudera CEO (https://www.zdnet.com/article/rob-bearden-takes-over-as-cloudera-ceo/)
Microsoft Azure has an edge over Amazon Web Services at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/microsoft-azure-cloud-winner-at-big-companies-goldman-sachs.html)
Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective (https://thenewstack.io/observability-a-3-year-retrospective/)
Anthos Ups Google’s Enterprise Efforts (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/anthos-ups-googles-enterprise-efforts/)
The president of Marc Benioff's Time reveals how he plans to restore the neglected title and make it a billion-dollar business (https://apple.news/A_3dkPprHQBWldgSNqU0-4Q)
The Endgame for LinkedIn Is Coming (https://medium.com/@lancengym/the-endgame-for-linkedin-is-coming-31d4a8b2a76)
Equinix is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet (https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/14/equinix-is-acquiring-bare-metal-cloud-provider-packet/)
Your iPhone can now help you securely log into your Google account with a simple tap (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/15/google-smart-lock-for-iphone-update-lets-you-log-in-to-google-securely.html)
Google pays $160m for Irish retail tech company Pointy (http://axios.link/5dMw)
Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue (https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/15/mozilla-lays-off-70-as-it-waits-for-subscription-products-to-generate-revenue/)
M&A: Negotiations Don't Start Until Someone Says No (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/mergers-acquisitions/ma-negotiations-dont-start-until-someone-says-no/)
Red Hat OpenShift Updates Hit Multi-Cloud, Security (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/red-hat-openshift-updates-hit-multi-cloud-security/2020/01/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
Introducing Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 to Enhance Kubernetes Security (https://blog.openshift.com/introducing-red-hat-openshift-4-3-to-enhance-kubernetes-security/)
Nonsense
Top 20 IT Podcasts of 2020 (https://www.vertitechit.com/top-20-it-podcasts-of-2020/)
When Buying in Bulk Is a Mistake (https://apple.news/Av1aOhCiBRG-HJYmWPBWwYQ)
Zero Mass Water has a new rooftop well that pulls water out of the air (https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/06/zero-mass-water-has-a-new-rooftop-well-that-pulls-water-out-of-the-air/)
CES 2020: The Planty Cube Aims to Make Vertical Farming More Modular and Automated (https://thespoon.tech/ces-2020-the-planty-cube-aims-to-make-vertical-farming-more-modular-and-automated/)
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Arrested DevOps is hosted by Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, and Bridget Kromhout. All the hosts are active in the DevOps community and they help put on DevOps days all over the world. So what are you waiting for you can subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting (https://www.arresteddevops.com/)https://www.arresteddevops.com/ (https://www.arresteddevops.com/).
Conferences, et. al.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
KubeCon EU (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/), March 30 – April 2, use discount code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th
Listener Brett wants you to go to THAT Conference (https://www.thatconference.com/wi) August 3 - 6, 2020 - Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (https://www.thatconference.com/wi/call-for-counselors) (Speakers) open until March 1st.
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Recommendations
Matt: Bruce Sterling’s annual State of the World (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/507/State-of-the-World-2020-Bruce-St-page01.html).
Brandon: Slack cleaner (https://github.com/kfei/slack-cleaner). (https://github.com/kfei/slack-cleaner) (https://github.com/kfei/slack-cleaner)
Coté: Apple News+?
1/18/2020 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 213: The inglorious cloud basterds
We discuss weird speculation that Google Cloud would buy Salesforce. It seems like bullshit, mostly, but it gives us a good jumping off point to talk cloud strategy. Also, Coté talks about being part of the VMware Tanzu team, how kubernetes could become the white box of the PC market (this is a good thing), that being #3 in a market is probably just fine, and we discuss poisoning-by-bread.
Mood board:
This is a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind: it’s time to just give up on some stuff.
Man, this coffee is bad.
Carbohydrate Coté is angry.
Coté gets his birthday wrong.
You’re really just pretty negative.
Our man in Tanzu-land Cotem.
After the headline, that article didn’t need to be written more.
I’m not going to get into it, so here I go.
The Turn the hydra head into a nanny acquisition strategy.
Man, I should have just started with the bread.
Relevant to your interests
Tanzu Coté - VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/30/vmware-completes-2-7-billion-pivotal-acquisition/).
Google buying Salesforce acid-dream - Google could acquire Salesforce and spin out its cloud business to catch up to Amazon and Microsoft, analyst predicts (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-salesforce-cloud-platform-spinout-analyst-prediction-2020-1)
ServiceNow!
Sort of examples the vagueness of Google’s Cloud Corporate Strategy.
Drunk under a lamp post M&A click-bait strategy.
“We only want to be #1 and #2 in a market.”
Known fix: just redefine your market so you’re number one or number two.
Share price premium for # 1 or #2 in the market.
Pay people cheaper than you get paid to do things fallacy.
Google 2023 deadline for Google Cloud to beat Amazon.
Things we didn’t get to
- Gartner, Splunk & McKinsey – IT Infrastructure & Operations (https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveandriole/2019/12/16/gartner-splunk--mckinsey--it-infrastructure--operations-------------predictions-for-2020/#35937dbe1dd2)
A Cloud Guru Announces Acquisition of Linux Academy (https://www.prweb.com/releases/a_cloud_guru_announces_acquisition_of_linux_academy/prweb16790924.htm)
For The New York Times, a swing and a miss at Amazon Web Services (https://mostlycloudy.substack.com/p/for-the-new-york-times-a-swing-and)
Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing, but instead set a goal of being a top-two player by 2023 (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/17/google-reportedly-wants-to-be-top-two-player-in-cloud-by-2023.html)
Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-2023-as-deadline-to-beat-amazon-microsoft-in-cloud)
Stratoscale closes down, lays off 60 (https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-stratoscale-closes-down-lays-off-60-1001310966)
Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray distributed computing project, launches with $20.6M led by a16z (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/anyscale-ray-project-distributed-computing-a16z/)
Compare Red Hat OpenShift vs. Cloud Foundry in a Kubernetes faceoff (https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/feature/Compare-Red-Hat-OpenShift-vs-Cloud-Foundry-in-a-Kubernetes-faceoff)
IBM tailors Swift relationship after 'review of open source priorities' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/17/swift_ibm_pulls_back_open_source_priorities/)
AWS hits back at open-source software critics (https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-hits-back-at-open-source-software-critics/)
Amazon Conference Badges Tracked Attendees' Movements (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkeyqk/amazon-conference-badges-tracked-attendees-movements)
IBM to Google: Istio, Knative, TensorFlow should be under 'open governance' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/20/ibm_istio_knative_tensorflow_should_be_under_open_governance/)
Exclusive: Pentagon warns military members DNA kits pose ‘personal and operational risks’ (https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-warns-military-members-dna-kits-pose-personal-and-operational-risks-173304318.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE0JhKe_XfOhdcOGvu6l8lKLn4C2yptTBJ5q1RVejnyxYCU2HLoo2WWccf-ZhDFh5OUypD2mJND5PxZEF3m4bogO9BX6tTYVB9uywg1EQV8AvLXUFPBf-EyrE4vISxKZM8HAMVVeUc5xiPum5ez9MGcjuPy2SeMNwN_hnO-IXbdM)
Employee error to blame for massive data leak (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/surveillance-camera-company-wyze-confirms-leak-of-user-data/)
Video games are easy channel for money launderers (https://www.ft.com/content/4658d340-24f6-11ea-9a4f-963f0ec7e134)
BigID bags another $50M round as data privacy laws proliferate (https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/06/bigid-bags-another-50m-round-as-data-privacy-laws-proliferate/)
The Biggest Problems With Bluetooth Audio Are About to Be Fixed (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiENtnIajSFSjFkfxM7Anh2o0qFQgEKg0IACoGCAowlIECMLBMMJ-mHg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
Introducing Cloudflare for Teams (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-for-teams/)
Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers (https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers)
Code-wise, cloud-foolish: avoiding bad technology choices (https://forrestbrazeal.com/2020/01/05/code-wise-cloud-foolish-avoiding-bad-technology-choices/)
Accenture Buys CyberSecurity Services Business of Symantec (http://www.finsmes.com/2020/01/accenture-buys-cyber-security-services-business-of-symantec.html)
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Conferences, et. al.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) Jan. 14th
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2020-austin/welcome/) May 4th and 5th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Star Wars/Mandalorian, The 15 most awe-inspiring space images of the decade (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/12/18/20995427/astronomy-pluto-black-hole-mars-curiosity-rosetta)
Brandon: macOS Catalina Patcher (http://dosdude1.com/catalina/); Upgrade your Mac SSD (https://mattray.github.io/2019/11/12/upgrading-macbook-pro-ssds.html)
Coté: iPhone 11 Pro, most recent (https://www.vox.com/the-weeds) The Weeds (https://www.vox.com/the-weeds) episode (https://www.vox.com/the-weeds), The Weeds episode called “Midichlorian chili.” (https://overcast.fm/+FOOQJ9lCo)
Ourto: “I love bread,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtV9Vi6tSVk) Parry Gripp.
1/10/2020 • 58 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 212: "The Four" from the Exegesis Podcast
This is an episode from the Exegesis Back Catalog (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/exegesis). Coté and Brandon review Scott Galloway's book the "The Four." (https://www.amazon.com/Four-Hidden-Amazon-Facebook-Google/dp/0735213658/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgKzwBRCjARIsABBbFugrOnbdMnyhxM9LXtYArj_3FjNK1-md988P3lCIqNIqmliQrVUMLHsaAsslEALw_wcB&hvadid=241637079254&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9028322&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=8997952574338927722&hvtargid=aud-840076997981%3Akwd-345132176336&hydadcr=22563_10354960&keywords=the+four+scott+galloway&qid=1577817711&sr=8-1)
The Pivot Podcast (https://plinkhq.com/i/1073226719?to=page)
Photo by Makarios Tang on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/lIWQbx3Lw8U)
1/3/2020 • 57 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 211: Adam Jacob on Open Source
Holiday Special! Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob about open source and being a founder of Chef.
Orginally aired on Software Defined Interviews. (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81) Special Guest: Adam Jacob.
12/27/2019 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 210: “What choice do we have?”
“What choice do we have?”
At the end of the year, we answer listener questions. From middle-names, to athletes, to advice to startups. Also, we talk open source in 2020 predictions, that NYTimes story on Amazon, and Twinkies.
Mood board:
As they say “a dot w dot s.”
Twinkies are better after the Apocalypse
Does he know something we don’t know?
They could have been the paper of record on “A.M.I.”
Judgemental open source.
The Three C’s.
“CTO Edge.”
CTOs don’t go to DevOps Days
I try to show up to most conferences I’m speaking at.
“I love the way they’re kicking that ball.”
They didn’t consider “Motel 6” for Matt’s middle name.
It’s safe to watch The Watchmen.
Relevant to your interests
Amazon is Launching a Home Internet Service - Here is Everything You Need to Know About It (https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-is-launching-a-home-internet-service-here-is-everything-you-need-to-know-about-it/).
8 of the worst open source innovations of the decade (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/8-of-the-worst-open-source-innovations-of-the-decade/).
Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office (https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-police-raid-nginx-moscow-office/).
Larry Ellison sets the Catz among the pigeons: Safra officially sole Oracle CEO (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/13/oracle_q2_fy2020/).
Google makes moving data to its cloud easier (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/12/google-makes-moving-data-to-its-cloud-easier/).
Atlassian launches new serverless cloud development platform (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/12/atlassian-launches-new-serverless-cloud-development-platform/).
Costco Earnings Beat But Revenue Falls Short; Costco Stock Falls Late (https://www.investors.com/news/costco-earnings-q1-2020-cost-stock-buy-point/).
AWS Outposts by the numbers (https://medium.com/@ahl/aws-outposts-68e78592c7f8).
Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/prime-leverage-amazon-power-cloud-aws.html).
Ask SDT
What are your thoughts on the big data industry and technologies like Spark? from Jay via Slack
~~~~2. ~~As industry vets, what advice do you have for the new school IAM/monitoring startups? (other than: integrate with AD for ent clients) from Ryan via Slack~~
What is the best conference swag you've ever given away or received? My personal best was a power brick that could also charge up apple's airpods for some reason. from Tim from Slack
~~What tech conferences are worth going to that we haven't heard of? Are there interesting things that are smaller scale than the reinvents / dreamforce / et al, that provide great information and attract a really interesting set of speakers?from Tim from Slack~~
~~Why do you think we don’t see more celebrity athletes featured in tech advertisements? Granted I knew the writing was on the wall at one company I was at when we hired Mike Tyson for our CES booth, but uh why hasn’t that worked out yet? from Ryan from Slack~~
~~~~ 1. ~~Tangentially: https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1206589810439274496~~
~~Related: https://twitter.com/TylerIAm/status/1045495019325587456~~
Is a startup aspiring to be acquired by a foundation like the CNCF a legit business model? from Ryan from Slack
For the expats: what's your favorite and least favorite thing(s) about your new regions? from Nathan from Slack
~~What would you say ya do here? from Noe via Slack~~
~~Matt, what is your middle name? from Jordy via Slack~~
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Conferences, et. al.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) Jan. 14th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: The Peripheral (https://amzn.to/2PSibru) & The Dark Forest (https://amzn.to/2PSibru).
Brandon: The Watchmen (https://www.hbo.com/video/watchmen/videos/trailer)on HBO (Matt’s eventual recommendation)
Coté: Use hotel notepads at home.
12/18/2019 • 52 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 209: The Carl Weathers Cluster
This week: that best gadgets from the past ten years article, dreams of kubernetes on old hardware, and 451 Research’s acquisition.
Ask us questions for the next episode with the tag #asksdt — recording next week.
Mood board:
#asksdt
Remember the Law of Hammarabi.
They’re not the Poynter institute or anything.
Are we going to be blamed for all the problems?
Kubernetes on the barby.
It’s all the same broken stuff.
Broken ankle con.
I’ve never broken a bone.
A bunch of old hardware, some Kubernetes, you got a stew going!
The Carl Weathers Cluster.
I’m really good at thinking while I talk.
Just ignore the baby yoda.
Relevant to your interests
The 100 most important gadgets of the decade (https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/20997215/best-gadgets-decade-2010s-list-roundup-apple-iphone-tesla-amazon-samsung).
Broken ankle conference.
S&P Global Acquires 451 Research, LLC (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-global-acquires-451-research-llc-300970643.html).
Ubuntu pro.
Facebook sells off Oculus Medium to Adobe (http://axios.link/6xFK).
Amazon blames Trump for losing $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/amazon-blames-trump-for-losing-jedi-cloud-contract.html).
This podcaster wants to catch you up on the news on your ride home, no matter what you’re into (https://www.fastcompany.com/90440269/ride-home-media-tech-election-news-podcasts-celeb-news).
Ring's Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network (https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/12/rings-hidden-data-let-us-map-amazons-sprawling-home-surveillance-network/).
AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/09/aws-is-sick-of-waiting-for-your-company-to-move-to-the-cloud/).
Cloud Wars CEO of the Year 2019: Thomas Kurian of Google Cloud (https://cloudwars.co/cloud-wars-ceo-of-the-year-2019-thomas-kurian-google-cloud/).
Amazon, Google, Microsoft: Here's Who Has the Greenest Cloud (https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-microsoft-green-clouds-and-hyperscale-data-centers/).
Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-announces-ubuntu-pro-for-amazon-web-services).
Eclipse Foundation Warns Operators: Don’t Be a ‘Dumb Pipe’ for AWS (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/eclipse-foundation-warns-operators-dont-be-a-dumb-pipe-for-aws/2019/12/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral).
CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape (https://landscape.cncf.io/).
BPF: A New Type of Software (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.html).
Nonsense
AI Hiring Algorithm (https://xkcd.com/2237/)
The Apple TV remote is so bad that a Swiss TV company developed a normal replacement (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/12/9/21002605/apple-tv-remote-salt-swiss-tv-company-replacement-buttons-normal)
Air France-KLM Group steps up cooperation with Qantas Group (https://www.airfranceklm.com/en/news/air-france-klm-group-steps-cooperation-qantas-group)
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Conferences, et. al.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) Jan. 14th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Book Giveaway
We’re giving away one digital copy of Righting Software (http://www.informit.com/store/righting-software-9780136524038). The first person that DM’s @bwhichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard) on Twitter or in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack) gets a copy.
Recommendations
Matt: On the Metal (https://oxide.computer/blog/categories/on-the-metal/) podcast; How Buildings Learn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0).
Brandon: General Magic the Movie (https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com/).
Coté: The Mandalorian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandalorian).
Outro: “Tooth Fairy Crunch!,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5embxVXocY&list=PLtsdgl5EjTaPZkxc15Biep5OvVxRI1YW8&index=15&t=1m43s) Teen Titans. Cover art from yusseyhan (https://pixabay.com/photos/casserole-stew-crock-hot-pot-2386835/).
12/12/2019 • 47 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 208: re:Invent, Oracle's stickyness, and medieval stick candy-bread
It’s the re:Invent episode! We also have digressions/delights on why Oracle is so sticky despite (rival vendors tell us) how much people want to leave it. And, since it’s that time of year, Sinterklaas. Sometime in December we’ll do a listener questions (and our answers) episode. Send us your questions in Slack or in Twitter or whatever with by tagging them with hashbrowns #asksdt.
Mood board:
#asksdt
“Where are you thought-lording us to?”
Pepernoot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepernoot).
Always pack a back-up croissant.
Here’s the thing with bread.
I thought he hated the swans.
Dogs clearly rank as humanities number one friend.
Then it’s bread/alcohol.
Everyone knows when Bastille Day is Coté.
Halloween in London grocery stores: not this shit again.
They got a pee-jug back there?
Relevant to your interests
AWS re:Invent
AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Sunday, December 1st (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-launches-previews-at-reinvent-2019-sunday-december-1st/)
AWS DeepRacer Update – New Features & New Racing Opportunities (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepracer-update-new-features-new-racing-opportunities/)
AWS DeepComposer – Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepcomposer-compose-music-with-generative-machine-learning-models/)
AWS End-of-Support Migration Program for Windows Server (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-program-to-future-proof-windows-server-applications/)
Amazon Transcribe Medical – Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition for Healthcare Customers (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AmazonWebServicesBlog/~3/ikfP6jz4tHY/)
Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/automate-os-image-build-pipelines-with-ec2-image-builder/)
No Monday blog post with announcements?
AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Tuesday, December 3rd (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-launches-previews-at-reinvent-2019-tuesday-december-3rd/)
AWS Outposts brings hybrid cloud support – but only for Amazon (https://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/252474945/AWS-Outposts-brings-hybrid-cloud-support-but-only-for-Amazon)
Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-now-generally-available/)
Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose, Compute-Optimized, & Memory-Optimized EC2 Instances (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-graviton2-powered-general-purpose-compute-optimized-memory-optimized-ec2-instances/)
Amazon SageMaker Processing – Fully Managed Data Processing and Model Evaluation (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-processing-fully-managed-data-processing-and-model-evaluation/)
Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service (MCS) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-managed-apache-cassandra-service-mcs/)
Easily Manage Shared Data Sets with Amazon S3 Access Points (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/easily-manage-shared-data-sets-with-amazon-s3-access-points/)
Amazon Redshift Update – Next-Generation Compute Instances and Managed, Analytics-Optimized Storage (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-redshift-update-next-generation-compute-instances-and-managed-analytics-optimized-storage/)
AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Wednesday, December 4th (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-launches-previews-at-reinvent-2019-wednesday-december-4th/)
Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-braket-get-started-with-quantum-computing/)
Announcing UltraWarm (Preview) for Amazon Elasticsearch Service (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-ultrawarm-preview-for-amazon-elasticsearch-service/)
Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/identify-unintended-resource-access-with-aws-identity-and-access-management-iam-access-analyzer/)
Amazon Kendra AI search tool indexes enterprise data (https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/)
Oxid (https://oxide.computer/)e (https://oxide.computer/) - nice cake!
John Chambers and a star team of ex-Cisco engineers have finally launched Pensando Systems, a startup with $278 million in funding, to take on Amazon — and Cisco (https://www.businessinsider.com/john-chambers-pensando-systems-cisco-stars-amazon-2019-10).
A letter from Larry and Sergey (https://blog.google/inside-google/alphabet/letter-from-larry-and-sergey).
Nonsense
Costco Pays Dearly for Shopping SNAFU (https://www.newser.com/story/283702/costco-pays-dearly-for-shopping-snafu.html)
The Taco Cleanse Is a Real Diet — and Involves Eating Tacos All Day (https://people.com/food/taco-cleanse-we-tried-it/)
United Changes it Frequent Flyer Program (https://mileageplusupdates.com/mileageplus/english/upgrades/)
The Effort to Make Everyone Look Less Awful on Video Conference Calls (https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/video-conferencing-is-the-worst.html)
(https://mileageplusupdates.com/mileageplus/english/upgrades/)
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) Jan. 14th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: SysAdvent 2019 (https://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2019/)
Brandon: The Irishmen (https://www.netflix.com/title/80175798); Venture Capital and Control with Dave Teare (https://rework.fm/venture-capital-and-control-with-david-teare/).
Coté: Pivot (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719) podcast; Art as Therapy (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899481-art-as-therapy?from_search=true&qid=98oDN0EKI0&rank=1) book.
12/6/2019 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 207: All the good stuff is proprietary
Why does SDN even exist? (No, not SDT, but Software Defined Networking). Also, we discuss a recent Google Anthos interview as well, some kubernetes stuff, and the Mongolian Grill restaurant concept. Sorry for all the plosives. Coté needs to get mic cover for his portable podcasting studio and that Tesla truck thing.
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Mood board:
Now we’ve got two topics.
The sweet and sour sauce was just pineapple juice.
Every culture has its tortilla.
Well, definitely, everything just tasted sort of brown.
This is where I learned about organized crime.
I learned how to use the meat slicer.
“There was hiding in the meat freezer.”
I have a lot of stories from my time at the Mongolian BBQ.
Nobody wants to go update the MIBs or something
90% of software innovation happens because developers don’t want to talk to people.
70% of software innovation comes from people not wanting to pay for shit.
Life is basically a risk-curve analysis.
Stuffing!
I’m like the David Foster Wallace of podcast footnotes.
The most sincere ad read ever.
Nobody cares about your open source glue.
Why don’t you change your terribleness?
There’s a lot of money in muck.
In Search of Excellence strikes again!
The PT Cruiser was a hand me down - it wasn’t my choice.
Black Friday/Black Week.
Zwarte Piet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet), pepernoot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepernoot).
Relevant to your interests
Anthos: Google's bid for Kubernetes differentiation (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/26/anthos_googles_bid_for_kubernetes_differentiation/) - interview about Anthos.
Basically, multi-cloud (meaning, runs on private cloud) kubernetes platform that fills in the details and missing stuff with proprietary Google code and integration work…right?
“We have a lot of people that have kicked the tires on K8s with open source, but when they are serving their customers, they want an SLO [service-level objective] with [Google].”
KubeCon NA trip notes:
Kubecon San Diego Takeaways (https://octetz.com/posts/k8s-kubecon-sd-review).
KellyAnn Fitzpatrick (RedMonk): Day 0 (https://redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick/2019/11/18/kubecon-north-america-2019-day-0/), Day 1 (https://redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick/2019/11/19/kubecon-north-america-2019-day-1/), Day 2 (https://redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick/2019/11/20/kubecon-north-america-2019-day-2/), Day 3 (https://redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick/2019/11/21/kubecon-north-america-2019-day-3/).
10 Most Interesting Announcements From Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2019 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/11/24/10-most-interesting-announcements-from-kubecon--cloudnativecon-2019/#e046f31583bc).
IBM paid $34B for this: Where Red Hat is taking OpenShift (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-paid-34b-for-this-where-red-hat-is-taking-openshift/).
How open source changed everything - again (https://www.cio.com.au/article/669131/how-open-source-changed-everything-again/).
Whatever happened to “Big Data”?
Datadog container report (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-report/):
Node.js and Java are the top two.
People run older versions of kubernetes.
“he average container lifespan at a typical company running unorchestrated infrastructure is about two days, down from about 6 days in mid-2018.”
“service mesh technologies do not yet rank among the top container images”
Banking on the Future: Why our most hated institutions will become our most beloved (https://a16z.com/2019/11/21/banking-on-the-future/).
Google Will Award $1M-Plus to People Who Can Hack Titan M Security Chip (https://threatpost.com/google-will-award-1m-plus-to-people-who-can-hack-titan-m-security-chip/150551/).
Personal And Social Information Of 1.2 Billion People Discovered In Massive Data Leak (https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion-people/): “On October 16, 2019 Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered a wide-open Elasticsearch server containing an unprecedented 4 billion user accounts spanning more than 4 terabytes of data. A total count of unique people across all data sets reached more than 1.2 billion people, making this one of the largest data leaks from a single source organization in history. The leaked data contained names, email addresses, phone numbers, LinkedIN and Facebook profile information.”
Tesla claimed its pickup truck was ‘bulletproof’ — then smashed its windows with a metal ball (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/22/tesla-smashes-bulletproof-pickup-trucks-windows-with-a-metal-ball.html).
PayPal buys money-saving service Honey for $4 billion (https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/21/paypal-buys-money-saving-service-honey/).
Amazon cites Fox News segment, Trump rally in formal protest of Pentagon’s $10B JEDI award (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-cites-fox-news-segment-trump-rally-formal-protest-pentagons-jedi-award/) - the military is never getting that cloud.
Sponsors
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Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Chris in Pittsburgh. He says. “Thanks much for the show, look forward to every week and the great mix of strategy, Kubernetes, parenting, meat, and travel.’
Ashish from Charlotte and he say he “Loves the show.”
Conferences, et. al.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) Jan. 14th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Black Friday… sorry Adbusters (https://www.adbusters.org/).
Coté: Joan Didion, The White Album (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/421.The_White_Album) - the audio book read by Susan Varon (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-White-Album-Audiobook/B00BQLIEAU) is fantastic, perfectly matching Didion’s tone.
Outro: A good buy, from (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoj5hNfJ3Y) Hands on a Hardbody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoj5hNfJ3Y).
11/28/2019 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 206: The Sanka of hot sauces
We discuss Kubecon and Slack vs. Microsoft Teams. Pretty frothy stuff!
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Mood board:
One.
“I am not upgrading.”
“Nothing ever good comes out of upgrades.”
“I need someone with 35 years experience to run the internal blog.”
“Shut the doors on your way out.”
Planning makes us professional
Tech news sucks nowadays, where’s the good news?
Put that gravy on your shorts.
It’s the Sanka of hot sauces.
The problem is, there’s only one size of tortilla: giant.
ah tortillas (https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi173410/ah-tortilla-wraps-voordeel).
They have really good lighting.
Prove me wrong, Kubecon 2020.
“Their negotiation with the underlying platform.”
I’m not a technical person, I’m a toga person.
The Oxnard Comma.
Stop not giving your money to Kafka, give it to us.
Is that still the future, or is it finally the present?
When the money tree starts shaking, might as well catch some money.
Giant monsters fighting in Japan. Call in Idris Elba.
The video conferencing circle of life.
The Schwag Cycle.
1am city council meetings for the parking app product manager.
Cocky sci-fi Europeans.
Relevant to your interests
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaches Over 100 Certified Kubernetes Vendors (https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2019/11/19/cloud-native-computing-foundation-reaches-over-100-certified-kubernetes-vendors/)
A certified vendor is an organization that provides a Kubernetes distribution, hosted platform, or installer.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Continues Tremendous Growth, Surpassing 500 Members (https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2019/11/19/cloud-native-computing-foundation-continues-tremendous-growth-surpassing-500-members/)
In the third quarter of 2019, 56 members joined CNCF. The rapid growth underscores increasing momentum around cloud native technologies just as a record-breaking 12,000 attendees gather for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. (https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2019/)
HPE launches container platform, aims to be 100% open source Kubernetes (https://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-launches-container-platform-aims-to-be-100-open-source-kubernetes/)
"With BlueData, customers won't be managing five different clusters," he said. "We will have one central point and 100% open-source Kubernetes (https://www.zdnet.com/search/?o=0&q=kubernetes) that is curated and at the top of the trunk."
HPE doesn’t want Xerox’s valuation: HP Just Rejected Xerox. Here Are the Moves It Could Make Next. (https://www.barrons.com/articles/hp-stock-xerox-whats-next-51574097138)
Curiously good press release: Announcing Oracle API Gateway, Oracle Logging and Kafka Compatibility for Oracle (https://containerjournal.com/news/news-releases/announcing-oracle-api-gateway-oracle-logging-and-kafka-compatibility-for-oracle-streaming/amp/#click=https://t.co/xjsIrebqZu) (https://containerjournal.com/news/news-releases/announcing-oracle-api-gateway-oracle-logging-and-kafka-compatibility-for-oracle-streaming/amp/#click=https://t.co/xjsIrebqZu)Streaming (https://containerjournal.com/news/news-releases/announcing-oracle-api-gateway-oracle-logging-and-kafka-compatibility-for-oracle-streaming/amp/#click=https://t.co/xjsIrebqZu).
Slack vs. Teams, etc.
Slack stock drops as Microsoft claims big lead with 20 million Teams users (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/19/microsoft-teams-reaches-20-million-daily-active-users.html).
Slack touts users growth as it faces growing competition from Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/slack-says-it-crossed-12-million-daily-active-users.html).
Amazon’s packaging: Why thousands of Amazon packages converge on a tiny Montana town (https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/20961523/amazon-walmart-target-package-delivery-sales-tax-montana-roundup).
Google some company, CloudSimple…?
Snowflake Data Warehouse Partner (https://www.snowflake.com/technology-partners/google-cloud-platform/)
Google acquires CloudSimple to bolster cloud workload migration (https://www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2019/11/18/google-acquires-cloudsimple-to-bolster-cloud-workload-migration/amp/) - CloudSimple® provides a secure, high performance, dedicated environment in Public Clouds to run VMware workloads.
What’s the point: Puppet wash, HPE Container Platform, JenkinsX, K3s, and Gremlins in the cloud (https://devclass.com/2019/11/20/whats-the-point-puppet-wash-hpe-container-platform-jenkinsx-k3s-and-gremlins-in-the-cloud/)
IBM driving open source advancements to help developers be more productive with Kubernetes (https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/ibm-open-source-developers-productive-kubernetes/) - Kui (https://www.kui.tools/) is designed to be a single tool to help developers navigate between the different CLIs relevant to each part of the solution.
Nvidia and Microsoft launch Azure supercomputing instance (https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/18/nvidia-and-microsoft-launch-azure-supercomputing-instance/)
SoftBank to create $30 billion tech giant via Yahoo Japan, Line Corp deal (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-z-holdings-line/softbank-to-create-30-billion-tech-giant-via-yahoo-japan-line-corp-deal-idUSKBN1XR0W5) - SoftBank Corp plans to merge internet subsidiary Yahoo Japan with messaging app operator Line Corp to create a $30 billion tech group, as it strives to compete more effectively with local rival Rakuten and U.S. tech powerhouses.
Google’s rollout of RCS chat for all Android users in the US begins today (https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/20964477/googles-rcs-chat-android-rollout-us-ccmi-texting-sms).
Apple plans a Prime-like subscription bundle, but that has News+ publishers worried (https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/apple-plans-to-bundle-music-news-and-tv-in-one-subscription-report-says/%3famp=1).
Nike Pulling Its Products From Amazon in E-Commerce Pivot (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-13/nike-will-end-its-pilot-project-selling-products-on-amazon-site).
The 20 Best DevOps Podcasts (https://devops.com/the-20-best-devops-podcasts/).
Nonsense
WeWork at Kubecon? (https://twitter.com/jehb/status/1196896481543774208?s=19)
Stadia Countdown (http://stadiacountdown.com/)
Sponsors
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Suggested Jobs
CNCF Job Board (https://jobs.cncf.io/jobs/search)
Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Chris in Pittsburgh. He says. “Thanks much for the show, look forward to every week and the great mix of strategy, Kubernetes, parenting, meat, and travel.’
Ashish from Charlotte and he say he “Loves the show.”
Conferences, et. al.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit (https://about.gitlab.com/events/commit/) Jan. 14th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Brandon’s picks are eventually good - Sicario (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/) - 30 for 30: Pony Exce (http://www.espn.com/30for30/film/_/page/pony-excess)$$. Australian fires (https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/11/photos-of-australias-catastrophic-bushfires/602350/).
Brandon: Park in Austin App (https://www.parkatxapp.com/). AWS GameDay (https://aws.amazon.com/gameday/).
Coté: casino bread (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casinobrood). Ezra Klein Dave Eggers episode (https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/11/18/20970587/dave-eggers-ezra-klein-technology-smartphone). Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538873-mr-penumbra-s-24-hour-bookstore) and Sourdough (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33916024-sourdough?from_search=true&qid=PiG3RQ9fyP&rank=1).
11/23/2019 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 205: No Change in our journey
Coté is eating and drinking in this episode, so deal with it. Also, we discuss some odd slides, Mirantis buying Docker Enterprise, and saving code with vikings.
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Mood board:
Coté is gobsmacked by slides.
Let’s turn these earnings upside down.
It’s not just turtles all the way down, they’re all the way up too!
Where are my turtles?
Clearly you know what you’re doing, because you’ve got billions of dollars.
Clearly these people have missed the point of distributed version control.
Put your code in the Phantom Zone.
Is there a new April Fool’s in November?
They probably had some good slides.
Relevant to your interests
WeWork
The Best Slides From SoftBank's WeWork-Focused Earnings Report (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-best-slides-from-softbanks-wework-focused-earnings-report/)
Docker, Kube and Containers
Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise (https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/)
Docker’s Next Chapter: Advancing Developer Workflows for Modern Apps (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-next-chapter-advancing-developer-workflows-for-modern-apps/)
VMware Bridges Kubernetes and vSphere with Launch of Pacific Beta (https://thenewstack.io/vmware-bridges-kubernetes-and-vsphere-with-launch-of-pacific-beta/)
Google releases Skaffold so devs don't get hung up on Kubernetes (https://devclass.com/2019/11/08/google-releases-skaffold-to-simplify-kubernetes-app-lifecycle-management/)
Skaffold, the Kubernetes build automation tool, is GA (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/kubernetes-development-simplified-skaffold-is-now-ga)
Sysdig 2019 Container Usage Report: New Kubernetes and security insights | Sysdig (https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-2019-container-usage-report/)
Red Hat Introduces open source Project Quay container registry (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-open-source-project-quay-container-registry)
Google — Games, Health…? and Banking…?
Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans (https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790)
Google plans to offer checking accounts next year (https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962745/google-checking-account-citigroup-stanford-pay-banking-financial-services-cache)
Google announces Stadia's launch day game lineup - 9to5Google (https://9to5google.com/2019/11/11/stadia-launch-games/)
AWS
New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-savings-plans-for-aws-compute-services/)
15 Years of AWS Blogging! | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/15-years-of-aws-blogging/)
GitHub
Changelog - The GitHub Blog (https://github.blog/changelog/)
GitHub launches Arctic Code Vault to preserve open source software for 1,000 years (https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/13/github-launches-arctic-code-vault-to-preserve-open-source-software-for-1000-years/)
OpenJDK repo migration to GitHub gains steam (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3453397/openjdk-repo-migration-to-github-gains-steam.html)
At Universe, GitHub rolls out Actions, Packages and more open-source goodies (https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/13/github-universe-announcements-bring-bevy-updates-developers/)
GitHub faces more resignations in light of ICE contract (https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/github-faces-more-resignations-in-light-of-ice-contract/)
Fourteen years after launching 1Password takes a $200M Series A (https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/14/fourteen-years-after-launching-1password-takes-first-funding-a-200m-series-a/)
Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is here, and it has a good keyboard (https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962380/apples-16-inch-macbook-pro-keyboard-screen-speakers-processor)
Update on 3.0 Development, FIPS and 1.0.2 EOL - OpenSSL Blog (https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2019/11/07/3.0-update/)
Firefox at 15: its rise, fall, and privacy-first renaissance (https://www.fastcompany.com/90428050/firefox-at-15-its-rise-fall-and-privacy-first-renaissance)
Honestly, A Video Game That Strands You On A Boring Six-Hour Flight Is Just What I Need Right Now (https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/11/honestly-a-video-game-that-strands-you-on-a-boring-six-hour-flight-is-just-what-i-need-right-now/)
Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Coming for Password Cheats (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/netflix-hbo-and-cable-giants-are-coming-for-password-cheats)
Re-Licensing Sentry (https://blog.sentry.io/2019/11/06/relicensing-sentry)
Twitter Employees, Ahmad Abouammo and Ali Alzabarah, Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia | Government | Politics (https://www.scribd.com/document/433852085/Twitter-Employees-Ahmad-Abouammo-and-Ali-Alzabarah-Charged-With-Spying-for-Saudi-Arabia)
Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building a CMS (https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/11/salesforce-ventures-invested-300m-in-automattic-while-salesforce-was-building-a-cms/)
This State’s 50-Year Bet on Big Tech Could Cost Hundreds of Millions of Dollars (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/indiana-s-50-year-big-tech-bet-may-be-worth-hundreds-of-millions)
Intel is still struggling with the truth about its processor security flaws (https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962667/intel-processor-security-vulnerabilities-researchers-disclosure)
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros. to store Superman on new glass storage (https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/4/20942040/microsoft-project-silica-glass-storage-warner-bros-features-details/)
Sponsors
SolarWinds:
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Suggested Jobs
Jobs at GitLab (http://GitLab has a shitload of openings: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/apply/)
Professional Services Consultant - APAC (Singapore or Australia) (https://www.chef.io/details/?jobId=dcf7cca8-faf4-4edc-82ab-694b60c187ad)
Conferences, et. al.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020 (https://chefconf.chef.io/)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt:
Upgrading MacBook Pro/Air SSDs (https://mattray.github.io/2019/11/12/upgrading-macbook-pro-ssds.html) (Mention that here’s the link for last week).
The wonderful world of Chinese hi-fi (https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20943377/chinese-hi-fi-audio-chifi-fiio-hifiman-tin-audio).
****- Brandon:
Beats Solo Wireless for Kids (https://www.beatsbydre.com/headphones/solo3-wireless).
Pivot Podcast (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot).
Coté: AirPods Pros (https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/). Crypt of the Warlock RPG rules (https://lazzmap.tumblr.com/post/188072845368/when-i-have-a-moment-between-projects-i-like-to).
11/14/2019 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 204: Foiled by Physical Access Again
We dig into the Microsoft Azure Arc announcement and discuss when or if a multi-cloud strategy makes sense. Plus, Matt explains how daylight savings time works with calendar invites and offers tips on how to upgrade you old MacBook.
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Relevant to your interests
The 7 most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite (https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/the-7-most-important-announcements-from-microsoft-ignite/)
Microsoft unveils Azure Arc, Stack Edge, and new virtual machine instances (https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/04/microsoft-unveils-azure-arc-stack-edge-and-new-virtual-machine-services/)
Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview | Visual Studio Blog (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-visual-studio-online-public-preview/)
IBM, Bank of America Team Up on Public Cloud Aimed at Banks (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-bank-of-america-team-up-on-public-cloud-aimed-at-banks-11573016461)
HP confirms it has received a proposal from Xerox about being acquired (https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/06/hp-confirms-it-is-having-discussions-with-xerox-about-being-acquired/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP (https://www.wsj.com/articles/xerox-considers-takeover-offer-for-hp-11573012201)
This Time, There Really Are NO IPv4 Internet Addresses Left (https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/10/this-time-there-really-are-no-ipv4-internet-addresses-left.html)
Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-buys-fitbit-for-2-1-billion/)
Founders’ note: IOpipe joins New Relic! (https://read.iopipe.com/founders-note-iopipe-joins-new-relic-c15eeda47151)
Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You To A New Home (https://hackaday.com/2019/10/16/pack-your-bags-systemd-is-taking-you-to-a-new-home/)
Use your iPad as a second display for your Mac with Sidecar (https://support.apple.com/en-afri/HT210380)
Apple AirPods Pro review: perfect fit (https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20942472/apple-airpods-pro-review-design-price-specs-features-noise-cancellation)
New cyberattacks targeting sporting and anti-doping organizations (https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/10/28/cyberattacks-sporting-anti-doping/)
Microsoft Azure customers reporting hitting virtual machine limits in U.S. East regions (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-azure-customers-reporting-hitting-virtual-machine-limits-in-u-s-east-regions/)
Editorial: Apple Pay passes PayPal, tramples Google Pay & Samsung Pay (https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/31/editorial-apple-pay-passes-paypal-tramples-google-pay-samsung-pay)
Linux Foundation Introduces a Telemetry Policy for All Projects (https://thenewstack.io/linux-foundation-introduces-a-telemetry-policy-for-all-projects/)
Turbonomic Buys SevOne | FinSMEs (http://www.finsmes.com/2019/11/turbonomic-buys-sevone.html)
Hootsuite founder Ryan Holmes steps down after 11 years as CEO; sees no urgency for IPO (https://business.financialpost.com/technology/hootsuite-founder-ryan-holmes-steps-down-after-11-years-as-ceo-sees-no-urgency-for-ipo)
In the Trump era, Oracle holds tech sway (https://www.axios.com/oracle-sway-trump-era-policy-safra-catz-77380aa9-6eb7-4ccd-aef5-95b5bdcdd437.html)
Join the beta: our new serverless compute environment gives you more power at the edge (https://www.fastly.com/blog/join-the-beta-new-serverless-compute-environment-at-the-edge)
Twitter drops all political ads in shot at Zuckerberg (https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/twitter-dropping-all-political-ads-000308)
DevRel is like coffee.. and other profundities. (https://medium.com/@jeremymeiss/devrel-is-like-coffee-b3c461de15db)
Writing Docs at Amazon (https://blog.usejournal.com/writing-docs-at-amazon-e025808616bd)
Sponsors
SolarWinds
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PagerDuty:
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Suggested Jobs
Digital Solution Architect in Bratislava, Slovakia (https://csc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/DXCJobs/job/SVK---BL---BRATISLAVA/Digital-Solution-Architect_51212377)
EmacsConf
YouTube Video of Matt’s Presentation and Demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHid-kTBHw)
Slides from Presentation (https://www.slideshare.net/mattray/emacsconf-2019-interactive-remote-debugging-and-development-with-tramp-mode)
Matt’s Tweet (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1191184124867858434)
Conferences, et. al.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon:
HBO’s The Watchmen (https://www.hbo.com/watchmen?camp=GOOGLE%7cHTS_SEM%7cPID_p45988141318&keyword=hbo+watchmen&utm_id=71700000055434735&utm_medium=paid-search&utm_content=tun&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-4nuBRCnARIsAHwyuPo3AWnQEMs1SrS3dl_F0fiTwbJQxDuLY6pYTkvEB1z5djvbnSCB7GUaAliuEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Apple Music Watchmen Playlist (https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/watchmen-hbo-original-soundtrack/pl.u-06ox4ByCYj2N942)
NIN Watchmen Soundtrack (https://store.nin.com/products/watchmen-soundtrack)
On Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/3TB6SKSLA7zUN1jIKwO31e)
Matt:
True Facts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNqQL-1gZF8&list=PLOHbM4GGWADc5bZgvbivvttAuWGow6h05&index=11)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/-p-KCm6xB9I)
11/8/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 203: Military clouds, stock IDEs, and team meetings
The annual team meetings are rolling around - what should you be doing and expecting from them? Also, we discuss what a big contract like JEDI can mean for a vendor, and also what those whacky developers are up according to a survey.
Mood board:
Stroke City.
QBR times four.
Travel costs.
We need a better word than “politics.”
Corporate virtue signaling.
Never ask anything.
There’s going to be Werner Hertzog!
There’s a difference between making a point and making money.
Are you just fillin’ a seat?
The fixie of IDEs.
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Too many conferences this week. DOES, Ghent, OSS Summit, LISA. “How do you decide where to go? I stayed home.”
Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/10/25/20700698/microsoft-pentagon-contract-jedi-cloud-amazon-details)
Microsoft wins Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract (https://www.axios.com/microsoft-pentagon-computing-contracts-3f435663-fdb0-4185-830d-5f9cbc5aaf5c.html)
Amazon's earning shocker is set to wipe over $50 billion from its market cap (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amazon-q3-earnings-shocker-wipes-54-billion-off-market-cap-2019-10-1028630546)
Alternate title: “Market cap drops just 4.8% Amazon still kind of a big deal.”
Introducing the Red Hat Global Transformation Office (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-global-transformation-office).
The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019)
“89% of developers customize their IDEs in some way.” What’s up, 11%?x
DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change (https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2019/10/25/devops-tools-can-lead-the-culture-change/)
Open Sourcing Mantis: A Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications (https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a)
My company sold for $100 million and I got Zilch. How can that be? (https://medium.com/help-me-heidi/my-company-sold-for-100-million-and-i-got-zilch-how-can-that-be-f7be0563f1f8)
Google moves to buy Fitbit (https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2019/google-moves-to-buy-fitbit-.html)
Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/google-brings-its-new-domains-to-the-rest-of-the-web-including-to-spotify-microsoft-others/)
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931202/us-carriers-rcs-cross-carrier-messaging-initiative-ccmi-att-tmobile-sprint-verizon)
Sponsors
SolarWinds:
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PagerDuty:
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Conferences, et. al.
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 https://live.emacsconf.org/
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). †
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: eBay (https://www.ebay.com/) for selling your Cambrionix PowerPad15S Charge & Sync 15 Port USB Hub (https://www.cambrionix.com/products/powerpad15s-pp15s-industrial-usb-hub)
Matt: Dolly Parton’s America (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america).
Coté: The Grand Budapest Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Budapest_Hotel). Whole Foods hot buffet for the business traveler.
11/1/2019 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 202: Does Nike make pleated khakis?
How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia.
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Executive Shuffles
Google just hired a former Microsoft exec to spearhead G Suite (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-hired-former-microsoft-exec-javier-soltero-vp-g-suite-2019-10) and Javier Soltero’s Bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Soltero)
Microsoft’s Q1 earnings boosted by cloud and Office as Surface and Xbox stall (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928856/microsoft-q1-2020-earnings-revenue-cloud-services-surface-gaming-xbox)
ServiceNow Announces Bill McDermott to Become CEO, Succeeding John Donahoe, Who Is Stepping Down to Become CEO of Nike (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191022006131/en/ServiceNow-Announces-Bill-McDermott-CEO-Succeeding-John)
Nike, ServiceNow and SAP CEOs play a game of musical chairs (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nike-servicenow-and-sap-ceos-play-a-game-of-musical-chairs-2019-10-22)
Free Software a.k.a Open Source
In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move? (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/is-the-software-world-taking-too-much-from-the-open-source-community/)
Free Software and Open Source Business - Andreessen Horowitz (https://a16z.com/2019/10/21/free-software-and-open-source-business/)
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/databricks-announces-400m-round-on-6-2b-valuation-as-analytics-platform-continues-to-grow/)
What $24 Million Means for Our Open Source Community (https://grafana.com/blog/2019/10/24/what-24-million-means-for-our-open-source-community/) — Grafana
Security
Getting Started with Security Keys (https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b017837a75-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+309&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-b017837a75-70424493&mc_cid=b017837a75&mc_eid=288b3f86c8)
Don’t use admin/admin as username/password (http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-documents/1063/EI00_15/2019128_r01x_17CV03463.pdf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHLMQzTXkAEgHHx.png)
The Chintzy Way Zappos Wants to Compensate Victims of a 2012 Data Breach (https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/zappos-amazon-data-breach-settlement-coupon.html)
Kelsey Hightower asks a question… (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1186832245664997377)
Good news for developers: The CLI is back | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/good-news-for-developers-the-cli-is-back/)
IBM stock downgraded on fears of long-term Red Hat impact, other worries (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/10/21/ibm-stock-downgraded-on-fears-of-long-term-red-hat-impact-other-worries/)
Six Reasons Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy (https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-catalina-are-so-buggy/)
Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/libreoffice_latest_victim_of_curse_of_catalina/)
Nonsense
Gulfstream’s New G700 Is Set to Become the World’s Biggest Private Jet (https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/gulfstreams-g700-worlds-biggest-private-jet-2875781/)
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf (https://www.deliveryconf.com/) in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd (https://www.deliveryconf.com/), Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too (https://www.deliveryconf.com/format). †
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Joker (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286456/)
Matt: Daemon (https://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731) by Daniel Suarez
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/ZCv_tXbTsNA)
10/25/2019 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 201: The 10 pillar strategy
"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is.
Mood board:
Hard to come down on a definitive opinion on carrots.
We can educate Coté.
Learning from each other, the more you know!
There’s a lot of kube shit.
Non-subjugating windows.
Anyone can do a hyphen, you have to go out of your way to do an em-dash.
What’s a ‘fixie’?
HOT LINKEDIN ETHICS DEBATE.
You’re probably using the Twitter webpage and following the “Suggested Follows.”
There have been reports in social media.
It’s the chaos monkey for business models.
We can Armchair Product Management this thing.
I've been asked if crocodiles are considered "pescatarian-friendly."
It’s kind of like the yaml version of the Rational dream.
The whole rest of the world was putting together best of breed tools.
If you say so, Grammerly.
“Monty-python simulation”
Stay out of the room Mr. AI!
It’s paper size A-somebullshit.
We’re puttin’ the Plan column back on!
Space carpets.
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Meetups
Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20893343/meetup-users-furious-new-rsvp-payment-test)
LinkedIn Launches Events to Facilitate Professional Meet-Ups (https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-launches-events-to-facilitate-professional-meet-ups/565171/)
freeCodeCamp is building an open source alternative to Meetup (http://mattray 5:55 PM https://twitter.com/ossia/status/1183845054449930241)
GitLab
Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/)
GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/gitlab_reverse_ferret/)
AWS
AWS Promotional Credits for Open Source Projects | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects/)
Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/amazon-migrates-more-than-100-consumer-services-from-oracle-to-aws-databases/)
Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database | Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/es/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/)
Security
Google teams up with Yubico to build a USB-C Titan Security Key (https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/14/google-yubico-usb-c-titan-security-key/)
Thoma Bravo makes $3.9 billion offer to acquire security firm Sophos (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/14/thoma-bravo-makes-3-9-billion-offer-to-acquire-security-firm-sophos/)
Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions (https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/minus_1_uid.html)
Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They're Restricted (https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/linux-sudo-run-as-root-flaw.html)
Kube Corner
Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/microsoft-launches-new-open-source-projects-around-kubernetes-and-microservices/)
Red Hat Flexes OpenShift Kubernetes Muscles (https://www.lightreading.com/cloud/network/red-hat-flexes-openshift-kubernetes-muscles/d/d-id/754862)
MuleSoft Announces Anypoint Service Mesh, Extending the Power of Anypoint Platform to Any Microservice | MuleSoft (https://www.mulesoft.com/press-center/october-2019-release-anypoint-service-mesh)
Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/technology/facebook-europe.html?utm_source=Memberful&utm_campaign=e1340d4a90-daily_update_2019_10_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d4c7fece27-e1340d4a90-111265207)
Ahead of Zuckerberg testimony, new setbacks for Libra (https://www.axios.com/mark-zuckerberg-libra-facebook-congressional-testimony-6665e91a-e520-4cda-92c7-50783393cd17.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Inside Mozilla's 18-month effort to market without Facebook (https://digiday.com/marketing/after-mozilla-stopped-spending-on-facebook-the-company-increased-its-focus-on-offline-marketing/)
Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Memo on HKmap.live Doesn’t Add Up (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live-email)
Open Source Gerrymandering (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/10/08/open-source-gerrymandering/)
Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku (https://twitter.com/ripienaar/status/1182794059297050624)
Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz (https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252471956/Docker-Desktop-asset-fiscal-stress-prompt-acquisition-buzz)
Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says (https://www.zdnet.com/article/building-chinas-comac-c919-airplane-involved-a-lot-of-hacking-report-says/)
Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million (https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/headless-cms-company-strapi-raises-4-million/)
Why Richard Stallman doesn’t matter (https://maffulli.net/2019/10/17/why-richard-stallman-doesnt-matter/)
IBM stock falls on revenue miss (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/16/ibm-earnings-q3-2019.html)
IBM Reports Messy Results @themotleyfool #stocks $IBM (https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/10/16/ibm-reports-messy-results.aspx?Cid=UheJXN)
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Brandon: Epson Scanner (https://epson.com/For-Home/Scanners/Document-Scanners/WorkForce-ES-400-Duplex-Document-Scanner/p/B11B226201).
Matt: Anti-pick: The Dead Don’t Die (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8695030/). This Must Be The Gig (https://consequenceofsound.net/thismustbethegig/) podcast: Mike Patton (https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/this-must-be-the-gig-mike-patton/).
Coté: The Fifth Season (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19161852-the-fifth-season).
10/18/2019 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 200: The mystery of the 2,000
The mystery of the 2,000
Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk.
Mood board:
The East India Company and Kodak
I just want your best 5 hours.
Executives can only pay attention for 20 minutes.
I’m in for a panel.
I’m more interested in hearing from the artist, not the people looking at the painting.
Ten year journey with billions of burn.
We’re talking about trillion dollar companies.
You can’t have enough storage for your podcasts.
Fired 2,000 people…and now hiring 2,000 people.
First-gen cloud building people are often a handful.
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How to moderate a panel (https://buttondown.email/cote/archive/how-to-moderate-a-panel/).
Oracle Shelves Larry Ellison’s Dream of Cloud Dominance (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/oracle-is-no-longer-dreaming-of-cloud-dominance)
tl;dr: “this is a bummer, man” (https://gfycat.com/soupyenlightenedblackbuck)…?
“Midlevel product managers were being offered $750,000 in compensation while some engineers with a vice president title were paid more than $5 million a year, people familiar with the matter said.” - Shoulda listed “Oracle cloud” on my LinkedIn…
Oracle to Make 2,000 Hires in Cloud Push (https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-to-make-2-000-hires-in-cloud-push-11570539658)
Will Salesforce Dump Oracle and Pick AWS? An Insider’s Perspective (https://cloudwars.co/salesforce-dump-oracle-pick-aws-dreamforce/)
Larry vs Jeff: An Epic Battle who controls Salesforce, coming at Dreamforce (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biggest-salesforce-dreamforce-2019-secret-you-dont-know-jiri-kram/?trackingId)
Google Cloud Worth $225 Billion, Deutsche Bank Says (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/google-cloud-worth-double-ibm-s-market-cap-deutsche-bank-says)
TechCrunch Disrupt: A tale of two markets separates tech from non-tech IPOs (https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-tale-of-two-markets-separates-tech-from-non-tech-ipos)
Austin-based AI Startup SparkCognition Raises $100M Series C (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/austin-based-ai-startup-sparkcognition-raises-100m-series-c/)
Is Microsoft Out to Destroy Linux? Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/linus-torvalds-doesnt-think-microsoft-is-out-to-hijack-linux)
Open Core Summit: The Value of Cloud and Commercial Open Source Software (https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/open-core-summit-intro/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global)
New browser security debate heats up (https://www.axios.com/dns-https-new-browser-security-debate-22d936c6-3597-41eb-927a-d2de87c7ed6c.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Microsoft Unveils Battery-Powered Version of Azure That Fits in a Backpack (https://www.petri.com/microsoft-unveils-battery-powered-version-of-azure-that-fits-in-a-backpack) - Simpsons already did it (https://siliconangle.com/2013/11/19/eucalyptus-demos-aws-private-cloud-in-a-backpack-reinvent/).
Microsoft using Android is bigger than its Surface Duo phone (https://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-surface-duo-phone-is-powered-by-googles-android-and-thats-a-big-deal/) - looks cool, sure.
Nonsense
Animals on Airbnb Experiences (http://Ryan MacLean 7:58 PM https://twitter.com/airbnb/status/1179048268501667841?s=21)
Drink up! Missouri bar charges by the hour, not by the glass (https://wsbt.com/news/offbeat/drink-up-missouri-bar-charges-by-the-hour-not-by-the-glass)
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Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
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December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
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Coté: cookies with bourbon raisons.
10/11/2019 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 36 seconds
Episode 199: 15 meters of cereal
Smokin’ hot webinar tips in this one, tips on things to put on your mouth in Austin, and then scandal in the open source world is getting fun again!
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It’s probably more of a figurative figurative phrase, not a literal figurative phrase.
I should probably start the recording again.
Don’t be so precise.
Kids these days.
There’s lots of issues with the Salt Lick.
Here’s a napkin.
You’re better off getting a Porche from Germany.
Let me translate that from Dutch to American.
15 meters of cereal.
Tradeless Commissions
Some basis points.
Well, I don’t know that, but I’m gonna look it up later.
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The webinar (https://content.pivotal.io/webinars/oct-03-confronting-the-business-bottleneck-digital-strategy-beyond-it-part-1-webinar-emea) Coté mentioned, “The Business Bottleneck, part 01” with Rick Clark.
Matt Levine on free stock trading stuff (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-02/the-trades-will-be-free-now).
AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement (https://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/252471650/AWS-faces-Elasticsearch-lawsuit-for-trademark-infringement)
Docker, once worth over $1 billion, tells employees it's trying to raise cash amid 'significant challenges' (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/docker-is-trying-to-raise-money-following-arrival-of-ceo-rob-bearden.html)
Google will not donate Knative framework 'to any foundation for the foreseeable future' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/02/google_knative_will_not_be_donated_to_any_foundation/)
The announcement is presumed to apply also to Istio (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/11/googles_istio_kubernetes/), the service mesh on which Knative depends.
Both Knative and Istio use the Apache License 2.0 (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) and Google's announcement does confirm that Knative will remain open source and with multi-vendor participation.
Jessie Frazelle does not like the CNCF (https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1179251190321819656) and this tweet too (https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1175911408627642369).
Honeycomb Begins Another Chapter with a New Funding Round (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycomb-begins-another-chapter-with-a-new-funding-round/).
BMC Software taps CA Technologies exec for permanent CEO position (https://www.zdnet.com/article/bmc-software-taps-ca-technologies-exec-for-permanent-ceo-position/#ftag=RSSbaffb68).
KeyBanc Capital Markets (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/274dd0f8-294d-4ae1-a74f-7161709a1646.pdf) - with some VMware coverage.
Read the full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s leaked internal Facebook meetings (https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings).
Nonsense
Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300 million to Zunleash growth. Then things got messy (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/27/tech/wag-dog-walking-softbank/index.html)
Hercules cargo plane flew between skyscrapers (https://twitter.com/evankirstel/status/1179380161692733443?s=21)
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Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Apple Watch List View (https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/20/how-to-switch-to-list-view-or-grid-view-on-apple-watch/); Operation Socialist from Darknet Diaries (https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/48/).
Coté: HEMA bullet journal A5 (https://www.hema.nl/vrije-tijd-kantoor/school-kantoor/papierwaren/bullet-journals/bullet-journal-a5-14135716.html), just €5!; HEMA 4-pack markers (https://www.hema.nl/vrije-tijd-kantoor/school-kantoor/schrijfwaren/stiften/4-pak-markers-14465146.html), esp. the “0,5mm” one.
Outro: “That's Right, You're Not From Texas, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoXnz3h_FE&utm_source=cote&utm_medium=email)” Lyle Lovett and His Large Band.
10/4/2019 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 198: Don’t get a Private Jet
Matt explains the GitLab vs. CloudBees kerfuffle, Coté offers advice when attending a DevOps Day, we also recommend never buying a corporate jet. Plus, there is some discussion of AXE Body Spray.
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GitLab opens: Jenkins: One year later (https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/20/jenkins-one-year-later/)
CloudBees responds: GitLab's Confusion (https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/gitlabs-confusion)
What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos? (https://bravenewgeek.com/whats-going-on-with-gke-and-anthos/)
Apple’s new Mac Pro to be made in Texas (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to-be-made-in-texas/)
Briefing: Facebook Buys Mind-Reading Startup For Close to $1 Billion (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/89ce70)
Containership sinks after being blown off course by Kubernetes • DEVCLASS (https://devclass.com/2019/09/23/containership-sinks-blown-off-course-kubernetes/)
Announcing Stack Overflow’s New CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar! - Stack Overflow Blog (https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/24/announcing-stack-overflows-new-ceo-prashanth-chandrasekar/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Mysterious Mac Pro Shutdowns Likely Caused by Chrome Upda (https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/mac-pro-avid-shutdowns-chrome-update-keystone-1203348549/)te (https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/mac-pro-avid-shutdowns-chrome-update-keystone-1203348549/)
Amazon announces new large Echo with better sound (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/amazon-is-about-to-unveil-a-bunch-of-new-alexa-products.html)
****- What the hell is a vCPU-based on-demand service limit? - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/what-the-hell-is-a-vcpu-based-on-demand-service-limit/)
Nonsense
WeWork is selling the company's $60 luxurious million private jet that Adam Neumann and his family personalized and used to fly all over the world (https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-is-putting-neumanns-60-million-jet-up-for-sale-2019-9)
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Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
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Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Between Two Ferns: The Movie (https://www.netflix.com/title/80243600)
Matt: World’s Worst Video Card (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs)
Coté: English Breakfast in a cup
Photo by Product School on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/nOvIa_x_tfo)
9/27/2019 • 41 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 197: WAR_BIRDS
The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds.
Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)!
Mood board:
The Christmas Greenwich Meantime.
The Salary Vortex.
Podcast Google Alert.
Overnight he is growing 7 inches.
Throwing fish at a growing seal.
I want to be 63.
We’re way too top heavy.
Hot in the sun, cold in the shade.
Is this because of the Federal Reserve?
The chaos monkey of IPOs.
What happened to SVNLab?
College phrases from random places.
War Birds and Red Tides.
Relevant to your interests
VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vmware-ceo-ibm-paid-too-much-for-red-hat/2019/09/)
Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux (https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-announces-oracle-autonomous-linux/)
CentOS release (https://twitter.com/CentOSProject/status/1173652996305170432)
A developer goes to a DevOps conference (https://www.darkcoding.net/software/a-developer-goes-to-a-devops-conference/)
GitLab
Announcing $268 million in Series E funding (https://about.gitlab.com/2019/09/17/gitlab-series-e-funding/)
GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/17/gitlab-hauls-in-268m-series-e-on-2-768b-valuation/)
GitLab Strategy (https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/)
GitHub
GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot code exploits (https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/18/github-acquires-semmle-to-help-developers-spot-code-exploits/)
Welcome Semmle to the GitHub family (https://github.blog/2019-09-18-github-welcomes-semmle/)
Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation (https://onezero.medium.com/leak-of-microsoft-salaries-shows-fight-for-higher-compensation-3010c589b41e)
Google Warns LastPass Users Were Exposed To ‘Last Password’ Credential Leak (https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/09/16/google-warns-lastpass-users-were-exposed-to-last-password-credential-leak/#752ad2546000)
Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm74x/computer-scientist-richard-stallman-resigns-from-mit-over-epstein-comments)
Hold My Beer – Let's Watch SoftBank Venture Capital Plunge (https://capitalistexploits.at/hold-my-beer/)
Apple reschedules iOS 13.1 and iPadOS releases for September 24th (https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/19/apple-ipados-and-ios-13-1-september-24/)
What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/18/google_anthos_new_features_announced/)
Nonsense
The Question of Whether or Not WeWork Is a Tech Company Has Been Answered (https://gizmodo.com/the-question-of-whether-or-not-wework-is-a-tech-company-1837461024)
Sponsors
SolarWinds
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If it logs, it can log to Loggly
HMA
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Conferences, et. al.
Sep 25th - Something in London.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Use Audible Credits in iPhone App (https://www.audible.com/ep/audible-credits-ios?pf_rd_p=90bb67d2-2606-4dd9-9885-ac5d14c54b68&pf_rd_r=1B2X4V83Q5SMWH21AHK7&ref=a_hp_c0_banner_img); Radiolab’s episode Tit for Tat (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/104010-one-good-deed-deserves-another).
Matt: Aphex Twin (https://aphextwin.warp.net/)’s website for b-sides and other miscellany
Coté: second bike. Traveling Salesmen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem) - how does it work?
Outro: SDT Theme (https://github.com/charleswhollien/softwaredefinedsong), charleswhollien (https://github.com/charleswhollien).
9/21/2019 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 196: The janitor strategy
Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang.
Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)!
Mood board:
Buying something different to try something new.
Australian bagels.
“Let’s start the QBR: we’re gonna have hide my ass.”
“Obviously if we don’t sell ads we can do whatever the fuck we want.”
More fools giving their software away for free
I have a lot of thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon
Hanging out with the Scots at The Hague
I do have a follow-up question, but not on the soap.
Some baroque, bespoke, monster piece of infrastructure.
Matt’s little bit of glue.
How much simpler can you get than straight code?
General Container’s army of yamlites.
Developer tools = vomit on the floor
Write in if you disagree.
Relevant to your interests
Pivotal interviews from CF Summit EU:
the multi-tenant problem in kubernetes (https://data-economy.com/the-superpower-to-change-one-thing-about-kubernetes/).
“In the future K8s will exist as an infrastructure API almost universally.” (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/12/pivotal_application_service_vmware/)
“Daimler takes (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/11/kubernetes_cloud_foundry_director/) a hybrid cloud approach, using Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud and Alibaba, as well as its own data centre in Stuttgart and a new one being built in Frankfurt.”
Cornelia Davis on PaaS, kubernetes, and cloud native programming (https://content.pivotal.io/intersect-podcasts/paas-and-caas-in-15-minutes).
IBM brings Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift together (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/12/together-at-last-ibm-brings-cloud-foundry-to-red-hat-openshift/)
“our understanding is that IBM plans to turn this into a fully supported project that will give Cloud Foundry users the option to deploy their application right to OpenShift, while OpenShift customers will be able to offer their developers the Cloud Foundry experience.”
COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive us all (https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-turns-60-why-it-will-outlive-us-all/)
Why Red Hat sees Knative as the answer to Kubernetes orchestration (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-red-hat-sees-knative-as-the-answer-to-kubernetes-orchestration/)
BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/05/bigid-announces-50m-series-c-investment-as-privacy-takes-center-stage/)
Data Protection Services Firm Carbonite Considers a Sale (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-06/data-protection-services-provider-carbonite-is-said-to-mull-sale)
Recap of the (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/) “funding (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/)” experiment (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/)
“you have to admit, the fact that businesses will pay thousands of dollars for some SaaS software while ignoring the maintainers who write the actual open source code itself seems a bit unfair.”
Coté’s hot-take: I mean. Yeah. People will pay $0 for what they want if you give them the chance.
Should open source software advertise? (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3435114/should-open-source-software-advertise.html)
Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken (https://onezero.medium.com/almost-everything-about-goodreads-is-broken-662e424244d5)
Google Could Acquire Nutanix For $9 Billion To Further Its Cloud Ambitions (https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/09/10/google-could-acquire-nutanix-for-9-billion-to-further-its-cloud-ambitions/#1257dd4634a9)
This is a good example of I-banker think, namely, it doesn’t actually talk about what Nutanix does or what kind of new opportunities Google and them would have together. Lots of fun charts though!
Everything Apple announced today, including the new iPhone 11, Apple TV+, Apple Watch, and more (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/everything-apple-announced-today-including-new-iphone-11-apple-tv-apple-watch/)
It's Not Just You: Software Has Gotten Far More Expensive (https://capiche.com/p/software-inflation-rate) - check out their spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-3kyC2SYDvJwULt9FWL3A6Cy3jq0I5ox-DhQr64qydc/edit#gid=0), with sparkle lines!
Uber stock price drops after missed Q2 expectations (https://www.axios.com/uber-stock-price-drops-after-missed-q2-expectations-b0da2ddc-27db-4e58-91ca-ae57a496a24a.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube (https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/09/11/procella/)
Announcing Terraform Cloud (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-cloud)
Mark Hurd, the co-CEO of Oracle, is taking a leave of absence, citing health reasons (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/11/mark-hurd-the-co-ceo-of-oracle-is-taking-a-leave-of-absence-citing-health-reasons/)
IPO’s
The Datadog IPO: One Of The Best IPOs In Years (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4290637-datadog-ipo-one-best-ipos-years)
WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10 billion... (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-ipo-valuation/exclusive-wework-considers-ipo-valuation-of-as-low-as-10-billion-sources-idUSKCN1VY1PB)
Cloudflare Raises $525 Million in Above-Range IPO (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/cloudflare-is-said-to-raise-525-million-in-above-range-ipo)
New Rita McGrath book out, Seeing Around Corners (https://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2019/09/09/seeing-around-corners-book-review/).
Nonsense
Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain, just moved to eliminate 500 million small bottles (https://www.fastcompany.com/90396549/marriott-just-moved-to-eliminate-500-million-small-bottles).
Jack Ma's performance (https://twitter.com/alibabagroup/status/1171643205571530753?s=12).
“;; I'm using use-package and el-get and evil” (https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack/blob/master/README.md)
Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly . To try it FREE for 14 days just go to https://loggly.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
Sep 25th - Something in London.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Listener Feedback
Sent stickers to Blair from London
David from Waikanae, NZ sent us a note and say he really enjoys the podcast. Also, tells us “fanny pack in NZ, its a whole different meaning!!!!!”
Does Matt Ray know what these mean: jandals, togs, pavlova, pineapple lumps, lollies
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Land of Giants (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/land-of-the-giants) and Pivot (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot). Related: Robert Scoble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble).
Matt: Wu-Tang: An American Saga (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9113406/) and Mics and Men (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9376934/).
Jim Plamondon: Microsoft Evangelist (https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Jim_Plamondon.html).
Coté: Trick Mirror (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43126457-trick-mirror).
Outro: "Spottieottiedopalicious (Instrumental)." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pY0MhdM8Ls)
9/13/2019 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 195: Elite isn’t Elite enough
Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will always be a necessity to football fans.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/).
Relevant to your interests
State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/#gated-form) with Coté’s notes (https://cote.io/2019/08/26/devops-report-2019/)
“The proportion of our elite performers has almost tripled, showing that excellence is possible—it just requires execution.”
OSS
Dear Searched Guard Users (https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users)
Why doesn't anyone weep for Docker? (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-doesnt-anyone-weep-for-docker/)
Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2019/03/25/troubles-with-the-open-source-gig-economy-and-sustainability-tip-jar/)
More Security
XKCD has been pwned (https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#XKCD)
Twitter temporarily shuts down ability to tweet via SMS (https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-temporarily-shuts-down-ability-to-tweet-via-sms/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
More VMware
With Heptio and Pivotal, VMware Doubles Down on Kubernetes - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/with-heptio-and-pivotal-vmware-doubles-down-on-kubernetes/)
Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Bring Order to Cluster Chaos - Cloud Native Apps Blog (https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2019/08/26/vmware-tanzu-mission-control/)
VMware Welcomes Estranged Sibling Pivotal Back Home (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/vmware-welcomes-estranged-sibling-pivotal-back-home/)
VMworld 2019 US Day 1 General Session (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJy4D6ANOv4&feature=youtu.be)
VMworld 2019 US Day 2 General Session (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECTRZza7VQ&feature=youtu.be)
VMware And IBM Go Full Circle To Dominate The Cloud-Native Ecosystem (https://www.forbes.com/sites/udinachmany/2019/08/28/vmware-and-ibm-go-full-circle-to-dominate-the-cloud-native-ecosystem/#2197d67af5e8)
What Cloud Vendors Really Want From Their Customers - UpperEdge (https://upperedge.com/cloud/what-cloud-vendors-really-want-from-their-customers/)
Modern applications at AWS (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2019/08/modern-applications-at-aws.html)
Airlines ban all MacBook Pros from checked luggage (https://www.cnet.com/news/some-airlines-ban-all-macbook-pros-from-checked-luggage/)
NetNewsWire 5.0 RSS Reader Rebuilt from Scratch, Now Free and Open Source (https://wptavern.com/netnewswire-5-0-rss-reader-rebuilt-from-scratch-now-free-and-open-source)
Vienna (https://www.vienna-rss.com/about)
One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession (https://thenewstack.io/one-toolchain-to-manage-all-the-development-a-ci-cd-vendor-obsession/)
Nonsense
16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes (https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/08/16-bit-risc-v-processor-made-with-carbon-nanutubes/)
Costco has a ‘grate’ deal on a 72-pound wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (https://wgntv.com/2019/09/02/costco-has-a-grate-deal-on-a-72-pound-wheel-of-parmigiano-reggiano-cheese/)
Sponsors
To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail for free, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt (https://papertrailapp.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=direct-link&utm_campaign=sdt) and make troubleshooting fun again.
Conferences, et. al.
Agile Scotland
CF Summit EU (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit/), Sep 11th to 12th.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon:
Short article on Uber Values (https://mikeisaac.substack.com/p/presenting-super-pumped-the-battle)
Podcast Interview: “The epic battle for Uber, with Mike Isaac from the New York Times” (https://overcast.fm/+QL2dR0JX4)
Audiobook Super Pumped (https://www.audible.com/pd/Super-Pumped-Audiobook/B07RV4JLHJ)
Matt: Anti-pick: Sports downloads
Cover Art: Image credit (https://www.sbnation.com/college-football-recruiting/2019/2/6/18213493/louis-hedley-miami-punter-australia)
9/6/2019 • 57 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 194: Datadog's S1, Ping, vKubernates
This week, the title says it all.
Mood board:
Jandels and togs
That’s why they call it The Lucky Country.
Decoding “Fly-Wheel.”
1 part synergy and 10 parts how business is done.
Unlocking value.
It’s always fun to see value created.
I bet they got RBAC.
The Funny Name Startup Strategy to Success.
Brandon looks at The Business End.
The Platform of the Future.
Brisket for the last Fortune 500.
It’s too complicated.
You could put a million containers on this one box.
I bet the Oracle field has some really cool spreadsheets.
Bespoke nachos.
Knowing stuff is dangerous.
He’s going to Roko’s Basilisk me for his inheritance.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/).
Relevant to your interests
State of DevOps Report (https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/#gated-form) - Coté’s notes (https://cote.io/2019/08/26/devops-report-2019/).
VMware
VMware acquires application security startup Intrinsic (https://www.crn.com.au/news/vmware-acquires-application-security-startup-intrinsic-530009).
VMware Adds Containers to Its Cloud Provider Platform (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vmware-adds-containers-to-its-cloud-provider-platform/2019/08/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral).
VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/26/vmware-is-bringing-vms-and-containers-together-taking-advantage-of-heptio-acquisition/).
VMware plan elevates Kubernetes to star enterprise status (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3434063/vmware-plan-elevates-kubernetes-to-star-enterprise-status.html#tk.rss_all)
“VMware says that from 2018 to 2023 – with new tools/platforms, more developers, agile methods, and lots of code reuse – 500 million new logical apps will be created serving the needs of many application types and spanning all types of environments.”
Project Pacific - Technical Overview (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/08/project-pacific-technical-overview.html).
VMware Tanzu (https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2019/08/26/vmware-completes-approach-to-modern-applications/)
Introducing VMware Tanz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYO4WrPKWI8)u (https://twitter.com/tetrateio/status/1165025986527793153?s=21) Helm (https://twitter.com/tetrateio/status/1165025986527793153?s=21).
VMware gets new CTO in Greg Lavender (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-gets-new-cto-in-greg-lavender/).
IPO’s
Ping Identity files for $100M IPO on Nasdaq under the ticker ‘Ping’ (https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/23/ping-identity-files-for-100m-ipo/)
Datadog S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1561550/000119312519227783/d745413ds1.htm)
Datadog IPO | S-1 Breakdown (https://medium.com/@alexfclayton/datadog-ipo-s-1-breakdown-52551e0d8735)
Corey Quinn on Monitoring (http://ttps://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1164966830185668609?s=21)
Service Mesh
Red Hat Creates Service Mesh for OpenShift (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-creates-service-mesh-for-openshift/)
Starter Istio from Salesforce.com Engineering (https://twitter.com/tetrateio/status/1165025986527793153?s=21)
Oracle
Oracle customers cause a Dyn over withdrawal of lifetime licenses (https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3080845/oracle-withdraws-dyn-lifetime-licences)
Oracle directors: Shareholders can go ahead with billion-dollar... (https://www.reuters.com/article/otc-oracle-idUSKCN1V91UJ)
Platform9 Raises $25 Million D-Round (https://platform9.com/press/platform9-raises-25-million-to-power-cloud-native-infrastructure-managed-kubernetes-and-hybrid-cloud-environments-across-the-globe/)
Popular JavaScript library starts showing ads in its terminal (https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-javascript-library-starts-showing-ads-in-its-terminal/)
Google and Dell team up to take on Microsoft with Chromebook Enterprise laptops (https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20832925/google-chromebook-enterprise-dell-laptops-microsoft-windows-challenge-businesses)
## Nonsense
Apple warns new credit card users over risks of it touching wallets and pockets (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/22/apple-card-wallet-pocket-warning)
Tiny Go (http://tinygo-org/tinygo)
Mobile Phone Markets in a GIF (https://twitter.com/pontecorvoste/status/1165142913455706113?s=21)
Apple reportedly shelves 'walkie talkie' iPhone feature (https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/26/apple-iphone-walkie-talkie-on-hold/)
Costco shuts early on first day in China due to overcrowding (https://www.ft.com/content/61e3f260-c89f-11e9-a1f4-3669401ba76f)
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
Coté will be at #AgileScotland this Friday (https://www.agilescotland.com/august?_lrsc=11a500fa-c38a-436f-b394-4a0eade204e7&utm_source=employee-social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=employee_advocacy) giving a 90 minute overview of how large orgs. scale THE DIGITALTRANSFORMATION. There's still a handful of tickets left, use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount.
CF Summit EU (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit/), Sep 11th to 12th.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Listen to Brandon’s interview (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2019/08/2019-mid-year-update.html) on the Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/) with Brian Gracely (https://twitter.com/bgracely?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Free Solo (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/films/free-solo/); GoNFCEast Podcast (https://www.gonfceast.com/7); listen to Brandon’s interview (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2019/08/2019-mid-year-update.html) on the Cloudcast (https://www.thecloudcast.net/) with Brian Gracely (https://twitter.com/bgracely?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Matt: Empire State of Mind (https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-empire-state-mind-1), (https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-empire-state-mind-1) On The Media (https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-empire-state-mind-1).
Cote: Wilhelmina mints, Limoncello.
8/29/2019 • 51 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 193: “WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.
“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.
SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.”
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/).
Relevant to your interests
Splunk to Acquire Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/splunk-acquire-cloud-monitoring-leader-200100373.html)
VMware says it’s looking to acquire Pivotal (https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/14/vmware-says-its-looking-to-acquire-pivotal/)
Microsoft Screws Customers and its Own Advocates Alike - Last Week in AWS (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/microsoft-screws-customers-and-its-own-advocates-alike/)
Microsoft takes big gulp of Java with jClarity acquisition, further boosting Azure’s open-source cred (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-takes-big-gulp-java-jclarity-acquisition-boosting-azures-open-source-cred/)
Report: Not all open-source software is created equal (https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/report-not-all-open-source-software-is-created-equal/)
CNCF Archives the rkt Project - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/08/16/cncf-archives-the-rkt-project/)
IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few Have Implemented an Enterprise-Wide Strategy (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS45344519)
Backdoor code found in 11 Ruby libraries | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-code-found-in-11-ruby-libraries/)
Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr (https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20804894/tumblr-acquisition-matt-mullenweg-ceo-automattic-wordpress-verizon-changes-vergecast)
PodPass: Proposal for an Open Protocol to Enable Direct Listener Relationships (https://medium.com/radio-public/podpass-proposal-for-an-open-protocol-to-enable-direct-listener-relationships-b9cff232f9dc)
Podcasts get that VC cash (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-e8233eac-4074-4007-9f6a-ccef41b1cba5.html?chunk=3&utm_term=twsocialshare#story3)
WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera (https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/15/20806366/we-company-wework-ipo-adam-neumann)
Forget monoliths vs. microservices. Cognitive load is what matters (https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/forget-monoliths-vs-microservices-cognitive-load-what-matters)
Everything You Need to Know About the Apple Card I Did Not Need (https://onezero.medium.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-apple-card-i-did-not-need-472a1ee0ca43)
Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket - Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket)
Intel, Google, Microsoft, and others launch Confidential Computing Consortium for data security (https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/21/intel-google-microsoft-and-others-launch-confidential-computing-consortium-for-data-security/)
Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/introducing-cloud-run-button-click-to-deploy-your-git-repos-to-google-cloud)
Gene Kim on the Nokia book (https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim/status/1163972487513690112)
Nonsense
Remote Shell and File Editing with Emacs' TRAMP Mode (https://mattray.github.io/2019/03/11/vagrant-and-emacs-tramp-mode.html)
Harvard Just Discovered that PowerPoint is Worse Than Useless (https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/harvard-just-discovered-that-powerpoint-is-worse-than-useless.html)
Air New Zealand is Crazy About Rugby (https://twitter.com/FlyAirNZ/status/1162484533905616896)
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
August 30th - Agile Scotland, Glasgow (https://www.agilescotland.com/august) - Coté giving 90 minute workshop (https://www.agilescotland.com/august#comp-jwjlafj0__item1inlineContent-gridWrapper). Use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount: from £70 to £56.13.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Coté (make sure to use the accented e). Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Listener Feedback
Daniel Dunbar is hiring Senior Distributed Systems Engineers (https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200075384/distributed-systems-engineer) for a project at Apple in Cupertino
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Recommendations
Brandon: Wyze Cam (https://www.wyze.com/wyze-cam/)
Matt: David Byrne on the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/seminars/02019/jun/04/good-news-sleeping-beauties/)
Intro and Outro: SDT Theme (https://github.com/charleswhollien/softwaredefinedsong)
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8/22/2019 • 56 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 192: Coté still doesn’t understand how startup valuations work
We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing.
Mood board:
You talk about the Pacific Northwest, but have you thought about Florida?
I could be like the 35 year old Andy Rooney.
Hey Google, where are my keys?
We’re driving off hosts at this point
Herbalife.
Funny logs.
Was it real money?
It’s probably cheaper than severance.
I am not following any of it.
Where’s Tim Wu when you need him?
This is Tumblr all over again.
Nothing but insects please.
Oh Andy Rooney, save me!
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/).
Relevant to your interests
Apple Card Review: The Credit Card of the Future Is No Card At All (https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-card-review-the-credit-card-of-the-future-is-no-card-at-all-11565528401) - Banking.
Matt Asay goes to AWS (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1161008574589308928)
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress.com Owner (https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-sell-tumblr-to-wordpress-owner-11565640000)
Automattic’s bargain-bin Tumblr deal plugs right into the WordPress business model (https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/12/automattics-bargain-bin-tumblr-deal-plugs-right-into-the-wordpress-business-model/)
Verizon agrees to sell Tumblr to owner of Wordpress (https://www.axios.com/verizon-tumblr-wordpress-automattic-e6645edd-bc73-45c2-9380-9fe8ca34291f.html)
Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera (https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/12/activist-investor-carl-icahn-shakes-cloudera/)
Kubernetes open sourced their security audit. What can we learn? (https://snyk.io/blog/kubernetes-open-sourced-their-security-audit-what-can-we-learn/)
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories (https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-ci-cd/)
Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B (https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/08/broadcom-acquires-symantecs-enterprise-security-business-10-7b/)
Broadcom's Strategy for its Symantec Deal Has a Lot in Common with its CA Deal (https://realmoney.thestreet.com/investing/technology/broadcom-s-strategy-for-its-symantec-deal-has-a-lot-in-common-with-its-ca-deal-15052809)
Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1548505)
Cloud Computing without Containers (https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containers/?hH)
Spiceworks acquired (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2019/08/15/undisclosed-number-of-layoffs-expected-after-ziff.html).
Amazon announces general availability of AWS Lake Formation (https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/08/amazon-announces-general-availability-of-aws-lake-formation/)
Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webassembly-system-interface/)
Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com (https://www.computable.nl/artikel/nieuws/development/6777910/250449/developers-schetsen-gitzwart-beeld-van-bookingcom.html)
Introducing Certificate Transparency Monitoring (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-certificate-transparency-monitoring/)
The XY Problem (http://xyproblem.info/) - or (x)Y?
Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD camera (https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/13/20802239/snapchat-spectacles-3-pricing-release-date-snap)
A cofounder of NPM, a startup that 11 million developers rely on, has resigned in the wake of a period of employee unrest (https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-cofounder-laurie-voss-resigns-2019-6)
He tried to prank the DMV. Then his vanity license plate backfired big time. (https://mashable.com/article/dmv-vanity-license-plate-def-con-backfire/)
Clever Vanity License Plate Backfires On Man, Winds Up With Tons Of Tickets (https://knrs.iheart.com/content/2019-08-12-clever-vanity-license-plate-backfires-on-man-winds-up-with-tons-of-tickets/)
I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-08/i-tried-hiding-from-silicon-valley-in-a-pile-of-privacy-gadgets)
Microsoft culls Office 2019 from its Home Use Program (https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3080394/microsoft-culls-office-2019-home-use-program)
War and Peace (https://itrevolution.com/book/war-and-peace-and-it/) (Book)
Nonsense
Man dies after competing in California taco-eating contest (http://local21news.com/news/nation-world/man-dies-after-competing-in-california-taco-eating-contest)
Real ad that a real restaurant in Mexico (https://twitter.com/goingonajournie/status/1161145837256228864)
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Conferences, et. al.
August 30th - Agile Scotland, Glasgow (https://www.agilescotland.com/august) - Coté giving 90 minute workshop (https://www.agilescotland.com/august#comp-jwjlafj0__item1inlineContent-gridWrapper). Use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount: from £70 to £56.13.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Coté (make sure to use the accented e). Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
SDT news & hype
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Azlo (https://www.azlo.com) and TransferWise (https://transferwise.com/u/matthewr9).
Matt: Eluvium An Accidental Memory In the Case of Death (https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/album/an-accidental-memory-in-the-case-of-death)
Coté: Thunderspace (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thunderspace-rain-thunder/id636485814) app.
Outro: “Andy Rooney MONTAGE.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIpGTcR2kAQ)
8/15/2019 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 191: Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?
Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/).
Mood board:
Have either of you ever eaten dog meat?
He easily slides into meataterian.
Skype would be terrible if it weren’t so great!
Follow the foot-stones
Going up the well
I like dogs, what I don’t like is additional responsibility.
My life is mostly avoiding more responsibility
Sorry about your dog…
Oyster and Opals.
Dogs and trains
Once you get to Atlanta, trains be like, fuck that shit.
I’m going to write that down and look at it when I’m depressed.
Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?
Not investment advice.
2 to 3 yards of J2EE books.
If you put it into a container, you’ll probably be OK.
Relevant to your interests
Mesosphere changes name to D2IQ, shifts focus to Kubernetes, cloud native (https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/05/mesosphere-changes-name-to-d2iq-shifts-focus-to-kubernetes-cloud-native/)
IBM fuses its software with Red Hat’s to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3429596/ibm-fuses-its-software-with-red-hats-to-launch-hybrid-cloud-juggernaut.html#tk.rss_all)
After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon reexamines $10 billion JEDI cloud contract process (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/01/after-trump-cites-amazon-concerns-pentagon-re-examines-billion-jedi-cloud-contract-process/)
Your multicloud strategy is all wrong (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3428682/your-multicloud-strategy-is-all-wrong.html)
A Technical Analysis of the Capital One Hack (https://blog.cloudsploit.com/a-technical-analysis-of-the-capital-one-hack-a9b43d7c8aea?gi=85e88964a741)
Dynatrace S-1 Analysis — Tracing a Transition (https://medium.com/memory-leak/dynatrace-s-1-analysis-tracing-a-transition-3c92896e8d29)
NetApp Stock Is Tumbling After the Company Warned That Tech Spending Was Slowing (https://www.barrons.com/articles/netapp-stock-tumbles-after-warning-of-slowing-tech-spending-51564761782)
Will Uber ever make money? Day of reckoning looms for ride-sharing firm (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/04/uber-ride-share-lyft-ipo-earnings)
It’s the end of the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR’s assets (https://siliconangle.com/2019/08/05/end-big-data-era-hpe-acquire-maprs-assets/)
Microsoft launches Azure Security Lab, expands bug bounty rewards (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-announces-azure-security-lab-azure-bug-bounty-expansion/)
Nonsense
Alabama teen wins PowerPoint World Championship (https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2019/08/alabama-teen-wins-powerpoint-world-championship.html)
Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat (https://www.fastcompany.com/90377949/airlines-are-finally-fixing-the-middle-seat)
Why is called an Oyster Card? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card)
Sponsors
SolarWinds Papertrail (https://papertrailapp.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=direct-link&utm_campaign=sdt)
TrackJS (https://trackjs.com/sdt/)
Conferences, et. al.
August 12th to 15th - Cloudbees DevOps World and Jenkins World (https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world/san-francisco), San Francisco - use the code GOLOCAL for a discount. Also in Lisbon, Dec 3rd to 5th (https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world/lisbon).
August 30th - Agile Scotland, Glasgow (https://www.agilescotland.com/august) - Coté giving 90 minute workshop (https://www.agilescotland.com/august#comp-jwjlafj0__item1inlineContent-gridWrapper). Use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount: from £70 to £56.13.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Coté (make sure to use the accented e). Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Hard Knocks (https://www.hbo.com/hard-knocks) and Last Chance U (https://www.netflix.com/title/80091742).
Matt: Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuXxwXWPz2Y).
Coté: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424.Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem), Joan Didion.
Outro: “Depreston,” (http://youtube.com/watch?v=1NVOawOXxSA) Courtney Barnett.
8/8/2019 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 190: Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.
Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.
There’s a clutch of data breaches this week and Coté finally learns why this is bad. Also, monitoring company IPOs, nachos, and the eating management and the terrors of European fry condiment management.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/).
Moodboard:
I’m making my way to the microphone. The only way I know how.
We need to start a YouTube channel where we do webinar reactions.
We got some cool stuff to talk about with this latest breach.
I just wanted a meal and now I have a problem to solve.
I think I have some swamp stuff in Europe for the geographic oddity section.
That’s my problem, I don’t like fun.
Back to nachos
The nacho of nachos
Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week.
The nonsense was the logs, not the log reader.
Unnonsense your nonsense.
Cause lawyers get paid.
No time for the infinite scrolling ban.
He had an affinity for green glass.
Relevant to your interests
All about Pivotal stuff on kubernetes (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/pas-pksand-rabbitmq-on-kubernetes) - Richard and Coté discuss it on this week’s Pivotal Conversations episode.
The inevitability of K8s: Pivotal CEO describes the pain and benefits of technology transition (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/29/the_inevitability_of_kubernetes_pivotal_ceo_describes_the_pain_and_the_benefit_of_technology_transition/)
Apple Acquiring the Majority of Intel's Smartphone Modem Business (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/25/apple-intel-acquisition/)
Google Cloud's annual revenue run rate disclosure adds color to cloud race | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-clouds-annual-revenue-run-rate-disclosure-adds-color-to-cloud-race/)
Google Cloud to run VMware Cloud Foundation workloads (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/google-cloud-run-vmware-cloud-foundation--workloads/)
Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform (https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/30/google-debuts-migration-tool-anthos-hybrid-cloud-platform/)
Google teams up with VMware to bring more enterprises to its cloud (https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/google-teams-up-with-vmware-to-bring-more-enterprise-customers-to-its-cloud/)
Oracle has quietly altered course on the way it sells its 'private-cloud' product, a key area of its cloud-computing strategy (https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-cloud-private-sales-change-2019-7)
Google Cloud’s run rate is now over $8B (https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/google-clouds-run-rate-is-now-over-8b/)
Amazon reports $63.4 billion in Q2 2019 revenue: AWS up 37%, subscriptions up 37%, and ‘other’ up 37% (https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/25/amazon-earnings-q2-2019/)
Microsoft reports $33.7 billion in Q4 2019 revenue: Azure up 64%, Surface up 14%, and LinkedIn up 25% (https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/18/microsoft-earnings-q4-2019/)
Why Zoom Is the Best Videoconferencing Service (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-video-conferencing-service/)
URGENT/11 VxWorks RTOS Vulnerabilities Found, Critical Systems Affected (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/urgent-11-vxworks-rtos-vulnerabilities-found-critical-systems-affected/)
GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/8934694/github-us-trade-sanctions-developers-restricted-crimea-cuba-iran-north-korea-syria)
Write like an Amazanion (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAXt9B0U4AIrRzJ.jpg)
A former Amazon employee hacked the credit card data of 100 million Americans (https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/7/30/20747163/capital-one-data-hack-100-million-americans-new-york-investigation)
Amazon refuses blame for massive Capital One data breach, says its cloud services were "not compromised in any way" (https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-capital-one-hack-data-leak-breach-paige-thompson-cybercrime-1451665)
FTC warns Equifax claimants will get 'nowhere near' $125 cash payout (https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/01/ftc-equifax-claimants-choose-credit-monitoring/)
Microsoft will drop Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021 | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-will-drop-skype-for-business-online-on-july-31-2021/)
Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/proposed-us-law-would-ban-infinite-scroll-autoplaying-video/#p3)
Should your B2B brand create social media stories? (https://diginomica.com/should-your-b2b-brand-create-social-media-stories)
Datadog IPO: Cloud-based Monitoring's Next Move? - ChannelE2E (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/datadog-ipo-preparation/)
Dynatrace Prices IPO Above Range At $16/Share, Valuing The Software Company At $4.5B (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/dynatrace-prices-ipo-above-range-at-16-share-valuing-the-software-company-at-4-5b/)
IBM Fired as Many as 100,000 in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/ibm-fired-as-many-as-100-000-in-recent-years-court-case-shows)
Nonsense
Our Favorite Laptop Backpacks for 2019 (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/our-favorite-laptop-backpacks/)
This is a black and white photograph. Only the lines have colour. (https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1155077311399489536?s=21)
Contact Lenses That Can Change Focus and Zoom When You Blink Move Closer to Reality (https://gizmodo.com/contact-lenses-that-can-change-focus-and-zoom-when-you-1836789660)
Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along:The Asahi Shimbun (http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907280007.html)
Cel (https://twitter.com/hist/status/1154898478838870016?s=12)s (https://twitter.com/hist/status/1154898478838870016?s=12)ius vs.Fahrenheit (https://twitter.com/hist/status/1154898478838870016?s=12)
Get real good-like at talking English (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD_5T89Ssbn3F830QF2h_xoJJdbteSeg7).
Will Matt Ray give an Emacs keynote? (https://emacsconf.org/2019/)
Sponsors
Solarwinds Loggly (https://loggly.com/sdt): https://www.loggly.com/sdt
TrackJS (http://TrackJS.com/sdt) — https://trackjs.com/sdt/
Conferences, et. al.
August 30th - Agile Scotland, Glasgow (https://www.agilescotland.com/august) - Coté giving 90 minute workshop (https://www.agilescotland.com/august#comp-jwjlafj0__item1inlineContent-gridWrapper). Use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount: from £70 to £56.13.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
Kubeyland 2019 (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevM4mDeM_P1spKbz7gysMSNm_ONRpiNN60ifg-Gi4avmJ9pg/viewform) via Justin Garrison (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1155930353250385920?s=21)
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo).
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/)
Follow-up
Italy had a swamps that were drained (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontine_Marshes): “The road proved difficult to keep above water. Under Augustus, a compromise was reached with the construction of a parallel canal. The part of the marsh above sea level was successfully drained by channels, and new agricultural land of legendary fertility came into being. Whenever the channels were not maintained, the swamp reappeared. Meanwhile, frequent epidemics of malaria at Rome and elsewhere kept the reclamation issue alive. Under Benito Mussolini's regime in the 1930s, the problem was nearly solved by placing dikes and pumping out that portion of the marsh below sea level. It continues to need constant maintenance. Italian confidence in the project was so high, the city placed by Mussolini in 1932 in the center of the marsh, Latina, became the capital of a new province, Latina.”
There were German colonies (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonial_empire) - mostly in Africa.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Running from Cops (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/running-from-cops-headlong-season-3/id1459118695).
Matt: Stories from the Frontlines of Synthetic Fraud (https://a16z.com/2019/06/25/a16z-podcast-stories-from-the-frontlines-of-synthetic-fraud/)
Coté: Grolsch Blond (https://www.grolsch.nl/proeverij/grolsch-blond.html); Freak Kingdom (https://amzn.to/317Aj4t) and The Gonzo Tapes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE-aDdbllcI).
Outro: T (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDfZ5HmA6fs)he Usual Suspects (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDfZ5HmA6fs).
8/3/2019 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 189: The 6 clouds you’ll meet in the MQ
It’s cloud magic time! We go over the evolution of the IaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant, or whatever it’s called now. Plus, is it so hard to do do enterprise sales? (Yes.) And too much commentary on umlauts, ASCII, and Munich bike bells.
Mood board:
CI/CD is this podcast’s VDI.
“Dude, I’ll read.”
It’s hot here.
Did those clothing-optional vegan hippies invite themselves over to your room a lot?
Ruled by actuarial tables
I need to look up what constitutes a swamp
Google cloud is people.
You can’t put the math back in the box.
Cee-star-o.
Bad things are bad.
You can be a low-value target and I’ll still draw a funny picture in your book.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/).
Relevant to your interests
Google Cloud gains in Gartner's 2019 cloud infrastructure Magic Quadrant (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-gains-in-gartners-2019-cloud-infrastructure-magic-quadrant/)
Microsoft Hits Record High as Cloud Revenues Drive Q4 Earnings Beat (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/microsoft-poised-for-record-high-as-cloud-revenues-drive-q4-earnings-beat-15025315). Also, one analyst estimates that their cloud revenue now matches on-premises.
Equifax to Pay at Least $650 Million in Largest Data-Breach Settlement Ever (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/business/equifax-settlement.html)
Kazakhstan’s internet crackdown shows the world wide web is becoming less worldwide (https://thehustle.co/Kazakhstan-internet-state-surveillance/)
Related, US Attorney General wants backdoors (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/23/us_encryption_backdoor/), but just for “not nukes.”
CircleCI closes $56M Series D investment as market for continuous delivery expands (https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/circleci-closes-56m-series-d-investment-as-market-for-continuous-delivery-expands)
Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology) (http://www.smashcompany.com/business/why-are-large-companies-so-difficult-to-rescue-regarding-bad-internal-technology).
Nonsense
230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019 (https://blog.emojipedia.org/230-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2019/)
Sponsors
Solarwinds
To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail for free, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt (http://papertrailapp.com/sdt) and make troubleshooting fun.
TrackJS
TrackJS is an engineer-owned cloud service that gives you visibility to client-side issues. Try it free at TrackJS.com/sdt (http://trackjs.com/sdt).
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Prometheus (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prometheus_2012) (The Movie).
Matt: Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks – Extended Edition (https://brianeno.lnk.to/ApolloExtendedTW); https://pinfinder.net/
Coté: Pee-wee's Big Holiday (https://www.netflix.com/title/80031800). Ballon scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOwUvn2l0MM). Laundry books (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6476913-the-atrocity-archives) are good.
Outro: Nelson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2JWGTMybU).
7/26/2019 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 188: The transit private/public partnership, and, yeah, still, of course, kubernetes shit of the week
There’s a couple kubernetes announcements this week: we mostly talk about Pivotal’s, and a tad on IBM. Plus, maybe scooters are actually good for cities and compiling source code for your infrastructure software is probably a bad idea. Don’t @ us.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)!
Mood Board:
Evil Hodor is cancelled.
Must be this short to ride free.
The full mullet of monitoring.
There is no nuance to this statement.
Just keep using VMware.
If you’re compiling the source code, you’re gonna have problems.
LAMP stack.
Tell me how to do what I want, not why I can’t do it.
Relevant to your interests
Pivotal kubernetes stuff (https://content.pivotal.io/home-page/pivotal-build-service-now-alpha-assembles-and-updates-containers-in-kubernetes), alpha of running all the stuff on Kubernetes (PKS), Pivotal’s JRE/Tomcat product now GA.
“PAS on Kubernetes is packaged as a tile for Ops Manager, and uses BOSH to deploy its system components. It requires vSphere, NSX-T, and Enterprise PKS. “ (“Tile” is Pivotal speak for “feature/sub-system/plugin/extension/component/product/etc.”)
Good summary from NL coverage (https://www.computable.nl/artikel/techwire/digital-transformation/6706859/2499347/pivotal-lanceert-alfaversie-pas-op-kubernetes.html):
Build Service: Easily automates container images for developers and offers companies audit and security controls that are needed to work with confidence on a large scale. Build Service is made possible by the CNCF Cloud-Native Buildpacks project and is co-developed by Pivotal.
RabbitMQ for Kubernetes: Automates the implementation and management of RabbitMQ. In addition, RabbitMQ is configurable and offers a self-service experience for developers;
Service Mesh: Automates the installation and configuration of Istio. This allows developers to drop apps to production quickly and safely. In addition, it provides secure networks that businesses need.
Spring Runtime: It offers comprehensive support for Java environments, including OpenJDK, Spring Support and Apache Tomcat.
The New Stack: The Pivotal Application Service Addresses Kubernetes Complexity (https://thenewstack.io/the-pivotal-application-service-addresses-kubernetes-complexity/).
Pretty good summary (https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/16/pivotal-lets-developers-go-kubernetes-new-application-service/) of Pivotal Cloud Foundry as a whole: “Pivotal Application Service is a software application development platform based on the open-source Cloud Foundry project, which provides a range of clouds, developer frameworks and app services to work with. The idea is to make it easier for developers to build, test, deploy and scale up their apps on a variety of cloud platforms.”
Taft (https://searchmicroservices.techtarget.com/news/252467009/Pivotal-tools-aim-to-ease-Kubernetes-complexity-for-developers): “This reflects an important strategic shift by Pivotal to acknowledge the importance of Kubernetes as an integral component of customers' application modernization programs, said Charlotte Dunlap, an analyst at GlobalData in Santa Cruz, Calif.”
Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester (https://searchmicroservices.techtarget.com/news/252467009/Pivotal-tools-aim-to-ease-Kubernetes-complexity-for-developers): "For a while I've spoken to enterprises that are worried that they have to make a choice: PAS and Cloud Foundry, or go with Kubernetes and give up what they like about PAS. This makes it possible to keep what they like about PAS and work at a higher level of abstraction, without worrying about somehow missing out on all the innovation going on in the Kubernetes world."
IBM kubernetes stuff (https://devclass.com/2019/07/16/ibm-unveils-trio-of-open-source-kubernetes-projects-and-not-a-red-hat-trick-in-sight/), at OSCON.
‘Appsody is pitched as allowing developers to quickly create microservices to their organisation’s standards and requirements, using pre-configured stacks and templates for “popular open source runtimes and frameworks, providing a foundation to build applications for Kubernetes and Knative deployments.”’
‘Codewind, is a project to provide extensions to IDEs, starting with VS Code, Eclipse and Eclipse Che, to allow them to be used to build containerised applications.’
‘As for Kabanero, this aims to bring together projects like Knative, Istio and Tekton, along with Codewind, Appsody, and Razzee, to allow users to “architect, build, deploy, and manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes-based applications.” The project includes “pre-built deployments to Kubernetes and Knative (using Operators and Helm charts)…so, developers can spend more time developing scalable applications and less time understanding infrastructure.”’
For Digital Transformers, It's About Fast-Moving Data. Here Are Three Ways to Speed Up (https://amp-news-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/atlassian-ditches-brilliant-jerks-in-performance-review-overhaul/news-story/82a5e2abba1939f51d68ae81db8f05bd).
The Google Cloud Developer's Cheat Sheet (https://github.com/gregsramblings/google-cloud-4-words).
IBM's Last Report Without Red Hat Was a Mixed Bag (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-apos-last-report-without-132300658.html?guccounter=1).
Bulgaria Beat: Data of Nearly Every Adult in Bulgaria Likely Stolen in Cyberattack (https://gizmodo.com/data-of-nearly-every-adult-in-bulgaria-likely-stolen-in-1836450903).
Apple is reportedly planning to pay for exclusive podcasts (https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/16/apple-reportedly-plans-to-fund-exclusive-podcasts/?guccounter=1). Hot-take: 🙄
IBM and Microsoft get milly-ons from AT&T for cloud stuff:
IBM (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/ibm-signs-new-cloud-deal-with-att.html): ‘As part of the agreement announced Tuesday, AT&T will use Red Hat’s open-source platform to manage workloads and applications and “better serve” enterprise customers. AT&T and IBM will also team up on developing “edge computing platforms” that harness 5G networks and internet-connected devices.’
Microsoft (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/microsoft-wins-multibillion-dollar-cloud-deal-from-att.html): Office 365, plus: “Beyond AT&T’s own internal use of Microsoft technology, the companies are working together on developing tools for artificial intelligence and high-speed 5G wireless, and plan to announce additional services later this year.”
Also, coverage from Tim Anderson at (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/16/ibm_promising_easier_kubernetes_with_kabanero_package/) The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/16/ibm_promising_easier_kubernetes_with_kabanero_package/).
Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide (https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/16/google-maps-now-displays-bike-sharing-stations-worldwide/) - cities’ traffic planning and management is fully disrupted, really. They (well, meaning us via taxes) have to suck up the capital costs and upset people while the usual tech people skim data for advertising profits. Plus, you know, we get really good transportation options. See opening prattle.
Computer password inventor dies aged 93 (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48988091), meanwhile, Turing to be on 50 pound note (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/50-pound-note-nominations).
IBM Takes A Hands Off Approach With Red Hat (https://www.itjungle.com/2019/07/15/ibm-takes-a-hands-off-approach-with-red-hat/): “Given that it has been a decade and only 20 percent of the workloads have moved, there is a lot that is going to stay private and on premises, and we need a way to operate in all of these environments as opposed to having different siloes that can’t and have skills fungibility across all of them.”
Symantec share price nose dives after rumored Broadcom biz gobble taken off the menu (https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/07/15/symantec_broadcom_deal).
Judge shoots down Oracle protest over $10B JEDI cloud contract, leaving Amazon and Microsoft as finalists (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/judge-shoots-oracle-protest-10b-jedi-cloud-contract-leaving-amazon-microsoft-finalists/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top).
Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/technology/amazon-workers-retraining-automation.html): “The e-commerce giant said Thursday that it planned to spend $700 million to retrain about a third of its American workers to do more high-tech tasks, an acknowledgment that advances in technology are remaking jobs in nearly every industry — and that workers will need to adapt or risk being left behind.”
Nonsense
Hot dog fan? You can now stay in a 27-foot long Wienermobile on Airbnb (https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2019/07/17/airbnb-adds-wienermobile-listings-national-hot-dog-day/1757114001/).
Follow-up: there is some newer Lovecraft stuff out there (https://infodump.ghost.io/the-case-of-charles-dexter-ward/)!
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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.
Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Check out GO CARDLESS (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless).
Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform (https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/870032) Netflix.
Senior Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering (https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/867867) Netflix.
Chef - Community Manager (https://jobs.lever.co/chef/4226887a-892c-4dae-845e-8d00bd888026).
Platform Operations Engineer (https://jobs.aspect.com/job/Orlando-Platform-Operations-Engineer-FL-32801/567835100/) Aspect.
Come work at Pivotal (https://pivotal.io/careers).
Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides (https://www.slideshare.net/mattray/how-to-resume-47788991) and Talk (https://vimeo.com/129822168#t=8m40s).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Secrets of Sand Hill Road (https://www.audible.com/pd/Secrets-of-Sand-Hill-Road-Audiobook/0593102797?pf_rd_p=ae76b2bb-e63d-4a67-b357-dab3dee05ca1&pf_rd_r=SAA2ZGFAV77A2QXANDB7&ref=a_lib_c4_libItem_0593102797); How To Raise Money from a Venture Investor (https://a16z.com/2019/07/18/a16z-podcast-how-to-raise-money-from-a-venture-investor/); How To Understand And Choose a Venture Investor (https://a16z.com/2019/07/17/a16z-podcast-how-to-understand-and-choose-a-venture-investor/).
Coté: Gillette Foamy Regular Shave Foam, 2 oz, 56g (https://amzn.to/2SqCCwx). The little, metal red bottle. Available at Target, etc.
Outro: “softwaredefinedsong,” (https://github.com/charleswhollien/softwaredefinedsong) *[charleswhollien](https://github.com/charleswhollien).*
7/20/2019 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 187: Beyond the Fitzgeraldian Theory of Cloud Barriers to Entry
With IBM closing its acquisition of Red Hat, we discuss the changing mechanics of an enterprise software business. Why do we think the big clouds will have such an indefinite hold on market leadership when every past tech leader has been disrupted and fallen? Speaking of, Broadcom is tryin’ hard to become a portfolio company. Also, security sucks, Coté finds video chats annoying, and he can’t keep all the camera lingo in his head.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)!
Also:
I wish I could turn other people’s videos off.
Makes money, that’s a good strategy.
Security through diversity, is that a thing?
Breaking news, public cloud is a good thing.
I’ve been replaced by software.
What the fuck do I do with a histogram?
Clicking auto fixed the photo fine.
Flywheelin’.
You can’t cut costs by cutting your employees legs off.
It was something about FStop, and then I lost it.
Relevant to your interests
Zoom problems.
Cloudera Sees Inspiration in Red Hat, Goes "All-In" on Open Source (https://www.cbronline.com/news/cloudera-open-source).
Not sure what exactly this covers, vs. Hadoop itself. I guess all the commercialized stuff wrapped around Hadoop?
IBM finalized Red Hat acquisition (https://twitter.com/ibm/status/1148570648547078145?s=21):
Charles Fitzgerald aptly plays the part of Charles Fitzgerald (http://www.platformonomics.com/2019/07/a-very-cold-take-on-ibm-red-hat-and-their-hybrid-cloud-hyperbole/).
Related, upcoming webinar: Red Hat on free software and pay software (https://www.redhat.com/en/events/webinar/how-free-software-can-be-more-expensive-paid-alternatives?sc_cid=701f20000012xA6AAI).
British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48905907) - not sure what the HACK actually was.
Symantec shares soar on report that Broadcom is in talks to acquire the security software maker (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/symantec-shares-soar-on-report-that-broadcom-in-talks-to-acquire-it.html).
For filler topic (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/The-state-of-the-industry-in-three-charts--Aguop4aIogJc0cbfP~1I0RFtAg-2jRrXAx1iWLPicF1IUZBW).
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? (https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html) - Low quality architecture and code means you can’t change as quickly and as much as you’d like. is “tech debt” a good metaphor, or drying cement?
Gates Says Steve Jobs Cast ‘Spells’ to Keep Apple From Dying (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-06/gates-says-steve-jobs-cast-spells-to-keep-apple-from-dying?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews) - “minor wizard.”
AWS makes another acquisition, grabbing TSO Logic (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/aws-makes-another-acquisition-grabbing-tso-logic/) - “The company takes data about workloads and applications and helps customers find the most efficient place to run them by measuring requirements like resource needs against cost to find the right balance at any given time.” CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IS SO HOT RIGHT NOW.
Meet the Great Duke of... DLL: Microsoft shines light on Astaroth, a devilishly sneaky strain of fileless malware (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/08/microsoft_astaroth_examination/) - I mean, security seems hard to get right 100% of the time? Related: problems in ruby-land (https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/09/backdoor-discovered-in-ruby-strong_password-library/), and JavaScript (https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/lodash-prototype-pollution.html).
QA Acquires Cloud Academy to Create a World-leading Corporate Skills Platform (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190710005170/en/QA-Acquires-Cloud-Academy-Create-World-leading-Corporate?utm_campaign=Q2-2020-QA-ANNOUNCEMENT&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8xW6UlDOyoyv-UB318M0vUWJIu1N2a5HfoFD-j95yCnEteQquaorBOVITILuSKijs-tua35Dx5d3TRGRodu16UeFWSEg&_hsmi=74551522&utm_content=74551902&utm_source=hs_email&hsCtaTracking=95ce4df6-4be1-4c6b-86e7-6a60bd0b06d2%7Ceaf936eb-aa4a-4d7c-94e4-2c77bc3bce53).
Nonsense
The 4 Stages of Culture Shock (https://medium.com/global-perspectives/the-4-stages-of-culture-shock-a79957726164) - maturity cycle for living abroad.
@Clipart1994bot (https://twitter.com/@Clipart1994bot).
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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.
Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Check out GO CARDLESS (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless).
Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform (https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/870032) Netflix.
Senior Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering (https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/867867) Netflix.
Chef - Community Manager (https://jobs.lever.co/chef/4226887a-892c-4dae-845e-8d00bd888026).
Platform Operations Engineer (https://jobs.aspect.com/job/Orlando-Platform-Operations-Engineer-FL-32801/567835100/) Aspect.
Come work at Pivotal (https://pivotal.io/careers).
Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides (https://www.slideshare.net/mattray/how-to-resume-47788991) and Talk (https://vimeo.com/129822168#t=8m40s).
Listener Feedback
Coté is not coordinated enough to include that this episode.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: *[Endeavour](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2701582/);* The Terror (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708480/) **(again!).
Coté: Old Navy (https://oldnavy.gap.com/) for the kids.
Outro: “softwaredefinedsong,” (https://github.com/charleswhollien/softwaredefinedsong) *[charleswhollien](https://github.com/charleswhollien).*
7/13/2019 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 186: SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”
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 (https://twitter.com/nathenharvey) about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene.
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If it logs, it can log to Loggly.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
SDT news & hype
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Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Coté: sit at a cafe in Paris and people watch.
Special Guest: Nathen Harvey.
7/5/2019 • 27 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 185: Drink your own dog food
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 (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)!
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.” (https://www.google.com/search?q=%22DJ+Pull+Request%22&oq=%22DJ+Pull+Request%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.4507j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
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 (https://www.cbronline.com/interview/mongodb-ceo-interview)
Huge fluctuations in database market-share (https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2019/06/23/future-database-management-systems-cloud/).
Get your Audible credits up-front…if you pay up-front (https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/amazons-audible-audiobook-service-now-offers-a-cheaper-annual-membership/).
IBM gains unconditional EU approval for $34 billion Red Hat deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/ibm-gains-unconditional-eu-approval-for-34-billion-red-hat-deal.html).
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does (https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/10/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 (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/20/slack-ceo-predicts-end-of-company-email-as-we-know-it-in-7-years.html)
Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/)
How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today (https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/)
The Power of Costco (https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/the-power-of-costco)
Software Below the Poverty Line (https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html)
Deconstructing Balenciaga’s Wacky Instagram (https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/deconstructing-balenciagas-wacky-instagram) (https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/deconstructing-balenciagas-wacky-instagram)Nonsense (https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/deconstructing-balenciagas-wacky-instagram)
Acquired Podcast about SuperHuman (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/superhuman)
Nonsense
Talk Like a Texan: This One’s for All Y’All (https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/talk-like-texan-ones-yall/)
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 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://monktoberfest.com/).
Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Check out GO CARDLESS (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gocardless).
Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform (https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/870032) Netflix.
Senior Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering (https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/867867) Netflix.
Chef - Community Manager (https://jobs.lever.co/chef/4226887a-892c-4dae-845e-8d00bd888026).
Platform Operations Engineer (https://jobs.aspect.com/job/Orlando-Platform-Operations-Engineer-FL-32801/567835100/) Aspect.
Come work at Pivotal (https://pivotal.io/careers).
Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides (https://www.slideshare.net/mattray/how-to-resume-47788991) and Talk (https://vimeo.com/129822168#t=8m40s).
Listener Feedback
Charles from Greensboro, NC sent in some SDT theme music (https://github.com/charleswhollien/softwaredefinedsong) so we sent him stickers.
Troy from San Mateo got some stickers this week.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: City of Austin Garbage Collection Reminders (http://www.austintexas.gov/page/my-collection-schedule).
Matt: “I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmcRTnTNC8).”
Coté: Secrid (https://secrid.com/en-nl/) (Coté got the “Vintage Cognac-Rust” (https://secrid.com/en-nl/collections/miniwallet/miniwallet-vintage-cognac-rust)).
Outro: “softwaredefinedsong,” (https://github.com/charleswhollien/softwaredefinedsong)charleswhollien (https://github.com/charleswhollien)
7/1/2019 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 184: The developer survey bong talk SIG
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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return) seems unhelpful.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)!
Also:
Pretty hard stop in an hour.
Slack Messaging Transport Protocol and The Cold Chain
Drum-circle free zone at Vondelpark (https://www.instagram.com/p/By7WXhWiN4c/?igshid=5ryhtzgbt15h)!
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 (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/)
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 (https://content.pivotal.io/analyst-reports/kubernetes-turns-five)
Open Core Summit 2019 (https://ti.to/open-core-summit/open-core-summit)
This is a VC/startup conference, seems.
Why cloud is the best defense against AWS (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/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 (https://about.gitlab.com/2019/05/13/kubernetes-chat-with-kelsey-hightower/)
TechExplorers: Kelsey Hightower (https://youtu.be/9OHNejqXOoo?t=988)
Lots of people doing it wrong: gotta have cloud native apps; don’t build platforms?
Apple joins the open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/apple-joins-the-open-source-cloud-native-computing-foundation/)
The goal of digital transformation is outcomes, not engineering (https://content.pivotal.io/intersect/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 (https://www.atlassian.com/blog/technology/atlassian-term-sheet)
(https://pullpanda.com/github)- Pull Panda is joining GitHub (https://pullpanda.com/github)
Mission critical apps make successful open source platforms (https://blog.jsr.wtf/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 (https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa?stream=top)
Even FB outsources! Here to Cognizant.
Seems terrible.
Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop? (https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/06/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 (https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history/)
The machines are going to hate us (https://twitter.com/kocizum/status/1139615763336171525)
English units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units)
Sponsor: Solarwinds
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open (https://monktoberfest.com/).
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Vilynx - Building the most powerful AI Brain (http://www.vilynx.com/careers#scalability)
Listener Feedback
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Recommendations
Coté: Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18269594-read-this-if-you-want-to-take-great-photographs).
Matt: 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv3gw):
"The Cold Chain (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv3gw)".
Outro: “All I Eat is Pizza,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl5dRW4E9hc) Koo Koo Kanga Roo.
6/21/2019 • 52 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind
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 (https://www.theonion.com/denver-s-flaming-skull-mayor-announces-plans-to-decrimi-1834648731).
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 (https://idlewords.com/2019/05/what_i_learned_trying_to_secure_congressional_campaigns.htm).
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 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/48054582642/in/datetaken/) and Skillcraft pens (https://amzn.to/2WCUeFJ) (a bit pricey in Europe (https://www.amazon.de/Skilcraft-US-Regierung-Retractable-7520-01-332-3967-Tintenblau/dp/B008UARY3I/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=7520-01-332-3967+skillcraft&qid=1560457678&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr0)).
Relevant to your interests
Salesforce to buy Tableau Software in $15.7 billion deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/10/salesforce-to-buy-tableau-software-in-an-all-stock-deal.html).
This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/this-weeks-dead-google-product-is-google-trips-may-it-rest-in-peace/).
Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds (https://www.zdnet.com/article/cryptocurrency-startup-hacks-itself-before-hacker-gets-a-chance-to-steal-users-funds/).
Mozilla to Launch Firefox Premium (https://www.pcmag.com/news/368879/mozilla-to-launch-firefox-premium). (https://www.pcmag.com/news/368879/mozilla-to-launch-firefox-premium) (https://www.pcmag.com/news/368879/mozilla-to-launch-firefox-premium)
ceejbot/economics-of-package-management (https://github.com/ceejbot/economics-of-package-management/blob/master/essay.md).
“Money let’s talk about.”
What’s driving open source software in 2019 (https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/whats-driving-open-source-software-in-2019)
GitHub hires former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as COO (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/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 (https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-kill-url-first-steps/) - huh?
(https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-pwned/)- Project Svalbard: The Future of Have (https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-pwned/).
Forget power outages -- what happens when Google goes out? (https://thehustle.co/Google-Cloud-outage/)
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 (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/12/cybersecurity-firm-crowdstrike-prices-ipo.html).
No Easy Way Forward For Commercial Open Source Software Vendors (https://www.forbes.com/sites/udinachmany/2019/06/11/what-future-for-independent-open-source-software-vendors/).
Software company MapR, once worth more than $1 billion, to lay off 122 (https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Software-company-MapR-once-worth-more-than-1-13904888.php)
I’ll be passing on Google’s new 2fa for logins on iPhones and iPads. Here’s why (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/ill-be-passing-on-googles-new-2fa-for-logins-on-iphones-and-ipads-heres-why/)
Food Fight Farewell (https://twitter.com/foodfightshow/status/1138784382116929538). (https://twitter.com/foodfightshow/status/1138784382116929538) (https://twitter.com/foodfightshow/status/1138784382116929538)
Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet (https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/11/18651010/mary-meeker-internet-trends-report-slides-2019)
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 (https://www.lemonade.com/blog/lemonade-sets-new-world-record/), Zürich Insurance using AR with risk engineers (https://internetofbusiness.com/zurich-insurance-ai-iot-ar/)…Pivotal stories aplenty.
The framing is basically (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/creating-the-cx-centric-utility/) “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 (https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/06/10-government-legacy-systems-cost-taxpayers-337-million-every-year/157682/).
“How to Use Your Meat Buyer’s Guide” - SCHOOL IS IN SESSION (https://www.thelivestockinstitute.org/uploads/4/9/9/2/49923305/meat-buyers-guide.pdf).
Nonsense
NASA is opening the International Space Station to private astronauts (https://qz.com/1638068/nasa-opens-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 (https://www.businessinsider.com/lacroix-lawsuit-claims-executives-sparred-over-bpa-free-claims-2019-6?module=topTout&area=links).
Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/fortnite-maker-epic-acquires-social-video-app-houseparty/).
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open (https://monktoberfest.com/).
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Best IT Development Podcasts 2019 for consultants - Qemploy (https://blog.qemploy.com/best-it-podcasts-2019/)
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Coté: Magma notebooks (https://magma-shop.com/collections/all-products/stationery).
Matt: Ricky Gervais Humanity (https://www.netflix.com/nl-en/title/80189653) on Netflix; GORUCK Echo (Discontinued) (https://www.goruck.com/echo/).
Brandon: I am Mother (https://www.netflix.com/title/80227090) on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80227090).
6/14/2019 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 182: It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software!
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 (https://bloom.bg/2Wsh6wM)
Reporter's Notebook: Trees, fiber, petition (https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2019/06/reporters-notebook-trees-fiber-petition/)
The boldest WWDC move: Sign In with Apple (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-8232a6e0-a0fb-49b6-ac24-dfb1344ba217.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)
Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/apple-is-now-the-privacy-as-a-service-company/)
An update on Sunday’s service disruption | Google Cloud Blog (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/an-update-on-sundays-service-disruption)
Why We're Relicensing CockroachDB - Cockroach Labs (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/)
What's actually changing with iOS 13 (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-5dc3f703-6465-4481-b8b8-db848c8c640a.html?chunk=1#story1)
Why the new Mac Pro makes sense (https://twitter.com/Cruftbox/status/1135645748945534976)
Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/05/microsoft-and-oracle-link-up-their-clouds/)
Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion – TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/google-to-acquire-analytics-startup-looker-for-2-6-billion/)
Mad King Leo pulled the wool over HP shareholders' eyes, ex-CEO Whitman tells court (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/05/autonomy_whitman_testimony_apotheker/)
Cloudera plummets 40% after CEO abruptly departs and company cuts forecast (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/06/cloudera-drops-40percent-after-ceo-tom-reilly-leaves-forecast-cut.html)
Mongo Q1 Numbers (https://www.nasdaq.com/article/mongodb-mdb-q1-loss-narrows-revenues-up-on-atlas-growth-cm1160239)
(https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-8232a6e0-a0fb-49b6-ac24-dfb1344ba217.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2)## Nonsense
Microsoft is making Xbox body wash (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/4/18652484/microsoft-xbox-lynx-body-wash-axe-lifestyle-gaming-products)
“what does Xbox smell like? Microsoft says the answer is fruit, herbs, and various styles of wood.”
## Sponsors
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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 (http://loggly.com/sdt).
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open (https://monktoberfest.com/).
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Director of Product (https://boards.greenhouse.io/poppulo/jobs/1693409) for Poppulo (https://www.poppulo.com/) Waltham, MA
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Deadwood (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348914/)
Brandon: This Land (https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/)
6/7/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 181: There wasn’t a sign that said I was in a drum circle zone
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 (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), 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, c (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48257713)rossbow bolt cult in Germany (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48257713).
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 (https://github.blog/2019-05-23-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 (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/22/18635326/huawei-arm-chip-designs-business-suspension)
The Tech Cold War Has Begun (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-20/huawei-supply-freeze-points-to-u-s-china-tech-cold-war)
How to thought lead — Twitter Thread (https://twitter.com/jbeda/status/1132668343977070598)
Shingy’s Wikipedia page is up for deletion (https://twitter.com/evanpro/status/1133489885891956737)
David Shing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing)
Adam Jacob at ChefConf (https://youtu.be/M87msqh-8b0?list=PL11cZfNdwNyPqCULNNN4YEyrMn3Vj6LGu&t=5839)
Why no Docker (http://crunchtools.com/why-no-docker/)
Splunk adds 400 enterprise customers in Q1, ups outlook (https://www.zdnet.com/article/splunk-adds-400-enterprise-customers-in-q1-ups-outlook/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
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 (http://jpetazzo.github.io/2019/05/17/containers-microservices-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 (https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/do-you-need-a-service-mesh): “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 (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/paging-dr-alexa-hospitals-call-voice-assistants-envisioning-massive-impact-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. (http://mjparnell.com/bullshit_science_ux_design/)
Enterprise DevOps Company CloudBees Raises $10 Million (https://pulse2.com/cloudbees-raises-10-million/)
Pivotal adds support for open Java in latest release (https://siliconangle.com/2019/05/28/pivotal-adds-support-openjdk-latest-spring-runtime-release/)
Facebook plans to launch crypto-currency (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48383460)
Palo Alto Networks to acquire container security startup Twistlock for $410M (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/palo-alto-networks-to-acquire-container-security-startup-twistlock-for-410m/)
The World Health Organization officially recognizes ‘burnout’ (https://thehustle.co/WHO-recognizes-burnout/)
Tech giant brings software to a gun fight (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/30/tech-giant-brings-software-gun-fight/)
Nonsense
LaCroix faces a crippling 'free fall' as it turns 'from bad, to worse, to disastrous,' analyst says (https://www.businessinsider.com/la-croix-sales-decline-free-fall-2019-5).
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open (https://monktoberfest.com/).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: After Life (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8398600/) & Dead to Me (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8064302/).
Brandon: Dead to Me (https://www.netflix.com/title/80219707) on Netflix.
Coté: The Fine Art of Small Talk (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk), excerpts in Coté’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1131453689338703872).
Listener recommendation from Jordi: Humble Book Bundle: Hacking 2.0 (https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-press-books)
Cover-art: "Third Beach Drum Circle," from Kyle Pearce (https://www.flickr.com/photos/keepitsurreal/9767175701).
Outro: spitting out lyrics with Courtney Barnett’s “Nameless, Faceless.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZZSYDhx0FI)
6/3/2019 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 180: “I’m not sure Mudhoney plays a lot of corporate events”
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 (https://blog.chef.io/2019/05/21/chef-announcements-making-it-easier/)
Habitat in your dashboards, Habitat + Chef/InSpec and chef.io/migration (https://chef.io/migration)
DJ Darek Mazzone (https://www.kexp.org/djs/darek-mazzone/)
Mudhoney (http://mudhoneysite.com/) + Deep Sea Diver (https://www.thedeepseadiver.com/)
Kube stuff
At peak hype? Kubernetes hopes to survive the boom and bust cycles of cloud services (https://siliconangle.com/2019/05/21/peak-hype-kubernetes-hopes-survive-boom-bust-cycles-cloud-services-kubeconeu/)
Apptio, Inc Announces Intent To Acquire Cloudability (https://www.cloudability.com/company/newsroom/press-release/apptio-announces-intent-to-acquire-cloudability/)
Microsoft makes a push for service mesh interoperability (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/21/microsoft-makes-a-push-for-service-mesh-interoperability/)
Digital Ocean’s Kubernetes service is now generally available (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/20/digital-oceans-kubernetes-service-is-now-generally-available/)
Security
New research: How effective is basic account hygiene at preventing hijacking (https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-research-how-effective-is-basic.html)
Over 10 million people hit in single Australian data breach: OAIC | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/over-10-million-people-hit-in-single-australian-data-breach-oaic/)
How do high-tech services outsmart ransomware? Often, by paying the ransoms (https://thehustle.co/Hackers-ransomware-cybersecurity-ethics/)
Building Software
How Netflix Thinks of DevOps (https://youtu.be/UTKIT6STSVM)
Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/14/amazons_away_teams/)
The Problem with Software: A Conversation With Former Microsoft Programmer Adam Barr (https://postlight.com/trackchanges/podcast/the-problem-with-software-a-conversation-with-former-microsoft-programmer-adam-barr)
Grab Bag
U.S. r (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-siliconvalley/u-s-regulators-approve-new-silicon-valley-stock-exchange-idUSKCN1SG21K)egulators approve new Silicon Valley stock exchange (https://www.axios.com/robocalls-states-location-source-89c3df6b-8169-47af-aec5-75bd1075474b.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Data collected by connected cars ends up with carmakers, not consumers (https://thehustle.co/connected-cars-autonomous-vehicles/)
Google attempts to shed light on the confusing 'Works with Nest' to 'Works with Google Assistant' transition (https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/16/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 (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629716/hpe-cray-acquisition-supercomputers-exascale-performance-deal)
Nonsense
New Board Game Uses All Your Other Unopened Board Games as Resource Tokens (https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/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 (http://loggly.com/sdt).
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open (https://monktoberfest.com/).
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/)
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Matt: American Gods Season 2 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MKDP8D9/?ref=DVM_PDS_GOO_US_AC_C_A_S2e_1_AMGS2_P|c_336791881628_m_zFpb2p8b-dc_s__)
Brandon: (https://www.facebook.com/marketplace)Facebook Marketplace (https://www.facebook.com/marketplace)
Image Credit (https://twitter.com/chef/status/1131595408902373376?s=11)
5/24/2019 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 179: I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin
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 (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxh5ikuiFuK/).
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 (https://www.youtube.com/user/redmonkmedia/videos).
Did the cat walk on your keyboard?
Relevant to your interests
VMware to acquire Bitnami (https://blog.bitnami.com/2019/05/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami.html):
VMware’s desires (https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2019/05/15/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami/): “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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnami) 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 (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/97114/Toc): “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/ (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? (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/10/aws_summit_london/)
Coté’s collection of interesting bits (https://cote.io/2019/05/10/how-sainsbury-uses-aws/), 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 (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/09/australian-50-note-typo-spelling-mistake-printed-46-million-times)
Symantec CEO Greg Clark steps down, stock drops (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/09/symantec-ceo-greg-clark-steps-down-stock-drops-.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
GitHub Package Registry: Your packages, at home with their code (https://github.co/2DZiJGY)
JFrog and Sonatype watch out
How Windows and Chrome quietly made 2019 the year of Linux on the desktop (https://t.co/FvmA86HFdU?ssr=true)
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 (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3194946/chromebook-shipments-surge-by-38-percent-cutting-into-windows-10-pcs.html) shipped out of 72.6m laptops total (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2017-01-11-gartner-says-2016-marked-fifth-consecutive-year-of-worldwide-pc-shipment-decline)).
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 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-01-29-gartner-says-worldwide-device-shipments-will-increase-2-point-1-percent-in-2018) - 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 (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-01-10-gartner-says-worldwide-pc-shipments-declined-4-3-perc) 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history)?
Google now lists playable podcasts in search results (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/10/18564035/google-search-podcasts-ios-desktop-web-playerPodcast)
ParkMyCloud is Now Part of Turbonomic - ParkMyCloud (https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/parkmycloud-turbonomic/)
Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech (http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/14/amazons_away_teams/)
It’s the new Spotify Culture!
Oppressive countries used a newly-discovered WhatsApp flaw to spy on activists (https://www.axios.com/whatsapp-uncovers-security-flaw-exposing-spyware-vulnerability-e7709499-b87b-42df-bff3-5d2a437f2114.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
The red hot 'FAANG' trade is officially over, now bet on your fellow 'MAAN' (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/faang-leadership-is-over-its-time-to-bet-on-your-fellow-maan.html)
FOSDEM 2019 - The clusterfuck hidden in the Kubernetes code base (https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclusterfuck/)
Microsoft warns wormable Windows bug could lead to another WannaCry (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/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 (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/15/google-finds-security-issue-with-its-bluetooth-titan-security-keys.html)
New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011 (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/zombieload-flaw-intel-processors/)
Google is about to have a lot more ads on phones (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18623541/google-gallery-discovery-mobile-ads-announced)
Donald Trump is short-circuiting the electronics industr (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/15/18624690/trump-import-tax-tariff-laptop-smartphone-manufacturers)y
IBM reps can sell IBM and Red Hat (https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-ibm-and-red-hat-go-from-here/#ftag=RSSbaffb68): ‘in the field, "IBM sales guys will get comped on Red Hat products, but our sales guys will only get comped on Red Hat products."’
Nonsense
World’s Most Expensive Coffee Costs $75 A Cup; Now Being Sold In Southern California (https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/05/13/worlds-most-expensive-coffee-elida-natural-geisha-klatch-coffee/)
Sponsors
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 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open (https://monktoberfest.com/).
Listener Feedback
Tom from Schiermonnikooglaan in The Netherlands tell us “Thanks for the awesome podcasts” and we sent him laptop stickers.
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Coté: my most recent stump-speech recording (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14883/355253); UK GDS book, Digital Transformation at Scale (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40602234-digital-transformation-at-scale). If you like #exegesis stuff, check out this interview Coté did with Derrick Harris (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1126509481490169856). Also, buy my book, fools (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/)! Get that other one for free (https://pivotal.io/monolithictransformation). Use the code sdt for the next week to get it for $5 (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt).
Matt: Sending money internationally? Get yourself some TransferWise (https://transferwise.com/u/matthewr9).
Planet Money podcast: How Uncle Jamie Broke Jeopardy (https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/722198188/episode-912-how-uncle-jamie-broke-jeopardy)
Semi-anti-recommendation: The Wandering Earth (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7605074/)
Brandon:
Jonathan (https://www.netflix.com/title/81034599) on Netflix.
DameWare SSH Movie Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS5QM7ICdXU&hd=1) vs. MSFT Terminal Video (https://youtu.be/8gw0rXPMMPE).
https://paper-attachments.dropbox.com/s_51870C828F2A7F66DBDF39F8A7E608A44CC306D9F1666C6E3AE7FE69FA4CAB9E_1558039286581_Screen+Shot+2019-05-17+at+6.14.52+am.png
Outro: Burger King commercial, 1974 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XoTjchhyVQ).
5/16/2019 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 178: What is this: a fucking <marquee/> tag?
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 (https://blog.docker.com/2019/04/announcing-docker-enterprise-3-0/)
A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom (https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-hacker-is-wiping-git-repositories-and-asking-for-a-ransom/)
Department of Justice approves $34B IBM acquisition of Red Hat (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/05/06/department-of-justice-approves-34b-ibm-acquisition-of-red-hat/)
How Airbnb took over the world (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/05/airbnb-homelessness-renting-housing-accommodation-social-policy-cities-travel-leisure)
Canonical Sharpens Focus on Red Hat, VMware; IPO Plans Remain (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/canonical-sharpens-focus-on-red-hat-vmware-ipo-plans-remain/2019/05/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
RHEL 8 released: It's the last pre-IBM Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux (https://www.zdnet.com/article/rhel-8-released-its-the-last-pre-ibm-red-hat-linux-enterprise-linux/)
8.0 release notes - Red Hat Customer Portal (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.0_release_notes/index)
Salesforce acquires Tel Aviv-based conversational AI startup Bonobo for a reported $50 million (https://tech.eu/brief/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 (https://www.onmsft.com/news/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 (https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-botched-its-first-hololens-demo-of-build-2019-1834553577?rev=1557159754030&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow)
Microsoft Build 2019: the biggest news from the developer conference (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531471/microsoft-build-2019-news-windows-office-365-azure-cortana-minecraft-developers-conference)
Microsoft Build Day 1: Windows Subsystem For Linux Gets More Linux (https://www.anandtech.com/show/14301/microsoft-build-day-1-windows-subsystem-for-linux-gets-more-linux)
Spatial - Collaborate from anywhere in Augmented Reality (https://spatial.is/)
Minecraft mobile AR game teased, full reveal coming May 17 (https://www.windowscentral.com/minecraft-mobile-ar-game-teased-announcement-coming-may-17)
Microsoft Edge gets IE mode tabs and better security control (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.slashgear.com/microsoft-edge-gets-ie-mode-tabs-better-security-control-more-06575616/amp/)
Google I/O 2019 (https://www.theverge.com/google-io)
The 8 biggest announcements from the Google I/O 2019 keynote (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18531198/google-io-summary-keynote-news-highlights-recap-2019)
What is Uber? Forget the sharing economy – it's just a libertarian scam (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/uber-sharing-economy-ride-share-ipo)
10 Most Interesting Announcements From Microsoft Build (https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/05/07/10-most-interesting-announcements-from-microsoft-build/#68329977531f)
Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/samsung-source-code-leak/)
In gambling mecca, Dell’s founder offers evidence that big bets on multicloud, AI and edge will pay off (https://siliconangle.com/2019/05/06/in-gambling-mecca-dells-founder-offers-evidence-that-big-bets-on-multicloud-ai-and-edge-will-pay-off-delltechworld-guestoftheweek/)
Marketing Daily: Study: Voice Assistants Far From Hot Marketplace For Buying (https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/335481/study-voice-assistants-far-from-hot-marketplace-f.html)
Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction (https://diginomica.com/comic-relief-switched-multi-cloud-serverless-aws-and-saw-93-cost-reduction)
SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA (https://www.zdnet.com/article/sap-makes-its-cloud-data-service-data-management-play-with-hana/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift (https://www.enterpriseai.news/2019/05/08/microsoft-red-hat-partner-on-openshift/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microsoft-red-hat-partner-on-openshift)
Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/steve-singh-stepping-down-as-docker-ceo/?guccounter=1)
Google launches Portals, a new web page navigation system for Chrome (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-launches-portals-a-new-web-page-navigation-system-for-chrome/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise (https://adtmag.com/articles/2019/05/08/oracle-graalvm.aspx?m=1)
OpenShift 4: Red Hat's on ramp for the hybrid cloud (https://www.zdnet.com/article/openshift-4-red-hats-on-ramp-for-the-hybrid-cloud/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
After two years as Docker CEO, Steve Singh steps down, Rob Bearden steps in (https://siliconangle.com/2019/05/08/two-year-stint-docker-ceo-steve-singh-step/)
Nonsense
Red Hat employees permanently inked with new company logo (https://twitter.com/WRALTechWire/status/1123974716090408967)
Parent of Schick razors to buy shaving start-up Harry’s for $1.37 billion (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/09/shaving-startup-harrys-acquired-schick-razor-owner-1-37-b/1150244001/)
Bird has a new electric scooter: it’s durable, comes in three different colors, and you can buy it (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/8/18535698/bird-one-electric-scooter-ride-share-own-price)
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Listener Feedback
Dominic Wellington who Coté interviewed (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/guests/dominicwellington) got a new job (https://findthethread.postach.io/post/turning-over-a-new-leaf) so we sent him some new stickers.
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Recommendations
Coté: UK Hailstorm (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1126454849300836352), will it work this time? Original HailStorm (https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-hailstorm-controversy), circa 2002. HailStorm revisited/renamed in the Identity 2.0 era (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/30/microsoft_generva_hailstorm?page=1). And now? FB and Google authentication, I guess? (Also, remember this presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpajcAgR1E&feature=youtu.be&t=24) that launched a million single word per slide talks?)
Matt: Fleabag Season 2 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5687612/) (BBC/Amazon); Word for the week: Acedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia).
Brandon: Episode 908: I Am Not A Robot (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/24/716854013/episode-908-i-am-not-a-robot) and Overcast Clipping (https://marco.org/2019/04/27/overcast-clip-sharing).
5/9/2019 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber”
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 (http://bwhichard [12:51 PM] https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/04/29/why-cloud-could-be-a-game-changer-for-google/#75de93371694)?
Microsoft, Dell unveil new Azure-VMware integrations (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-dell-unveil-new-azure-vmware-integrations/)
Dell Technologies and Microsoft expand partnership with new VMware Solutions (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/04/29/dell-technologies-and-microsoft-expand-partnership-with-new-vmware-solutions/?ranMID=43674&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-qoCOVXPsfE0DDwKnPw9gNA&epi=je6NUbpObpQ-qoCOVXPsfE0DDwKnPw9gNA&irgwc=1&OCID=AID681541_aff_7795_1243925&tduid=(ir__wp2vvbuc2skfr1cy0eg9c3096n2xmrvie6wj306s00)(7795)(1243925)(je6NUbpObpQ-qoCOVXPsfE0DDwKnPw9gNA)()&irclickid=_wp2vvbuc2skfr1cy0eg9c3096n2xmrvie6wj306s00)
The Apache Software Foundation has moved all its projects to Microsoft GitHub (https://mspoweruser.com/the-apache-software-foundation-has-moved-all-its-projects-to-microsoft-github/)
Red Hat's Quarkus Brings Natively Compiled Java to Kubernetes (https://thenewstack.io/red-hats-quarkus-brings-natively-compiled-java-to-kubernetes/)
Project Quarkus, Kubernetes-native Java (https://podctl.com/project-quarkus-kubernetes-native-java/)
Announcing k3OS: A Kubernetes Operating System (https://rancher.com/blog/2019/announcing-k3os-kubernetes-operating-system/)
Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community (http://Jordi_Mon_Companys [1:24 PM] https://github.blog/2019-04-29-apache-joins-github-community/)
Here's Red Hat's new logo – why change? 'A much different company' today (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/05/01/here-is-red-hats-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) (https://www.pulse.ng/bi/tech/amazons-warehouse-worker-tracking-system-can-automatically-fire-people-without-a/0dvj2mc)
Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-24/amazon-s-alexa-reviewers-can-access-customers-home-addresses)
Washington Legislature Passes 30-day Data Breach Notification Law (https://healthitsecurity.com/news/washington-legislature-passes-30-day-data-breach-notification-law)
Jenkins is Getting Old (https://itnext.io/jenkins-is-getting-old-2c98b3422f79)
Alphabet's stock tanks with analysts asking, 'Hey Google, what happened to revenue growth? (http://bwhichard [8:43 AM] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/alphabet-stock-slammed-as-analysts-cite-lack-of-revenue-growth-and-transparency.html)’
A Cloud Guru raises $33M to guide companies into the cloud | Built In Austin (https://www.builtinaustin.com/2019/04/29/cloud-guru-raises-33m-growth-funding)
F8 2019 keynote in 12 minutes (https://mspoweruser.com/the-apache-software-foundation-has-moved-all-its-projects-to-microsoft-github/)
Apple Engineering Leader Handling 5G Efforts Leaves Company (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/29/apple-5g-leader-leaves-company/)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board after 18 years (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18524495/google-alphabet-board-eric-schmidt-steps-down-18-years)
Alphabet Inves (https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/0430/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)tor Relations (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/05/01/here-is-red-hats-new-logo-why-change-a-much-different-company-today/)
Remote Code Execution on most Dell computers (https://d4stiny.github.io/Remote-Code-Execution-on-most-Dell-computers/)
Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers (https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7)
Nonsense
Airports and the TSA are gearing up for the Real ID deadline. You should be, too (https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2019/04/25/real-id-requirements-drivers-license-star/3562790002/)
‘Suspicious Object’ Leads Police To Shut Down State Street … But It Was Just A Can Of Chef Boyardee On Wheels (https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/04/30/suspicious-object-leads-police-to-shut-down-state-street-but-it-turns-out-its-just-a-can-of-chef-boyardee/)
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: The Roman Mars Mazda Virus (https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/140#episode-player)
Emacs in Rust (https://github.com/remacs/remacs)
Clippers’ Postgame Interview on Kevin Durant (https://twitter.com/TheLedgeSports/status/1122157729093648384)
Brandon: Jeopardy! (https://www.jeopardy.com/)
Listener Recommendation: Python Humble Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/books/python-oreilly-books?partner=linuxta&__s=41o24ytutchnod8qtoko)
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5/3/2019 • 1 hour, 42 seconds
Episode 176: This used to be something I have, now it’s something I know.
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 (https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/18/apple-watch-mac-password/).
IBM is preparing to close its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, but Wall Street has 'real question marks' after its 'mediocre' quarter (https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-prepares-red-hat-acquisition-wall-street-has-questions-2019-4).
IBM pulls the plug on drug-discovering Watson AI (https://futurism.com/the-byte/ibm-watson-ai-drug-discovery).
Fastly Going Public — Here is the S1 (http://FASTLY, INC.).
How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer)
Jessie Frazelle on Anthos (https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1117962623226531840?s=21). Check out Weird Trick Mafia podcast (https://weirdtrickmafia.fm/) too.
Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon's cloud every month, making it a top AWS customer (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/apple-spends-more-than-30-million-on-amazon-web-services-a-month.html): “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 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_union_complaints/).
Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_lawsuit/).
How to Calculate Your Innovation’s Odds of Success (https://hbr.org/2019/03/the-innovation-equation).
Whole lotta CI/CD goin’ on
CloudBees acquires software automation startup Electric Cloud (https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/18/cloudbees-acquires-software-automation-startup-electric-cloud/), French coverage (https://www.silicon.fr/devops-cloudbees-automatisation-deploiement-applicatif-239081.html).
Jay@451’s summary (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/96949/Toc?SearchTerms=Electric%20Cloud): “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 (https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/23/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 (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/04/22/jeopardy-winner-james-holzhauer-is-shaking-up-the-game-shows-budget.html)
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 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Jobs posted in the SDT Slack
Riot Games L.A. based Systems Engineers (https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/job/1404829) and Software Engineers (https://www.riotgames.com/en/work-with-us/job/1404827)
## SDT news & hype
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/).
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Coté: Check out Weird Trick Mafia podcast (https://weirdtrickmafia.fm/) too. Anti: worth sticking to your carrier even if there’s a code-share flight at better time.
Brandon: The OA (https://www.netflix.com/title/80044950), Season 2 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80044950).
4/26/2019 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 175: “I’m still not going to learn Celsius.”
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 (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/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 (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/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 (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/powering-enterprise-transformation-announcing-new-additions-to-google-cloud-networking)
Enterprise databases, managed for you (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/enterprise-databases-managed-for-you)
Making Google Cloud the best place to run your Microsoft Windows applications (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/making-google-cloud-the-best-place-to-run-your-microsoft-windows-applications)
Announcing Cloud Code—accelerating cloud-native application development (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/announcing-cloud-code-accelerating-cloud-native-application-development)
A TurboTax-backed bill is on track to ensure your tax headache doesn’t go away (https://thehustle.co/irs-turbotax-free-file/)
Google Cloud Next 2019 (https://techcrunch.com/tag/google-cloud-next-2019/)
IBM and Oracle are out of the running for $10 billion government cloud contract (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/04/11/amazon-microsoft-finalists-for-10-billion-government-cloud-contract.html)
Users forge ahead with Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes integration (https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/252461318/Users-forge-ahead-with-Cloud-Foundry-Kubernetes-integration)
Uber’s S-1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519103850/d647752ds1.htm)
Uber files for what could be one of the 10 largest IPOs of all-time (https://www.axios.com/uber-files-for-ipo-eb08d7b0-efb2-4a6d-80ee-b36e96026bbf.html)
Silicon Valley's startup gamble faces employee scrutiny (https://www.axios.com/silicon-valley-startup-gamble-employees-8c1eac66-9f53-470d-bd32-5627efaac5da.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
PagerDuty Hits $1.8 Billion Valuation At IPO—Here's Why It Had Doubters Early On (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/11/pagerdutys-ipo-values-it-at-18-billion--heres-why-it-had-doubters-early-on/#222b4d7632b3)
Disney says new streaming service will launch November 12 for $7 (https://www.axios.com/disney-new-streaming-service-to-launch-november-12-f2b07639-c639-4500-a8e9-42457e95763a.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
SolarWinds buys Samanage (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/04/11/1803097/0/en/SolarWinds-Sets-Its-Sights-on-the-ITSM-Market-through-Acquisition-of-Samanage-and-Introduction-of-a-SolarWinds-Service-Desk-Product.html)
Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/14/trivia-game-of-thrones/)
Introducing Gitpod – Frictionless Coding on GitHub (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-launch/)
Five thing when open sourcing proprietary software (https://community.redhat.com/blog/2019/04/five-surprising-things-when-open-sourcing-proprietary-software/)
Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/)
IBM stock slips after revenue shortfall (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/16/ibm-earnings-q1-2019.html)
Google Cloud brings on 27-year SAP veteran as it doubles down on enterprise adoption (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/17/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 (https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-and-google-announce-official-youtube-apps-launch-fire-tv/)
Last year healthcare had more cybersecurity breaches than any other industry — and it will likely intensify (https://www.businessinsider.com/why-healthcare-data-breach-epidemic-will-intensify-2019-4)
Microsoft Teams usage passes Slack in new survey; IT pros expect its presence to double by 2020 (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsoft-teams-usage-passes-slack-new-survey-pros-expect-presence-double-2020/)
Revising its IT spending forecast, Gartner warns of slower growth across all segments (https://siliconangle.com/2019/04/17/gartner-revises-spending-forecast-warns-slower-growth-across-segments/)
Nonsense
Robot dogs pulling a semi truck? Here's the deal (https://www.zdnet.com/article/robot-dogs-pulling-a-semi-struck-heres-the-deal/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
Permanent daylight saving time passes state Senate 46-2; here’s what’s next (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-washington-gets-closer-with-senate-approval/)
Sponsors
SolarWinds AppOptics (http://appoptics.com/sdt.): to learn more or try it free for 14 days visit http://appoptics.com/sdt (http://appoptics.com/sdt).
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
April 11th, 2019 (https://www.enterprise-cio.com/) - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
Jobs posted in the SDT Slack
Autosoft is hiring Software Engineers (https://jobs.lever.co/autosoftdms/c3475ea4-fae8-4e4f-8ee3-063b88db10be) — Remote friendly
Professor Jermey from Illinois Tech (https://web.iit.edu/) 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
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Recommendations
Coté: Monolithic Transformation (https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/monolithic-transformation/9781492049807/) now in Safari (https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/monolithic-transformation/9781492049807/), but you should still lead-gen yourself to get a free copy (https://pivotal.io/monolithictransformation). Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt175), get $10 off until next episode with this link (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt175). Boterkoek (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/139069/boterkoek-dutch-butter-cake/)/boterpunt (https://bakkerijvankampen.nl/2017/03/03/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 (https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_the_a_hole_free_office?language=en&referrer=playlist-worklife_with_adam_grant_mar_2019), The office without a**holes (https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_the_a_hole_free_office?language=en&referrer=playlist-worklife_with_adam_grant_mar_2019)
4/19/2019 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 174: The multi-hybrid kubernetes cloud control plan, just in time for MOM!
With Matt gone, Coté & Brandon speculate wildly about Google’s multi-cloud management announcement, Anthos. They should have just read the docs (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/anthos-overview), 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 (https://fox4kc.com/2019/04/09/a-3-year-old-boy-repeatedly-entered-the-wrong-password-locked-up-his-dads-ipad-until-2067/)
Anthos | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/)
Anthos docs (https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/anthos-overview)
New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says that he’s borrowing from the Oracle playbook to help catch up to Amazon and Microsoft (https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-oracle-strategies-2019-4)
Google’s hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/googles-anthos-hybrid-cloud-platform-is-coming-to-aws-and-azure/)
Analysts get hot under collar as ex-Oracle cloud guru ditches corporate wardrobe for Google (http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/09/kurian_oracle_google_indicates_enterprise_change/)
Collaboration with Anaconda, Inc. (https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2019/04/collaboration-with-anaconda-inc/)
"Open source" companies are playing games with licensing to sneak in proprietary code, freeze out competitors, fight enclosure (https://boingboing.net/2019/04/04/open-ish.html)
Jeff Bezos retains control of Amazon after divorce (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295609/jeff-bezos-amazon-mackenzie-voting-power-control-blue-origin)
Microsoft Introduces Azure Front Door, a Scalable Service for Protecting Web Applications (https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/04/Azure-Front-Door)
(https://www.axios.com/pinterest-ipo-terms-private-valuation-430d186d-56d5-4a07-acc0-dda415b11734.html)- Pinterest sets IPO terms below last private valuation (https://www.axios.com/pinterest-ipo-terms-private-valuation-430d186d-56d5-4a07-acc0-dda415b11734.html)
AWS CEO Andy Jassy Drills Down On Cloud Adoption And Amazon’s Culture (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-ceo-andy-jassy-drills-down-on-cloud-adoption-and-amazon-s-culture)
Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English (https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as-you-speak-english/)
Netflix axes Apple AirPlay support (https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-kills-apple-airplay-support/)
Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports massively overstate broadband adoption (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-says-its-data-shows-fcc-reports-massively-overstate-broadband-adoption/)
Tech Company Drops Conference Swag in Favor of 13,000 School Donations (https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-04-04-tech-company-drops-conference-swag-in-favor-of-13-000-school-donations)
Slack integration with Office 365 one more step toward total enterprise integration (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/slack-integration-with-office-365-one-more-step-toward-total-enterprise-integration/)
Nonsense
Japanese Hotel Launches Unnecessary $900 Burger to Celebrate New Emperor (https://www.eater.com/2019/4/3/18293431/grand-hyatt-tokyo-oak-door-expensive-burger)
Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today (http://www.righto.com/2019/04/iconic-consoles-of-ibm-system360.html?m=1)
GPS Rollover is today. Here’s why devices might get wacky (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/06/gps-rollover-is-today-heres-why-devices-might-get-wacky/)
Interview
Matt and Brandon interview Adam Jacob (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/81) on this week’s Software Defined Interviews (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com). Great discussion about his experience starting Chef and Chef’s decision to make 100% of products open source.
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Conferences, et. al.
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April 11th, 2019 (https://www.enterprise-cio.com/) - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Coté: The Tick (https://www.amazon.com/The-Tick/dp/B01J776HVW), season 2.
Brandon: Apple iPad Pro First Gen (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FLMP2LL/A/Refurbished-97-inch-iPad-Pro-Wi-Fi-32GB-Silver?fnode=d85254fd5d3b07671c8897146a62e29357b455f205e12cb229cd884a5104fa2103009c40cd05032029a9eced87bec0c6e4dd7dc16983300eb67d1bdeabb19bc9eaabaaa8d39f5152cd918bb148d97a42)
Outro: Can't fix the car without a whole lotta milka (https://youtu.be/uIqn3Dzs77g), Kids in the Hall (https://youtu.be/uIqn3Dzs77g).
4/11/2019 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 173: Tacos tomorrow, voice & AI are garbage
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 (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumFullText/~3/LQn41TVX2Zc/how-ibm-watson-overpromised-and-underdelivered-on-ai-health-care)
Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/29/apple-cancels-airpower-product-citing-inability-to-meet-its-high-standards-for-hardware/)
BMC brings back Beauchamp as interim CEO (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/bmc-brings-back-beauchamp-as-interim-ceo/)
Fine-Grained Sandboxing with V8 Isolates (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cloudflare-v8)
Hitting Microsoft's metal: SUSE flings Enterprise Linux at SAP HANA on Azure (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/suse_sap_hana_azure/)
TOC Votes to Move OPA into CNCF Incubator - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/04/02/toc-votes-to-move-opa-into-cncf-incubator/)
Google stuff
Google Cloud launches fixed monthly fee plan for storage that smooths out cloud cost bursts (https://www.zdnet.com/article/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 (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2019/04/01/gmail-smart-compose-and-scheduled-email/)
Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/4/2/18290637/google-plus-shutdown-consumer-personal-account-delete)
Chef stuff
Chef’s Different Recipe (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/04/02/chefs-different-recipe/)
Goodbye Open Core — Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish (https://link.medium.com/AePZ4EMNyV)
Chef FAQ (https://www.chef.io/bmc-faq/)
Making sense of a crazy year in open source (https://www.scalevp.com/blog/making-sense-of-a-crazy-year-in-open-source)
Chef Software Open Source Communities (https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices)
Facebook will stop asking new users for their email passwords (https://www.axios.com/facebook-will-stop-asking-new-users-for-their-email-passwords--355c2e94-793f-47b7-a582-9ee0a4f01ae3.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Media Companies Take a Big Gamble on Apple (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/business/media/media-companies-take-a-big-gamble-on-apple.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/us_border_patrol_search_demand_mozilla_cto/)
Cloud Foundry :heart: Kubernetes (https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/02/cloud-foundry-kubernetes/).
Nonsense
Elon Musk drops surprise rap single about Harambe (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/436631-elon-musk-drops-surprise-rap-single-about-harambe).
Finance World Faces Chaos As Patagonia Rejects Orders Of Corporate Power Vests (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagonia-power-vest-policy-change).
Microsoft gives up on US Excel Pros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY&t=29s).
Doin’ OK, gotta whole lotta milka (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqn3Dzs77g&t=5s).
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April 11th, 2019 (https://www.enterprise-cio.com/) - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
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Recommendations
Coté: Drafts for macOS (https://getdrafts.com/mac/beta/); Patagona 3-in-1 Tre’s Parka (https://eu.patagonia.com/nl/en/product/mens-tres-3-in-1-parka/28387.html) still good; “The Challenge of Going off Mind-drugs” (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-challenge-of-going-off-psychiatric-drugs); related, “Useful Hippie.” (https://overcast.fm/+BmENsiSWo)
Matt: A (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3532216/)merican Made (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3532216/), Mute (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464763/), and Cloverfield Paradox (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2548396/) **are perfectly fine airplane movies.
Brandon: Go NFC East (https://www.gonfceast.com/) and Blackout (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blackout/id1447513097?mt=2&app=music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4) podcasts.
4/5/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 172: The Mainframe Strangler
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 (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1110845648813916160).
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 (https://medium.com/@alexfclayton/zoom-ipo-s-1-breakdown-119249acadd3)
Oracle Trims Staff During Difficult Transition to Cloud Services (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-26/oracle-trims-staff-amid-difficult-transition-to-cloud-services)
Oracle reportedly axes hundreds or more staff from its engineering teams (https://siliconangle.com/2019/03/24/oracle-reportedly-axed-hundreds-staff-engineering-teams-last-week/)
Kubernetes 1.14 Adds Windows and Storage Support, Is Light on Sec (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/kubernetes-1-14-adds-windows-and-storage-support-is-light-on-security/2019/03/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
OnAll the Game Streaming Services Google Stadia Is Up Against (https://gizmodo.com/all-the-game-streaming-services-google-stadia-is-up-aga-1833457411)
Apple Has A New Credit Card. Here’s What You Need To Know. (http://ttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/apple-pay-apple-card)
Debunking the open source sustainability myth (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/debunking-the-open-source-sustainability-myth/)
Oracle customers fear Oracle's reaction if they use Amazon's or Microsoft's cloud, survey shows (https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-customers-fear-oracle-licensing-gotchas-with-aws-and-azure-2019-3)
Red Hat reports mixed Q4 ahead of IBM merger (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-reports-mixed-q4-ahead-of-ibm-merger/)
Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/26/google-makes-emails-more-dynamic-with-amp-for-email/)
Azure Data Box family meets customers at the edge (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-box-family-meets-customers-at-the-edge/)
AWS App Mesh - Application-level networking for all your services - Amazon Web Services (https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/)
Europe splits the internet into three (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/issues/europe-splits-the-internet-into-three-169070?utm_campaign=Issue&utm_content=view_in_browser&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Interface)
Microsoft Unveils Azure Backup for SQL Server (https://www.itprotoday.com/storage/microsoft-unveils-azure-backup-sql-server)
Mary Jo Foley covers Microsoft in depth (https://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/), like, for years.
Bi-modal IT (https://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/bimodal/), according to Gartner.
Nonsense
Aussie engineer accuses 'serial farter' supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/25/aussie_engie_accuses_serial_farter_supervisor_of_gassing_him_out_of_his_job_seeks_18m_redress/)
WOW airlines (Iceland) shuts down (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/budget-airline-wow-air-collapses-passengers-left-stranded-091208019.html). 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.
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Conferences, et. al.
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April 11th, 2019 (https://www.enterprise-cio.com/) - Coté at DevOps Meetup, Cape Town.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking! (https://chefconf.chef.io/sessions/banking-automation-modernizing-chef-across-enterprise/)
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Cote: Patagona 3-in-1 Tre’s Parka (https://eu.patagonia.com/nl/en/product/mens-tres-3-in-1-parka/28387.html). My blog, cote.io (https://cote.io/), it’s back! Bruce Sterling talks (https://youtu.be/iPu_FC9F2Ck) - 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 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KSXNFJQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) by Erin Meyer.
Outro: “Emmylou,” (https://open.spotify.com/track/3UzvFIyu5qdRepwJViDwjN?si=DVHhxnd_SHSq-_N8uU7rug) First Aid Kit.
3/29/2019 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 171: Tradies, plus, your Quarterly Linux Update
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 (https://www.tradie.com/us/mens.html). Yes, these ones (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Work-Wear-Uniforms/b?ie=UTF8&node=1731206031).
Relevant to your interests
S (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse-is-once-again-an-independent-company/)U (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse-is-once-again-an-independent-company/)SE is once again an independent company (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/suse-is-once-again-an-independent-company/)
The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/15/cloud-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 (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/19/amd-stock-spikes-after-google-confirms-stadia-gaming-partnership.html)
Meanwhile, fined a lot of money (below). No one cares (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/03/20/google-eu-fine)?
Stadia: Google’s gaming service and hardware announcement, keynote, and details (https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2019/3/19/18272678/google-gdc-2019-stadia-cloud-streaming-service-device-yeti)
https://twitter.com/_js/status/1108460711854764032
Amazon Lumberyard stuff (https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/details/)
Announcing Istio 1.1 (https://istio.io/blog/2019/announcing-1.1/)
Google hit with €1.5 billion antitrust fine by EU (https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/20/18270891/google-eu-antitrust-fine-adsense-advertising)
New Google project offers Kubernetes building blocks for CI/CD (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3373650/new-google-project-offers-kubernetes-building-blocks-for-cicd.html)
I’m gonna need a map.
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-19/)
Nonsense
Beto the hacker…? (https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1106937327765594115)
FringeWare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FringeWare_Review)! Schwa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_(art))! Gone are those days.
Musicians are freaking out after learning Myspace lost 50 million songs (https://www.businessinsider.com/musicians-freak-out-after-learning-myspace-lost-50-million-songs-2019-3)
How the Internet Travels Across Oceans (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/10/technology/internet-cables-oceans.html)
Sponsors
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
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Netflix is looking for an SRE (https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/861152) via Ryan Kitchens
System and Backend Engineer (https://graphext.typeform.com/to/CuJQs2) at Graphext via Jordi
Chef has lots of jobs (https://www.chef.io/careers/open-positions/) via Matt Ray
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Recommendations
Cote: Amish balloons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIKHgpnylc8). Even more (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptdFKSVeClE)!
Brandon:
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-inventor-out-for-blood-in-silicon-valley)
The Marvel guy.
The Tavi Gevinson impression (https://twitter.com/tavitulle/status/1108391812794851329?s=11)
Matt: 100 Strong Manly (https://100strongmanly.com.au/)
3/22/2019 • 59 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 170: Look what you made me do Elasticsearch
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 (https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-joins-f5/)
Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch (http://ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-open-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/)
Free Software is the only winner in Elastic NV vs AWS (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/free-software-is-the-only-winner-in-elastic-nv-vs-aws-9416f2a0a7f5)
Introducing the Continuous Delivery Foundation, the new home for Tekton, Jenkins, Jenkins X and Spinnaker (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-continuous-delivery-foundation.html)
The Linux Foundation Launches New CommunityBridge Platform to Help Sustain Open Source Communities - The Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2019/03/the-linux-foundation-launches-new-communitybridge-platform-to-help-sustain-open-source-communities/)
Senator Warren (https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c)’s (https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c) Here’s how we can break up Big Tech (https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c)
Stratechery’s Response (https://stratechery.com/2019/where-warrens-wrong/)
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Requirements Management, QA Management | Polarion Software (https://polarion.plm.automation.siemens.com/)
Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/)
Five Acquisitions You May Have Missed - IT Jungle (https://www.itjungle.com/2019/03/13/five-acquisitions-you-may-have-missed/)
Node.js and JS foundations are merging to form OpenJS (https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/12/node-js-and-js-foundations-are-merging-to-form-openjs/)
Nonsense
United States citizens will need a visa to visit Europe starting in 2021 (https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/us-citizens-need-visas-to-visit-europe-in-2021/index.html)
LaCroix CEO blames poor sales on insecticide lawsuit, calls it "injustice (https://www.axios.com/lacroix-ceo-sales-insecticide-lawsuit-a9148037-5966-4526-8294-133f644230ab.html)”
Amazon stops selling Dash buttons, goofy forerunners of the connected home (https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-stops-selling-dash-buttons-goofy-forerunners-of-connected-home/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=a333b6b622-Benedict%27s+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-a333b6b622-70424493)
Scientists have discovered a shape that blocks all sound–even your co-workers (https://www.fastcompany.com/90316833/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 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 (https://springonetour.io/2019/amsterdam) - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
ChefConf 2019 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
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Job of the week
Magento Sr. Product Marketing Manager (https://adobe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/external_experienced/job/Austin/Magento-Sr-Product-Marketing-Manager_70782?src=themuse)
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Recommendations
Brandon: Plug (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S0C7QO8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)g (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S0C7QO8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)able Active DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 Adapte (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S0C7QO8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)r (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S0C7QO8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Matt: Test Kitchen/Vagrant Remote Shell and File Editing with Emacs' TRAMP Mode (https://mattray.github.io/2019/03/11/vagrant-and-emacs-tramp-mode.html)
3/15/2019 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 14 seconds
Episode 169: No one gets promoted for giving free wifi to visitors
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.
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Red Hat launches Operator Hub, a repository of quality-tested Kubernetes Operators (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiENvILOykuSzXahegtrj67r0qEwgEKgwIACoFCAowsGkw8AYwgxM?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
Bitbucket Simplifies Building CI/CD Pipelines with Pipes - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/bitbucket-simplifies-building-ci-cd-pipelines-with-pipes/)
DevOps consolidation continues with JFrog and Shippable (https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/news/252458615/DevOps-consolidation-continues-with-JFrog-and-Shippable)
The Digital Maginot Line (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/)
Former Kaspersky Lab Expert Sentenced in Russia for Treason (https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/former-kaspersky-lab-expert-sentenced-in-russia-for-treason/d/d-id/1333972)
Amazon Web Services CEO: We're a $30 billion revenue run rate business in the 'early stages (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/amazon-cloud-ceo-we-have-a-30-billion-run-rate-in-our-early-stages.html)’
Data manager DataStax prepares for IPO: sources (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-datastax-ipo/data-manager-datastax-prepares-for-ipo-sources-idUSKCN1QI5K0)
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT (https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/01/the-new-bellwether-for-enterprise-it/)
What happened to OpenStack (https://aeva.online/2019/03/what-happened-to-openstack/)
Chronicle: Can I Get The Backstory? (https://medium.com/@chroniclesec/introducing-backstory-45dd9b4d4a6d) and more on Backstory (https://chronicle.security/products/backstory/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=technology)
RIP passwords | Product Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/newsletter/2570?utm_campaign=2570_2019-03-04&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Product+Hunt)
Phone numbers are the new SSNs (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-59a4e953-dc46-49ea-bc8b-a097d09b0dfb.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
(https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-codebook-17f78023-b099-4a6b-b48b-843d28b87e32.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)- NSA's new cybersecurity tool (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-codebook-17f78023-b099-4a6b-b48b-843d28b87e32.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0)
State of Open Source Security report 2019 (https://snyk.io/blog/top-ten-most-popular-docker-images-each-contain-at-least-30-vulnerabilities/)
Lyft has to pay Amazon's cloud at least $8 million a month until the end of 2021 (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/lyft-ipo-amazon-web-services-2019-3)
Build your own Data Center….It is going to cost you? (https://twitter.com/mohapatrahemant/status/1102401615263223809?s=21)
Introducing Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry (https://eng.uber.com/introducing-kraken/)
Nonsense
Tesla launches long-awaited standard Model 3 starting at $35,000 (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/tesla-suspends-online-orders-ahead-of-announcement-redirects-website.html)
Luminary. A better way to podcast (https://luminarypodcasts.com)
Farm Sim Steering Wheels, Side Panels, Shifters for Farm Simulator Games | Logitech G (https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/farm.html)
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 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) (https://www.meetup.com/Continuous-Delivery-Amsterdam/events/258120367/) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 (https://springonetour.io/2019/amsterdam) - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
ChefConf 2019 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 (https://chefconflondon.eventbrite.com/) June 19-20
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Listener Feedback
Justin Garrison told us the Kubecon Keynote mentioned on last week’s episode was by Julia Evans a.k.a @b0rk (https://twitter.com/b0rk) who works at Stripe and here’s a list of her talks (https://jvns.ca/talks/).
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Recommendations
Coté: U (https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/men-heattech-crew-neck-long-sleeve-t-shirt-408111.html?dwvar_408111_color=COL02&cgid=)niqlo (https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/men-heattech-crew-neck-long-sleeve-t-shirt-408111.html?dwvar_408111_color=COL02&cgid=) (https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/men-heattech-crew-neck-long-sleeve-t-shirt-408111.html?dwvar_408111_color=COL02&cgid=)MEN HEATTECH EXTRA WARM LONG JOHNS (https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/men-heattech-crew-neck-long-sleeve-t-shirt-408111.html?dwvar_408111_color=COL02&cgid=).
Brandon: Big Little Lies (https://www.hbo.com/big-little-lies)
Matt: Death’s End (https://www.amazon.com/Deaths-End-Remembrance-Earths-Past/dp/0765377101) by Liu Cixin
3/9/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes
Episode 168: What executives actually want to hear
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 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-five-new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-m5-m5d-r5-r5d-and-z1d/)
Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2018 Edition (https://www.platformonomics.com/2019/02/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes-2018-edition/)
Add It Up: C-suite Doesn't Have a Clue About App Dev (https://thenewstack.io/add-it-up-c-suite-doesnt-have-a-clue-about-app-dev/)
Red Hat's Hidden Treasure - Avalia - Software Due Diligence (https://avalia.io/red-hat-software-due-diligence/)
Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/cloudflare-warrant-canary/)
New VMware Kubernetes product comes courtesy of Heptio acquisition (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/latest-vmware-kubernetes-product-comes-courtesy-of-heptio-acquisition/)
VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-offers-pure-open-source-kubernetes-no-chaser/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
Rancher Labs strips Kubernetes to its bare essentials for edge computing (https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/26/rancher-labs-strips-kubernetes-bare-essentials-edge-computing-workloads/)
Google’s hybrid cloud platform is now in beta (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/20/googles-managed-hybrid-cloud-platform-is-now-in-beta/)
Top ten most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities (https://snyk.io/blog/top-ten-most-popular-docker-images-each-contain-at-least-30-vulnerabilities/)
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out (https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/26/rule-genius-in-not-out/)
The Value Chain Constraint (https://stratechery.com/2019/the-value-chain-constraint/)
Microsoft combines AI and humans to boost cloud security with Azure Sentinel and Threat Experts (https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/28/microsoft-combines-ai-and-humans-to-boost-cloud-security-with-azure-sentinel-and-threat-experts/)
Is it time to be afraid of IBM again? (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2019/02/28/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 (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/2/26/18242369/slack-icon-android-ios-white-purple)
USB 3.0 & USB 3.1 merger into USB 3.2 branding by overseers further confusing USB-C (https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/26/usb-if-seeds-confusion-with-usb-30-usb-31-merger-into-usb-32-branding)
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 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) (https://www.meetup.com/Continuous-Delivery-Amsterdam/events/258120367/) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 (https://springonetour.io/2019/amsterdam) - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
ChefConf 2019 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon: Abducted in Plain Sight (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/abducted_in_plain_sight).
Matt: Anti-recommendation: The Discovery of Witches (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177461/).
- Coté: “Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2019/02/26/geico-walks-with-watson-on-ai-journey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=geico-walks-with-watson-on-ai-journey).” Iceland, sure - you should go. The Story (https://amzn.to/2UcikH1)/Saga (https://amzn.to/2UcikH1) of Burnt Njal (https://amzn.to/2UcikH1).
3/1/2019 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 167: "Write this on your hand: July 9, 2019.”
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 (https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiUWh0dHA6Ly90ZWxlY29tcy5jb20vNDk1NTM3L2dvb2dsZS1tYWtlcy0xMy1iaWxsaW9uLXdvcnRoLW9mLWNsb3VkLXBsYW5zLWZvci0yMDE5L9IBAA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)
Google acquires cloud migration platform Alooma (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/google-acquires-cloud-migration-platform-alooma/)
Google emits a beta of Cloud Service Platform to entice hold-outs with hybrid goodness (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/21/google_cloud_service_platform/)
Google's .dev domains now available for a cool $11k, sensible pricing due later this month (https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/02/19/googles-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 (https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2)’
AT&T signed an '8-digit' deal that isn't good news for VMware, Cisco, or Huawei — but could be great for Google Cloud (https://www.businessinsider.com/att-airship-cisco-vmware-google-cloud-2019-2)
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway dumped its stake in Oracle after just one quarter (https://qz.com/1551778/the-oracle-of-omaha-has-given-up-on-oracle-the-company/)
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology (https://www.wired.com/story/theres-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 (https://www.businessinsider.com/redis-labs-funding-amazon-2019-2)
Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/redis-labs-changes-its-open-source-license-again/)
TravisCI Acquired (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/idera-acquires-travis-ci/), Layoffs 1 month later (https://twitter.com/carmatrocity/status/1098538649908666368)
CNCF Annual Report (https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CNCF_Annual_Report_2018.pdf)
Chef Hires Cloud Industry Veteran Goldfarb (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/chef-hires-cloud-industry-veteran-brian-goldfarb-chief-marketing-officer/)
GitLab Bolsters C-Suite, Hires Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer (https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/02/19/1734337/0/en/GitLab-Bolsters-C-Suite-Hires-Chief-Revenue-Officer-and-Chief-Marketing-Officer.html)
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) (https://www.meetup.com/Continuous-Delivery-Amsterdam/events/258120367/) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 (https://springonetour.io/2019/amsterdam) - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
ChefConf 2019 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23. Early bird pricing ends February 28th!
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon: The Dropout (http://abcradio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/),Vanity Fair Article (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/inside-elizabeth-holmess-final-months-at-theranos), Bad Blood (https://www.audible.com/pd/Bad-Blood-Audiobook/B07C8GVTB5)
Matt: HazeOver for reducing distractions on MacOS (https://hazeover.com)
2/22/2019 • 1 hour, 25 seconds
Episode 166: "Not yet public cloud"
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 (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/google-open-sources-clusterfuzz/)
With new security tools, Google looks to reduce the impact of data breaches (https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/05/google-looks-reduce-impact-data-breaches-new-security-tools/)
CNCF Dev Stats Dashboards (https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/12/dashboards?refresh=15m&orgId=1)
CNCF Annual Report (https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CNCF_Annual_Report_2018.pdf)
Amazon Dropping out of NYC (https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/amazon-drops-new-york-hq2-plan.html)
Ultimate Software Sells for $11 Billion - Workforce (https://www.workforce.com/2019/02/07/ultimate-software-sells-for-11-billion/)
The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy (https://qz.com/1540608/the-problem-with-silicon-valleys-obsession-with-blitzscaling-growth/)
Full Q&A: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber explain why they sold Gimlet to Spotify (https://www.recode.net/2019/2/7/18214941/alex-blumberg-matt-lieber-gimlet-spotify-deal-acquisition-peter-kafka-media-podcast-audio-interview)
Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer (https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/08/microsoft-internet-explorer-technical-debt/)
Chef Hires Cloud Industry Veteran Goldfarb (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/chef-hires-cloud-industry-veteran-brian-goldfarb-chief-marketing-officer/)
Exponent Podcast on Gimlet Media (https://exponent.fm/exponent-162-why-exponent-isnt-on-spotify/)
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- Listen to the New Stack Makers Interview (https://thenewstack.io/plastic-scm-mergebots-version-control-for-ci-cd/) with Plastic SCM Founder
Conferences, et. al.
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://springonetour.io/2019/st-louis). $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) (https://www.meetup.com/Continuous-Delivery-Amsterdam/events/258120367/) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 (https://springonetour.io/2019/amsterdam) - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
ChefConf 2019 (http://chefconf.chef.io/) May 20-23
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Recommendations
Brandon: Who is Michael Ovitz (https://www.audible.com/pd/Who-Is-Michael-Ovitz-Audiobook/B07DJZBDK4?qid=1549912230) and the Jeff Meyerson interview (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/80)
Matt: Pecans. Criminally underrated nut.
Coté:
Bring duffle bag on every trip
Surveillance Capital (https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697)
Photo credit (https://twitter.com/dellcam/status/1096138088307396608?s=21)
2/15/2019 • 49 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 165: Lock-in is a lie, or, paying for Java support
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
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Relevant to your interests
Oracle Will Charge for Java Starting in 2019 (https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/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 (https://www.forrester.com/report/Weighing%20The%20Options%20To%20Oracles%20New%20Java%20SE%20Subscription/-/E-RES147596):
“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 (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/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 (https://overcast.fm/+FOORYEgm8) The Weeds (https://overcast.fm/+FOORYEgm8) episode (Feb 5th, 2019) (https://overcast.fm/+FOORYEgm8) 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 (https://boingboing.net/2019/02/04/crypto-ceo-dies-with-the-passw.html).
Slack makes confidential filing to go public (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-slack-ipo-idUSKCN1PT1T8)
Former Puppet CEO Sanjay Mirchandani Named CEO Of Commvault (https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2019/02/05/former-puppet-ceo-sanjay-mirchandani-named-ceo-of-commvault/)
IDE based coding thing that uses kubernetes, from RedHat
Kubernetes Goes Native for Developers (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2019/02/05/kubernetes-goes-native-for-developers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kubernetes-goes-native-for-developers)
Red Hat Launches CodeReady Workspaces Kubernetes IDE (https://www.eweek.com/development/red-hat-launches-codeready-workspaces-kubernetes-ide).
Non Sense
Urban Dictionary: dunning-krugerrand (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dunning-krugerrand).
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://springonetour.io/2019/st-louis). $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) (https://www.meetup.com/Continuous-Delivery-Amsterdam/events/258120367/) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon: Amazon Smart Plug (https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Smart-Plug-works-Alexa/dp/B01MZEEFNX/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1549542681&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=wifi+plug&psc=1).
Coté: buttered bread, MacBook Air.
2/7/2019 • 59 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 164: “Sorting out Feuds”
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 (https://www.indexventures.com/blog/confluents-meteoric-rise).
Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-open-source-database-start-up.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top).
The U.S. Department of Defense on How to Detect 'Agile BS (https://thenewstack.io/the-u-s-department-of-defense-on-how-to-detect-agile-bs/). (https://thenewstack.io/the-u-s-department-of-defense-on-how-to-detect-agile-bs/)' (https://thenewstack.io/the-u-s-department-of-defense-on-how-to-detect-agile-bs/)
Opinion | The Facts About Facebook (http://Opinion | The Facts About Facebook).
Google asks Supreme Court to rule on when code can be copyrighted (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18196419/google-supreme-court-code-copyright).
My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales (https://lukekanies.com/my-losing-battle-with-enterprise-sales/).
Spring into Kubernetes - Part 1 (https://tech.paulcz.net/blog/spring-into-kubernetes-part-1/).
Google Hangouts is shutting down for some users in October (https://mashable.com/article/google-hangouts-g-suite-shutdown-october/#zp3pN_hGUZqM).
Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up (https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/facetime-bug-hear-audio/).
Software Chasms with Martin Casado (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/28/software-chasms-with-martin-casado/).
Slack now has more than 10 million daily active users (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/slack-now-has-more-than-10-million-daily-active-users/).
Puppet Names Yvonne Wassenaar as Next CEO (https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/01/29/1707093/0/en/Puppet-Names-Yvonne-Wassenaar-as-Next-CEO.html).
Automation Software That Helped Consulting Firm Cut 40,000 Jobs Is Reportedly Now for Sale (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/slack-now-has-more-than-10-million-daily-active-users/).
OmniTI ~ credativ massively expands U.S. footprint with OmniTI acquisition (https://omniti.com/remembers/2019/credativ-massively-expands-us-footprint.html).
Microsoft cloud services see global authentication outage (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-cloud-services-see-global-authentication-outage/).
Interview with Jason Cohen (https://www.productpeople.tv/episodes/ep98-the-hard-truth-about-bootstrapping-startups-part-2-with-jason-cohen)
WP Engine Announces $132M in Annual Recurring Revenue (http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4131415)
Non Sense
Modern OSI Model (https://xkcd.com/2105/)
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Solarwinds
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Conferences, et. al.
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://springonetour.io/2019/st-louis). $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) (https://www.meetup.com/Continuous-Delivery-Amsterdam/events/258120367/) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 (https://springonetour.io/2019/amsterdam) - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.audible.com/pd/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Audiobook/1478948000?qid=1548351044&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=D3A67G0APYVG06H98NGK&)Movies Anywhere (https://moviesanywhere.com/welcome) and Disc to Digital from Vudu (https://www.vudu.com/content/in_home_disc_to_digital.html)
Coté: new Preditor (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_predator).
2/1/2019 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 163: 5 things Obama doesn’t want you to know about scorecards
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 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassian-surpassed-1b-in-calendar-year-revenue-in-2018/)
Google remains the top open-source contributor to CNCF projects (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/google-remains-the-top-open-source-contributor-to-cncf-projects/)
Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/oracle_exec_opensource_vendors_locking_down_licenses_proves_they_were_never_really_open/)’
Morgan Stanley Downgrades Oracle Stock on Dim Growth Prospects (https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-stock-morgan-stanley-downgrades-51547572633)
Vodafone signs $550m deal with IBM to offload cloud biz (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/18/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 (https://www.businessinsider.com/new-google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-acquisitions-2019-1)
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook)
Just forget what Gartner said about AI in June 'cos CIOs are all over it now apparently (http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/21/gartner_ai_cio_research/)
Open-Source Unicorn: Confluent Reaches $2.5 Billion Valuation Three Years After Hiring Its First Sales Rep (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/01/23/open-source-unicorn-confluent-reaches-25-billion-valuation-three-years-after-hiring-its-first-sales-rep/)
Travis CI joins the Idera family (https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-01-23-travis-ci-joins-idera-inc)
IBM Boasts Another Big Win, Touts Hybrid Cloud Prowess (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/ibm-boasts-another-big-win-touts-hybrid-cloud-prowess/2019/01/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
Microsoft wins cloud business from Albertsons as fear of Amazon grows among retailers (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/microsoft-signs-cloud-deal-with-albertsons.html)
Non Sense
Oreo Competitor Makes Federal Case Out of ‘Cutthroat’ Cookie Rivalry (https://www.wsj.com/articles/food-fight-in-the-cookie-aislehydrox-vs-oreo-turns-cutthroat-11547740235)
ROAD TRIP! Buc-ee's opens 1st location outside of Texas (https://abc13.com/business/road-trip-buc-ees-opens-1st-location-outside-of-texas/5099836/)
Sponsors
Solarwinds
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2019-minneapolis/welcome/), August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-minneapolis-2019-tickets-51444848928?discount=SDT2019).
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://springonetour.io/2019/charlotte), $50 off with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis (https://springonetour.io/2019/st-louis). $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 13th, 2019 - Coté speaking at (platform as a product) (https://www.meetup.com/Continuous-Delivery-Amsterdam/events/258120367/) - Continuous Delivery, Amsterdam.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.audible.com/pd/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Audiobook/1478948000?qid=1548351044&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=D3A67G0APYVG06H98NGK&)Billion Dollar Whale (https://www.audible.com/pd/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Audiobook/1478948000?qid=1548351044&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=D3A67G0APYVG06H98NGK&), Malaysia Wants Goldman’s Money Back (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-18/malaysia-wants-goldman-s-money-back).
Coté: UNIQLO HEATTECH (https://www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/men/featured/heattech), as soft as a fancy conference t-shirt. Herbarium (https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/telexport/programmes?kategorie=24&porad=770), dubbed in English - “that’s Jim’s spatula!”
Outro: "'93 'til Infinity." (https://genius.com/Souls-of-mischief-93-til-infinity-lyrics)
1/25/2019 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing
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 (https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/01/16/slack-has-a-new-logo-and-umm-you-be-the-judge/).
MONGO, MONGO, MONGO!
MongoDB Issues New Server Side Public License for MongoDB Community Server (https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-issues-new-server-side-public-license-for-mongodb-community-server)
MongoDB not in RHEL 8.0 (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-beta/html/8.0_beta_release_notes/new-features#web_servers_databases_dynamic_languages_2)
MongoDB "open-source" Server Side Public License rejected (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-side-public-license-rejected/)
AWS vs. open source: DocumentDB is the latest battlefront (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3331903/database/aws-vs-open-source-documentdb-is-the-latest-battlefront.html)
AWS gives open source the middle finger (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-middle-finger/)
AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source (https://stratechery.com/2019/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 (https://stratechery.com/2019/mongodb-follow-up-aws-incentives-batteries-the-iphones-missing-miss/#memberful_done) (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 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-side-public-license-rejected/): “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 (https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-issues-new-server-side-public-license-for-mongodb-community-server): “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 (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/08/amazon-reportedly-acquired-israeli-disaster-recovery-service-cloudendure-for-around-200m/)
AWS makes another acquisition grabbing TSO Logic (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/aws-makes-another-acquisition-grabbing-tso-logic/)
IBM Just Unveiled The First Commercial Quantum Computer (https://www.sciencealert.com/ibm-unveils-a-quantum-computer-that-will-be-available-to-businesses)
“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 (https://triggermesh.com/2019/01/09/announcing-triggermesh-knative-lambda-runtime-klr/)
Serverless computing: one step forward, two steps back (https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/01/14/serverless-computing-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/)
Day Two Kubernetes: Tools for Operability (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/kubernetes-tools)
Taking the smarts out of smart TVs would make them more expensive (https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172397/airplay-2-homekit-vizio-tv-bill-baxter-interview-vergecast-ces-2019)
OneLogin snares $100M investment to expand identity solution into new markets (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/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 (http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/15/bugs_bounty_salary/)
Direct Listings Are a Thing Now (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-11/direct-listings-are-a-thing-now)
Software Maker PagerDuty Files Confidentially for IPO (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/software-maker-pagerduty-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo)
Slack’s Financials Ahead of Listing Plans (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/slacks-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 (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/fiserv-is-buying-first-data-in-a-22b-fintech-megadeal/?guccounter=1) - FundsXpress (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fundsxpress)!
The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach (https://www.troyhunt.com/the-773-million-record-collection-1-data-reach/)
AWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWS (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/16/aws-launches-backup-to-let-you-back-up-your-on-premises-and-aws-data-to-aws/)
## Non Sense
The WELL: State of the World 2019 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page01.html)
Apple reportedly replaced about 10 times more iPhone batteries than it expected to (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/15/apple-upgraded-10-to-11-million-batteries-according-to-report.html)
Say hello, new logo (https://slackhq.com/say-hello-new-logo)
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Arrested DevOps
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Conferences, et. al.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://springonetour.io/2019/charlotte), $50 off with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis (https://springonetour.io/2019/st-louis). $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Recommendations
Matt: Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HQA6EOC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1).
Brandon: DIRECTV Alexa skill (https://www.amazon.com/DIRECTV-LLC/dp/B07FDNYMB6).
Coté: Peak (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29369213-peak), but read in, like 4x mode. Summary: (1.) Model the thing learned, (2.) focused exercises, (3.) coaching, (3.) using feedback loops to improve, (4.) stretching yourself. Derry Girls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_Girls).
1/18/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 161: “Dad Mode Wins”
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 (https://medium.com/@adamhjk/the-non-compete-software-movement-46996a86e9ca)
The Cyclical Theory of Open Source (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/12/21/cycles-oss/)
community, you keep using that word – Drew Clay (https://medium.com/@drewmusing/community-you-keep-using-that-word-61f038a7dbea)
Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company (https://medium.com/@mattklein123/optimizing-impact-why-i-will-not-start-an-envoy-platform-company-8904286658cb)
The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines (http://tech.paulcz.net/blog/future-of-kubernetes-is-virtual-machines/)
Dell returns to market with NYSE listing (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dell-ipo-idUSKCN1OR14E)
GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories (https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/01/05/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 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/07/github_free_private_repos/)
GitLab Uses TriggerMesh to Offer Knative-Based Serverless Workflows (https://thenewstack.io/gitlab-uses-triggermesh-to-offer-knative-based-serverless-workflows/)
Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR) (https://triggermesh.com/2019/01/09/announcing-triggermesh-knative-lambda-runtime-klr/)
CloudCast Episode Serverless Management and Knative (http://www.thecloudcast.net/2018/12/serverless-management-and-knative.html)
(https://m.subbu.org/contemporary-views-on-serverless-and-implications-1c5907c611d8)- Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications (https://m.subbu.org/contemporary-views-on-serverless-and-implications-1c5907c611d8)
The Results are in … The State of K8s 2018 – Heptio (https://blog.heptio.com/the-results-are-in-the-state-of-k8s-2018-d25e54819416)
Here's What VMware Paid for Kubernetes Startup Heptio (https://www.lightreading.com/enterprise-cloud/infrastructure-and-platform/heres-what-vmware-paid-for-kubernetes-startup-heptio/d/d-id/748317)
Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors (http://Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors)
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Solarwinds
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Conferences, et. al.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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 (https://springonetour.io/2019/charlotte).
Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis (https://springonetour.io/2019/st-louis).
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna (https://2019.incontrodevops.it/), Coté speaking.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London (https://springonetour.io/2019/london). Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 (https://springonetour.io/2019/amsterdam) - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Justin Garrison help make Ralph Breaks the Internet (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1072267318464401408)
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Recommendations
Brandon: The Dream Podcast (https://www.thedream.fm/)
Matt: Tombstone (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108358/) and the Making of Tombstone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBzNOpIn7Cc)
1/10/2019 • 55 minutes, 52 seconds
New Year's Bonus -- Jake Moilanen Interview
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 (https://twitter.com/moilanen)
* LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakemoilanen/)
For more interview like this subscribe to Software Defined Interviews. (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) Special Guest: Jake Moilanen .
1/3/2019 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 24 seconds
Holiday Bonus -- Don't call me an "evangelist"
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 (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) podcast.
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12/27/2018 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 160: “Open Source, still not a business model”
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 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-encryption-laws-are-highly-unlikely-to-dragoon-employees-in-secret/)
What's actually in Australia's encryption laws? Everything you need to know (https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-actually-in-australias-encryption-laws-everything-you-need-to-know/)
Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password? | 1Password (https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/)
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Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/chef-co-founder-adam-jacob-launches-new-effort-define-sustainable-open-source-software/)
We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities (http://bwhichard [11:57 AM] https://medium.com/sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities/we-need-sustainable-free-and-open-source-communities-edf92723d619)
License Changes for Confluent Platform | Confluent (https://www.confluent.io/blog/license-changes-confluent-platform)
Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/concerned-cloud-providers-confluent-becomes-latest-open-source-company-set-new-restrictions-usage/)
Open source confronts its midlife crisis by Bryan Cantrill (http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/)
A Quick Comment On Bryan Cantrill’s Blog On Licensing (https://medium.com/@jaykreps/a-quick-comment-on-bryan-cantrills-blog-on-licensing-8dccee41d9e6)
GE to Sell Part of Digital Business (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-to-sell-part-of-digital-business-11544707732)
1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years - Geek.com (https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/commodore-amiga-computer-has-been-running-the-acheat-in-19-schools-for-30-years-1625147/)
A is for Austin (https://apple.substack.com/p/a-is-for-austin?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter)
3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/16/3d-printed-heads-unlock-cops-hackers/)
MIPS Goes Open Source (https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334087)
You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/18/red_hat_oracle_calendar_q3_2018/)
(https://stratechery.com/2018/tumblrs-app-store-ban-tumblrs-nsfw-deadline-verizon-writes-down-oath/)- Tumblr’s App Store Ban, Tumblr’s NSFW Deadline, Verizon Writes Down Oath (https://stratechery.com/2018/tumblrs-app-store-ban-tumblrs-nsfw-deadline-verizon-writes-down-oath/)
Nonsense
Chase Sapphire Banking (https://accounts.chase.com/sapphire/brand?mklSoc=t)
Melbourne Cup Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Cup)
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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!
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/)
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon: Apple Music to work on other Alexa-enabled devices (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/apple-music-will-soon-work-on-third-party-alexa-devices-too/)
Matt: Emacs Tramp Mode (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode): transparent access to files and remote access.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_into_the_spider_verse/)
12/21/2018 • 55 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 159: "Cloud native is pretty simple. You just need to know Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Jaeger, Envoy, Core DNS, Linkerd, Rook, Vitess, Etcd and Raft."
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 (https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-impact/)
Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with price cuts (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/07/red_hat_cuts_openshift_cost/)
Docker's top deck stands by Swarm in face of Kubernetes storm (https://devclass.com/2018/12/07/docker-top-deck-standby-swarm-amidst-kubernetes-storm/)
The 15-Year Odyssey Behind VMware's Ascent To Corporate Greatness (http://bwhichard [10:42 AM] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2018/12/10/the-windy-road-behind-vmwares-15-year-road-to-corporate-greatness/#1e1e00e166eees-15-year-road-to-corporate-greatness/#1e1e00e166ee)
IBM Sells Software for Once (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/ibm-sells-software-for-once/)
The First Open, Multi-cloud Serverless Platform for the Enterprise Is Here. Try out Pivotal Function Service Today! (https://content.pivotal.io/home-page/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 (https://diginomica.com/2018/12/10/facing-up-to-the-need-for-regulation-microsoft-recognises-big-brother-potential/amp/)
VMware Extends Istio into the 'NSX Service Mesh' for Microservices (https://thenewstack.io/vmware-extends-istio-into-the-nsx-service-mesh-for-microservices/)
2018: The Biggest Year for Open Source Software Ever! (Part Deux) (https://medium.com/memory-leak/2018-the-biggest-year-for-open-source-software-ever-part-deux-8d1b33fe47e4)
DocuSign beats Wall Street expectations, reveals executive and board shuffle (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/docusign-beats-wall-street-expectations-reveals-executive-board-shuffle/)
The Etcd Database Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://thenewstack.io/the-etcd-database-joins-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/)
Kubernetes is not a development platform (https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1072419036003209217?s=19)
Oracle Cloud Native Framework Promises 'Bi-Directional' Cloud Portability (https://thenewstack.io/oracle-cloud-native-framework-promises-bi-directional-cloud-portability/)
Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/dell-votes-to-buy-back-vmware-tracking-stock-and-will-likely-go-public/)
Knative Meshes Kubernetes with Serverless Workloads (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2018/12/11/knative-meshes-kubernetes-with-serverless-workloads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=knative-meshes-kubernetes-with-serverless-workloads)
What makes a company a 'tech company,' and is the title worth the responsibility? (https://www.ciodive.com/news/what-makes-a-company-a-tech-company-and-is-the-title-worth-the-responsib/544079/)
Everything that was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/11/everything-that-was-announced-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon/)
Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A – Chick-fil-A Tech Blog – Medium (https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-computing-at-chick-fil-a-7d67242675e2)
CNCF to Host etcd - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/12/11/cncf-to-host-etcd/)
Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/64), Software Defined Interviews.
Matt Ray’s tweet goes viral (soft of) (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1072651885159571456)
Warrant Canary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary) via Wikipedia
Nonsense
Costco is selling Macs (https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?dept=All&keyword=appleoopw&EMID=B2C_2018_1213_Mac-Available)
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Conferences, et. al.
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Recommendations
Brandon: (https://www.bearbrookpodcast.com/)Bear Brook (https://www.bearbrookpodcast.com/) Podcast (https://www.bearbrookpodcast.com/)
Matt: My new favorite episode of 99% Invisible: Devolutionary Design (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/devolutionary-design/).
12/15/2018 • 58 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 158: Istio is only a check box away
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 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/kubernetes-first-major-security-hole-discovered/).
The Story of the First Kubernetes Critical CVE (https://rancher.com/blog/2018/2018-12-04-k8s-cve/).
Google Integrates Istio Service Mesh into Kubernetes Service (https://thenewstack.io/google-integrates-istio-service-mesh-into-kubernetes-service/).
Nearly 250 Pages of Devastating Internal Facebook Documents Posted Online By UK Parliament (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59vwez/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 (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/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. (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/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 (https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/)
Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10 (https://m.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10)
China’s Alibaba Takes On Amazon in European Cloud (https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-alibaba-takes-on-amazon-in-european-cloud-1543924801)
## Nonsense
The Economist’s books of the year (https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/12/01/the-economists-books-of-the-year).
Lime and Bird worth $10B+ each or 5x to 10x more than their last valuations (https://www.futureengine.org/articles/scooters-are-worth-10b).
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Conferences, et. al.
Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th (http://springonetour.io/2018/paris) which is stupid planning on his part.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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!
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## Recommendations
Brandon: Ralph Breaks the Internet (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ralph_breaks_the_internet) and Slate Reviews (https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/ticket-to-ride-best-family-games.html) Ticket to Ride (https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/ticket-to-ride-best-family-games.html).
Matt: My new favorite episode of 99% Invisible: Devolutionary Design (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/devolutionary-design/).
Coté: since Christmas is near, and Sinterklaas has come and gone (https://www.thespruceeats.com/the-story-of-sinterklaas-1128632), Apple Watch 4 (no LTE in NL), I recommend revisiting the best Christmas video ever (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5rI461KNE). (I gotta get me some of them sunglasses!)
Photo Credit (https://unsplash.com/photos/9FDKj-FrfA4)
12/8/2018 • 59 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap & Australia muthafuckers!
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 (https://aws.amazon.com/#Explore_All_Product_Announcements)
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 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/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 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-ruby-support-for-aws-lambda/), C++ (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-the-c-lambda-runtime/), Rust (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws-lambda/)), 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 (https://aws.amazon.com/textract/): Extract text and data from documents
AWS Inferentia: Machine learning inference chip
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth – Build Highly Accurate Datasets (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-ground-truth-build-highly-accurate-datasets-and-reduce-labeling-costs-by-up-to-70/)
Amazon SageMaker RL – Managed Reinforcement Learning with Amazon SageMaker (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-sagemaker-rl-managed-reinforcement-learning-with-amazon-sagemaker/)
AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning at re:Invent (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepracer-go-hands-on-with-reinforcement-learning-at-reinvent/), (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepracer-go-hands-on-with-reinforcement-learning-at-reinvent/) Autonomous 1/18th scale race car, driven by ML
Machine Learning algorithms and model packages now available in AWS Marketplace (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-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 (https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1067858579787399168).
Relevant to your interests
No room this week.
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Conferences, et. al.
Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th (http://springonetour.io/2018/paris) which is stupid planning on his part.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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!
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Recommendations
Brandon: Ticket to Ride (https://www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/) Board Game
Matt: Speaking of trains, I took the train from Canberra to Sydney (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/1068060846138380288). Fantastic!
Coté: Patriot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08w9DxR7DHs) season 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08w9DxR7DHs). It’s pretty good. And: HP Color LaserJet Pro M254dw (https://amzn.to/2PabjDn).
11/30/2018 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 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?
See title.
Google Cloud
Diane Greene steps down as Google's cloud chief (https://www.axios.com/diane-greene-steps-down-as-googles-cloud-chief-1542390453-6335b289-b216-4584-a615-ddb9114a47f5.html)
Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along (https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/18/google-looks-to-former-oracle-exec-thomas-kurian-to-move-cloud-business-along)
Longer CNBC piece on the switch (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/kurian-has-to-overcome-a-bitter-feud-between-google-and-oracle.html).
Ray Wang (https://www.computerworlduk.com/it-leadership/who-is-thomas-kurian-new-google-cloud-ceo-3687161/): “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 (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-kurian-insight-idUSKBN0KL0BL20150112): built middleware business in the 2000s, Fusion ERP apps integration, cloud business.
The Corporate Culture Survival Guide (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27991667-the-corporate-culture-survival-guide-new-and-revised-edition).
Relevant to your interests
Coté’s stump speech recordings (http://cote.coffee/bettersoftware/).
CX is nothing if you don’t change your business (https://diginomica.com/2018/11/12/is-cx-killer-app-for-erp-vendors/) - same for digital transformation, e.g., maybe stuff here (https://www.americaninno.com/austin/inno-news/capital-one-acquires-austin-shopping-and-price-comparison-startup-wikibuy/).
Uber getting more legal (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/uber-is-reworking-its-playbook-for-world-domination).
“Economic Recession Could Drive Serverless Standardization, Consolidation.” (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/economic-recession-could-drive-serverless-standardization-consolidation/2018/11/)
Oracle to acquire Talari Networks (https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/oracle-to-acquire-talari-network/).
BlackBerry agrees to acquire Cylance for $1.4 billion (https://www.axios.com/blackberry-acquire-cylance-cybersecurity-deal-10a31627-730a-4890-867b-cc4147bbec54.html).
Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead (https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/16/18098286/vovox-security-breach-two-factor-authentication-2fa-codes-exposed).
AWS rolls out new security feature to prevent accidental S3 data leaks (http://bwhichard [11:21 AM] https://www.zdnet.com/article/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 (https://www.cbronline.com/news/azure-down-office-355-down).
Tim Cook defends using Google as primary search engine on Apple devices (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/tim-cook-defends-using-google-as-primary-search-engine-on-apple-devices/).
Charles Phillips billboards (https://gawker.com/5454315/oracle-president-admits-to-affair-with-woman-from-mystery-billboards).
Nonsense
Mark Zuckerburg wants you to use Android (https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-android-phones-after-apple-ceo-tim-cook-criticism/#g66zRCCRjsqK)
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Conferences, et. al.
Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th (http://springonetour.io/2018/paris) which is stupid planning on his part.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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!
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Recommendations
Brandon: Homecoming (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FNZ35DV/?ref=dvm_us_dl_sl_go_ast_HC_TLeP5|c_294565360295_m_yH0Ue2zJ-dc_s__&gclid=Cj0KCQiA28nfBRCDARIsANc5BFAMIAH6vgtVejxEMRGSmUJPAw_pJ4LLEsWBZlo3KhaARTPVK3LBMxQaAtemEALw_wcB).
Coté: UK Registered Traveler (https://www.gov.uk/registered-traveller), bread (https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaJTfwgez1/).
11/21/2018 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 155: Existing investments & business innovation fuel
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 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2018/11/08/cisco-introduces-first-hybrid-kubernetes-platform-support-for-amazon-eks/#426d8894cf62)
“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 (https://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/simplifying-container-orchestration) means Active Directory now works with k8s:
AWS and Cisco. https://alln-extcloud-storage.cisco.com/ciscoblogs/5bea023b0b27b.png
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 (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/hybrid-solution-kubernetes-on-aws/index.html), and press release (https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1952730).
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 (https://blogs.cisco.com/news/accelerate-innovation): “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 (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/sap-snaps-qualtrics-8b-days-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 (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/report-vista-equity-partners-poised-pay-1-9-billion-private-equity-deal-apptio/)
Report: Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2 (https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/tech/amazon-hq2-new-york-virginia/index.html)
Google went down after traffic was routed through China and Russia (https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/13/google-outage-rerouted-china-russia/)
Amazon Announces New York and Virginia as HQ2 Picks (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/technology/amazon-hq2-headquarters.html)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Amazon’s imminent arrival in Queens (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/13/18091104/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-amazon-hq-2-queens)
OpenStack Expands With New Projects, Canonical’s CEO Is Not Thrilled (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/openstack-expands-with-new-projects-canonicals-ceo-is-not-thrilled-about-it/2018/11/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
Red Hat Squeezes OpenStack, OpenShift Closer Together (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/red-hat-squeezes-openstack-openshift-closer-together/2018/11/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
OpenStack expands focus beyond the IaaS cloud (https://www.zdnet.com/article/openstack-expands-focus-beyond-the-iaas-cloud/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
The Foundation keeps on the plan of expanding its portfolio.
Red Hat blends Kubernetes into Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-blends-kubernetes-into-red-hat-openstack-platform-14/)
Coder: $4.5M Series Seed Announcement – Coder – Medium (https://medium.com/coderhq/coder-4-5m-series-seed-announcement-919b6e713441)
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Nonsense
Stamps set for largest-ever price increase in January 2019 (https://www.al.com/news/2018/11/stamps-set-for-largest-ever-price-increase-in-january-2019.html)
The Poddys (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YEmeXsknE4)
Conferences, et. al.
Nov 20th, London: Dell Tech Forum UK (https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-gb/events/forum/index.htm?reference=social-twitter&cmp=soc-dtf&dgc=SM&cid=170771&lid=spr1894188567&linkId=59555999) - Coté speaking with the pro-Pivotal knob on 11.
Dec 6th, Warsaw - Meetup in Warsaw, Coté talking about enterprise architects, 3rd round (https://www.meetup.com/Warsaw-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/256202658),
Dec 8th, Lublin Poland - J-Santa (https://j-santa.pl/en.html).
Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th (http://springonetour.io/2018/paris) which is stupid planning on his part.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours are posted (http://springonetour.io/). 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!
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Recommendations
Brandon:
Reply All: The Snapchat Thief (https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/130-lizard#episode-player)
Introducing CYBER: A Hacking Podcast by Motherboard (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59vpnx/introducing-cyber-a-hacking-podcast-by-motherboard).
Chaos Monkeys (https://www.audible.com/pd/Chaos-Monkeys-Revised-Edition-Audiobook/B07DFM9W2V?ref=a_author_An_c9_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e9e52ec0-c05e-4911-8746-2586073224ad&pf_rd_r=J2R1HQFDRVPEWCPBQH9K&).
Coté: I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37707826-i-am-dynamite).
11/15/2018 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 154: Singapore Sanka & tech idears
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.”
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Relevant to your interests
Oracle Expanding New Cloud Platform to 13 Regions by 2019 (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/oracle/oracle-expanding-new-cloud-platform-13-regions-2019)
Jeff Bezos says he's choosing HQ2 location with his heart (https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/01/tech/jeff-bezos-nyc-first-gala-hq2/index.html)
IBM acquires Red Hat, but what does that mean? (https://451research.com/blog/1977-ibm-acquires-red-hat,-but-what-does-that-mean)
CA/Broadcom selling off Veracode:
B (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/security/buying-a-lot-selling-a-little/)uying a lot, selling a little (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/security/buying-a-lot-selling-a-little/)
Broadcom Completes CA Technologies Acquisition, Sells Veracode to Private Equity Firm (https://www.channele2e.com/business/enterprise/broadcom-completes-ca-technologies-buyout-sells-veracode/).
New Lower-Cost, AMD-Powered M5a and R5a EC2 Instances (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lower-cost-amd-powered-ec2-instances/)
VMware buys Heptio
VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes (https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/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. (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/were-looking-forward-to-welcoming-heptio-to-the-family-this-is-why-our-customers-will-be-the-big-winners?utm_campaign=content-social&utm_content=1541530386&utm_medium=social-sprout&utm_source=twitter)
RedMonk’s O’Grady (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/11/07/vmware-heptio/):
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 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/vmware_vmworld_europe_summary/) decoder ring (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/vmware_vmworld_europe_summary/).
Heptio's Episode (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/49) of Exegesis podcast.
Nonsense
World Plug Types (https://www.iec.ch/worldplugs/typeG.htm) - what a shit-show.
“Hajime Sorayama robot art (https://www.google.com.sg/search?biw=1164&bih=917&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=6-DkW_HTFcfavAT89rOwBg&q=hajime+sorayama+robot+art&oq=hajime+sora&gs_l=img.1.1.0l5j0i67k1j0l4.30947.42619.0.44716.23.12.10.1.1.0.78.540.12.12.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.22.532...35i39k1j0i10i24k1.0.9cji9M5meW8).”
Conferences, et. al.
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore).
Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations).
Dec 6th - Meetup in Warsaw, Coté talking about enterprise architects, 3rd round (https://www.meetup.com/Warsaw-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/256202658).
Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté. MAYBE NOT!
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Recommendations
Matt: Libraries (again)/Humble Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/books/dev-ops-oreilly).
Brandon: Nest (http://www.nest.com/).
Coté: Mercury Reader (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mercury-reader/oknpjjbmpnndlpmnhmekjpocelpnlfdi), heir to Readablity (a little flakey, but fine).
11/11/2018 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 153: “I have no idea, but I’ll go on,” or IBM buying Red Hat
IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired.
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IBM and Red Hat Acquisition
IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Software Maker Red Hat (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-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 (https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely-Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider)
Banks could reap as much as $115 million for orchestrating the IBM-Red Hat deal (https://www.thisisinsider.com/ibm-red-hat-largest-software-bank-fees-2018-10)
Cloud Wars Forcing Irrational Open Source Takeovers (https://medium.com/futuresin/cloud-wars-forcing-irrational-open-source-takeovers-1ce096c53b19)
Red Hat and IBM: Elephants Can Dance (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2018/10/29/red-hat-and-ibm-elephants-can-dance/)
Armed with Red Hat, IBM launches a cloud war against Amazon, Microsoft and Google | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/armed-with-red-hat-ibm-launches-a-cloud-war-against-amazon-microsoft-and-google/)
Analysis: Red Hat’s continued independence is key to success of IBM’s $34B acquisition (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/analysis-red-hats-continued-independence-key-success-ibms-34b-acquisition/)
IBM Acquires Red Hat — What This Means for Open Source (https://blog.usejournal.com/ibm-acquires-red-hat-what-this-means-for-open-source-d236d680da5b)
Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat from Ubuntu (https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/10/30/statement-on-ibm-acquisition-of-red-hat)
Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/10/30/ibm-red-hat/)
Big Blue’s takeover of Red Hat could produce an über-cloud (https://www.economist.com/business/2018/10/30/big-blues-takeover-of-red-hat-could-produce-an-uber-cloud)
Blockbuster IBM-Red Hat Deal Draws Support – and Concerns for the ‘Spirit of Linux’ (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2018/10/29/blockbuster-ibm-red-hat-deal-draws-support-and-concerns-about-the-spirit-of-linux/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blockbuster-ibm-red-hat-deal-draws-support-and-concerns-about-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 (https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-RED-HAT-Charts-10-2018.pdf):
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_F8186D6801E202DEB03199A6D1F610BAB9CB91A2CFD988A2666F991EBC2E6CC0_1541067546607_image.png
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 (https://stratechery.com/2018/ibms-old-playbook/): “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’t want to keep paying this rent-seeker, aka, “maintenance contracts - AMIRIGHT?.” I’m just interested in paying less. If you gave me a closed source offering that was free, I’d be just as happy.
I don’t want to get trapped in an aging stack that isn’t evolving (e.g., I want to use node.js on UNIVACs, or something), so I need “the freedom to leave” to get the benefits of new technologies.
I like having the source code for transparency, to make my own forks, and/or because rainbows and sandals.
Like, seriously, what options do you have to move to?
DIY stack - you’re going to take the IBM/Red Hat stack and run it all on your own, merging in new releases and patches, even forking and evolving it yourself. Will all the IBM stuff be available? What if you run on VMware or Azure or Softlayer? How do you rebuild that entire stack? So you just want to rebuild a little bit of it? If you throw OpenStack with KVM in there, plus whatever SDN and storage stuff you could get in open source, throw in some OSS network routing…you could get away with the only proprietary thing being chips and other rando hardware things. You’ll need some bare-metel BIOS/firmware update things.
Begged question: how far (and up!) the stack do you want to be un-proprietary? Only use OSS Android on jail-broken phones? No iPhones, clearly, and toss out Safari, macOS, and Windows - maybe you can cruise in with some HTML5 stuff through Firefox and Chrome on the desktop and mobile, then on some Eclipse for GUIs?
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, AzureStack, Pivotal ready stack with VMware - perhaps you could take the thin k8s and PaaS layer from the Red Hat IBM stack and move it to those clouds? Will that work? Is it better, economically and innovation roadmap-ally than just sticking with IBM/Red Hat
Alibaba and the other non-Western clouds. Same.
MSPs like Rackspace. Maybe - the Rackspace people could just run whatever you want. See concerns of #1, plus the premium paid for “fanatical.” Maybe Rackspace has some SRE magic that allows them to do what you’d be doing at 80% of the cost, or something.
I don’t understand this reasoning. How is IBM + Red Hat lack of “proprietary nature”? If I’m running an IBM/RedHat stack, can I just move off all my workloads over night, paying nothing to move and then run my workloads, like, perfectly? If I’m running on that stack, and then I want to move to Google Cloud, does that work? Where-else would I go? Can I just take my pods and throw them onto Azure?
Also, if any of these are practically true - it’s a shitty business for IBM/Red Hat to be in, at least a huge risk for them to carry. Any time a customer cashes in on freedom to leave, that’s lost revenue to IBM/Red Hat.
My point is: I wish we’d stop talking about lock-in and focus on more practical matters, namely, does the technology work, does it work in a good ecosystem/community (I can find and make it work with other stuff), does it evolve/innovate at a pace I like, and am I happy with the initial and ongoing costs. If the answer to all of those is yes, I don’t think people care about OSS versus closed. But what do I know, I don’t know such stuff, I just do slides.
What really matters is getting the two sales forces to sell each other’s stuff, esp. accelerating OpenShift. The IBM sales force has to sell moving away from their traditional offerings (WebSphere, 3 tier, etc.) and instead sell modernizing to OpenShift. That’s fine, but a lot to ask. Also, the comp. plans might get dicey. Part of the point of modernizing is to reduce costs, implying a lower up-front deal-size and smaller ongoing deal-size. So, you’re asking the IBM rep to sell cheaper products, potentially. And if you’re not, see lock-in screed above on pricing. There’s not much upside to sales people here, aside from maybe holding onto an eroding market, but that’s years out, sales people are short-term focused by design. Red Hat sales people might fare better because they’re used to that deal size and can sell more; however, IBM sales people will resist these Red Hat people getting into their account and snatching their paper. All of this is not a killer, but likely the bulk of work that needs to be nailed to synergize maximally (my favorite type of synergizing).
Brandon’s winners/looses, also O’Grady’s (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/10/30/ibm-red-hat/).
Cloud Earnings
Amazon says AWS revenue jumped 46 percent in third quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/aws-q3-results.html)
Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue jumped 47 percent in its fiscal Q1, but Azure growth slows (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsofts-commercial-cloud-revenue-jumped-47-percent-fiscal-q1-azure-growth-slows/)
Google Cloud Revenue Boosts Alphabet’s Earnings - SDxCentral (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/google-cloud-revenue-boosts-alphabets-earnings-but-wall-streets-not-impressed/2018/10/)
Relevant to your interests
Oracle Open World 2018: CEO Mark Hurd says SAP ERP customers will defect (https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252451138/Oracle-Open-World-2018-CEO-Mark-Hurd-says-SAP-ERP-customers-will-defect)
Atlassian reimagines Jira to herd cats, a.k.a. developer teams (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/24/atlassian-reimagines-jira-herd-cats-developer-teams/amp/)
Serverless Architecture Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis (https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/4661572/serverless-architecture-market-size-share-and)
Werner Vogels responds to CNBC story about Amazon Outage (https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1054901529478459392)
Conferences, et. al.
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore).
Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations).
Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté.
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Matt: The Dark Forest (https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Forest-Remembrance-Earths-Past-ebook/dp/B00R13OYU6/).
Brandon:
Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/)
The Daily 10/31 — The Business of Internet Outrage (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/podcasts/the-daily/mad-world-news-facebook-internet-anger.html)
Coté: Trick-or-treating in Amsterdam. Notablity still good.
11/1/2018 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 1 second
Episode 152: Who put robots in my clouds? Oracle OpenWorld
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.
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Cloud, enterprise software to drive 2019 IT spending, says Gartner | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-enterprise-software-to-drive-2019-it-spending-says-gartner/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
(https://thenewstack.io/cncf-adopts-sysdigs-falco-container-runtime-monitor/)- CNCF Adopts Sysdig’s Falco Container Runtime Monitor - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/cncf-adopts-sysdigs-falco-container-runtime-monitor/)
DTA goes cold on blockchain (https://www.innovationaus.com/2018/10/DTA-goes-cold-on-blockchain)
I think the DevOps people are into talking about “product now” (https://cote.io/2018/10/22/link-2018-day-one-recap-the-project-to-product-movement-is-in-full-swing/)…?
Ellison makes convincing pitch on automation and security for Oracle Cloud 2.0...but can’t resist trashing AWS (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/22/oracle-openworld-2018-ellison-makes-convincing-pitch-on-automation-and-security-for-oracle-cloud-2-0-but-cant-resist-trashing-aws/amp/)
Kurt’s summary of Oracle cloud stuff (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/24/oracle-openworld-2018-making-the-cloud-friendly-for-enterprises-that-distrust-cloud/), 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 (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/23/oracle-openworld-2018-the-iaas-security-story/) 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 (https://www.google.fr/search?q=Oracle+vs.+sun+ads&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:Cct5Jmsu4-qNIjgq2wpB3sF3r_1pjEdCkZ1fAi3Xg3Y7F6SdwqDwrrXU_18_1gYTP9ZrXyNCJH93AlHRe5Sgjj3AlJuNCoSCSrbCkHewXevEY5MaxXMYSooKhIJ-mMR0KRnV8ARGteHXdYot7EqEgmLdeDdjsXpJxEudUWno7A7hCoSCXCoPCutdT_1zEV2S9aFgvsWIKhIJ-BhM_11mtfI0RDKnCqovVg_1cqEgkIkf3cCUdF7hEHpSQHkysqZSoSCVKCOPcCUm40EW3myYJY_1IlP&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPh4j4tp_eAhWDx4UKHXGCD0IQ9C96BAgBEBg&biw=1680&bih=917&dpr=2)). 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 (https://www.cnbc.com/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 (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/07/larry-ellison-says-it-will-be-really-hard-for-amazon-not-to-use-orac.html), 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 (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/24/park-hotels-and-resorts-makes-the-cloud-its-destination-of-choice/), and an excellent example from Red Cross work on improving outcomes (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/24/american-red-cross-equips-volunteers-with-mobile-app-for-disaster-relief/). And then back to our regularly scheduled price/performance (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/24/oracle-openworld-2018-wells-fargo-and-halliburton-reap-the-benefits-of-consolidating-on-oracle-exadata/) 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.” (https://genius.com/8200581)
Amazon's move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in big Ohio warehouse, internal report says (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/amazon-move-off-oracle-caused-prime-day-outage-in-warehouse.html)
“The outage, which lasted for hours on Prime Day, resulted in over 15,000 delayed packages and roughly $90,000 in wasted labor costs, according to the report. Those costs don't include all the lost hours spent by engineers troubleshooting and fixing the errors or any potential lost sales.”
I assume Amazon has saved much more than that by moving off Oracle.
Meanwhile, downtime effects us all: Apple iCloud down for (gasp!) hours (https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/23/18016512/apple-icloud-find-my-iphone-service-disruption-outage)!
Topic: how much uptime do we really need? Cf. SRE last mile problems.
US congress-critters question prime directive of Pentagon's $10bn JEDI cloud contract (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/23/jedi_cloud_investigation/)
State of Wisconsin shares lessons learned on rolling out Oracle Exadata and how to reduce license costs (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/23/oracle-openworld-2018-state-of-wisconsin-shares-lessons-learned-on-rolling-out-oracle-exadata-and-how-to-reduce-license-costs/)
HashiCorp updates its infrastructure automation suite for hybrid clouds (https://siliconangle.com/2018/10/23/hasicorp-updates-infrastructure-automation-suite-hybrid-clouds/)
An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption (https://www.wired.com/story/alternative-history-of-silicon-valley-disruption/)
Rockstar Games, crunch, and the great shame of the video games biz (https://mashable.com/article/rockstar-games-red-dead-redemption-2-crunch-explained/)
Apple’s iCloud services suffered an extended outage (https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/23/18016512/apple-icloud-find-my-iphone-service-disruption-outage?stream=top)
Digital transformation of the week (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/travelers-to-sell-smart-home-solutions-on-amazon-offers-insurance-discounts-after-purchase.html): “Eligible Travelers insurance customers will get a discount on their home insurance policies if they buy a smart home kit.”
Not everyone likes open spaces (https://medium.com/swlh/why-open-office-design-makes-you-less-productive-95d45ffba9eb): “7 is the magic number of team members for decision-making effectiveness. Once you reach that number, each additional member reduces effectiveness by 10%.”
Cloud Foundry Cult (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95834/Toc?ref=Email%3Amis): “The users we spoke with didn't just see it as a PaaS – it was the underlying philosophy of application delivery and management upon which future developments would be based. The Foundation claims Cloud Foundry saves, on average, 10 weeks of development time and $100,000 per app development cycle. In fact, in its own survey, 92% of users cite cross-platform flexibility as important. If these panelists are gaining such benefits, it's easy to understand why they are so enamored with it.”
300 VMs per admin is the magic number (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95810/Toc?ref=Email%3Amis):
“Private clouds owned and self-managed by enterprises can be cheaper than public cloud. The magic number to beat is about $25 per VM-month at 100% utilization. If the cost of the whole stack comes in under this number, then even with the addition of labor to manage that private cloud, it should be cheaper than public cloud. Obviously, with better labor efficiency, unit costs versus public cloud are lowered further, and the relative value of benefits increases. Enterprises unable to achieve a labor efficiency of 300 VMs per engineer are unlikely to beat public cloud on price.
”Partially managed clouds have good economics. If an enterprise is able to manage just the datacenter element of a private cloud at a ratio of at least 400 VMs per engineer, that cloud may cost less to operate than fully managed alternatives. We believe enterprises could easily beat this ratio.”
Related (https://www.networkworld.com/article/3313319/private-cloud/private-cloud-spending-is-increasing-not-decreasing.html): “Of that, private cloud spending [on hardware] reached $4.6 billion, an increase of 28.2 percent year over year. That's a significant increase, but not as great as the jump in spending on public cloud IT infrastructure, which was $10.9 billion, a 58.9 percent year-over-year growth.”
Conferences, et. al.
Oct 27th - Matt on a panel at Rakuten Technology Conference 2018 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rakuten-technology-conference-2018-tickets-48726672790)
Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary).
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore).
Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations).
Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté.
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Brandon: Making a Murder (https://www.netflix.com/title/80000770) Season 2 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80000770).
Coté: Staying in the same hotel when you go to a city. Consider the Lobster (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_and_Other_Essays). Anti-recommendation: Logitech Slim case from iPad Pro with keyboard. The Apple one with a pen holder is probably better?
10/24/2018 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 151: Who vivisected Mr Peanut?
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.
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Redis Labs and Common Clause attacked where it hurts: With open-source code | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/redis-labs-and-common-clause-attacked-where-it-hurts-with-open-source-code/)
Microsoft Calls a Truce in the Patent Wars (https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-calls-truce-in-linux-patent-wars/)
Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless (https://thenewstack.io/add-it-up-serverless-faas/)
The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not software engineers (https://qz.com/766658/the-highest-paid-workers-in-silicon-valley-are-not-software-engineers/)
(https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/15/red-hat-flexes-coreos-muscle-in-openshift-kubernetes-platform/)- Red Hat Flexes CoreOS Muscle In OpenShift Kubernetes Platform (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/15/red-hat-flexes-coreos-muscle-in-openshift-kubernetes-platform/)
(https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/docker-has-raised-92-million-in-new-funding/)- Docker has raised $92 million in new funding (https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/docker-has-raised-92-million-in-new-funding/)
GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/github-launches-actions-its-workflow-automation-tool/?guccounter=1)
There will be no escape once Twilio snaps up SendGrid in $2bn deal (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/16/twilio_acquires_sendgrid/)
GET READY TO UPGRADE (https://postlight.com/trackchanges/upgrade)
Cloud, enterprise software to drive 2019 IT spending, says Gartner (https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-enterprise-software-to-drive-2019-it-spending-says-gartner/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
Chef InSpec 3.0: Wider, Deeper on Automated Compliance (https://thenewstack.io/chef-inspec-3-0-wider-deeper-on-automated-compliance/)
Conferences, et. al.
Oct 22nd - Cloud Native tour in Milan, Italy (https://connect.pivotal.io/milan_cloud_native_advocate_22oct.html). 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 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rakuten-technology-conference-2018-tickets-48726672790)
Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary).
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore).
Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations).
Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté.
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Recommendations
Matt: Another Jay on Earth (http://www.djbc.net/anotherjay/).
Brandon: Slow Burn Podcast (https://slate.com/slow-burn).
Coté: Albert Heijn Mint & Ginger water (https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi236971/ah-water-met-gember-citroenmelisse): “The ideal thirst quencher with lemon and ginger. Refreshing on a summer day or during a busy working day.”
10/18/2018 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 53 seconds
The dogs under the desk people, plus, Elastic, Cloudera/Hortonworks, and hotel loyalty programs and breakfast buffets
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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S0_PzuYJJE&index=58&list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP).
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Chase Sapphire Reserve (https://creditcards.chase.com/a1/sapphire/reserve), and others in the Sapphire line (https://www.chase.com/personal/credit-cards/sapphire-on-location). AAdvantage Executive card (https://secure.fly.aa.com/citi/direct-exec?anchorLocation=DirectURL&title=citiexecutive).
SpringOne Platform videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPQsR_aqYBQxpYTEQZnjhTN6&disable_polymer=true) are all up.
Coté went to Puppetizer 2018 Amsterdam. They’re really into being “a portfolio company” (https://www.instagram.com/p/BovoMzaCxsJ/?taken-by=bushwald) now. Lots of stacks presented (http://cote.coffee/2018/10/10/thats-some-stack.html); much discussion on managing Puppet itself. A very well run event. See also Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/09/puppet_data_exhaust/) coverage of their SF event (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/09/puppet_data_exhaust/).
Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure (https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/google-shutting-down-google-plus/) - “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 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/10/apache_open_office_not_dead/) - ‘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 (https://theagileadmin.com/2018/10/02/sre-the-biggest-lie-since-kanban/).
The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales (https://medium.com/s/story/how-blockbuster-kodak-and-xerox-really-failed-its-not-what-you-think-e0a8c12e863d) - 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” (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1050246624881061889)?
This week in IPOs: Elastic has a party, Solarwinds figuring one out (https://www.channele2e.com/business/finance/solarwinds-ipo-plan-update/).
Elastic (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/elastic-estc-ipo-stock-makes-debut-on-nyse.html): “The stock closed at $70 per share, representing a 94.4 percent rise.” Close of market on Oct. 10th (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ESTC?p=ESTC): $62.50 per share.
451 on Elastic revenue, Scott Denne (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ipo/elastic-adds-spring-to-the-fall-ipo-market/): “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 (https://thenewstack.io/add-it-up-serverless-faas/): “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 (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/10/05/hadoop-needs-to-be-a-business-not-just-a-platform/): “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 is chasing is comprised of three different segments, according to Cloudera-Hortonworks, and will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21 percent between 2017 and 2022, from $12.7 billion to $32.3 billion. Within that, cognitive and artificial intelligence workloads represent a $14.3 billion opportunity in 2022, $4.9 billion for advanced and predictive analytics software, and $13.2 billion for dynamic data management systems (what we would call modern storage). In addition to that, the Hadoop platform is also chasing relational and non-relational database management systems and data warehouses, which is another $51 billion opportunity in 2022, for a total TAM of $83 billion. Even a small slice of this, which is what Hadoop currently gets today, could be billions of dollars by then.”
Forrester on TAM penetration, Noel Yuhanna (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/cloudera-and-hortonworks-merger-a-win-win-for-all/): “We estimate that [just] 7% of organizations have completely migrated their traditional data warehouses to big data platforms. “ That’s 93% more left, assuming 20% capture for a leader, (shoddy percentage math follows)17 to 18%, I guess?
Meanwhile, also from Forrester (https://www.forrester.com/report/Digital+Insights+Are+The+New+Currency+Of+Business/-/E-RES119109): “While 74% of global data and analytics decision makers tell us they will have invested in a big data lake by the end of 2017, we find that many of these are being kept on life support by the technology management shops that drove them.”
Also, Forrester on HARK (Hadoop & Spark), Noel Yuhanna & Mike Gualtieri (https://www.forrester.com/report/Now+Tech+HadoopSpark+Platforms+Q3+2018/-/E-RES142699): “Distributed computing software and services that are rooted in open source Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark to store, process, and analyze data to find and use insights to improve customer experiences, create timely business intelligence, optimize business processes, and make decision making smarter and faster.” Like traditional analytics, but bigger and with more ML?
451 (Matt Aslett & James Curtis) (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95775/Toc?SearchTerms=Cloudera): “Although there are cross-selling opportunities and the two companies share an underlying open source foundation, there are also significant areas of product overlap and competing functionality, as well as a history of animosity to overcome.”
Tamped down TAM: “Another way of looking at this is that the Hadoop market hasn't expanded enough to support the growth targets of two independent publicly traded companies, especially with the cloud providers to contend with.”
Cloudera is the winner: “While the deal is being described by the companies as a merger, make no mistake that Cloudera is acquiring Hortonworks. After the transaction closes, Cloudera shareholders will own approximately 60% of the combined company, which will do business as Cloudera, with Hortonworks shareholders owning approximately 40%.”
Products, Hortnworks: “Its primary product is the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), which consists of core Hadoop and some 20+ open source projects. But in August 2015, the company purchased Onyara, which was based on the Apache NiFi technology, and designed to enable users to collect, process and distribute data.”
Products, Cloudera: “To date, Cloudera offers several products and while Hortonworks has adopted a pure 100% open source approach. Cloudera has a hybrid strategy, mixing open source with its proprietary tooling. The company's core offering is the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (CDH) – specifically targeted products are provided for data warehousing, operational database, and data science and engineering. Its cloud offering is Altus, a PaaS available on AWS and Azure.”
451 in another report (Agatha Poon) (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95135/Toc?SearchTerms=Cloudera), on Cloudera, June 2018: “At present, data analytics tools and offerings are driving regional opportunities with enterprises slowly but clearly moving out from legacy data warehouse platform to a new generation of data analytics platform, which is highly distributed and open standards based, Cloudera says. For machine learning and advanced data analytics, the company believes that data scientists will be the main users and strategic partners to boost future uptake. While data scientists can make use of algorithms to train the model into production data clusters, it could be a time-consuming and complex endeavor. With that in mind, Cloudera has stepped up its game by acquiring applied machine learning research startup Fast Forward Labs in late 2017, deepening its expertise in applying machine learning to practical business problems. The bigger Cloudera says it is committed to researching new techniques to resolve real-world business problems, building codes as well as providing customers with machine learning advisory services leveraging Fast Forward Labs' domain expertise.”
Cloudera strategy: “Cloudera's proposition remains largely unchanged: lead machine learning in the enterprise, disrupt the data warehouse market for analytical and operational data workloads, capitalize on cloud adoption and drive innovation for simplification while mitigating data security risk. With cloud being an agent for digital transformation, the company has publicly announced its intent to lead with cloud innovation as part of the future growth strategy at the company level.”
Conferences, et. al.
Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/) - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle!
Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/) - near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
Oct 22nd - Cloud Native tour in Milan, Italy (https://connect.pivotal.io/milan_cloud_native_advocate_22oct.html). Coté and friends: a half day, a summit on Spring, DevOps, and cloud native programming. Free.
Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary).
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore).
Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations).
Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté.
Nonsense
Costco sought to provide a streaming service to customers (https://www.axios.com/costco-streaming-service-media-walmart-63c67545-67ef-4725-861f-fb70d285eb69.html).
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Recommendations
Brandon: Dr. Foster (https://www.netflix.com/title/80097034) on Neflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80097034)
Matt: Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsRpS6XGiOs&t=).
Coté: micro.blog (https://micro.blog/), where Coté now has cote.coffee (http://cote.coffee/) hooked up with some Instagram and Pinboard IFTTT wingdings. Drafts 5 seems fine. Coté needs help figuring out WTF “culture” is from a practical angle (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1050246624881061889).
10/11/2018 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 149: Selling enterprise software to governments (insert funnier title here)
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 (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/everyones-getting-better-at-software-highlights-from-springone-platform-2018).
The Woman Bringing Civility to Open Source Projects (https://www.wired.com/story/woman-bringing-civility-to-open-source-projects/)
Linux now dominates Azure (https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/)
Oracle says Kurian has resigned as president three weeks after he left to take time off (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/oracle-says-kurian-has-resigned-three-weeks-after-taking-time-off.html)
eBooks vs. Whitepapers: Which Performs Best? (https://www.cmswire.com/content-marketing/ebooks-vs-whitepapers-which-performs-best/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web-rss&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss)
Cloudera, Hortonworks Stocks Soar as the Big-Data Rivals Announce a $5.2B Merger (https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/10/03/cloudera-hortonworks-stock-soar-merger)
DXC Technology Scoops Up Small Texas Design Firm (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/dxc-technology-scoops-up-small-texas-design-firm)
China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies?srnd=premium)
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Conferences, et. al.
Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/) - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle!
Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/) - near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018) - Matt’s presenting!
Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) - Matt’s keynoting & igniting!
Oct 22nd - Milan! Pivotal Cloud Native Tour (https://connect.pivotal.io/milan_cloud_native_advocate_22oct.html) - free to attend! Coté and Jakob get your all cloud natived up!
Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary).
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore).
Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations).
Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté.
Nonsense
Costco's secret weapon: Food courts and $1.50 hot dogs (https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/business/costco-food-court-prices/index.html)
SDT news & hype
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Send your postal address to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and we will send you a sticker.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon: What Really Happened (http://jenkspod.com/) Podcast.
How Social Security Numbers Became A Form Of National Identification (https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/596180023/how-social-security-numbers-became-a-form-of-national-identification)
Coté: Dopper water bottles (https://dopper.com/). AMS security.
10/5/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 148: What do these consultants do anyway?
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 (https://staceyoniot.com/amazons-11-new-products-from-its-big-event/)
After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/after-years-of-abusive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside)
Software provider Solarwinds files for IPO (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/software-provider-solarwinds-files-for-ipo-2018-09-21)
Slack has made its biggest acquisition to date (https://qz.com/work/1392936/slack-has-made-its-biggest-acquisition-to-date/)
In praise of SWARMing (https://dannorth.net/2018/01/26/in-praise-of-swarming/)
Deliver Superior Business Outcomes. We Recap the Latest Release (https://content.pivotal.io/springone-platform-2018/pcf-2-3)
Announcing Chef Automate Managed Service for Azure - Chef Blog (https://blog.chef.io/2018/09/25/announcing-chef-automate-managed-service-for-azure/)
Microsoft Ignite 2018: Windows Virtual Desktop, Office 2019 and everything else just announced (https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-ignite-2018-windows-virtual-desktop-and-more/)
Flexera acquires RightScale to combine software asset, cloud management | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/flexera-acquires-rightscale-to-combine-software-asset-cloud-management/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
Instana raises $30M for its application performance monitoring service (https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/26/instana-raises-30m-for-its-application-performance-monitoring-service/)
Data.world raises $12M to help Fortune 500 companies close the great data divide (https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/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 (https://content.pivotal.io/springone-platform-2018/pks-1-2)
Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3, Powered by Industrialized Open Source, Helps You (https://content.pivotal.io/springone-platform-2018/pcf-2-3)
Revenge of the PMO | Silicon Valley Product Group (https://svpg.com/revenge-of-the-pmo/)
Conferences, et. al.
Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London (https://newrelic.com/futurestack/london), Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor (https://twitter.com/monkchips) in action at FutureStack on the 2nd.
Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup (https://connect.pivotal.io/london-meetup-oct18.html).
Oct 4th - ITQ Transform (https://itq.nl/transform/#transform_1), Utrecht - Coté talking.
Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/) - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle!
Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/) - near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018) - Matt’s presenting!
Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) - Matt’s keynoting & igniting!
Discount Code (https://ti.to/devopsdays-singapore/2018/discount/MRA_DEVOPS)
Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary).
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore).
Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations).
Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt:
Annihilation Movie, (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2798920/) Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Review (https://geeksguideshow.com/2018/02/27/ggg298-annihilation/)
Sonic Youth’s Youth Against Fascism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWzIlCJAw-o)
Brandon:
That Moment, Episode (https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/that-moment-episode-9-focus-on-what-s-in-your-control) 9 (http://That Moment, Episode 9: “Focus on what’s in your control”) with the Cote ad read at 13:11 (https://overcast.fm/+JhBYkbZw4/13:10)
Cloud Rankings from Liftrnews (https://liftrnews.com/)
9/28/2018 • 45 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 147: Strategy, the systems management company lifecycle, or, Adobe didn’t fuck it up!
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 (http://coffeeofday.com/coffee-answers/americano-vs-long-black/).
“Mo’ digital, mo’ problems” - With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems (https://www.cmswire.com/information-management/with-emerging-technology-comes-emerging-data-problems/?utm_source=cmswire.com&utm_medium=web-rss&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content=all-articles-rss)
Enterprise hits and misses - blockchain is a paradox; AI is a customer service automater (https://diginomica.com/2018/09/06/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 (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/oracle-president-thomas-kurian-taking-time-off.html)
New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2018/09/06/pagerduty-funding-billion-dollar-valuation/#2fcdfb4c411d)
Atlassian to pay $295M for Boston-based OpsGenie (https://www-bizjournals-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2018/09/05/atlassian-to-pay-295m-for-boston-based-opsgenie.amp.html)
Nancy Gohring and co analyze the deal (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95616/Toc).
No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2018/09/05/no-operations-isnt-going-anywhere-but-its-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 (https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/08/31/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 (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/vapor-io/vapor-io-raises-pe-funding-buys-out-nascent-edge-colocation-business-crown-castle)
In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/in-a-few-days-credit-freezes-will-be-fee-free/)
Adobe in talks to buy marketing software firm Marketo - sources (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-marketo-m-a-adobe-systems-exclusive/exclusive-adobe-in-talks-to-buy-marketing-software-firm-marketo-sources-idUSKCN1LT0EK)
“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 (https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/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 (https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/12/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 (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/startups/packet-raises-25m-series-b-starts-deployment-edge-computing-cloud)
What Is the Point of Mozilla? (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-point-mozilla) - “in 2016 various deals with search engines brought in an astonishing $520 million.”
Linus Torvalds taking break (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFy+Hv9O5citAawS+mVZO+ywCKd9NQ2wxUmGsz9ZJzqgJQ@mail.gmail.com/)
Google is killing Fabric in mid-2019, pushes developers to Firebase (https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/14/google-is-killing-fabric-in-mid-2019-pushes-developers-to-firebase/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Path is shutting down (https://path.com/about?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Mesosphere revenue, new CEO, etc. (https://mesosphere.com/blog/a-new-chapter-for-mesosphere/) - “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 (https://www.ciodive.com/news/the-information-google-to-take-on-microsoft-with-cloud-capabilities-for-on/532526/):
‘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
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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 (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) 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 (https://springoneplatform.io/), 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 (https://springonetour.io/)!
Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London (https://newrelic.com/futurestack/london), Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor (https://twitter.com/monkchips) in action at FutureStack on the 2nd.
Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup (https://connect.pivotal.io/london-meetup-oct18.html).
Oct 4th - ITQ Transform (https://itq.nl/transform/#transform_1), Utrecht - Coté talking.
Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/) - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle!
Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/) - near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018) - Matt’s presenting!
Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) - Matt’s keynoting & igniting!
Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam (https://web.cvent.com/event/23ce37e7-6077-42f5-8015-4a47a0cee30d/summary).
Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore).
Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations).
Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté.
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Recommendations
Matt: Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential (https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Confidential-Adventures-Culinary-Underbelly/dp/158234082X/); Secret City (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4976512/).
Brandon: Amazon Alexa Shopping List (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201549900).
Coté: Bikes. They get you places.
9/21/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 146: The 2018 State of DevOps Report, a gander
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 (https://cloudplatformonline.com/2018-state-of-devops.html), DORA edition:
Coté’s notes (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/DevOps-Report-2018-notes--AMFAauySL95JbMXriSwp5EzSAg-jcQAlt7wo7TqgpgeYj5RB).
Effective DevOps (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039846.do).
“Thread.” (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1036966455215095808) (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!)
VMworld 2018 Recap (http://www.virtubytes.com/2018/09/03/vmworld-2018-recap/).
VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications (https://diginomica.com/2018/09/03/vmwares-vision-your-multi-cloud-substrate-for-enterprise-applications/).
Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world (https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/09/04/atlassian-launches-jira-ops-to-fix-the-fragmented-incident-response-world/).
Elastic S-1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1707753/000119312518266861/d588632ds1.htm). Some actually useful summary/commentary on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17921878).
H-E-B Plans New Tech Facility, Innovation Lab In Austin (http://www.texastechpulse.com/h_e_b_plans_new_tech_facility_innovation_lab_in_austin/s-0075909.html). Hopefully Buddy will crush it.
https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/1037485524972457990
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DevOpsDays Berlin (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-berlin/welcome/), September 12th to 13th - Coté at a table.
New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London (https://newrelic.com/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 (https://itq.nl/transform/#transform_4), Oct 4th, Utrecht - Coté talking.
DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/), October 16th - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle.
JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/), Oct 17th, near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018). Matt’s presenting!
DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/). Matt’s presenting!
DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 (https://devopsdaysnewy.org/). Matt’s presenting!
Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. Coté’s presenting.
SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore). Also, Toronto, Dec 12th to 13th (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto).
Listener Feedback
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We are working on the Google Chrome Security thing. Actually, Fireside.fm is working on it.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Ozark (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552) Season 2 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552).
Matt: StarCraft 2 (https://starcraft2.com/en-us/), free to play! (Not to be confused with StarControl.)
Coté: Embedded Netflix, in your TV. Also: Sharp Objects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Objects_(miniseries)) - like all great shows, the end is a massive disappointment of Chekhovian-ease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun), but the rest is great. Anti-recommendation: whatever reasons make it so I have three remotes.
9/6/2018 • 59 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 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 (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/08/15/istio-aims-to-be-the-mesh-plumbing-for-containerized-microservices/)
Michael Cot (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business)é (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business) from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business)
Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHertz (https://theninehertz.com/blog/becoming-an-iot-developer/)
Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump? (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/has-bezos-become-more-powerful-in-dc-than-trump)
What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative? (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/what-will-be-the-real-impact-from-knative/2018/08/)
Google just gave control over data center cooling to an AI (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611902/google-just-gave-control-over-data-center-cooling-to-an-ai/)
O11yCon 2018: Notes and Observations (https://dev.to/dangolant/o11ycon-2018-notes-and-observations-4nbf)
Slack just raised a whopping $427 million to become a $7.1 billion company. Now, it has to defeat Microsoft. (https://www.businessinsider.com/slack-funding-valuation-microsoft-teams-2018-8)
Apple Pay Now Accepted at All Costco Warehouses in United States (https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/20/costco-now-widely-accepts-apple-pay/).
10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey (https://www.simform.com/serverless-examples-aws-lambda-use-cases/).
Announcing resource-based pricing for Google Compute Engine (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/announcing-resource-based-pricing-for-google-compute-engine.html).
DevOps Report 2018 released (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/devops-research-and-assessment-dora-announces-the-2018-accelerate-state-of-devops-report-300703837.html). 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 (https://content.pivotal.io/webinars/oct-11-the-accelerate-state-of-devops-report-webinar) about it.
Community management is a career cul-de-sac (https://thenewstack.io/why-community-manager-is-a-dead-end-job-and-what-to-do-about-it/). See interview next week (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/).
Good example of corpdev thinking, in the US (legal) drugs market (https://contrarianedge.com/2018/08/28/investors-have-misdiagnosed-amazons-push-into-the-pharmacy-business/).
“Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/29/google-steps-back-from-running-the-kubernetes-infrastructure/) 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 (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/armory-lands-10m-series-a-to-bring-continuous-delivery-to-enterprise-masses/).
VMworld NA 2018
VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for multi-cloud management (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/27/vmware-acquires-cloudhealth-technologies-for-multi-cloud-management/) -
Carl@451 (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95582/Toc?ref=Email%3Amis): “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 (https://twitter.com/owenrog/status/970708698879406080). 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 (https://thenewstack.io/vmware-ceo-a-virtual-machine-is-still-the-best-place-to-run-kubernetes/). Cameo (https://twitter.com/camhaight/status/1034101496332279810) from the Hill Country’s favorite systems management (former) analyst (https://twitter.com/camhaight).
VMware's Software-Defined Vision (https://www.actualtech.io/vmwares-software-defined-vision/).
Coté remember when he met with Kit Colbert at DockerCon EU 2014 (https://blog.docker.com/2015/01/dockercon-europe-the-future-of-micro-services/), 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 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/shares/R61a89), sadly.
Project Dimension (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/08/introducing-project-dimension.html) - on-demand private clouds, driven by SDDC stuff.
Pat’s Pillars (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-step-forward-capturing-full-potential-tech-pat-gelsinger/): ‘“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 (https://thenewstack.io/redis-pulls-back-on-open-source-licensing-citing-stingy-cloud-services/) The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/redis-pulls-back-on-open-source-licensing-citing-stingy-cloud-services/): “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 (https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/), (https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/) Redis Labs (https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/).
Adam Jacob Twitter thread on commons clause (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1032285457978208257).
SUSE Revenue Watch
SUSE is all like “PE Mane, call me!” https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/mcgregor-cash.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1
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 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tq65HkucftfmO7YUDpfAWEK7Eq3vb9DYfwYeuNqLQ1U/edit#gid=0) 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 (https://springoneplatform.io/), 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 (https://springonetour.io/)!
DevOpsDays Berlin (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-berlin/welcome/), September 12th to 13th.
DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/), October 16th.
Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018). Matt’s presenting!
DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/). Matt’s presenting!
DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 (https://devopsdaysnewy.org/).
DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-wellington/).
Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp, November 12th to 16th.
SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth!
Listener Feedback
Bryan wants you to know about DevOps Days Galway (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-galway/welcome/) November 18-20th
DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) wanted us to let folks know it’s October 11-12!
Camille sent us some feedback and really liked Matt’s Red Atlas recommendation (https://www.amazon.com/dp/022638957X/ref=asc_df_022638957X5555077?tag=shopz0d-20&ascsubtag=shopzilla_mp_1475-20;15350415381076093153510070301008005&creative=395261&creativeASIN=022638957X&linkCode=asn) because she lives near a missile site.
Joshua built a service that creates an RSS feed of podcasts based on keywords. Here’s an example: https://prod.mypod.online/feed?q=kubernetes Try it out.
Soon to be Honey Ninja subscribes to SDT (https://twitter.com/michaelwilde/status/1035392934110273536), citing host “wit” as driver.
SDT news & hype
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Dustin on Linux and Google Cloud (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/73)
Rachel Stephens from RedMonk on Numbers (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/74)
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon: Acquired Podcast (http://www.acquired.fm/).
Matt: Blindsight (http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm) by Peter Watts; The Good Fight (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5853176/).
Coté: Friendly Fire (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/friendly-fire) podcast (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/friendly-fire), the intros. Ikea knives.
8/31/2018 • 59 minutes, 56 seconds
Bonus Episode -- Interview with Dustin Kirkland from Google
This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) 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 (http://blog.dustinkirkland.com)
* Dustin on Twitter (https://twitter.com/DustinKirkland)
* Dustin’s presentation at Google Next (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rkYV4Chfw&feature=youtu.be)
* Run-one (http://launchpad.net/run-one)
* Vasa Museum (https://www.vasamuseet.se/en) Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.
8/23/2018 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 144: GDPR, Observability, & more on the mystery of serverless, still with half-assed research
“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.”
The title says it all.
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Relevant to your interests
Observations on Observability (https://posts.google.com/bulletin/share/MXKJKfKL/E16dl-/)
https://medium.com/@copyconstruct
This GDPR madness has to stop (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1029254783700541441), son!
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180809005850/en/AWS-Announces-General-Availability-Amazon-Aurora-Serverless)
State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/state-cloud-amazon-web-services-bigger-four-major-competitors-combined/)
AWS Serverless Application Repository (https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/serverlessrepo/)
Taking Tesla Private (https://www.tesla.com/blog/taking-tesla-private)
CNCF Serverless Whitepaper v1.0 (https://github.com/cncf/wg-serverless/tree/master/whitepaper) - not too bad so far.
Kelsey Hightower on Serverless… (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1029483537840263168) but wait…. Isn’t this just PaaS?
A developer’s view (https://frontside.io/blog/2018/08/09/kubernetes-for-the-kubernewbie/) of getting up and running with kubernetes.
“Progressive delivery,” (https://launchdarkly.com/blog/progressive-delivery-a-history-condensed/) see also James Governor on the term (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2018/08/06/towards-progressive-delivery/).
Nonsense
It’s raining tacos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3YmHZ9HMPs)
AWS icon quiz (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnEEo0o2JgnIt8VOGffhkcYj-C2h9m5_NFzM0Q1AU-P8d0zA/viewform)
To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/15/room-phone-booths/)
SoftBank May Invest up to $750 Million in Robotic Pizza Startup Zume (https://www.barrons.com/articles/softbank-may-invest-up-to-750-million-in-robotic-pizza-startup-zume-1533753812)
“I took the cool out of Cool Rick.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Y_3Q5YnTc)
Conferences, et. al.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), 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 (https://springonetour.io/)!
DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey! (http://devopstalks.com/devops.html)
DevOpsDays Berlin (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-berlin/welcome/), September 12th to 13th.
DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/), October 16th.
Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018).
DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/).
DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 (https://devopsdaysnewy.org/).
DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-wellington/).
Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp, November 12th to 16th.
SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth!
Listener Feedback
Andy from Netflix send me a LinkedIn request and got a sticker
SDT news & hype
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Chris Donaldson on Automation (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/72)
Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/71)
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon: Westworld (https://www.hbo.com/westworld).
Matt: Dune fandom (https://theoutline.com/post/5333/dune-revival-2018-david-lynch). As heard on Song Exploder (http://songexploder.net/jon-hopkins): Jon Hopkins Singularity (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jon-hopkins-singularity/). The Red Atlas (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022638957X/).
Coté: Hemingway app (http://www.hemingwayapp.com/). Slate Podcast Plus (http://www.slate.com/plus/home). PodCTL on registries (https://blog.openshift.com/podcast-podctl-45-container-registries/).
8/17/2018 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 143: Serverless now just means “programming”
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.
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Relevant to your interests
Everyone’s favorite Outlook feature, now in G Suite (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/google-calendar-makes-rescheduling-meetings-easier/).
Do we know what “serverless” is yet? Someone named that got some funding (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/serverless-inc-lands-10-m-series-a-to-build-serverless-developers-platform/).
Related, Istio 1.0 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/31/istio_sets_sail_as_red_hat_renovates_openshift_container_ship/): “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 (https://k1k1chan.com/post/590832918/do-not-want)!
Follow-up: Brenon at 451 says (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/broadcom-cant-get-there-from-here/) 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 (https://www.barrons.com/articles/softbank-may-invest-up-to-750-million-in-robotic-pizza-startup-zume-1533753812). Featured in that OKR book. For real.
AWS: still makes lots of money, market-leader by revenue (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/state-cloud-amazon-web-services-bigger-four-major-competitors-combined/). See also Gartner on the topic (https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3884500): “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 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/vista-equity-is-said-to-weigh-sale-of-software-maker-tibco): “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 (https://duo.com/about/press/releases/cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-duo-security).
What’s this ABN e.dentifier thing (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.dentifier)?
Apprenda shuts down (https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Troy-based-Apprenda-stopping-operations-investor-13111235.php). SASSY (https://www.networkworld.com/article/2848762/cloud-computing/hitting-them-where-they-work.html)!
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Recommendations
Brandon: Masters of Doom (https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Masters-of-Doom-Audiobook/B008K8BQG6?qid=1533849060&sr=sr_1_3&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_3&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=754XS4GQGN71K8XCBNWW&).
Matt: Deadpool 2 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5463162/). If you liked the first, you’ll like the second.
Coté: 1980’s Action Figure tumblr (https://1980sactionfigures.tumblr.com/) - now that I have fast Internet, tumblr is workable. Mask, Cops, sweet Dune figures (https://www.networkworld.com/article/2848762/cloud-computing/hitting-them-where-they-work.html), generic GI Joe figures. Dutch Internet (https://www.ziggo.nl/alles-in-1/max/), son! SHIT DOG!
8/10/2018 • 59 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 142: Harness that peer pressure for good
"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 (https://cloud.google.com/gke-on-prem/)
Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/google_cloud_next/)
Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud (https://thenewstack.io/knative-enables-portable-serverless-platforms-on-kubernetes-for-any-cloud/)
IBM, Google Give Birth to Knative Serverless Cloud Project (http://www.eweek.com/development/ibm-google-give-birth-to-knative-serverless-cloud-project)
Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/googles-cloud-functions-serverless-platform-is-now-generally-available/)
Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration/continuous delivery platform (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/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 (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/google-ceo-confirms-target-big-cloud-customer-continuing-retail-defections-aws/)
Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud (https://blog.golang.org/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 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/19/microsoft_huge_2018_q4/)
Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers (https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/20/google-facebook-microsoft-data-transfer-project/)
IBM stock rises after earnings beat (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/ibm-earnings-q2-2018.html)
SolarWinds | SolarWinds Acquires Trusted Metrics (https://www.solarwinds.com/company/press-releases/2018-q3/solarwinds-acquires-trusted-metrics?mc_cid=8b3259d8a3&mc_eid=825c180d0b)
Cisco, networking stocks drop on a report Amazon Web Services is considering selling network devices (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/13/aws-network-devices-report-cisco-juniper-fall.html)
Exclusive: Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway (https://www.google.com/amp/s/bgr.com/2018/07/10/apple-1password-acquisition-deal/amp/)
Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-web-services-crosses-6-billion-mark-quarterly-revenue-49-percent/')
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Important nonsense
I got the beer you asked for (https://reddit.app.link/lNcM81P9BO)
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Recommendations
Brandon:
The Sinner (http://www.usanetwork.com/thesinner/blog/season-1-of-the-sinner-streaming-on-netflix) 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 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/chefranden/241215585/in/photolist-ehUp3w-7SxrtA-njhZp-573GUS-cCYit-bDSQx-f6dDAs-23pXxU7-f6dyqQ-2FeTSt-6gt5NM-3KqSC-8sJDib-2SENLL-jUSMBZ-9Ftikz-f6dCd5-HSmQ1-f6dAco-87rJB2-f6do9Y-f6dqUS-f6dmaC-f5Y9Kn-f6dshY/)
7/27/2018 • 59 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of cloud native vendor product management
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 (https://www.google.com/search?q=Vinsanto&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl2eOyz5LcAhXj5IMKHaK6BkcQ_AUICygC&biw=1593&bih=960&dpr=2) is the Greek wine Coté was talking about (https://www.google.com/search?q=Vinsanto&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl2eOyz5LcAhXj5IMKHaK6BkcQ_AUICygC&biw=1593&bih=960&dpr=2).
No more hot-dogs at Le Café CostCo (https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/07/10/costco-removes-polish-dog-menu/).
Coté rides a Lime scooter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpqEfnZs5Q&feature=youtu.be)
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Relevant to your interests
AT&T to Acquire AlienVault (https://www.alienvault.com/who-we-are/press-releases/at-t-to-acquire-alienvault)
Broadcom buying CA (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/12/broadcom_ca_technologies/):
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 (https://medium.com/@cote/so-you-want-to-become-a-software-company-7-tips-to-not-screw-it-up-9580235af076), 2016.
“ (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1017402130011971584)Wait… what? (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1017402130011971584)” (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1017402130011971584)
Basho investor to pay up $20m in damages for campaign that put biz on 'greased slide to failure' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/09/basho_damages_20m_misinformation_threats/)
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 (http://www.thisisinsider.com/google-cloud-responds-viral-customer-complaint-2018-7/)’
The mysterious value of dancing hot dog shares (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-11/investors-gave-snap-a-gift), 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 (https://www.amazon.com/Shareholder-Value-Myth-Shareholders-Corporations/dp/1605098132)—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 (https://www.axios.com/box-acquires-file-search-tool-butterai-7d7fdd64-a633-4dfa-ae38-5b2d3186b448.html): “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 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/slack-announces-improved-search-tool/#ftag=RSSbaffb68): most anything (https://slackhq.com/less-searching-more-doing-d249e59fa8c1) would be better than how it is now.
IT spending survey from Goldman (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/technology-spending-by-the-numbers-from-public-cloud-to-security-measures-14644681): security, private cloud, and storage rise. Public cloud and SaaS fall, BI/analytics stays the same.
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Recommendations
Brandon: In the Dark Podcast (https://www.apmreports.org/in-the-dark).
Matt: Apple hardware, “should be fine.”
Coté: Lovecraft’s commonplace book and such: pictures (https://thelittlesleep.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/john-hay-library-of-providence-and-h-p-lovecraft/), some transcription (https://www.wired.com/2011/07/h-p-lovecrafts-commonplace-book/) (better spaced version (http://www.lapetiteclaudine.com/archives/011196.html)).
7/12/2018 • 1 hour, 7 seconds
Episode 140: Meanwhile, in microchips…
For some reason, we talk about Intel. Plus, SUSE going PE and sun screen strategies for kids.
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# Important nonsense
Coté wrote some stuff on compliance and DevOps/cloud native/digital transformation (https://medium.com/@cote/dealing-with-compliance-6f5f87141e65). What do you call that stuff?
Relevant to your interests
Micro Focus offloads Linux-wrangler SUSE for a cool $2.5bn (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/02/linux_makes_suse_sold_for_a_cool_2535bn/) - that’s 9.5 Red Hats!
Ding dong Dell deal: Firm is set to go public again (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/02/dell_set_to_go_public_again_after_emc_buy_transforms_it/)
Repository Attacks Continue with Backdoored Docker Images (https://thenewstack.io/repository-attacks-continue-with-backdoored-docker-images/)
5 Ways Serverless Changes Software Development (http://thenewstack.io/5-ways-serverless-changes-software-development/)
Intel veteran departs Google Cloud unit (https://www.axios.com/intel-veteran-departs-google-cloud-division-13cd620a-4dbd-43d9-905a-d7383f326b16.html)
“What your innovation process should look like,” (https://hbr.org/2017/09/what-your-innovation-process-should-look-like) Steve Blank, and a newer piece on the topic (https://steveblank.com/2018/06/05/whats-next-for-getting-stuff-done-in-large-organizations-the-innovation-stack/).
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 (https://www.forrester.com/report/Adoption+Profile+Public+Cloud+In+Europe+Q2+2018/-/E-RES142852)
Kubernetes korner
Pivotal Container Service 1.1, Now GA, Helps You Run Kubernetes Without Complexity. Why PKS Just Works. (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pivotal-container-service-1-1-now-ga-helps-you-run-kubernetes-without-complexity-why-pks-just-works?utm_campaign=content-social&utm_medium=social-sprout&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1530196081)
Kubernetes-fil-A (https://www.slideshare.net/BrianChambers10/chickfila-milking-the-most-out-of-thousands-of-kubernetes-clusteres), and interview (https://qconnewyork.com/ny2018/presentation/chick-fil-milking-most-out-thousands-kubernetes-clusters) - running kubernetes in-store for those sweet waffle fries.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
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Conferences, et. al.
July 10th, Austin Cloud Native Meetup - The .Net Cloud-Native Renaissance (http://The .NET Cloud-Native Renaissance) - Coté’s co-host on Pivotal Conversations (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations), Richard Seroter (https://twitter.com/rseroter), brings the .Net flavor.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), 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 (https://springonetour.io/)!
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Recommendations
Brandon: QuickConcall iPhone App (https://www.quickconcall.com/)
Matt: Australian NBN (https://www.nbnco.com.au/), but not my provider; The Wirecutter (http://thewirecutter.com/), just because.
Coté: “The Trouble With Johnny Depp.” (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/the-trouble-with-johnny-depp-666010/)
7/6/2018 • 59 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 139: “Docker? Never heard of ‘em.”
Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We speculate wildly, and without spreadsheets. Also, lots of people have been funded, there’s a new bundle of kubernetes releases, and we discuss t-shirts.
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Important nonsense
What does it mean when you wear Thrasher t-shirt?
Follow-up: duffel bags, they work. One got unzipped slightly, so probably should zip-tie the zippers.
Texas’ Favorite Grocery Store HEB Opens Taco Restaurant (https://austin.eater.com/2018/6/25/17501234/heb-taco-restaurant-san-antonio)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features (https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/06/kubernetes-microsoft-aks?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global)
Relevant to your interests
You’ve got Money!
Splunk to Acquire Software Problem-Solver VictorOps for $120 Million (http://fortune.com/2018/06/11/splunk-acquire-software-startup-victorops/)
The IPOs keep coming: The search company Elastic has filed to go public (https://www.recode.net/2018/6/21/17491102/elastic-elasticsearch-ipo-confidential-filing-wall-street)
BuildGroup Raises $330 Million of Permanent Capital to Build Great Software (https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/06/prweb15555318.htm)
DevOps automation leader Puppet lands $42M funding round (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/06/27/devops-automation-leader-puppet-lands-42m-funding-round/)
Puppet raises $42M led by Cisco as its DevOps automation platform passes 40,000 businesses (https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/puppet-raises-42m-led-by-cisco-as-its-devops-automation-platform-passes-40000-businesses/)
CloudBees raises $62M for its DevOps platform (https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/cloudbees-raises-62m-for-its-devops-platform/)
Software considered hard
Why software giants are failing (https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Why-Software-Giants-Are-Failing)
What really is the difference between “maintenance” and SaaS models?
The problem with assigning value (and, thus, price) to any piece of software/IT.
So then, what did Microsoft get right? (And did they?)
Also, more on Oracle’s financials (https://upperedge.com/oracle/oracle-gets-cloudy-whats-behind-their-change-in-financial-reporting/).
DigitalOcean taps Citrix Systems vet to be new CEO (https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2018/06/21/digitalocean-taps-citrix-systems-vet-to-be-new-ceo.amp.html)
Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture (https://thenewstack.io/serverless-impacts-on-business-process-and-culture/)
“What we are seeing with customers is that tech is coming up the hype curve pretty quickly,” said Sharples. “Microservices was a pretty quick climb, and serverless is in steeper than that.”
Hot-take: “Wow, just replace each instance of ‘serverless’ with ‘rails,’ and you have a great mid-2000s moment.”
Realtime follow-up: does this mean that Wardley is now DHH?
WTF? The data behind Microsoft's surprising open source track record (https://blog.tidelift.com/wtf-the-data-behind-microsofts-surprising-open-source-track-record)
“Microsoft may have a mixed history with open source, but today the company is demonstrating some impressive traction when it comes to open source community contributions. If we are to judge the company on its recent actions, the data shows what Satya Nadella said in his announcement about Microsoft being “all in on open source” is more than just words.”
Microsoft starts outlining its Visual Studio 2019 plans (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-starts-outlining-its-visual-studio-2019-plans/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
Docker Depot
Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/13/docker_pitches_kit/)
Docker CEO Steve Singh says container company is approaching “triple digit” millions in bookings (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/docker-ceo-steve-singh-says-container-company-approaching-triple-digit-millions-bookings/)
DockerCon Takeaways (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/1c6b9975-33fe-485b-b64f-d22de71f18e3.pdf)
8 surprising facts about real Docker adoption (https://www.datadoghq.com/docker-adoption/?utm_source=microserviceweekly.com&utm_medium=email)
(https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/1c6b9975-33fe-485b-b64f-d22de71f18e3.pdf)## Kubernetes Korner
Introducing VMware Kubernetes Engine™ (VKE) - VMware Cloud Community (https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2018/06/26/introducing-vmware-kubernetes-engine-vke/), and in (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/27/vmware_/) The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/27/vmware_/).
EKS vs. ECS: orchestrating containers on AWS (https://cloudonaut.io/eks-vs-ecs-orchestrating-containers-on-aws/)
The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes (https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-release-cycle/)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features (https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/06/kubernetes-microsoft-aks?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global)
Meanwhile, time for “a scheduled maintenance window”: 1.11 is out (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/06/27/kubernetes-1.11-release-announcement/).
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/welcome/). 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 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/registration/).
Conferences, et. al.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-amsterdam/welcome/) - come get a sticker!
Also at some World Cup things in Cologne and Munich, email if you’re a VP type and interested.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), 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 (https://springonetour.io/)!
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Recommendations
Brandon: The North Face Base Camp Duffel Large (https://www.thenorthface.com/shop/equipment-luggage-duffels-duffels/base-camp-duffel-l-nf0a3etq?variationId=6WP#hero=0), Waboba Water Skipping Ball (https://www.waboba.com/shop-water-balls).
Matt: Three Body Problem (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IQO403K/) by Cixin Liu.
Coté: BOOMIVERSE (https://open.spotify.com/user/bushwald/playlist/1JhqRr9BM0ZQKyJlT9n3PK?si=MjnsDcGkQBWVRehpBBqKDw). Somehow I missed this album last year. GRIND AND STACK! (Props, as they used to say, to my old friend, Mason, (https://twitter.com/masoncarroll) for pointing it out to me. Get your super-fast Internet in SF (https://www.monkeybrains.net/) from him!) Also, I can certify that the Courtney Barnett album (https://milk-records.myshopify.com/products/courtney-barnett-tell-me-how-you-really-feel) is good.
6/29/2018 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 138: 8 Duffle bags, some permitted food enhancer and, GitHub goes to Redmond
GItHub got bought so we breakdown what it all means for devs and open source. Matt Ray offers expert tips on relocating your family aboard as Coté prepares to move to Amsterdam. Finally, we announced the first live in person Software Defined Talk meetup in July somewhere in Austin. Don’t miss it.
GitHub got bought
Price: $7.5bn in stock. Getting Microsoft stock now is probably good, should have good growth over next 3 to five years (the golden handcuff period, etc.).
See the overview deck from Microsoft (https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c.s-microsoft.com/en-us/CMSFiles/calldeck.pptx?version=f3eef72b-35d3-95b2-4fda-73a47f805c7f).
Very qualitative, not much (or any) business case numbers stuff.
Will “operate independently,” Microsoft’s Nat Friedman to be CEO of GitHub, reporting up to Scott Guthrie.
Does this imply Microsoft will be moving OSS stuff to the GitHub business?
How does this fit with TFS, whatever “Sourcesafe” is now? Coté has no idea about the current state of that business, esp. w/r/t to git. Slides say there’s be the usual seamless integration in VisualStudio, also some marketplace thing additions (presumably, pull in GitHub repos).
Don’t forget the private cloud version of GitHub, plus using it for cloud native/DevOps config storage and release management stuff.
Microsoft’s blog post (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/), GitHub’s blog post (https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/).
Google Was Bidding Against Microsoft For GitHub, Report Says | CRN Mobile (https://m.crn.com/news/cloud/300104596/google-was-bidding-against-microsoft-for-github-report-says.htm)
# Kubernetes Korner
Four years after release of Kubernetes 1.0, it has come a long way (https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/06/four-years-after-release-of-kubernetes-1-0-it-has-come-long-way/)
Enterprise hits and misses - AI hits the curve, SAP subverts the two-speed enterprise (https://diginomica.com/2018/06/06/enterprise-hits-and-misses-ai-hits-the-curve-sap-subverts-the-two-speed-enterprise/)
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Conferences, et. al.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-amsterdam/welcome/) - come get a sticker!
Also at some World Cup things in Cologne and Munich, email if you’re a VP type and interested.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), 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 (https://springonetour.io/)!
The Software Defined Talk Meetup
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SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Recommendations
Brandon: New York T (https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games/lp897H9.html?campaignId=47LFJ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjN7YBRCOARIsAFCb934Mi7pJWCigB6YfV4e-84hr9DVOcSkDi4jDU2N5rCB_ZMZU-6fdR8YaAtr3EALw_wcB&dclid=CNnNuMLwv9sCFVaraQodG6MJeg)i (https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games/lp897H9.html?campaignId=47LFJ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjN7YBRCOARIsAFCb934Mi7pJWCigB6YfV4e-84hr9DVOcSkDi4jDU2N5rCB_ZMZU-6fdR8YaAtr3EALw_wcB&dclid=CNnNuMLwv9sCFVaraQodG6MJeg)mes Crossword App (https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/games/lp897H9.html?campaignId=47LFJ&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjN7YBRCOARIsAFCb934Mi7pJWCigB6YfV4e-84hr9DVOcSkDi4jDU2N5rCB_ZMZU-6fdR8YaAtr3EALw_wcB&dclid=CNnNuMLwv9sCFVaraQodG6MJeg)
Matt: Killing Eve (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7016936/)
Coté: that Singaporian soup mix (Song Fa bak kut teh (https://www.songfa.com.sg/)). What are “permitted food enhancer (E621),” though?
photo credit (https://www.flickr.com/photos/unfoldedorigami/2736239796/in/photolist-5aMWLd-duFvra-W8Gn3s-afnmXg-dZXZXS-fGqUk2-fGHtyG-fGqTW8-7PPsrg-bZNbZ5-VuvUXX-aVzLAB-VuvVqk-fkbLc-7hmmSo-KaJ1Ut-ddSJg-VuvWjV-7PPsRn-dPuC87-Nr18H-7PSLgo-dPuCmQ-iDRBf-96BLzJ-d6KvqC-VuvVfk-WEqbz5-8m5g3h-VrN1cm-W8HypJ-dPoZsP-pQtEWF-W8HiMN-VuvLy2-VrN1xm-ch9Fyf-dRRnBN-VrMZTL-WEpY7u-rfTDR9-d6KvdC-5QFJ9Z-fb82pi-bViWDu-7PPs4v-f5zwWr-a3T15k-9jZ8QT-dPoZwi)
6/7/2018 • 52 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 137: “I didn’t choose the Immortan Joe life-style, it chose me.”
There’s a new IaaS magic quadrant out that we finally take a look at. Plus, with some nerd-fighting in the kubernetes world, we discuss the point of all these blinking cursors.
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Follow up
Did Matt watch The Tick (https://www.amazon.com/The-Tick/dp/B01J776HVW)? (Spoiler alert: no.)
Relevant to your interests
BA now part of TSA Pre (https://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2018/05/17/british-airways-tsa-pre-check/). Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. It’s hard to find where to enter this: on individual flights?
Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdjcdZqODoE&feature=youtu.be), slides (https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-report-2018-99574140).
Cloud is a six-horse rac (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/gartner_2018_magic_quadrant_for_infrastructure_as_a_service/)e, and three of those have been lapped
State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem (https://blog.spotinst.com/2018/05/20/kubernetes-ecosystem/)
Kubernetes won - so now what? (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2018/05/25/kubernetes-won-so-now-what/)
Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-platform-breaks-into-leader-category-in-gartners-magic-quadrant/). The Full Gartner MQ (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-50WJ5CK&ct=180525&st=sb). Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/gartner_2018_magic_quadrant_for_infrastructure_as_a_service/) coverage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/gartner_2018_magic_quadrant_for_infrastructure_as_a_service/).
IDC survey on digital transformation (https://diginomica.com/2018/05/30/whats-really-driving-digital-transformation-globally-idc-has-answers/) says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and be more competitive, among other survey findings. And, as always, “the biggest barriers are people oriented.” Get the Infor sponsored PDF (https://www.infor.com/content/analyst/Designing-tomorrow.pdf/?noRedirect=1) if you’re into this kind of thing.
Infrastructure software is back (https://twitter.com/ritam/status/1002339901507899392)! Also, Amazon’s DB has huge growth.
“Full Life-cycle Developers” (https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/full-cycle-developers-at-netflix-a08c31f83249) at Netflix
Like SRE, but “platform ops.”
Which is to say, something like, “shallow DevOps.”
“Netflix created centralized teams (e.g., Cloud Platform, Performance & Reliability Engineering, Engineering Tools) with the mission of developing common tooling and infrastructure (https://netflix.github.io/) to solve problems that every development team has. Empowered with these tools in hand, development teams can focus on solving problems within their specific product domain.”
“As additional tooling needs arise, centralized teams assess whether the needs are common across multiple dev teams. When they are, collaborations ensue. Sometimes these local needs are too specific to warrant centralized investment. In that case the development team decides if their need is important enough for them to solve on their own.”
“we arrived at a model where a development team, equipped with amazing developer productivity tools, is responsible for the full software life cycle: design, development, test, deploy, operate, and support”…but not the infrastructure, common middleware and services, and “platform” that they run on. Just like SRE, eh? Which the post says.
Use of the roads seems optional, and sometimes challenging to recruit for: ‘Netflix has a “paved road” set of tools and practices that are formally supported by centralized teams. We don’t mandate adoption of those paved roads but encourage adoption by ensuring that development and operations using those technologies is a far better experience than not using them. The downside of our approach is that the ideal of “every team using every feature in every tool for their most important needs” is near impossible to achieve. Realizing the returns on investment for our centralized teams’ solutions requires effort, alignment, and ongoing adaptations.’
Coté had dinner with Netflix tools engineer many years ago where they described exactly this.
Question: what exactly is DevOps (now) anyways? Is it too expansive to be useful as a phrase, and instead a buffet of thought technologies?
BMC changes PE hands (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/kkr-to-buy-bmc-software-from-bain-group-golden-gate-capital):
Brenon@451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=95026&type=mis&alertid=1645&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=95026-A+sizeable+secondary+for+BMC): “Terms of the BMC secondary weren't released. However, early reports indicated that the price paid by the syndicate for BMC and the price received for BMC [$6.9bn five years ago] weren't radically different.”
Same: “the software vendor that says it posts revenue of $2bn each year.”
The reporters are like “I got no idea what the fuck these people do”: “Houston-based BMC builds various types of software solutions for businesses looking to manage and streamline their information.”
“BMC has about 6,000 employees in 30 countries, according to its website.”
“BMC has more than $5 billion in debt outstanding, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.”
Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdjcdZqODoE&feature=youtu.be), slides (https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-report-2018-99574140). Reports that the decks are getting more concise (https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1002125689749848066).
Kubernetes Korner
PodCTL #37 (https://blog.openshift.com/podcast-podctl-37-how-to-deploy-applications-to-kubernetes/) covers Helm and other deployment schemes - Very responsible Coté hasn’t listened to it yet.
Nerd fight on forking (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3276009/open-source-tools/the-kubernetes-fork-open-source-purists-miss-the-point.html):
Asay: “Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about vendor lockin, enterprises have demonstrated a remarkable ability to shrug off that concern and buy deeply into Microsoft, Oracle, and, yes, Red Hat’s OpenShift.”
Question: how close are we to going OpenStack on all this? Is that even a helpful question, or just trolling?
“Kubernetes has, in fact, already lost the war to serverless,” James Governor (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2018/05/25/kubernetes-won-so-now-what/).
By the time you hear this, Coté will have finally given a Kubernetes talk (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1002338318846083072).
The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem (https://blog.spotinst.com/2018/05/20/kubernetes-ecosystem/):
Overview of all the (vendor) players.
“A Forrester study (http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/business/solutions/whitepapers/en/Documents/Containers_Real_Adoption_2017_Dell_EMC_Forrester_Paper.pdf) found that 66% of organizations who adopted containers experienced accelerated developers efficiency, while 75% of companies achieved a moderate to significant increase in application deployment speed.”
“According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is set to grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020”
Important nonsense
BA now part of TSA Pre (https://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2018/05/17/british-airways-tsa-pre-check/). Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. Although, it’s hard to find where to enter this. Perhaps it’s ticket-by-ticket.
# Conferences, et. al.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/).
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-amsterdam/welcome/) - come get a sticker!
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), 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 (https://springonetour.io/)!
Listener Feedback
Gabriel from Puerto Rico got a sticker
Daniel had a sticker sent all they way to South Austin
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
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Recommendations
Brandon: Station Eleven (https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Station-Eleven-Audiobook/B00M27L7TC). Zone 1.
Matt: The Terror (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/the-terror-amc/559031/), still.
Coté: American Airline’s software. Compared to others like BA, Cathey, Korean Air, Thai Air. Also, Star Trek: Discovery (https://www.amazon.com/The-Vulcan-Hello/dp/B077M2959Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1527812877&sr=1-1&keywords=Star+Trek+Discovery). Star Trek: Voyager (https://www.amazon.com/Caretaker/dp/B005HEVBGG/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1527812805&sr=1-1&keywords=Star+Trek+Voyager) is pretty good plane TV fodder. That Neelix guy needs to calm the fuck down though with his space-mullet (https://coub.com/view/3cjcd).
6/1/2018 • 48 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 136: That time Matt didn’t eat for 24 hours, or, #chefconf 2018
“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we meander between those two we also talk about kubernetes Helm, packaging, and how Docker is (they say) going to save you $50m in computer costs.
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DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/welcome/). 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 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/registration/).
Follow-up
If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless (https://twitter.com/cote/status/997492961758900224), it’s amazingly good and helpful.
#chefconf
Chef Automate 2.0 (https://thenewstack.io/chef-takes-an-app-centric-approach-with-the-automate-2-0-release/):
Don’t worry, it’s been rewritten in Go.
Scott Carey (https://www.computerworlduk.com/devops/chef-shifts-towards-app-automation-with-20-release-3677749/): “with the release of Chef Automate 2.0 during Chef Conf in Chicago this week, the company is focusing on building a platform on these three pillars: infrastructure, apps and compliance, setting the company up for wherever the future takes it.”
CEO’s keynote summary (https://www.computerworlduk.com/it-leadership/chef-ceo-we-want-be-like-salesforce-3677935/).
On-prem Habitat Builder (https://blog.chef.io/2018/05/23/announcing-habitat-builder-on-premises-and-expanded-ecosystem-integrations/).
Chef Workstation (https://blog.chef.io/2018/05/23/introducing-chef-workstation/).
Matt tells you how suck out some InSpec stuff from Terraform (https://blog.chef.io/2018/05/23/automatically-generating-inspec-controls-from-terraform/).
How CapitalOne uses Chef (https://www.computerworlduk.com/devops/why-capital-one-completely-re-architected-its-chef-stack-on-aws-3677848/):
“[M]ore than 15,000 nodes for dev, QA, and production environments, all hosted on AWS”
They like public cloud (quote from 2017 article): “About 40 percent of our production workload is on AWS now. At 40 percent we are larger than Netflix on the AWS footprint, it's huge. We are not running a hybrid model - our focus is everything on cloud. There are data centre-based applications being transformed, re-written, re-engineered, thrown out, to get to cloud."
Also, WTF is Helm? See: this talk from Amy Chen is really good (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQX5nokoqrQ), and this other one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1S2Gp47ng).
OpenStack Summit
So, it’s still NFV heavy with existing enterprise deploys? Plus, Mirantis us pushing for a CI/CD focus?
Haven’t read the survey yet.
Brief (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/networking_roundup_may_24/) Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/networking_roundup_may_24/) coverage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/networking_roundup_may_24/): VMwware updates (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-ready-to-release-new-openstack-cloud-program/), AT&T and others donate some code, Solarwinds adds in some more support.
VMware likes NFV (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-ready-to-release-new-openstack-cloud-program/): ‘VMware is targeting the telecom industry with this release. Gabriele Di Piazza, VMware Telco NFV Business Unit's VP of products and solutions, said in a statement, "VMware Integrated OpenStack 5 will enable customers to achieve the massive scale required to power Telco and private clouds globally, and address NFV and edge computing use cases as telecom networks evolve towards 5G."’
Shuttleworth gonna Shuttleworth (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntus-mark-shuttleworth-pulls-no-punches-on-red-hat-and-vmware-in-openstack-cloud/#ftag=RSSbaffb68): “If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is your company. If you prefer a partner, which offers a soup-to-nuts stack, but at a higher price, look to Red Hat. And, of course, if you're already wedded to VMware, you've made your choice. There's room for all these approaches to the 21st century cloud and containers.”
Over on TechCrunch, in his layup (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/openstack-in-transition/), Frederic Lardinois paints a picture of the current Story of OpenStack.
“That current state produces fewer flashy headlines, but every survey, both from the Foundation itself and third-party analysts, show that the number of users — and their OpenStack clouds — continues to grow.”
Mirantis, after $200m in funding, refocusing(?) on CI/CD with Spinnaker support, “shrunk from almost 1,000 employees to 450 today, but as Mirantis CEO and co-founder Boris Renski told me, it’s now cash-flow positive.”
Boris: “I think that Spinnaker should become part of the Foundation. That’s the opportunity and I think it should focus 150 percent of their energy on that before it builds its own thing and before [Spinnaker] goes off to the CNCF as yet another project.”
Caroline Donnelly (https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252441808/From-open-clouds-to-open-infrastructure-OpenStacks-evolution-continues) covers the quest to become a more general foundation for infrastructure stuff, started in 2015 with “The Big Tent” positioning.
Side-note: Donnely’s and Lardinois’s articles are good example of doing good tech journalism (I mean, I always like more charts and TAM’s, but they don’t really do that over art Oath - could have also gotten a paragraph of “the kubernetes threat” backed up by usage momentum surveys - but, hey! - pretty good all around.).
Relevant to your interests
Coté’s three methods of dealing with grumpy people (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/14/devops_change_barriers/) when you’re digital transforming and DevOps’ing all the things, the The Register.
All these GDPR emails. Oh for fuck’s sake! (Cf. Jon Collins interview (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/61).)
What does Terraform do again? When is that company going to be acquired?
Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker's CEO says yes. (https://diginomica.com/2018/05/22/can-it-finally-deliver-innovation-without-busting-its-own-budget-dockers-ceo-says-yes/)
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst On How He Plans To Win The Container Market (https://m.crn.com/slide-shows/virtualization/300104051/red-hat-ceo-jim-whitehurst-on-how-he-plans-to-win-the-container-market.htm).
Docker, Inc. still on that cost take-out strategy (https://diginomica.com/2018/05/22/can-it-finally-deliver-innovation-without-busting-its-own-budget-dockers-ceo-says-yes/):
“What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and infrastructure management cost, and cutting it in half. Let’s say that you can cut 50 million dollars out of your app and infrastructure management cost, which by the way, some of our customers are at. That’s 50 million dollars you can go spend on innovation. That’s not going to the CEO and saying look, I need another hundred million dollars in my budget. That’s freeing up 50-100 million dollars of your existing budget.”
Bro. So the message is “Docker will cut $50m [annually?] out of your IT budget.” $12.5m a quarter in extra cash? That kind of shit could make quarterly numbers. Could that even be real? Bruh.
Salesforce.com, Inc. CRM: MuleSoft, Revisited (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/122991fe-f2db-4104-8156-c4be45f8c003.pdf) - Mule “application integration revenue could quickly scale to $1B+” over next 2 to 3 years.
Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-platform-breaks-into-leader-category-in-gartners-magic-quadrant/).
Google reps breath a sigh of relief.
gartner-iaas-mq-april-2018.png https://zdnet1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/05/23/42a0e1b3-1500-436c-af05-ba02bec87fd3/resize/770xauto/f09abc28f0cf9395a2e3a6ef5201cfa5/gartner-iaas-mq-april-2018.png
Weekly “get off my lawn” segment, monitoring corner edition
Sensu overvu (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/24/making-sense-of-sensu/).
Flat vs. hierarchical (https://thenewstack.io/dimensional-data-making-the-leap-from-monitoring-to-observing/) - You’ll always end up with a reverse tree, complete with those little plus signs at each leaf to expand what’s under it.
PATROL https://communities.bmc.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-89991-1445/450-337/PatrolCentral.JPG
PATROL Express https://www.sentrysoftware.com/_images/screenshots/pm-hardware-sentry/pm-hardware-sentry-5.png
Important nonsense
Daily Deal: Nope Portable Sound Microphone Blockers 2-Pack (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180524/09312539897/daily-deal-nope-portable-sound-microphone-blockers-2-pack.shtml)
Conferences, et. al.
May 29th, 2018 - Coté speaking at DevOps meetup in Seoul (https://www.meetup.com/Seoul-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/250977906/).
May 31st, 2018 - Coté speaking at DevOps Singapore Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/devops-singapore/events/251015285/).
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/).
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-amsterdam/welcome/) - come get a sticker!
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), 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 (https://springonetour.io/)!
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Deadpool 2 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deadpool_2/).
Matt: The Terror (https://www.amc.com/shows/the-terror) AMC mini-series.
Coté: PodCTL podcast (https://blog.openshift.com/tag/podctl/), e.g., episode #35 (https://blog.openshift.com/podctl-35-kubernetes-news-events/); Madam Mam’s Yum Green Bean dish (http://www.madammam.com/diskmenu/salads/); Tasty Meats Paul’s cold open style (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh3mEEAcfDY).
We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is.
If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless (https://twitter.com/cote/status/997492961758900224), it’s amazingly good and helpful.
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Relevant to your interests
Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/upbound-emerges-stealth-raises-9m-gv-build-multicloud-platform-kubernetes/)
Another thing k8s doesn’t do…I guess? “The eight-person Seattle-based startup plans to build a platform that will let Kubernetes users interested in multicloud deployments build services that scale across multiple public clouds and help those companies deploy their applications across those environments.”
DC/OS for all the DC/OS’es. It’s DC/OS’es all the way down.
(I’m glad they linked to the wikipedia definition for “lingua franca.”)
As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/as-kubernetes-grows-a-startup-ecosystem-develops-in-its-wake/)
This about 1/3 of what a good, internal strategy memo would be. Needs market-sizing, forecasts, and, well, more numbers. If it also said what action to take, you’d have most of it there.
Is K8s Too Complicated? (http://jmoiron.net/blog/is-k8s-too-complicated/)
AWS Won Serverless – now all your software are kinda belong to them (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/11/lambda_means_game_over_for_serverless/)
You know what old Jack Burton always says in a time like this: “I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HELL THAT MEANS!” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_LI0UWhm4)
"We can't be more than one to two years from Amazon hitting that 2 per cent of the serverless (i.e. platform) market. Which means, if you're going to counter play then NOW (not six months later) is the time to be dropping $5 to $10bn on that counter play."
See also… (https://twitter.com/littleidea/status/997077211407466496)
Serverless is going to crush Kubernetes (but only in a theoretical world which doesn’t actually exist) (http://www.diversity.net.nz/serverless-is-going-to-crush-kubernetes-but-only-in-a-theoretical-world-which-doesnt-actually-exist/2018/05/10/) - oh boy…
CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/15/coreos-is-new-linux-not-a-rhel-classic-killer/): ‘Importantly, the OpenShift platform cloud software, which included Red Hat’s own implementation of the Kubernetes container controller, will be deployable on either the full-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in pets mode or the minimalist Red Hat CoreOS in cattle mode. But it will be using the Tectonic version of the Kubernetes controller going forward as well as integrating the Prometheus monitoring tool and etcd for storing telemetry. Gracely tells The Next Platform that the implementation of Kubernetes had outside dependencies such as the CloudForms hybrid cloud management tool (formerly ManageIQ) and was not “native” to Kubernetes in the same way that Tectonic is, meaning free of outside dependenies.’
Developer Advocate Wars / Arms Race (http://aniszczyk.org/2018/05/15/developer-advocate-wars-arms-race/) - outward and inner…kingmakers
Google now says controversial AI voice calling system will identify itself to humans (https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17342414/google-duplex-ai-assistant-voice-calling-identify-itself-update) - that sort of defeats the whole point.
Important nonsense
Long, loooooong MAN (https://twitter.com/MothershipSG/status/991506293499215872)!
Conferences, et. al.
May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/).
Also, Coté doing some meetups in Korea (May 29th) and Singapore (May 31st), URLs pending.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.
Listener Feedback
Colin from Scotland got a sticker. Says he always learns something and enjoys the banter. Tells us to “Keep up the excellent work!”
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Costco Passport Photos (http://inspiration.costcophotocentre.ca/costco-passport-photos-canadian-passport-pictures).
Coté: Pors-Ela international travel adaptor thing (https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Iron-M-International-European-Countries/dp/B074CRS574/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_23_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=W6JRJ9A2EYH7JBK07VXV).
5/18/2018 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 134: “Hardly enough diggities”
Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with DC/OS. Finally, we have recommendations for Mother’s Day gifts, making kid lunches and some talk of the Lego Millennium Falcon.
Relevant to your interests
Mesosphere Scores $125M in Funding to Target IoT, Geo Expansion (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/mesosphere-scores-125m-in-funding-to-target-iot-geo-expansion/2018/05/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral) more coverage from George Leopold (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2018/05/07/mesospheres-investors-bet-on-multicloud/).
Twitter signs for Google cloud at list price of about $10m a month (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/04/twitter_adopts_google_cloud_for_hadoop_and_cloud_storage/)
Oath to Use More AWS Cloud as It Expands Video Play (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/amazon/oath-use-more-aws-cloud-it-expands-video-play)
Microsoft Build 2018: Top Five Takeaways (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/microsoft-build-2018-top-five-takeaways/) (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/microsoft-build-2018-top-five-takeaways/)from Jeffery Hammond at Forrester (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/microsoft-build-2018-top-five-takeaways/)
RedHat OpenShift running on Azure Stack and Azure (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/08/microsoft_azure_redhat_openshift/), partnership.
See also the RedHat/IBM partnership along the same lines (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-red-hat-couple-containers-for-hybrid-cloud-deployments/#ftag=RSSbaffb68), plus nifty history of the two collaborating.
Miniature ponies (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/993557979336065027)!
CoreOS folded into Red Hat product suite (https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-tech-to-combine-with-red-hat-openshift), the old “reverse integration.”
The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018 (https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17328828/google-io-keynote-summary-highlights-news-recap-2018)
15 Google I/O announcements (http://www.businessinsider.com/google-io-announcements-highlights-2018-5).
Serverless Survey: +77% Delivery Speed, 4 Dev Workdays/Mo Saved & -26% AWS Monthly Bill (https://hackernoon.com/serverless-survey-77-delivery-speed-4-dev-workdays-mo-saved-26-aws-monthly-bill-d99174f70663)
Related, Serverless to take over like space carpets (https://twitter.com/swardley/status/994333147130220549).
Azure at Microsoft Build Announcements| Microsoft Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/build/announcements/)
JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon's multibillion cloud deal (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/08/house_slams_the_brakes_on_pentagons_big_cloud_deal/)
AWS numbers reveal extent of Aussie growth (https://www.itnews.com.au/news/aws-numbers-reveal-extent-of-aussie-growth-490694)
IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/10/ibm_bans_all_removable_storage_for_all_staff_everywhere/)
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Nonsense
Google Duplex making an appointment on the phone (https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bd1mEm2Fy08)
Lego Millennium Falcon, enterprise edition (https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Millennium-Falcon-75192).
Conferences, et. al.
NEXT WEEK! May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/)
May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/).
June 7th, 2018 - DC Cloud Native Meetup, “Beyond ‘Survival is Not Mandatory.’” (https://www.meetup.com/DC-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/250543895/)
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt Ray: New phone, Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact (https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/24/sony-xperia-xz1-compact-impressions/).
Brandon: Postal Service - Against All Odds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jWYJrycJC8) & A Quiet Place (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_place_2018/)
Coté: Chasing Hillary, (https://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Chasing-Hillary-Audiobook/B079F31QY1?ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=MS4QEGZS6C7BGEP2CCDQ&) Amy Chozick. (https://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Chasing-Hillary-Audiobook/B079F31QY1?ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=MS4QEGZS6C7BGEP2CCDQ&)
Photo Credit Bridget Kromhout (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/993557979336065027)
5/11/2018 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 133: If only there was some way to automate software deploys, hopefully with yaml…?
There’s a lot of container and kubernetes news this week what with KubeCon. We discuss some highlights from there, including Google’s gVisor project, angling to make life more secure in cloud native land. We then discuss Red Hat’s Operators, Chef, and related ways to package up applications and related configuration for deployment onto cloud platforms. Plus, once again, we finally solve how to calendar better.
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Housekeeping
Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/) if you like Coté shit.
Week’s wunderkammer
Calendaring - Coté uses BusyCal, anything better? I can’t get behind that Fantastical as I want full visual, not that weird listing thing. Am I wrong?
Avengers corner: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets (https://www.racked.com/2018/4/25/17275020/avengers-infinity-war-hair-mantis-black-widow-gamora-scarlet-witch): “To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character’s relationship with traditional femininity.”
Relevant to your interests
Kube news and Kubecon announcements
The Top Challenges Kubernetes Users Face with Deployment (https://thenewstack.io/top-challenges-kubernetes-users-face-deployment/)
Updated CNCF Landscape Slide (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#trail-map). Serveless is now on its own slide (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#serverless). (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#serverless)
Google, Oracle and others announce new developments at Kubernetes Conference | Computing (https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3031494/google-oracle-and-others-announce-new-projects-at-kubernetes-conferencekubernetes-conference)
Oracle Adds New Support for Open Serverless Standards to Fn Project and Key Kubernetes Features to Oracle Container Engine (https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/kubecon-europe-2018-oracle-open-serverless-standards-fn-project-and-kubernetes)
Now that Kubernetes has won, DigitalOcean takes a late dip in K8s (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/kubernetes_digitalocean/)
Updated CNCF Landscape Slide (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#trail-map). Serveless is now on its own slide (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#serverless). (https://github.com/cncf/landscape#serverless)
Google Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes apps (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/google-stackdriver-kubernetes-monitoring-helps-developers-find-problems-in-kubernetes-apps/)
Google open sources gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/google-open-sources-gvisor-a-sandboxed-container-runtime/)
Kata Containers/CLEAR Linux (https://katacontainers.io/)
VMware’s project Photon (https://vmware.github.io/photon/)
Cloud 66 Introduces The Complete Container Delivery Pipeline (https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/18/05/p11624086/cloud-66-introduces-the-complete-container-delivery-pipeline)
CNCF, Oracle Boost Serverless Standardization Efforts (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cncf-oracle-boost-serverless-standardization-efforts/2018/05/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral)
Product Updates: Habitat goes to KubeCon EU! - Chef Blog (https://blog.chef.io/2018/05/02/product-updates-habitat-goes-to-kubecon-eu/)
Red Hat Releases a Framework to Easily Package Applications for Kubernetes (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-releases-a-framework-to-easily-package-applications-for-kubernetes/)
Red Hat Launches All-In-One Data Center Storage Solution (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/storage/red-hat-launches-all-one-data-center-storage-solution)
Oh, Snap! Blockchain is not a big deal
The Best VPN Service (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-vpn-service/)
You Are Not Google – Bradfield (https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb)
The Built to Adapt Benchmark Will Help Companies Set a New Course (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/the-built-to-adapt-benchmark-will-help-companies-to-set-a-new-course)
(https://content.pivotal.io/blog/the-built-to-adapt-benchmark-will-help-companies-to-set-a-new-course)- #NotMyTech (https://twitter.com/cote/status/992012964281683968).
Maybe blockchain is not such a big deal (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/03/gartner_blockchain_hyped/): ““In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using blockchain and only 8 per cent plan to experiment with it in the short term…. In contrast, a third of the 293 respondents said they had no interest in blockchain, and a further 43 per cent said they had no action planned but the tech was "on the radar" – hardly surprising given that it's thrown into just about every product announcement going.”
Snap Inc. again shows why it should not have become a public company (http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-snapchat-20180502-story.html)
"Spiegel's performance on the conference call underscored the folly of giving an untested entrepreneur unassailable control over a company."
"Sounding like a bargain-basement knock-off of Mark Zuckerberg
Spotify stock plunges after reporting earnings for the first time (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/02/spotify-earnings-q1-2018.html)
(https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb)# Nonsense
Texas teen reveals secret to 'free' H-E-B doughnuts you already know (https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/article/Texas-teen-tweet-free-H-E-B-doughnuts-11052089.php)
Sorry, millennials. The average age of a successful entrepreneur is a lot older than you think. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2018/04/24/sorry-millennials-the-average-age-of-a-successful-entrepreneur-is-a-lot-older-than-you-think/?utm_term=.3c03ce04d4fc)
'Holy grail' of guns made: Company sells $4.5M pistols made from 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/04/26/holy-grail-guns-made-company-sells-4-5m-pistols-made-from-4-5-billion-year-old-meteorite.html)
Python could be lurking in Austin Lake Hills neighborhood (http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/neighbors-worry-python-could-be-lurking-in-austin-lake-hills/1152256479)
Conferences, et. al.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/)
May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/).
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote.
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Recommendations
Brandon: When Wolves Bite (https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/When-the-Wolves-Bite-Audiobook/B07CJW64BF?ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=FAG6BBHAC5A38NZJKJJH&)
Matt Ray: S (http://slackthemes.net)lack Themes (http://slackthemes.net).
Coté: Noodle bar at Cathy loung in Hong Kong - “The Wing, Business” (https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_US/travel-information/flying-with-us/all-lounges/hong-kong-international-airport-lounges/the-wing.html) in terminal 1 by gates 2, 3, and 4. IT, the new movie. The book - meh?
Eating dumplings, it turns out, is more complicated than just sticking them in your dumpling hole, as Coté found out in Bangkok thanks to a Singaporean friend (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-sze-641a5b85/). We’re live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Jakarta this episode, just Coté and Matt Ray. We discuss the Pentagon’s stubbornness of (seemingly) picking just one cloud provider for their major cloud project and then have an oddly lengthy discussion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe).
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Week’s wunderkammer
SmugMug buys flickr (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/23/oath_sells_flickr_to_smugmug/) - Coté can’t download all his photos.
DevOpsDays Jakarta, 2018 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/).
Relevant to your interests
US military says “get of my lawn, you kids” to AWS mono-usage (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-16/pentagon-sticks-with-single-cloud-contract-but-doesn-t-say-why)
‘Rival contractors complain that the winner-take-all approach favors Amazon.com Inc., the biggest supplier of cloud services. But Pentagon officials made clear they have little patience for continuing debate over the issue. In response to a question on the “rationale for a single award for this contract,” the answer posted was blunt: “This rationale is not going to be published at this time.”’
More: “It was a decision the department made based on its needs, so adding context there doesn’t benefit us.”
But, actually, it’s just one pick for now: “The contract, known as JEDI -- for the the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud Program -- won’t prevent the Defense Department from working with other cloud vendors in the future.” IBM doth protest too much?
Check out Bloomberg’s layman’s definition of cloud: “Cloud services -- in which computing power and storage are hosted in remote data centers run by a third-party company rather than on-site in locally owned machines -- can make it easier for large organizations to move and integrate data across different platforms, quickly expand the data storage it needs based on usage and make system-wide security upgrades to software.” Not too shabby, and it thankfully doesn’t mention THE CYBER.
Conferences, et. al.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 16-17, 2018 - Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/)
May 22-25, 2018 - ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/).
SDT news & hype
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Listener Feedback
Icinga is the Nagios fork, so says Shaun.
Recommendations
Coté: Coté doesn’t remember what he recommended.
Matt: Aphex Twin’s Cheetah EP (https://www.amazon.com/Cheetah-EP-Aphex-Twin/dp/B01GRA84K4/)
4/30/2018 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 131: How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ, plus, PE in systems management
It’s hard to be a medium sized systems management (“monitoring”) company: you either have to niche it out and exit early, or go big. With some recent funding and PE activity in that area, Brandon and Coté discuss that. Also, a detailed HOWTO on eating Texas BBQ.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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Datadog wants you to know they monitor all kinds of data about Amazon EC2 instances (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ec2-monitoring/). You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt).
Housekeeping
Listen to Brandon and Satish talk about product management on Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/70).
Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/) if you like Coté shit.
Week’s wunderkammer
New MacBook Pro:
The touchbar is pretty cool. I do keep hitting “back” because I’m used to resting my fingers on that part of the keyboard. Whatever.
The speakers are very nice too, like the iPad Pro.
Migrate Utility is either easy to screw up or not fully baked.
Dropbox gets a little confused with how long something will take.
USB-C: I’m just here so I don’t get fined.
How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ
Order a plate - two meats (always brisket if it's your first time, then lady's choice), beans, Cole slaw. I’d skip the bread, but load up on onions, and pickles if they’re you’re thing
Eat all the BBQ.
Eat with your fingers.
Don't put sugar on your meat.
Don’t tell people how to eat BBQ, or argue about dry rubs and sauce. Just eat.
Relevant to your interests
HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian):
451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian): “Actian is being acquired in an all-cash deal valued at $330m by a JV in which HCL Technologies owns 80% and Sumeru Equity Partners the remaining 20%”
451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian): “Actian told us in March [of 2018?] that revenue was back up to more than $100m while headcount totaled approximately 300." They also own Pervasive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_PSQL) (including Data Junction for ETL/integration soup-to-nuts), y’all: “In 2013, Pervasive Software was acquired by Actian Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_Software) for $161.9 million. Actian had initially made offers in August 2012 starting at $154 million 30% higher than its shares traded at the time.”
Vista buys Logic Monitor from Providence (https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/vista-buys-logic-monitor-providence/#). Meanwhile, AppDynamics seems fine (https://www.zdnet.com/article/appdynamics-touts-the-agility-of-a-startup-with-the-pocket-of-a-global-giant/#ftag=RSSbaffb68).
Sensu raises $10M to build a robust monitoring system for all your different operations (https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/13/sensu-raises-10m-to-build-a-robust-monitoring-system-for-all-your-different-operations/).
Microsoft’s Linux Distro, for Azure Sphere (https://amp.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4) - IoT, edge device stuff: an edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc. More from (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/microsoft_azure_sphere_iot_chip/) El Reg (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/microsoft_azure_sphere_iot_chip/).
Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 (https://blog.docker.com/2018/04/announcing-docker-enterprise-edition-2-0/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1GallqbGhNR0ppWVdZeSIsInQiOiJiSm1ZZ1BtZDQ5b3RicFk2c1VRT09yNlo1ZE50VnRiK3JNbVQ5OThWYXU3NGdKQVpVenZBdkp2QTdQakFKUzYxN1k5VFlWbFdPYWY5TFI4bFhxemc4TWkrcnUyMG02OXdmUVlpVWIwMHdGZUZIdUluaCtCMnJyeTJuRmg3OGZmZyJ9).
Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/04/changing-calculus-containers-cloud.html).
Database decisions: AWS has changed the game for IT (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3268195/database/database-decisions-aws-has-changed-the-game-for-it.html).
The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So (https://www.itjungle.com/2018/04/16/the-platform-matters-more-than-ever-the-operating-system-less-so/)
For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux (https://amp.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4).
OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong (https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now).
After Months of Development, B3i's Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing (https://www.carriermanagement.com/news/2017/09/12/171103.htm).
Nonsense
KITECH Dual Arm Robot: using scissors (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6u7g-6Ztf0&feature=youtu.be).
A sea of Mark Zuckerberg cutouts has taken over the Capitol lawn (https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/us/group-places-cutouts-of-mark-zuckerberg-on-capitol-lawn-trnd/index.html).
Conferences, et. al.
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 16-17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/)
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
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Recommendations
Brandon: Killers of the Flower Moon (https://www.audible.com/pd/History/Killers-of-the-Flower-Moon-Audiobook/B01NAEEJJV) and Travis Country Texas Online Property Tax Appeal (https://www.traviscad.org/eservices/).
Coté: T (http://www.thegrandbarbershop.com/)he Grand barbershop (http://www.thegrandbarbershop.com/), Austin - they got all the whatnots. Also, Stiles Switch (http://www.stilesswitchbbq.com/): this is how a beef rib is supposed to be (https://www.instagram.com/p/BhwxCs-lXgy/).
4/20/2018 • 54 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 130: CROSS-OVER BONUS! Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio - Software Defined Interviews
Why does kubernetes even exist, why don’t existing things work just as well for it? And then what kind of applications can you run on it, at least following the original intentions. Once we sort that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on.
Also, Coté helps you turn eating sugar-encrusted pecans into a Buddhist moment.
See original show notes (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/64) for more.
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4/12/2018 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 42 seconds
Episode 129: Amazon’s serverless strategy: what happens next will shock you!
“In Australia, I have access to all the Full House episodes.”
We finally nail down Amazon’s strategy with serverless (AWS Lambda), and also go over some recent AWS announcements in the security and compliance area. Plus, Cloudflare’s new consumer DNS service, The Man in the High Castle, and Oracle goes after those sweet government cloud contracts. And, Coté gets a little too angry about Google Fiber giving his neighborhood the finger.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt)
Datadog wants you to know they provide APM and distributed tracing for Java applications (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/java-monitoring-apm/). You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt).
Relevant to your interests
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service (https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/)
Auditing - what you do after AD integration. AWS aggregating compliance gunk (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-config-update-aggregate-compliance-data-across-accounts-regions/).
AWS Summit SF: Most definitely not a sales event, nuh uh, no way (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/aws_summit_sf_definitely_not_a_sales_event/)
AWS Secrets Manager: Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-secrets-manager-store-distribute-and-rotate-credentials-securely/)
AWS Config Rules Update: Aggregate Compliance Data Across Accounts and Regions (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-config-update-aggregate-compliance-data-across-accounts-regions/)
Oracle’s Safra Catz Raises Amazon Contract Fight With Trump (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/oracle-s-catz-is-said-to-raise-amazon-contract-fight-with-trump)
Simon Wardley’s Serverless Tea Bet (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/972218216679333888)
Microsoft’s Windows chief departs as the company pushes further toward AI and the cloud (https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17176220/microsoft-windows-reorg-business-terry-myerson-ai-cloud)
The End of Windows (https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/)
State of DevOps Report now DORA + Google (https://devops-research.com/2018/03/dora-google-cloud-collaboration/) - not doing it with Puppet. Puppet layoffs not related!
Zenoss Announces Partnership With Google Cloud (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zenoss-announces-partnership-with-google-cloud-300624223.html)
Apple hires Google’s former AI boss to help improve Siri (https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17195076/google-ai-chief-john-giannandrea-joining-apple-machine-learning-siri)
Nonsense
The Man in the High Castle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)), which is not really anything like the original book (https://amzn.to/2qa9N9O).
80’s neon in tumblr (https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/80s-neon).
Conferences, et. al.
April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio (http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/) - Coté speaking (http://sched.co/Dpzf).
April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/).
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 16-17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/)
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
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Ray from California thanks us for “ all of the effort that goes into this podcast” an got sticker
Ryan got his sticker in mangled envelope but the Postmaster apologized and the sticker was fine !
In-house illustrator for Docker (https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/13/meet-dockers-french-artist-who-spun-her-silicon-valley-misadventures-into-comic-book-glory/).
Recommendations
Matt: MuseScore (http://musescore.com) for learning piano and writing music
Brandon: Developing iOS 11 Apps with Swift (https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-11-apps-with-swift/id1309275316) with course assignments (https://github.com/Scottiiee/cs193p-Fall-2017)
Coté: Au Bon Pain in DFW, the little “protein” packs, gate A34.
4/6/2018 • 52 minutes, 14 seconds
Episode 128: “Mark’s home, actually, it costs about the same as this”
Talking about Facebook this week is inescapable, so we do, but in a rant-y kind of way. We also discuss Oracle’s plans to hire 10,000 more people in Austin, Solomon Hykes leaving Docker, and the Google/Oracle case around Java’s copyright.
Listener Feedback
Eric Larson says Coté is wrong there is no zen in pulling weeds.
Craig from Ontario says we are doing a great job and emailed for a sticker
John Mitchell from Duke Energy got a sticker and did an interview with us here (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/).
That French steak house (https://www.yelp.com/biz/le-relais-de-venise-l-entrec%C3%B4te-paris-2?uid=02uxjke4yV-F3CVOQWN6UA&utm_source=ishare).
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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Relevant to your interests
Oracle's Founder Larry Ellison Says Austin Campus is Going to Grow to 10,000 (http://www.siliconhillsnews.com/2018/03/22/oracles-founder-larry-ellison-says-austin-campus-going-grow-10000-employees/)
Google-Oracle high-stakes dustup returns to court — with billions on the line (https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/27/google-oracle-high-stakes-dustup-returns-to-court/)
Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/oracle_google_android/)
Pivotal Software files for IPO (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/pivotal-software-files-for-ipo/)
Finally, a more coherent IBM story? (https://medium.com/@krishnan/finally-a-more-coherent-ibm-story-f617a7bbc83e?source=rss-62bf9bdc96bc------2)
Facebook confirms it records users' call history, stoking furor (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-confirms-it-records-call-history-stoking-privacy-furor-n860006)
Getting acquainted with Kubernetes 1.10 (https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-110-released), (https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-110-released) CoreOS (https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-110-released)
Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/27/red_hat_q4_18/)
Apollo Is Considering IPO of Cloud-Hosting Firm Rackspace (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/apollo-is-said-to-consider-ipo-of-cloud-hosting-firm-rackspace?mc_cid=6c6cd5146b&mc_eid=825c180d0b)
$13 billion Atlassian explains how the 'joy of missing out' led it to totally reinvent one of its core products (http://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-stride-hipchat-generally-available-2018-3/)
As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/shifts-cloud-focus-platform-services-oracle-tries-hold-database-legacy/)
GitLab 10.6 released with CI/CD for GitHub and deeper Kubernetes integration (https://about.gitlab.com/2018/03/22/gitlab-10-6-released/)
Docker, a $1 billion software start-up, has lost its founder a year after new CEO joined (https://news.google.com/news/search/section/q/docker/docker?hl=en&gl=US&ned=us)
Solomon Hykes Departs from Docker - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/solomon-hykes-departs-from-docker/)
Nonsense
Honest Status Page (https://mobile.twitter.com/honest_update/status/651897353889259520?lang=en)
Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Slips on Banana Peel (https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/972995583370706944)
NPR reviews Pacific Rim “Mech & Cheese” (https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2018/03/22/595179094/pacific-rim-uprising-serves-up-another-helping-of-mech-and-cheese)
Conferences, et. al.
April 3rd to 4th, Dallas - MC Coté at SpringOne Tour (http://springonetour.io/2018/dallas).
April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio (http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/) - Coté speaking (http://sched.co/Dpzf).
April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/)
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: Disrupting Dystopia - The Bruce Sterling Talk - SXSW 2018 by SXSW (https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/disrupting-dystopia-the-bruce-sterling-talk-sxsw-2018)
rainbow-delimiters (https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters) for Emacs
Brandon: Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80046694) The Gift (https://www.netflix.com/title/80046694).
Coté: Blue Diamond Smoke House Almonds (https://www.costco.com/Blue-Diamond-Smokehouse-Almonds-45-oz.-.product.100368188.html).
3/30/2018 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 127: Nothing but "cold takes" on Mulesoft, Red Hat and the Facebook
We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo and dog's bottom posted on Facebook Wall.
Matt Ray’s Facebook links
BIG SN (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152581031594848&set=p.10152581031594848&type=3&theater)AKE (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152581031594848&set=p.10152581031594848&type=3&theater)
Matt Ray’s son and a dog..? (https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/9/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/VCF0qZJ1.jpg)
Kangaroo vs. Bicyclist (https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/queensland-cyclist-crashes-into-kangaroo/3322469/?ref=hs)
Matt’s Coterie of Browser Plugins:
TrackMeNot (https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/)
uBlock Origin (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en)
Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/)
Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger)
KB SSL Enforcer (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kb-ssl-enforcer/flcpelgcagfhfoegekianiofphddckof?hl=es)
TamperMonkey (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en)
Relevant to your interests
The Cambridge Analytica Debacle is not a Facebook “Data Breach.” Maybe It Should Be. (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/17/the-cambridge-analytica-debacle-is-not-a-facebook-data-breach-maybe-it-should-be/)
The Facebook Brand (https://stratechery.com/2018/the-facebook-brand/)
Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/salesforce-reportedly-talks-acquire-mulesoft-155720487.html)
Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft in $6.5 billion deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/salesforce-agrees-to-buy-mulesoft-in-6-point-5-billion-deal.html)
Salesforce buys a mule, but pays for a horse (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/salesforce-buys-a-mule-but-pays-for-a-pedigreed-horse-2018-03-20)
Salesforce’s $6.5b acquisition of Mulesoft: what it means for the cloud ecosystem (http://techgenix.com/salesforce-mulesoft/)
Update: Red Hat could be a Google takeover target – a deal wouldn't be cheap (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2018/03/19/report-red-hat-could-be-a-google-takeover-target-a-deal-wouldnt-be-cheap/)
IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads (http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-cloud-strategy-revolves-around-multi-cloud-support-grabbing-new-workloads/#ftag=RSSbaffb68)
IBM's Watson Assistant is coming to IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/blog/2018/03/NewServices1)
Apple, IBM add machine learning to partnership with Watson-Core ML coupling (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/apple-ibm-extend-partnership-with-watson-core-ml-coupling/)
Oracle's New Licenses Sales Drop While Revenue Meets Estimates (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/oracle-s-new-licenses-sales-drop-while-revenue-meets-estimates)
Don’t Anthropomorphize Larry the Lawnmower (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc)
Docker Cloud is shutting down • r/docker (https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/85w2vd/docker_cloud_is_shutting_down/)
Introducing Windows Server 2019 – now available in preview (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/03/20/introducing-windows-server-2019-now-available-in-preview/)
Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence (http://Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence -- ADTmag)
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt)
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Exegesis
Want more talk about FANG? Then Listen to Cotê and Brandon review Scott Galloway’s (http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway) book The Four (https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=the+four+scott+galloway&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=214061735707&hvpos=1t1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11767013390428378688&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028322&hvtargid=aud-416583594430:kwd-345132176336&ref=pd_sl_6onuzfwg4j_e) on Episode of 52 (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/52) of Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) from awhile back. Even more relevant today!
Nonsense
Jeff Bezos has a robot dog (http://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/172049593263)
WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook (https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17145200/brian-acton-delete-facebook-whatsapp)
Conferences, et. al.
April 3rd to 4th, Dallas - MC Coté at SpringOne Tour (http://springonetour.io/2018/dallas).
April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio (http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/) - Coté speaking (http://sched.co/Dpzf).
April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: Earworm video series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5fyqfIwGjH2fYC5fFLfdwW4) from Vox
Brandon: Metrex II Black Mesh Task Chair (https://www.costco.com/Metrex-II-Black-Mesh-Task-Chair.product.100177590.html) from Costco
Coté: Le Relais de Venise - l’Entrecôte (https://www.yelp.com/biz/le-relais-de-venise-l-entrec%C3%B4te-paris-2?uid=02uxjke4yV-F3CVOQWN6UA&utm_source=ishare)
3/24/2018 • 46 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 126: “Broad, but an inch deep.”
This week we recap all the important events at SXSW Interactive, explain why Netflix is not going to be an enterprise cloud vendor, discuss Microsoft's decision to open source Service Fabric and recommend never ordering the Bison Ribs.
Fabric Solutions
Service Fabric is going open source (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureservicefabric/2018/03/14/service-fabric-is-going-open-source/).
“There’s a bit of history to this. We've been developing Service Fabric internally for Windows for close to a decade, and most of that time it was a Microsoft-internal platform, which means we have close to a decade's worth of internal Microsoft tools to migrate and processes to refine before we can put something usable out on GitHub.”
Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/08/will_serverless_kill_the_container_star/).
Relevant to your interests
Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS? (https://medium.com/@krishnan/why-should-kubernetes-be-scared-of-aws-823876d5148b)
IBM launches bare metal Kubernetes (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/ibm-launches-bare-metal-kubernetes/)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/)
Moogsoft Secures $40 Million in Series D Funding (https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/13/moogsoft-secures-40-million-in-series-d-funding/)
RapidAPI, an API marketplace that processes 400B API calls each month, raises $9M led by A16Z (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/rapidapi-an-api-marketplace-that-processes-half-a-billion-api-calls-each-month-raises-9m-led-by-a16z/)
Palo Alto Networks to acquire CIA-backed Evident.io for $300 million (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/palo-alto-networks-to-acquire-cia-backed-evidentio-for-300-million-2018-03-14)
a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith — From Microservices to DevOps (https://a16z.com/2018/03/08/containing-the-monolith-microservices-devops-summit/)
Nonsense
Toys R Us to Close All 800 of Its U.S. Stores (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/03/14/toys-r-us)
VIM Clutch (https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/973022871311257601)
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt).
Datadog announces the general availability of (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-logs/) log processing and analytics (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-logs/) (http://Announcing log processing and analytics in Datadog)part of the their Unified Log Management (https://www.datadoghq.com/log-management/) that lets you monitor logs, metrics, and request traces in one platform for full-stack visibility. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkNative-Tshirt).
Conferences, et. al.
March 22-23, DevOps Talks Conference (http://www.devopstalks.com/) - Melbourne Matt speaking.
April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio (http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/) - Coté speaking (http://sched.co/Dpzf).
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
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Recommendations
Matt:
Dicte (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025899/) (Danish crime reporter drama, on Netflix)
Chef policyfiles (https://docs.chef.io/policyfile.html)
Brandon: Netflix Altered Carbon (https://www.netflix.com/title/80097140)
Coté: anti, bison ribs at Salt Lick (https://saltlickbbq.com/). Garmin vívosmart 3 (https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/567813).[
Photo Credit (https://www.flickr.com/photos/donutgirl/7947803212/in/photolist-bzZ2fe-d7jyZS-4wx425-4wx3Yd-4wsTdV-9oDvZ8-9vaN7v-9Zk3hB-aq5vYh-GzoWdZ-CMvniJ)
3/16/2018 • 52 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 125: Kubernetes was never for developers…probably. Hold on…hrm.
Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which conferences to send talks to. Also, the longest Datadog ad read ever.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
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Datadog announces the general availability of (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-logs/) log processing and analytics (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-logs/) (http://Announcing log processing and analytics in Datadog)part of the their Unified Log Management (https://www.datadoghq.com/log-management/) that lets you monitor logs, metrics, and request traces in one platform for full-stack visibility. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkNative-Tshirt).
CFP Spray
Coté’s new talks (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote), Were’s Waldo ‘em!
DevOpsDays CFPs (https://www.devopsdays.org/speaking/).
Events in papercall.io (https://www.papercall.io/events).
Bridget is organized AF (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/958387799237058561).
Relevent to your interests
Coté’s Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/06/what_does_devops_do_to_decades_old_planning_processes_and_assumptions/) piece (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/06/what_does_devops_do_to_decades_old_planning_processes_and_assumptions/) on process and such changes that DevOps &co. brings.
The Kubernetes Lesson (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/03/02/the-kubernetes-lesson/) - O’Grady gives credit to developers for driving kubernetes interest. Nerd fight ensues (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/969610460356988929).
Mesosphere DC/OS adds hybrid and multicloud management features (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/03/08/mesosphere-dcos-adds-hybrid-multicloud-management-features/).
Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/might-time-big-cloud-share-wealth-open-source-startups/) - people always be freaking out about companies making money off open source. I’d wager they pay the wages of most people who write and commit the code, and would happily do so if those folks wanted a job.
Related: Open Source & Dollar Bills: Building a Successful Company on “Free” Software (https://blog.chef.io/2018/03/05/open-source-dollar-bills-building-successful-company-free-software/).
From Facebook to the Un (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/will-2018-be-the-year-of-the-neo-luddite)a (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/will-2018-be-the-year-of-the-neo-luddite)bomber (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/will-2018-be-the-year-of-the-neo-luddite). So called “tech companies” have their problems, to be sure, but this kind of absurd shit has got to end.
Related: people are quickly thinking tech is bad (https://www.axios.com/axios-surveymonkey-public-wants-big-tech-regulated-5f60af4b-4faa-4f45-bc45-018c5d2b360f.html).
Announcing the Flatcar Linux project (https://kinvolk.io/blog/2018/03/announcing-the-flatcar-linux-project/) - “an immutable Linux distribution for containers.”
JEE renamed to JEE, at Eclipse (https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/03/java-ee-becomes-jakarta-ee).
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2018 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/03/07/language-rankings-1-18/).
OpenStack Queens release (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/02/28/openstack-queens-expands-support-containers-network-edge-deployments/), 17th release!
SUSE, a Micro Focus company (https://www.suse.com/company/executive-management/)
Tera Holdings (https://www.teraholdings.co/) — Warren Buffet of Software
Conferences, et. al.
March 9th to 13th, SXSW (https://www.sxsw.com/) - Brandon in Austin giving out stickers. Coté needs excuses to expense meals and drinks.
March 22-23, DevOps Talks Conference (http://www.devopstalks.com/) - Melbourne Matt speaking
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: Mastering Emacs (https://www.masteringemacs.org/)
Anti pick - someone trying to sublet my house for SXSW
JJ on Dovrk (https://twitter.com/jjasghar/status/956719416053567488).
Brandon: T-Mobile (https://www.t-mobile.com/).
Coté: weeding; Amazon Treasure Truck (https://twitter.com/treasuretruck) - steaks!
3/9/2018 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 124: “These pants are all too small,” or Dropbox and all the great public clouds
Dropbox made $1.1bn last year, which is mind-blowing. What can we learn from the way Dropbox wiggled it’s way into so many people’s lives (11m paying users, it seems) versus competitors like Box? Well, probably a lot more than where Apple, Spotify, and Dropbox run their stuff in - or out! - of the cloud, a topic we also discuss. Also, sheep-skin shoes are hot, too hot. Also, something about dtrace and zfs, I don’t know - just listen to it.
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What even is a “Dropbox”?
Now that we know they generated $1.1bn in revenue (http://tomtunguz.com/dropbox-s-1/) in CY2017 (with -10% op margins, translating to a loss of $111.7m (https://www.barrons.com/articles/dropbox-files-s1-with-1b-revenue-lots-of-restricted-stock-1519420407) and actual cash flow)…we should probably contemplate how they fit in.
451 estimates a valuation at $8bn+ (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94433&type=mis&alertid=1161&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94433-Dropbox+opens+up+to+public+markets). More: “Dropbox has taken just over 10 years to go public since its founding in 2007, which we attribute to anxiety over its high private valuation, a sizable profitability gap, and the dour outlook often associated with the EFSS segment.”
More from 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94433&type=mis&alertid=1161&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94433-Dropbox+opens+up+to+public+markets): “Its net loss ($111m) shrank by nearly half from 2016 – a faster pace than its topline growth. Its relative sales and marketing costs are lower than most of its peers. The vendor spent 28% of its revenue on sales and marketing – half the level of Box, a fellow FSS compatriot that's half the size as Dropbox." Man, think of the shit-per diem an travel policies for last year.
E.g., who knew they were so widely used by normals?! 11m+ paying users, they says (https://www.barrons.com/articles/dropbox-files-s1-with-1b-revenue-lots-of-restricted-stock-1519420407). (But (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94433&type=mis&alertid=1161&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94433-Dropbox+opens+up+to+public+markets), it’s 45 to 1 free to pay.)
Do we think GDrive/G Suite is this big? I mean, it must be at least once you throw in Docs and GMail.
Gartner’s 2016 estimates (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-gsuite/googles-g-suite-is-no-microsoft-killer-but-still-winning-converts-idUSKBN1FL3ZX): “$1.3 billion in G Suite sales ranked a distant No. 2 behind Office’s $13.8 billion, according to 2016 data from Gartner.” Checks out (https://medium.com/@raj_57679/how-big-is-g-suite-within-alphabets-other-revenue-q1-2017-9823783abc97).
Tech Co.’s using Google Cloud
Apple on Google (https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google-cloud-platform-and-amazon-s3-for-icloud-data/) for iCloud (but also AWS for the same), Spotify on Google (http://www.zdnet.com/article/with-spotify-google-cloud-platform-gets-its-anchor-all-in-customer/), Dropbox on their own cloud (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/dropbox-saved-almost-75-million-two-years-building-tech-infrastructure/) (see Ben’s “turns out!” analysis (https://stratechery.com/2018/dropboxs-cost-of-revenue-cost-of-revenue-and-churn-cloudy-dropbox/)).
Does this matter for normals?
“Dropbox is likely an outlier with its successful cloud data migration off AWS.” (http://searchaws.techtarget.com/blog/AWS-Cloud-Cover/Dropbox-is-likely-an-outlier-with-its-successful-cloud-data-migration-off-AWS)
Wired’s write-up on the migration (https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/) from 2016
Relevant to your interests
Pants are sized wrong (https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a8386/pants-size-chart-090710/).
DTrace going GPL-compatible (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/19/oracle_open_sources_dtrace_changes_licence_to_gpl/)
Arrested DevOps talking with Andrew Shafer and Bryan Cantrill (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/)
The ongoing nothingburger of blockchain-beyond-bitcoin (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsofts-guthrie-claims-azure-seeing-blockchain-momentum-thats-not-moving-cloud-needle-time-soon/):
“The only mass-market use of blockchain technology right now is bitcoin, and you can certainly debate just how widespread a market that really is. Lots of people are interested in blockchain’s distributed ledger system as a potential way to cut out the middleman in transactions between manufacturers or retailers and their suppliers, but the number of people actually using blockchain technology for those types of services right now is quite small.”
More: “The entire market for blockchain services in 2017 — and not necessarily cloud vendor-provided blockchain services — sits at $708 million, according to a report from WinterGreen Research cited by The Information. By comparison, Gartner said last September that it expects cloud services revenue will have reached $260.2 billion in 2017.”
WinterGreen, sittin’ in hot tubs, smokin’ those L’s: “In that report, WinterGreen also predicts astounding growth of 757 percent in that blockchain market by 2024 to $60.7 billion, which is among the most dramatic forward-looking statements I’ve seen in a while.”
The concept of the millennial is dead (http://www.channelfutures.com/channel-futures/why-are-we-still-talking-about-millennial-problem-workforce). Time to start complaining and belly-aching about how simpering and fucked up the current generation of The Kids are.
Conferences, et. al.
March 9th to 13th, SXSW (https://www.sxsw.com/) - Brandon in Austin giving out stickers. Coté needs excuses to expense meals and drinks.
March 22-23 - DevOps Talks Conference (http://www.devopstalks.com/), Melbourne Matt speaking
April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: Bose QuietComfort 20 headphones (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X9KVVQK/)
Brandon: Version Control (https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Version-Control-Audiobook/B01BKY8A8I).
Coté: Starbuck’s Blonde roast; low-sodium Kirkland bacon - turns out! - no sugar.
3/2/2018 • 57 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 123: Mesh, Monitoring & Compliance
This week we explain everything you need to know about monitoring and compliance. Plus, we review this history of the monolith and how it led to microservices.
Forget AWS vs. Azure, it’s WholeFoods vs. H-E-B that’s what will divide families!
H-E-B buys Favor. (https://www.americaninno.com/austin/inno-news/texas-grocery-giant-h-e-b-is-acquiring-favors-on-demand-delivery-business/)
Amazon extends 5% back Prime credit card benefits to Whole Foods purchases (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-extends-5-back-prime-credit-card-benefits-whole-foods-purchases/)
Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion
Brandon interviews JJ on this weeks Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/63). (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/63) Make sure to subscribe
Email us at [email protected] for free stickers.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/lpgs/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalk-Tshirt-Native).
Datadog also offers Forecast Alerts (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/), which makes it easy to get notified of potential problems before they cause outages. Read more at: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/
Compliance, Monitoring, Mesh & Design, Oh my!
Chef Software bids to automate compliance with new InSpec 2.0 release (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/02/20/chef-software-bids-automate-compliance-new-inspec-2-0-release/)
Networking ruins everything! History of Service Mesh. (https://thenewstack.io/history-service-mesh/)
The RED Method: A New Approach to Monitoring Microservices (https://thenewstack.io/monitoring-microservices-red-method/)
A print button? Mmkay. Let's explore WHY you need me to add that (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/20/design_in_the_age_of_devops/)
xMatters snares $40 million Series D led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing (https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/20/xmatters-snares-40-million-series-d-led-by-goldman-sachs-private-capital-investing/)
The Road To 400G Ethernet Is Paved With Bechtolsheim’s Intentions (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/02/21/road-400g-ethernet-paved-bechtolsheims-intentions/)
Conferences, et. al.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - April 26-27 Matt will be there
Derek Mazzone (https://kexp.org/djs/darek-mazzone/) from KEXP
ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) - May 22-25 in Chicago
SxSW (https://www.sxsw.com/) — Brandon in Austin giving out stickers
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: Oceanic (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E84GOZY/) by Greg Egan
Brandon: (https://www.netflix.com/title/80176878)How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story (https://www.audible.com/pd/Science-Technology/How-to-Turn-Down-a-Billion-Dollars-Audiobook/B079DTHLCJ) related Snap stock plummets after Kylie Jenner declares Snapchat dead (https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/22/17040332/snap-stock-price-kylie-jenner-tweet-snapchat-1-billion-market-loss)
Cover Art Credit (https://www.flickr.com/photos/polycart/6899465702/)
2/22/2018 • 58 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 122: Don’t get wasted at sales kick-off, & Coté needs to stop being so pessimistic
It’s our annual surviving sales kick-off show. There’s some exciting developments in Coté’s life on the stage and trenchant tips from Matt and Brandon (spoiler: don’t get wasted!). We also discuss the odd trend of kubernetes now actually not being for mere mortals and then Coté complains about writing talk submissions for CFPs.
Hard-hustle & shameless self-promotion
Software Defined Interviews interview with Nancy Gohring (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/62).
Brandon has a JJ interview coming up, Feb 19th, 2018 (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/).
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) (and get a free Datadog T-shirt) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk.
Yes, thank you, I’D LIKE A FREE T-SHIRT, SON!
Check out this detailed example of monitoring RabbitMQ (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/rabbitmq-monitoring/), and some recent Java stuff: APM & distributed tracing for Java applications (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/java-monitoring-apm/).
Do it on your own and get a free t-shirt (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk)!
Kubernetes Korner
Bluebox turned out well (https://twitter.com/jesseproudman/status/961340998730346496). Real A-Team over there (https://twitter.com/cote/status/961341524620562433).
Jay@451 has some Heptio packaging and pricing (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1098&contactid=0033200001wgkckaa2&entityid=94289&type=mis): “HKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported configuration, unlimited tickets and up to 25 nodes; Professional, intended for organizations that are growing their deployments, with up to three supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 250 nodes; Enterprise, for large, mission-critical environments that covers up to five supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 750 nodes; and a Custom version, intended for the largest web-scale environments of more than 750 nodes. Pricing starts at $24,000 per year for the Starter tier.”
Pivotal Container Services (PKS) is GA (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/secure-multitenant-kubernetes-in-minutes-pivotal-container-service-goes-ga).
Kubernetes is a bully (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/kubernetes_hegemony/)?
Oh, and also, you’re not supposed to be excited about kubernetes any more (https://twitter.com/cote/status/963481741171265537)…?
Bonus: Is DevOps still a thing? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/06/devops_no_ops_less_ops/)
Coté is negative
Matt Ray could probably write this abstract (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote/speaker_talks/61621-devops-who-never-lived-can-never-die-or-the-many-faced-god-of-operational-excellence) with more rainbow.
See the other punch in the gut talks (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote) Coté has.
Related to your interests
AWS further deciding it doesn’t want health industry customers (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-reportedly-venturing-healthcare-supplies-targeting-hospitals-clinics/)…
Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform (http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-expands-its-autonomous-technology-across-its-cloud-platform/#ftag=RSSbaffb68) - “In a nutshell, Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform will aim to automate patching, tuning and even data integration across its portfolio. Oracle's return on investment pitch is that its autonomous platform frees up technology talent for higher-value tasks.” Related: Oracle Leaps Into the Costly Cloud Arms Race (https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-leaps-into-the-costly-cloud-arms-race-1518431401)
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - "Digital is the new front door" for business (https://diginomica.com/2018/02/07/new-relic-ceo-lew-cirne-digital-new-front-door-business/) - “For its third quarter non-GAAP operating income was $2.7 million compared to an operating loss of $4.9 million for the same period last year. Revenue was $91.8 million for the third quarter, up 35% year-over-year.”
Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics (https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3851963) - Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked respondents to rate their orgs according to Gartner's 5 levels of maturity for data & analytics…. 60% of respondents…rated themselves in the lowest 3 levels.”
Jenkins-Based CloudBees Acquires Codeship to Fill Out CI/CD Portfolio (https://thenewstack.io/jenkins-based-cloudbees-acquires-codeship-fill-ci-cd-portfolio/).
Architect.io Newsletter (http://news.architecht.io/issues/1?#start) is back!
Brief Solarwinds buying Loggly analysis (https://www.virtualizationpractice.com/solarwinds-acquires-loggly-41114/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solarwinds-acquires-loggly).
Q&A: Snap book author on the app's challenges (https://www.axios.com/snap-book-author-talks-instagram-1518409727-1e80c408-1f2d-4ff4-86b2-76a0500710db.html)
Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Barracuda (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thoma-bravo-completes-acquisition-of-barracuda-300597039.html)
Amazon is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, according to a new report (https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/amazon-is-cutting-hundreds-of-corporate-jobs-according-to-a-new-report/)
XebiaLabs lands $100 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel (https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/xebialabs-lands-100-million-series-b-led-by-susquehanna-growth-equity-and-accel/)
Inside Facebook's Two Years of Hell (https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=&stream=top-stories)
Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1098&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=94289&type=mis&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_term=94289-Heptio+readies+its+customers+and+community+for+Kubernetes+critical+mass)
The Enemy within
Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/14/rogue_it_admin_canadian_railway_switches/)
Apple intern reportedly leaked iPhone source code (https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/9/16997266/apple-source-code-leak-intern-internal-tools-jailbreaking-github-ios-9)
Uber quits GitHub for in-house code after 2016 data breach (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/uber_quit_github_for_custom_code_after_2016_data_breach/) - didn’t have 2FA on, used AWS credentials. But, caught it in 24 hours.
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-charlotte/), Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/) - May 22-25 in Chicago
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Matt: Crashing (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5295524/); Choir! Choir! Choir! David Byrne + NYC sing HEROES (https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/01/david-byrne-shares-official-video-for-his-choir-choir-choir-cover-of-david-bowies-heroes-watch/).
Brandon: (https://www.netflix.com/title/80176878)Competing Against Luck (https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Competing-Against-Luck-Audiobook/B01IIB5OTO) (https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Competing-Against-Luck-Audiobook/B01IIB5OTO)by Clayton Christensen.
Coté: Apple Pencil (https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/) plus GoodNotes (http://www.goodnotesapp.com/) - blow your mind, bruh!
2/15/2018 • 57 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 121: Does GDPR work? Cisco/AppDynamics, Solarwinds, & Honeycomb
Due to Coté feeling weird (and, subsequently, being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). There are two artisanal selected clips. First, a discussion with Jon Collins about GDPR - will it actually work, or just be another regulation eye-roller? Then, there’s a rapid fire questions session with Nancy Gohring of 451 Research - we talk about Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition, ServiceNow, and Honeycomb. Both of these are just a tiny bit of the full interviews, which you should totally check out by subscribing to Software Defined Interviews: http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/ (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/)
Also, if you’re interested in the Datadog write-ups on monitoring RabbitMQ (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/rabbitmq-monitoring/) and Java (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/java-monitoring-apm/), check those out as well in addition getting a free t-shirt when you making your first dashboard by going to https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk).
We’ll see you next week!
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-charlotte/), Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
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2/8/2018 • 28 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 120: RedHat buys CoreOS, Heptio DOES NOT have a distro - the kubernetes kids are over their Christmas hangovers
Red Hat buys CoreOS, 451 says the container market is worth $1.5bn now and will more than double by 2021, Heptio and Cisco put out Kubernetes distros. Also, Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are gonna fix healthcare.
The kubernetes market be like… https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_43192D9FD6DAEF29DA5AB89086C0521853B35FD68E4CC1C22FDD3869AFF34E5E_1517508894758_ricky+and+morty+thunderdome.jpg
75% of IT decision-makers believe “that container management and orchestration software, such as Kubernetes, is sufficient to replace private cloud software, such as OpenStack or VMware,” @ripcitylyman & @alsadowski (@451Research) (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1035&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=94241&type=mis&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_term=94241-Red+Hat+acquires+CoreOS+and+a+larger+stake+in+Kubernetes+for+%24250m).
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KublaiKash: RedHat Buys CoreOS
@dgonyeo https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_43192D9FD6DAEF29DA5AB89086C0521853B35FD68E4CC1C22FDD3869AFF34E5E_1517354280345_image.png
Price of $250m (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/red-hat-acquire-coreos-expanding-212100673.html) - “an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions.”
$50m in funding (https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organizations/funding_total/coreos), since 2015, but CoreOS was started in 2013 (https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-fourth-birthday).
Matt Rosoff (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/red-hat-buys-coreos-for-250-mililon.html): “CoreOS has 130 employee…Docker, meanwhile, has raised more than $240 million.”
451 revenue estimates, July 2017 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92888), Jay Lyman: “CoreOS has about 120 employees [up from 75 reported in Sep 2016 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90146), “about 30 employees” in April 2015 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=84913)], and estimated annual revenue in the $15-20m range.” Sep 2016 customers (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90146): “CoreOS reports more than 1,000 paying customers across its products, with a solid group of CoreOS lightweight Linux clients and a growing number of Quay Enterprise and Tectonic customers.”
Plus, Ibid.: “ The company says most revenue is coming from Amazon Web Services deployments, with some bare-metal, VMware and other deployments.”
Good perspective on the big picture, from Al & Jay at 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1035&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=94241&type=mis&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_term=94241-Red+Hat+acquires+CoreOS+and+a+larger+stake+in+Kubernetes+for+%24250m): “Red Hat's efforts will likely be worthwhile because Kubernetes is more than just container management orchestration software and is actually a distributed application framework that is very well timed with enterprise adoption and use of multi and hybrid cloud infrastructures.”
Product description from the same: “CoreOS Tectonic wraps services – such as automated operations, application services, governance, monitoring and portability – around the Kubernetes container management and orchestration software. Automated operations have been a key focus of the latest CoreOS Tectonic update, with capabilities such as automated patching, failover and high availability and automated cluster deployment included.”
CoreOS describes itself: “CoreOS is the creator of CoreOS Tectonic, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform that provides automated operations, enables portability across private and public cloud providers, and is based on open source software. It also offers CoreOS Quay, an enterprise-ready container registry. CoreOS is also well-known for helping to drive many of the open source innovations that are at the heart of containerized applications, including Kubernetes, where it is a leading contributor; Container Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution created and maintained by CoreOS that automates software updates and is streamlined for running containers; etcd, the distributed data store for Kubernetes; and rkt, an application container engine, donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), that helped drive the current Open Container Initiative (OCI) standard.”
Synergy Corner! All ‘bout that k8s (https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-agrees-to-join-red-hat/): “Kubernetes is a leading container orchestration tool for organizations of all sizes, on its way to potentially becoming as ubiquitous as Linux….We are thrilled to continue this mission at Red Hat and work to accelerate bringing enterprise-grade containerized infrastructure and automated operations to customers.” But they also throw in that original mission: “our mission to make the internet more secure through automated operations.”
451 (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1035&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=94241&type=mis&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_term=94241-Red+Hat+acquires+CoreOS+and+a+larger+stake+in+Kubernetes+for+%24250m): “Red Hat will continue to support CoreOS customers as it integrates Tectonic and other CoreOS technology into its own offerings, primarily OpenShift. Red Hat also indicates it will open-source the Tectonic software as it has with previously acquired technologies.”
More on what Red Hat will do with it (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1035&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=94241&type=mis&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_term=94241-Red+Hat+acquires+CoreOS+and+a+larger+stake+in+Kubernetes+for+%24250m): “Red Hat intends to leverage the CoreOS Tectonic container stack to bolster and enhance OpenShift and RHEL capabilities. In particular, Red Hat says the deal will help it to improve security of container and cluster deployments, enable portability of container applications across hybrid cloud infrastructures and further drive ease of use and automation in its software.”
Combined market-share. This is based off early, CNCF surveys and such, but it’s likely a fine wet-finger-in-the-wind, from The New Stack (https://mailchi.mp/thenewstack/red-hat-takes-on-coreos?e=8cd1443862): “Our analysis of a CNCF survey (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/12/06/cloud-native-technologies-scaling-production-applications/) provides some answers. Out of the 34 CoreOS Tectonic users identified, five also use Red Hat’s OpenShift. Thus, the combined entity would still have just 14% of respondents using it to manage containers. Only 4 percent of Docker Swarm users said they also used Tectonic.”
Wut? (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1035&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=94241&type=mis&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_term=94241-Red+Hat+acquires+CoreOS+and+a+larger+stake+in+Kubernetes+for+%24250m): “According to a 451 Research Advisors project survey of 201 enterprise IT decision-makers at large container-using organizations in April and May 2017, three-quarters [75%] of them indicated that container management and orchestration software, such as Kubernetes, is sufficient to replace private cloud software, such as OpenStack or VMware. “
Bad day for beards (https://twitter.com/brianredbeard/status/958455929694953473).
Coté wrote a the first 451 report on them in 2014 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=82252) - ain’t he precious!
The wikibon crew says little revenue traction, and has a diagram (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/01/30/upping-bet-software-containers-red-hat-acquires-coreos-250m/).
Some contributor boasting (https://twitter.com/openshift/status/958454802605846528):
https://slack-imgs.com/?c=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FDU0dj7dW0AI5nlj.jpg
More coverage: The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/31/red_hat_coreos_acquisition/), click-slides at (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300098736/5-ways-red-hats-acquisition-of-coreos-will-shake-up-the-container-tech-landscape.htm) CRN (https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300098736/5-ways-red-hats-acquisition-of-coreos-will-shake-up-the-container-tech-landscape.htm).
The Heptio kubernetes distro…or not?
Heptio releases it’s managed kubernetes service (https://blog.heptio.com/introducing-heptio-kubernetes-subscription-5415052ef374) (I get that right?) - how’d that Bluebox business work out?
Or, wait, no: I think in this case, sometimes a distro’s just a distro (https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/heptio-launches-its-kubernetes-un-distribution/)….plz advise.
Official page (https://heptio.com/products/kubernetes-subscription/), with a link to a PDF, even!
Multi-cloud positioning (https://blog.heptio.com/introducing-heptio-kubernetes-subscription-5415052ef374) (they even italicized it!): “Just as container technology took off in large part to organizations’ move to the cloud, Kubernetes’ continued proliferation can be attributed to the growing importance of multi-cloud. Beyond the threat of lock-in to a single cloud provider — which is real — organizations need the flexibility to deploy applications in the environment where they are best suited. Kubernetes provides the right level of abstraction to deploy applications on a cloud solution and to an environment that looks and behaves the same on-premises.”
# TAM: Container Cash Context
“451 Research's Market Monitor expects the application container market to be worth $1.6bn in 2018 with a CAGR of 36% through 2021,” Al and Jay in the CoreOS acquisition write-up (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=1035&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=94241&type=mis&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_term=94241-Red+Hat+acquires+CoreOS+and+a+larger+stake+in+Kubernetes+for+%24250m).
Also (https://twitter.com/451Research/status/951468844425646081): We now estimate total app container market revenue at just over $1.1bn for '17, growing at a CAGR of 35% to $1.6bn in '18.
And some 451 numbers, from a recent webinar (https://451research.com/blog/1920-webinar-sizing-up-the-enterprise-container-market?&utm_campaign=2018_mmf_container_wb&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=webinar_reg&utm_term=2018_01_container_wb):
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_43192D9FD6DAEF29DA5AB89086C0521853B35FD68E4CC1C22FDD3869AFF34E5E_1517509288547_451+total+container+market.jpg
Narrowing down to “orchestration”:
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_43192D9FD6DAEF29DA5AB89086C0521853B35FD68E4CC1C22FDD3869AFF34E5E_1517438115215_file.jpeg
The rest of the taxonomy, numbers not in slides:
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_43192D9FD6DAEF29DA5AB89086C0521853B35FD68E4CC1C22FDD3869AFF34E5E_1517438262865_file.jpeg
AWS snubs healthcare industry
Not exactly the intended headline (http://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/amazon-berkshire-hathaway-jpmorgan-health-care.html), I know.
”They decided their combined access to data about how consumers make choices, along with an understanding of the intricacies of health insurance, would inevitably lead to some kind of new efficiency — whatever it might turn out to be.” And also speculation of lame things like making booking doctors easier.
Just lookin’ to make things cheaper (https://www.axios.com/amazon-berkshire-hathaway-jpmorgan-form-health-care-mega-company-cd47db44-7ce7-493e-bc79-6065601830af.html), no big deal.
No details, but a theory (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-6e2331f2-8bae-47f0-bcd4-d0f6c8f5a204.html?chunk=6#story6): “Based on the executives who have been named to top roles at the new company, Jefferies & Co. analyst Brian Tanquilut said there is a good chance it will eventually try to negotiate prices directly with health care providers like hospitals, bypassing companies that act as middlemen.”
Ben’s on that aggregation theory shit (https://stratechery.com/2018/amazon-health/): ‘The key words there are “commoditize and modularize”, and this is where the option I dismissed above comes into play, but not in the way most think: Amazon doesn’t create an insurance company to compete with other insurance companies (or the other pieces of healthcare infrastructure); rather, Amazon makes it possible — and desirable — for individual health care providers to come onto their platform directly, be that doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc…. After all, if Amazon is facilitating the connection to patients, what is the point of having another intermediary? Moreover, by virtue of being the new middleman, Amazon has the unique ability to consolidate patient data in a way that is not only of massive benefit to patients and doctors but also to the application of machine learning.’
The upshot of all of this, at the moment, is that there were no details given and much fan-boy speculation typed up. Which is fine, please fix US healthcare.
A perfectly done story from NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/amazon-berkshire-hathaway-jpmorgan-health-care.html): lots of context, much speculation, and all sorts of input.
Relative to your interests
KuCisco - Cisco wants some of that sweet Kubernetes Kash (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/01/31/cisco-jumps-kubernetes-bandwagon-new-container-platform/): “The company said the Container Platform takes care of the “setup, orchestration, authentication, monitoring, networking, load balancing and optimization” of containers. Deployment of containers is also simplified through automation, as the platform takes care of the most repetitive tasks in this process. It can also be extended to other important aspects of IT, such as networking, security and more, officials said.”
Private cloud boosters have a new URL to point to: “The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close.” (https://www.economist.com/news/business/21735022-rise-internet-things-one-reason-why-computing-emerging-centralised)
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Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-charlotte/), Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
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Recommendations
Matt: Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky State of the World 2018 (https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/503/State-of-the-World-2018-Bruce-St-page01.html); New Zealand’s South Island.
Brandon: Manhunt UNABOMBER (https://www.netflix.com/title/80176878)
Coté: iPad Pro 10.5”. Yup. SHIT DOG!
2/5/2018 • 56 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 119: The ethics of fur lined shoes, bi-modal IT critiques, & Amazon HQ2
Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we talk through some issues to consider and strategy frameworks for thinking through the question. Plus, we talk about bi-modal IT as relates to dad jeans, metaphorically speaking.
Amazon HQ2
The Problem With Courting Amazon (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-hq2-20-cities/550790/), The Atlantic.
Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-myth-leads-cities-to-scramble-for-hq2-2018-1).
Why your city should avoid Amazon HQ2 (https://lifehacker.com/why-you-shouldn-t-wish-for-amazon-s-hq2-in-your-town-1822234280).
Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1 (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/two-texas-cities-named-finalists-race-amazons-hq2/).
The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin (http://austin.culturemap.com/news/innovation/01-22-18-local-economist-austin-needs-amazon-hq2-william-mellor/).
Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location (https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/20/opinions/amazon-headquarters-competition-disturbing-richard-florida-opinion/index.html).
An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of (https://theintercept.com/2018/01/22/amazon-headquarters-shortlist-hq2/).
Tech ethics elsewhere
Facebook hoopla (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=914f3f1c79) - “Trump 2.0” vs. “Obama 2.0.”
Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/22/facebook_fake_news_russia/).
iPhone Addiction (http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/01/13/on-the-rise-of-digital-addiction-activism/).
“Owing” something to open source (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3233485/open-source-tools/the-critics-are-wrong-about-awss-open-source-approach.html).
Work-place culture, diversity.
New Economy, Meet Old Continent (http://findthethread.postach.io/post/new-economy-meet-old-continent)
Digital publishers want platforms to pay up (https://www.axios.com/publishers-want-platforms-to-treat-them-the-fees-from-web-platforms-1516648507-bf750131-dc5b-4b76-8b15-d705a034b702.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=&stream=top-stories)
The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought)
'Need More Time'? Guideposts For Tech Founders Going To Market When No Market (https://www.forbes.com/sites/valleyvoices/2018/01/22/guideposts-for-tech-founders-going-to-market-when-no-market-exists/#4361134542de)
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a pretty good idea of quarterly earnings 3 years in advance (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/08/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-long-term-thinking.html)
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-charlotte/), Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
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Brandon: All the Money in the World (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_the_money_in_the_world_2017) and Dark Money (http://amzn.to/2F60q0D).
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1/23/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 39 seconds
WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Fear of FANG
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This week, we look at one write-up of this freaking out from (https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21735026-which-antitrust-remedies-welcome-which-fight-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and) The Economist (https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21735026-which-antitrust-remedies-welcome-which-fight-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and). They also have a smaller version in their “Leaders” section (https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21735021-dominance-google-facebook-and-amazon-bad-consumers-and-competition-how-tame). As always, there are much more extensive, detailed show notes available as well (/doc/WP017-Fear-of-FANG-Mb9sZYwAqvP1w6dZcmGtS).
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1/19/2018 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 118: Bad chips, garbage home IoT, & cloud spending
Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Problems. And we also discuss some recent IT spending and forecasts, including survey results going over public versus private cloud deployments. There’s also some home automation (IoT!) talk, namely, Coté needs to find the problem this great solution solves.
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Wemo IoT
All the devices (http://amzn.to/2mG64ip) - plugs (http://amzn.to/2DfJt3n), dimmers (http://amzn.to/2EPW5yA), HomeKit bridge (http://amzn.to/2FMQ4nv) (HomeKit is kinda garbage).
There’s plenty of IFTTT applets that do Wemo things (https://ifttt.com/search/query/wemo), but…are they useful?
Those chip problems - what would you use them for?
What’s this mean?
Another Y2K? The world didn’t seem to end, so are we good?
The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/) coverage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/), lots of gobbly-gook.
TPM estimates (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/08/cost-spectre-meltdown-server-taxes/) cost to IT departments to deal with it.
Suspicious stock sale (http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/04/technology/business/brian-krzanich-intel-shares/index.html?__s=zr4eixsppawhzbionuu9), or maybe he just needed a new winter home.
What are people doing with exploits?
More IT spending in 2018, public cloud use growing
451 and IDC have some cloud forecast numbers out.
Ent. software growth.
Trad’l IT shrinking, but not too fast 451 days private cloud still the winner, but barely.
451 tracks by survey (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/infrastructure-software/complexity-bolsters-valuations-for-infrastructure-software/) with plans to put workloads across the different types of infrastructure:
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_EF670144310531D7873957CB4E18505EF5DF967F587843FC89C0EE55E5BFF033_1516203990094_image.png
PaaS in not included (see a recent round-up of PaaS market-sizings (https://diginomica.com/2018/01/17/paas-business-case-higher-level-cloud-services-delivers-roi-competitive-advantage/), tho), but for 2019: public cloud totals ~37% (or 46.3% if you included hosted), private cloud 53.6%
IDC’s tracks hardware spend (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS43508918):
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_EF670144310531D7873957CB4E18505EF5DF967F587843FC89C0EE55E5BFF033_1516204083806_image.png
Meanwhile, an analyst says Azure had a gain on AWS in Q4 (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/12/amazon-lost-cloud-market-share-to-microsoft-in-the-fourth-quarter-keybanc.html): “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a year earlier, KeyBanc's Brent Bracelin and other analysts wrote in a note on Thursday. Microsoft Azure jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent, and Google's share increased from 10 percent to 12 percent, they said.”
Also, more spending forecasts from Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3845563):
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_EF670144310531D7873957CB4E18505EF5DF967F587843FC89C0EE55E5BFF033_1516204339433_image.png
The move to SaaS continuing: “Organizations are expected to increase spending on enterprise application software in 2018, with more of the budget shifting to software as a service (SaaS). The growing availability of SaaS-based solutions is encouraging new adoption and spending across many subcategories, such as financial management systems (FMS), human capital management (HCM) and analytic applications (https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/analyst-answers-the-biggest-challenges-for-data-analytics-leaders-today/).”
Really, doesn’t that make the most sense for where to spend most of your priority? Clears out the under-brush. Perhaps there should be a split between “innovation” (customer IT) and “keep the lights on.” I often think bi-modal got lost in that distinction.
Hey, that sounds like Big Data! ‘"Looking at some of the key areas driving spending over the next few years, Gartner forecasts $2.9 trillion in new business value opportunities (https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3837763) attributable to AI by 2021, as well as the ability to recover 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity," said Mr. Lovelock. "That business value is attributable to using AI to, for example, drive efficiency gains, create insights that personalize the customer experience, entice engagement and commerce, and aid in expanding revenue-generating opportunities as part of new business models driven by the insights from data."’
451’s surveys show more IT spending too (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/investment-banking/every-reason-to-shop-yet-tech-companies-still-empty-handed/): “fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That was the highest reading since 2007, and 13 basis points higher than the average survey response for the month of November for the previous five years”
The exciting world of monitoringobservability
With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94096): “With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but has hit a patch of growth recently. As of September, we believe the company was on track to finish 2017 with roughly $10m in billings, up from mid-single digits in 2016. Founded in 2009 with a mission of offering a SaaS-based, easy-to-use logging product with helpful visualizations built using advanced analytics, Loggly had raised $47m in venture capital, including a $11.5m series D round in June 2016.” They estimate ~3,000 paying customers.
Microsoft gets serious about monitoring (https://451research.com/report-short?entityid=94076&type=mis&alertid=975&contactid=0033200001wgkckaa2), pulling together it’s different things Nancy at 451 reports: “Microsoft's vision is to deliver tools that can offer a holistic view of services to application architects looking to optimize their software; performance information and debugging capabilities for DevOps and ops pros; insight into KPIs for executives; and information about customer usage to product owners. Microsoft doesn't yet have a cohesive offering for all of the above, but it has the pieces to enable it and has begun delivering on some integrations across products.”
You may recall that Datadog acquired Logmatic.io back in the Fall (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-acquires-logmatic-io/).
Relevant to your interests
Annual Letter from Planet Earth (https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/no-mercy-no-malice/annual-letter-from-planet-earth), Scott Galloway: a pretty good moral tent-pole for tech.
Feel like a little kid in the container world? Welcome to the club (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/08/container_shock_not_everybody_is_doing_it/): “industry adoption more accurately reflected in 451 Research's survey data that pegs adoption at 27 per cent. Of those 27 per cent of enterprises that have container religion, just 52 per cent are running containers in production, according to the same survey. In other words, a mere 13.5 per cent (or so) of enterprises are running containers in production.”
Finally, an explanation of that Cisco/Google partnership (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=975&contactid=0033200001wgkckaa2&entityid=94056&type=mis): “CloudCenter is key to the hybrid cloud partnership that Cisco and Google recently announced, where CloudCenter will be used to integrate Google Cloud Platform services with on-premises datacenters. The integrated offering includes Cisco's Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure and Nexus 9k networking. Cisco is also leveraging its networking (CSR) and security (Stealthwatch Cloud) portfolio to ensure a consistent environment across the hybrid cloud. Google's Kubernetes container runtime uses Apigee to consume and manage APIs, as well as Google's range of cloud services, including machine learning and visual recognition. The open source Istio service management platform is key to the offering, supported in CloudCenter, providing traffic management, observability, policy enforcement and service identity and security for microservices. There will also be integrations to AppDynamics. Solution engineering efforts are underway, and Cisco and Google are working on predefined statements of work that can be executed by both companies' direct sales teams and by the partner channels. The joint offering will be fully supported by the Cisco Technical Assistance Center. The Cisco-Google partnership on hybrid cloud is non-exclusive, but Google is working closely with Cisco on the joint engineering work around open hybrid cloud.”
Taking Stock of Cloud Application Platforms (http://rishidot.com/krishnan/platforms/taking-stock-of-application-platforms/): basically, he expects it to all go kubernetes. See also this developer-oriented comparison of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and kubernetes (https://medium.com/@odedia/comparing-kubernetes-to-pivotal-cloud-foundry-a-developers-perspective-6d40a911f257).
IBM combining GBS and GTS (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/01/15/report-ibm-combine-gbs-gts-units-single-business-called-ibm-services/). This means consulting/outsourcing and hosting, right? Lots of staff shifting and lay-offs, as The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/15/ibm_rebrands_services_businesses_as_ibm_services/) reported (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/15/ibm_rebrands_services_businesses_as_ibm_services/).
Dropbox to IPO (https://thehustle.co/dropbox-IPO/) - “doing over $1B in annualized sales and are cash flow positive,” well with some added nuance (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/dropbox-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-initial-offering): “[i]t’s also been profitable, excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. “ $10bn valuation, they say.
Speaking of: 20 years of big-ass VC exits (http://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/167623403778/whatsapp-decided-early-on-to-work-only-with-a).
Watch out for the Weka (https://www.grownups.co.nz/interests/book-reviews/lyn-potter-reviews-new-zealand-bird-books-kids/), by Ned Barraud, kid's book.
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-charlotte/), Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
Recommendations
Matt:
I Contain Multitudes (https://www.amazon.com/Contain-Multitudes-Microbes-Within-Grander/dp/0062368605/).
Goruck Echo Backpack (https://www.goruck.com/echo/).
Brandon: Wind River (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wind_river_2017/).
Coté: OluKai Moloa Slipper (http://amzn.to/2FM0VhK) - it says “slipper,” but I feel like it could be an everyday, even EBC shoe. Bit bulbous like those 90s Cadillac boats (https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1990-1999-cadillac.htm).
1/17/2018 • 56 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 117: Who is the CISO?
With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylandtx) from the CISO Exec Network (https://www.cisoexecnet.com/) joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security. Special Guest: Andy Land.
12/26/2017 • 59 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 116: Predictions &co.
What’s going to happen in 2018? No really knows, but people love predicting things this time of year. We can’t resist it so dip out toes in the same game and review some predictions from our friends at Gartner as well. Plus, a smattering of infrastructure software news and recommendations.
Pre-roll SDT news & hype
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Jan 16th, first Live Recording (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnyxcbvb/) in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul.
The newsletter now has two editions (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21), one at the end of this week coming, fools!
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Predictions
Coté, of course, used to do these: the last one, for 2015, at 451 (https://451research.com/report-long?icid=3305); 2009 at RedMonk (http://redmonk.com/cote/tag/predictions/) (boy, I sure was full of piss and vinegar back then); some nonsense from 2014 (https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/techflash/2014/01/tech-trends-to-mind-in-2014.html);
Coté: DevOps → SRE.
Coté: I met someone who described themselves as a “chatbot developer” last week. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades.
Ducy’s predictions (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/942834754520465408).
Return to monoliths (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/940259898331238402).
Survey of predictions from elsewhere
Good God, man (https://twitter.com/cote/status/942834388764676099)! - something about the role of AI in appdev.
“AIOps (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-48R1FQY&ct=170803&st=sb)” - please, kill me now. (To be fair, I think it down-shifts to ML pretty quick-like. Still)
Gartner’s mode-salad (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3829572/predicts--compute-infrastructure): “Through 2020, n-tier bimodal workloads will encompass 50% of existing Mode 1 workloads and 80% of new Mode 2 workloads.”
I think this means: “50% of old applications will be n-tier, and 80% of new apps will be n-tier,” where “n-tier” means not “client/server, hosted and peer-to-peer architectures.”
Serverless, Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3829572/predicts--compute-infrastructure): “By 2020, 90% of serverless deployments will occur outside the purview of I&O organizations when supporting general-use patterns.”
This decade in kubernetes, Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3829572/predicts--compute-infrastructure): “By 2020, more than 50% of enterprises will run mission-critical, containerized cloud-native applications in production, up from less than 5% today.”
Gartner’s PaaS PDF (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3828364/predicts--paas-innovation-accelerates), someone over there had an SEO-stroke: “Application leaders engaged in digital business transformation must master AI, event-driven design, serverless microservices, IoT and strategic integration to serve their business and customers well. Cloud platform innovation drives business leadership.”
A good passage on why private PaaS is hard, from PaaS predictions piece (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3831577/predicts--application-development): “These [positive, PaaS] capabilities benefit the organizations and are a positive IT development. But they do not alone amount to a cloud experience. Their challenge is typically organizational. A private cloud requires a division of the IT organization into provider and subscribers, and establishment of a strict separation between them via a cloud services portal and suitable cross-charging model. Without a strict adherence to the isolation of providers and subscribers, there cannot be standardization. The self-service is compromised and without resource use tracking, it is hard to achieve the efficiency of elastic autoscaling and elimination of shelf-ware. In most organizations, the leadership is not committed enough to the vision of private cloud to make the difficult and high-risk investment that can stand up to the right organizational framework, policies and practices. Therefore, these PaaS frameworks have justifed their existence mostly through their support of newer cloud-native development models such as DevOps, rather than cloudiness features.”
Relevant to your interests
Shameless Self Promotion: best digital transformation joke of the year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01R_QJqhz8M&feature=youtu.be&t=2m47s).
Tech M&A prioritization, rough overview from 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?alertid=930&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&entityId=93944&type=mis):
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_1996658A86AAF5C2B9B273C6B66098D42647E44D66FE719055C79420D4C90574_1513622598048_image.png
Forrester Researcher: Containers, PaaS And Managed Private Cloud Will Drive Cloud Adoption Next Year And Beyond (http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300096746/forrester-researcher-containers-paas-and-managed-private-cloud-will-drive-cloud-adoption-next-year-and-beyond.htm) - "It’s a waiting game for a comprehensive management platform."
IDC predicts that in 2018, annual IaaS/PaaS service spending (OpEx) will be equal to new on prem infrastructure spending (CapEx) (https://twitter.com/matteastwood/status/941067595158978560) - “They” say public cloud will over-take private cloud in 2019. Meanwhile (https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/widespread-adoption-of-cloud-office-is-now-well-underway/): "In 2018, we expect 40% to 50% of business users to have moved their core collaboration and communications systems to cloud platforms. By 2021, more than 70% of businesses will be substantially provisioned with cloud office capabilities.”
Last minute gift ideas
Brandon: subscriptions like Spotify, NY Times - no one will do it though, no one wants to give this.
Matt: experiences.
Coté: cash for kids, trialling this year.
Conferences, et. al.
Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244102686/), Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
Recommendations
Matt: Sigur Rós live from the Walt Disney Concert Hall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BjxCpmxmo), other Pitchfork concerts
Brandon: United States Postal Service (https://www.usps.com/).
Coté: Coté’s DIY Home Office Trail Mix (pea-con pieces & raisons); stock CostCo bacon (https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/Kirkland-Signature-Premium-Bacon%2C-1-lb%2C-4-ct.product.10181821.html); the only way to suffer through reading a pile of predictions pieces is listening to Yacht Rock Vol. 1 (https://open.spotify.com/user/bushwald/playlist/4SXBx8AY6C1HJakcC89TaO). Co-pilot for all the tedious times in life. (Cf. Vol. 2 (https://open.spotify.com/user/bushwald/playlist/0Y0SW62HBp1TMhesz7BUug) and Vol. 3 (https://open.spotify.com/user/bushwald/playlist/7cc40eisxIgThFJKqy4L5d).)
12/19/2017 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 35 seconds
Episode 115: Confularity at Kublecon
We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea). There is no co-host shortage.
Pre-roll SDT news & hype
Jan 16th, first Live Recording (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnyxcbvb/) in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul (https://twitter.com/pczarkowski).
Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack), subscribe the newsletter (https://softwaredefinedtalk.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21), and pay-up for our members only podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt).
This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon
KubeCon (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-north-america) - that a thing?
As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/kubernetes-matures-cloud-native-movement-turns-attention-service-mesh/) - climb the stack!
List of announcements (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/07/kubernetes_tasting_menu_for_devops_types/), from The Register.
“We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world” (https://buoyant.io/2017/12/05/introducing-conduit/) - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home.
Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project (https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/intel-and-hyper-partner-with-the-openstack-foundation-to-launch-the-kata-containers-project/)
Datadog survey (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-orchestration/).
Heptio has DR in Azure (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/12/07/heptio-brings-disaster-recovery-tool-ark-microsofts-azure-container-service/) - file under, “oh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing…”
Relevant to your interests
You’re not doing agile (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/11/you_say_you_are_doing_devops/) - Coté’s Christmas bonus column.
Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPQ2uPeB0bByiIUMLVAhrPHL&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVdGak9URXdPVGxrTTJSbCIsInQiOiJQcXNRc3RWZFRXVTlDbnhuNWYwWmV3a2p3V0ZtVkkrZ1pBdGcxcTlUR1Z5WERIRFgrMnd4N0Q3WE9qWTQ4MzhVQ0I3NThDS1ZRM2VpYnNraGRBMXhcLzE0eHpYNWZvYWtkSlJWQkZWUDVQUm1rTXZpaGNBc3liVzg4Rnh4WmJzRXgifQ%3D%3D&disable_polymer=true) - hey, obviously there’s some hustle, but it’s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less.
Related: receipts considered stupid (http://www.businessinsider.com/american-express-mastercard-kill-receipt-signatures-2017-12) - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature
Planview buys LeanKit (http://www.planview.com/company/press-releases/planview-extends-work-and-resource-management-platform-into-lean-and-agile-with-acquisition-of-leankit/).
Why do I keep seeing “quantum computing” everywhere. Shouldn’t we figure out “computing” first?
Update on Dell financials (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300096621/crn-exclusive-michael-dell-on-completing-the-emc-integration-ma-strategy-vmware-nsx-synergies-and-refocusing-on-storage-in-2018.htm/pgno/0/7): "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.”
Conferences, et. al.
It’s the end of the year, not many conferences left.
Dec 19th, 2017 - Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244459662/).
Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244102686/), Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](https://twitter.com/pczarkowski).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/).
Recommendations
Brandon: Long Shot (https://www.netflix.com/title/80182115), Netflix; Presentations: Ten Year Futures (https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/11/29/presentation-ten-year-futures?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=74e4152c08-Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-74e4152c08-70424493), Ben Evans.
Coté: finally got that AAdvantage Executive (https://thepointsguy.com/guide/citi-aadvantage-executive-review/) card.
Andrew: principals sections in the Google SRE book (http://amzn.to/2z3Odti) (still free (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html)!). Kubernetes Up and Running (http://amzn.to/2yiI9JK). Badass (http://amzn.to/2z4rn4J). Paper on ML indexing stuff (https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208). Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.
12/13/2017 • 49 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 114: SpringOne, talking with analysts, in-browser IDEs, & dressing for SF HA-HA-BUSINESS meetings
It’s SpringOne Platform this week so Coté reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal’s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from re:Invent. We also cover clothing options for San Francisco.
Pre-Roll SDT News
SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!
No SSH JJ has stickers. Find him at KubeCon. (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-north-america)
We’ll be doing a live show, - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244102686/).
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SpringOne Platform - Pivotal News
New Marketecture https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_37C5B9D706FBC5B4A0BC2A2D25DDDD902646A073B8993B43D6241869823D170B_1512499332779_PCF+2.0+Diagram.png
Change is really hard. There is not tech magic except clearing the decks of bullshit. And then you focus on the intractable, but valuable bullshit.
It’s SpringOne Platform this week.
PCF 2.0 (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/pivotal-unveils-expansion-of-pivotal-cloud-foundry-and-announces-serverless-computing-product) - in addition to actual tech, renaming some things to to make brand-room for PKS.
Serverless (https://pivotal.io/platform/pivotal-function-service) bundled in, but not GA yet.
Integrations and such, even with IBM middleware (http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-pivotal-collaborate-on-tools-for-app-development/).
Also, use Google Cloud services.
Windows Server 2016 use, most recent version - better integration with it.
Also, a VMware NSX release (https://www.itworld.com/article/3239967/lan-wan/vmware-targets-cloud-and-container-networking-with-latest-nsx-t-launch.html), but Coté doesn’t know about that.
Also, bunch of Spring stuff. Some kotlin support, reactive (https://twitter.com/ritam/status/938105594472382464), etc.
Things people use Spring for/with charts (https://twitter.com/bryanfriedman/status/938104704889798656/).
More: Ron Miller at (https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/pivotal-has-something-for-everyone-in-the-latest-cloud-foundry-platform-release/) TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/pivotal-has-something-for-everyone-in-the-latest-cloud-foundry-platform-release/), Paul Krill on serverless (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3239764/cloud-computing/pivotal-bringing-serverless-computing-to-cloud-foundry.html), Rene Millman at Cloud Pro/IT Pro (http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/paas/7214/uk-exclusive-pivotal-launches-one-platform-to-rule-them-all), Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/12/05/pivotal-software-adds-serverless-compute-software-containers-cloud-foundry/).
AWS re:Invent, day 2
Daniel Bryant’s (InfoQ) overview of everything (https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/12/aws-reinvent-day-two).
Alexa for Business (https://aws.amazon.com/alexaforbusiness/)
“Alexia! Fix multi-organization meeting scheduling!”
Watson-lite?
There’s a dangerous step infrastructure companies try to make into collab, often. It usually doesn’t work (https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/no-more-project-octopus-a-corporate-dropbox-gets-a-corporate-name/) (cf. VMware Project Octopus circa 2011 (https://gigaom.com/2011/09/01/how-far-can-consumerization-go-for-enterprise-apps/) and the related stuff) but, good luck storming the castle!
AWS CTO Defines Well-Architected Cloud Security Best Practices (http://www.eweek.com/security/aws-cto-defines-well-architected-cloud-security-best-practices) “He noted that at AWS, security will always be his group's number one investment area.” (well, for one, what’s “his group,” for second, I’m guessing they’ll always be spending more on hardware, real-estate, and electricity than the team of people coding group security.)
Cloud9 IDE stuff (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-cloud9-cloud-developer-environments/):
Also from Thomas Claburn at (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/01/aws_cloud9/) El Reg (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/01/aws_cloud9/), interesting angle on cost: "Used eight hours a day, it would cost (https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html) about $48.80 per month on a Linux m4.xlarge instance (4 vCPUs, 16GiB memory) or $5.62 on a less well provisioned t2.small instance. (1 vCPU, 2GiB memory).”
“remote pair-programming features”
This Week in Kubernetes
PKS GA’ed (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/pivotal-unveils-expansion-of-pivotal-cloud-foundry-and-announces-serverless-computing-product) from Pivotal.
Kubernetes momeintum piece (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2017/11/30/kubernetes-momentum-builds-new-aws-tools/) from George Leopold.
EKS - it’s a trap (https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/kubernetes-on-aws-caution-c5acae0e1790)! Says @cloud_opinion.
# Misc.
Economist (https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21731726-unimpressed-consumers-embrace-relevance-augmented-reality-instead-game) tries explaining bitcoin (https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21731726-unimpressed-consumers-embrace-relevance-augmented-reality-instead-game).
Economist (https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21731726-unimpressed-consumers-embrace-relevance-augmented-reality-instead-game) says VR/AR is a not too hot (https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21731827-getting-out-such-illiquid-asset-can-be-harder-getting-bitcoins?frsc=dg%7Ce), business-wise.
VMware, still making a lot of money (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/01/vmware_q3_2018/): 3rd quarter "revenue of US$1.98bn... Net profit came in at $443m, up from $319m"
Mid-roll SolarWinds Ad
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End-roll
Conferences
Coté’s junk:
Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244459662/).
Live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244102686/).
Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.
Recommendations
Brandon: HQ Trivia App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hq-live-trivia-game-show/id1232278996?mt=8)
Coté: Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diary. (http://amzn.to/2jVDnge)
12/6/2017 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 113: All the great AWS re:Invent news
There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals!
Pre-Roll SDT News
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We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244102686/).
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Misc. news before re:Invent coverage
Changing of the guard at HPE (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/21/hpe_meg_whitman/).
WeWork buys MeetUp (https://www.wired.com/story/why-wework-is-buying-meetup/).
Net Neutrality (https://www.wired.com/story/heres-how-the-end-of-net-neutrality-will-change-the-internet/) - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way.
EFF write-up (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/lump-coal-internets-stocking-fcc-poised-gut-net-neutrality-rules)
Stratechery (https://stratechery.com/2017/light-touch-cable-and-dsl-the-broadband-tradeoff-the-importance-of-antitrust/) & follow-up (https://stratechery.com/2017/light-touch-cable-and-dsl-the-broadband-tradeoff-the-importance-of-antitrust/)
This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/27/barracuda_private_equity/)! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/28/roark-capital-to-buy-buffalo-wild-wings-for-2-point-9-billion.html).
Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-boom-creates-new-order-for-world-markets-1511260200)
Good overview (http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Redefining-OpenStack-Addressing-the-identity-and-integration-for-enterprise-readiness) of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory.
AWS re:Invent
AWS Business Update
Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue (https://www.channele2e.com/news/live-blog-amazon-web-services-ceo-andy-jassy/) run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year
New AWS Services (100+ new total)
Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT
Amazon MQ (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-mq-managed-message-broker-service-for-activemq/) - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)
AppSync (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-appsync/) - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?)
Aurora Serverless (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-amazon-aurora-serverless/) - burst database consumption
Comprehend (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-comprehend-continuously-trained-natural-language-processing/) - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages
DeepLens (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deeplens/) - video camera with AI embedded
DynamoDB Global (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-and-on-demand-backup/) - similar to Azure/Google initiatives
EC2 Bare Metal Instances (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/) - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?)
came out of the VMware work
i3.metal instance types
c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type)
EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking
H1 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-h1-instances-fast-dense-storage-for-big-data-applications/) - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instances
M5 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/m5-the-next-generation-of-general-purpose-ec2-instances/) - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisor
Deep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html)
T2 Unlimited (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t2-unlimited-going-beyond-the-burst-with-high-performance/) - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit system
Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-container-service-for-kubernetes/) (EKS) - called it!
upstream K8s
automatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs
monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed service
Fargate (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate/) - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed
similar to Azure Container Instances
apparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!)
So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2017/11/30/kubernetes-momentum-builds-new-aws-tools/).
FreeRTOS (https://aws.amazon.com/freertos/) - AWS bought(?) existing open source (https://www.freertos.org) IoT operating system vendor
Glacier/S3 Select (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-glacier-select/) - run SQL-like queries against your buckets and storage (CSV & JSON)
GuardDuty (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-guardduty-continuous-security-monitoring-threat-detection/) - continuous security monitoring & threat detection (lunches eaten?)
IoT Analytics (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-aws-iot-analytics/) - MQTT processing, reporting & storage
IoT Device Defender (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-sepio-secure-your-iot-fleet/) - reporting, alerting & mitigation of existing IoT fleets
IoT Device Management (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-device-management/) - lifecycle, management & monitoring of IoT devices
Kinesis Video Streams (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-serverless-video-ingestion-and-storage-for-vision-enabled-apps/) - video ingestion/processing service
Media Services (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-media-services-process-store-and-monetize-cloud-based-video/) - YouTube as a Service, including monetization. Seems there should be an embeddable player somewhere.
Neptune (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-neptune-a-fully-managed-graph-database-service/) - managed graph database service (lunches eaten?)
Rekognition Video (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-welcoming-amazon-rekognition-video-service/) - Rekognition now does video
SageMaker (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sagemaker/) - framework for building AI services
Sumerian (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-presenting-amazon-sumerian/) - VR/AR/3D IDE and platform?
Systems Manager (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-systems-manager/) - custom dashboards based off of tags, ties into AWS system management tools
Time Sync Service (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-time-sync-service/) - AWS NTP
Translate (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-translate-real-time-text-language-translation/) - Google & MS already have this
Transcribe (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-transcribe-scalable-and-accurate-automatic-speech-recognition/) - speech recognition, we should use this!
More: The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/aws-takes-kubernetes-offers-serverless-database-service/), The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/29/amazon_aws_kubernetes/).
This kind of over-the-top analysis (https://blog.codeship.com/aws-reinvent-a-musical-review-of-the-2017-keynote/) is kinda our thing (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). BACK OFF, MAN!
AWS Strategy Update
On Hybrid Cloud: “In the fullness of time — I don’t know if it’s five, 10 or 15 years out — relatively few companies will own their own data centers. Those that do will have a much smaller footprint. It will be a transition and it won’t happen overnight.” Link (https://www.channele2e.com/news/live-blog-amazon-web-services-ceo-andy-jassy/)
More: ‘Is Multi-Cloud Real?: “We certainly get asked about it a lot. Most enterprises, when they think about a plan for moving to the cloud, they think they will distribute workloads across a couple of cloud providers. But few actually make that decision because you have to standardize on lowest common denominator when you go multi-cloud. AWS is so far ahead and you don’t want to handicap developer teams. Asking developers to be fluent in multiple cloud platforms is a lot. And all the cloud providers have volume discounts. If you split workloads across multi-cloud, you’re diminishing those discounts. In practice, companies pick a predominate cloud provider for their workloads. And they may have a secondary cloud provider just in case they want to switch providers.’
AWS re:Invent Preview Review
✔SaaS lunches will be eaten?
✔Amazon Kubernetes Service?
This Week in Kubernetes
All about AWS this week!
Well, GKS did get rid of billing for cluster managers
Coté finished up this pile of crap (get a preview!) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/13JaEeN3Vww_Lu5FTgFgArl16HUQ2Oo4lIR1ua_7zZU4/edit?usp=sharing) and right after emailing it in was reminded that Ben wrote this up already, (https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-challenging-aws/) plus an update based on re:Invent this week (https://stratechery.com/2017/aws-fargate-and-kubernetes-support-embrace-and-extend-awss-execution-advantage/).
End-roll
Conferences
Coté’s junk:
NEXT WEEK, FOOLS! SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration). Coté and many others speaking.
Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244459662/).
Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Art of War, backlaid by Wu Tang Clan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCk7ozsr428)
Brandon: Hindenburg audio editor (https://hindenburg.com/).
Coté: Programmed Inequality (http://amzn.to/2Aj4StV); drink after the kids go to bed; Mindhunter (https://www.netflix.com/title/80114855); Jim and Andy (https://www.netflix.com/title/80209608).
11/30/2017 • 59 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 112: SaaS lunches will be eaten?
With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also discuss how to celebrate Thanksgiving when you are an living down under. Most importantly, we reveal the new Software Define Talk logo!
Show Notes:
VMware Origins: Masters of Scale: Look Sideways — with Google / VMware’s Diane Greene (https://overcast.fm/+I6DDWoxy4).
Strategy Discussion: Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies (https://hbr.org/2017/11/many-strategies-fail-because-theyre-not-actually-strategies)
Bonus Links:
Mesosphere, a San Francis (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/florian-leibert-mesosphere-ceo-reveals-50-million-run-rate-2017-11)c (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/florian-leibert-mesosphere-ceo-reveals-50-million-run-rate-2017-11)o cloud-infrastructure startup that once famously turned down an acquisition from Microsoft, is now on a $US50 million annualized run rate. (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/florian-leibert-mesosphere-ceo-reveals-50-million-run-rate-2017-11)
Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!) (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/introducing-Certified-Kubernetes-and-Google-Kubernetes-Engine.html)
Stressed about serverless lock-in? Don't be (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/stressed-about-serverless-lock-in-dont-be/)
Sponsor:
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Recommendations
Matt Ray: Laughing for Days (https://twitter.com/matwhi/status/932104788182933505)
Brandon: Movie: American Made (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_made_2017/)
11/21/2017 • 49 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 111: 280 characters on PowerPoint, Product Management, & OpenStack
With Coté stuck in the tail end of polishing up a new stump speech, we discuss the magic of creating the deck and the history of PowerPoint, based on a recently published article. After slides talk and some contemplation of using Rick and Morty references in (supposedly) professional talks, we discuss how impossible keeping everyone happy with product management decisions as a product gets older. We close out talking about the recent OpenStack Summit and Mirantis.
This week’s exegesis
OpenStack User Survey, probably.
# Fuckin’ with PowerPoint, or, “these slides will compile, no matter what”
David Byrne loves PowerPoint (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/08_byrne.shtml).
History of PowerPoint (https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-improbable-origins-of-powerpoint), best $14m acquisition ever! Dive even deeper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhAdlNtfiQ)!
Is Rick and Morty (https://twitter.com/cote/status/928370494537117696) safe for slides?
# 280 Characters of Bullshit(?)
Pro (https://twitter.com/cote/status/928400167690227712).
Con 1 (https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/928223718987485184).
Con 2 (https://twitter.com/IsiahWhitlockJr/status/928312886459535366).
Con 3 (https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/928268550082478080).
# OpenStack Summit
In Sydney.
It’s Mirantis again (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/08/mirantis_makes_drivetrain_its_main_product/)!
OpenStack Survey - Tasty Meats Paul (https://twitter.com/pczarkowski/status/928119420056211458)
# This week in Kubernetes
We’re re-writing all of systems management (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/06/coreos_kubernetes_v_world/).
Serverless, what is it, exactly (https://www.alexhudson.com/2017/11/01/faas-name-smell-sweet/)?
# BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
# Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
# Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
Coté’s junk:
Innotech Microservices Conference (http://www.innotechconferences.com/austin/about-2/microservices-day/), Austin, 11/16/2017.
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration). Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
November 10 - Microsoft Open Source Roadshow (https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x2525006abcd&)
November 14 - Perth MS Cloud Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Perth-Cloud/events/243132123/)
# Recommendations
Matt Ray: Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsccjsW8bSY)
Brandon: Snag it (https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html)
Coté: Ritz Crackers, all the Courtney Barnett songs (https://open.spotify.com/user/bushwald/playlist/0AOIrrtSlFRlgJaiR9KXJI).
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_F83EDE5F4F9C2786427E8F60EBF6336D85735B186DCB25F271E9E884E2864F72_1510179282023_image.png
11/9/2017 • 58 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 110: s/private cloud/hybrid cloud/ig
This week, if you can stand it, we talk about why kubernetes won (no solid conclusions are reached), the announcement around Cisco and Google, and IBM’s new private cloud stack, “IBM Cloud Private.”
This week’s exegesis
The Corporate Podcast, plus EBC’ing - sign-up and listen (https://www.patreon.com/posts/corporate-ebcing-15181785)!
Last week we looked at The Lone Wolf Analyst, by way of Ben Thompson (https://www.patreon.com/posts/lone-wolf-15073204).
This week in kubernetes
Why did kubernetes win? (Nerds like to tinker, Google brand? Did the rest of us just need to buy more native advertising in The New Stack?)
Cisco and Google
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_209EE5C7BA94C1300EA3F28BFEF5BA18054817A141C02AC7895880D0A1E4AA6D_1509630972019_image.png
Not really sure what this Cisco/Google thing i (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2017/10/25/cisco-google-join-forces-hybrid-cloud/)s. What does Cisco bring to the table?
“Cisco's HyperFlex platform that includes management tools to enforce security and other policies as applications and services are released with greater frequency.”
Private cloud bundling of kubernetes, Istio, all the great cloud natives.
"This is what we hear customers ask for," Diane Greene.
Big picture: what’s Google’s goal here? Is it really as simple as “on-ramp?”
Even bigger picture: how did it kubernetes win?
IBM’s private cloud stack
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_209EE5C7BA94C1300EA3F28BFEF5BA18054817A141C02AC7895880D0A1E4AA6D_1509643774051_image.png
So, is the “Blue Mix” brand out the mix?
IBM page (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/W1559b1be149d_43b0_881e_9783f38faaff/page/Overview%20of%20IBM%20Cloud%20Private): “Overview of IBM Cloud Private.” Another announcement overview (https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS217-466&appname=USN).
“Is built on the latest versions of Kubernetes and Docker” - what that (https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS217-466&appname=USN) mean?
Jeffrey Burt (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/01/ibm-builds-private-cloud-stack-kubernetes-containers/): “IBM Cloud Private can run on a variety of infrastructures, including the vendor’s own mainframe and Power systems, its hyperconverged infrastructure that runs Nutanix software, and IBM Storage’s Spectrum Access solution. In addition, it can run on systems from Dell EMC, Lenovo, Cisco Systems and NetApp, and can be deployed by such VMware, Canonical and other OpenStack distributions as well as bare-metal systems. The private cloud platform also includes such developer services for data analytics as Db2, Db2 Warehouse, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, developer tools like Netcool, UrbanCode, and Cloud Brokerage and open-source management software such as Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, and ElasticSearch.”
Chris Mellor, (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/01/ibms_containerised_cloud_private/) The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/01/ibms_containerised_cloud_private/):
All the great middleware now in (Docker) containers: “IBM has provided containerised versions of WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty, MQ, and DB2, plus Microservice Builder as software bundle components. For example, Cloud Private for Application Modernization provides Cloud Private capabilities plus WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, MQ Advanced, API Connect Professional, DB2 Direct Advanced and Urban Code Deploy.”
Value-prop’in! “The standout aim is to help legacy apps transition to a more cloud-native style of construction and operation so that they can run inside a public cloud-like environment on-premises – private cloud – and connect to and/or be integrated with public clouds in some fashion. The destination in IBM's view, of the evolution of legacy apps is the hybrid cloud with private cloud as a stepping stone.”
The white papers also mention “regulated industries” and the like.
Goin’ for that enterprise cloud, hey, boy.
Also: Coté’s highlights (https://cote.io/2017/11/01/ibms-new-private-cloud-stack-its-got-the-kubernetes-containers/), brief coverage from Tom Krazit at GeekWire (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/ibm-launches-new-version-private-cloud-built-kubernetes-support/).
An oral history of “bursting”: from 2010 to 2017.
Congress now follows you
Kind of a dick move to not send the CEOs (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/01/facebook_twitter_google_senate_russia/).
Holy Shit! “Revealing exactly what was smeared all over the internet during the 2016 elections would, we reckon, be like opening Pandora's box: it would allow citizens to join the dots between Kremlin-crafted lies, the gradual acceptance of those lies online, the discussion and even promotion of said lies on mainstream news networks, resulting in, presumably, dozens of clips of senators responding with indignation about made-up information. In short, everyone is going to look like a chump if it turns out everything argued over last year was based on nothing but Kremlin-devised myths and urban legends. Rumors, in other words, designed to destabilize American politics and perhaps install a preferred candidate in the White House.”
Looks like my rep has been keeping up on Ben Thompson: ‘Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) asked: "Why should you be treated any differently to the press?" All three California outfits responded with a version of the fact that they are "platforms" and not publishers, that their content is user-created, and that they protect people's right to free speech and expression. Cornyn made it clear he was not persuaded. "They may be a distinction lost on most of us," he said.’
Speaking of (https://stratechery.com/2017/tech-goes-to-washington/)…Ben nails the analysis:
“Facebook served [an estimated] 276 million unique ads per quarter, and my entire point was the same as Kennedy’s: there is no way that Facebook could ever review every ad, much less investigate who is behind them, without completely ruining their revenue model.”
‘What this hearing highlighted, though, is the degree to which the position of Facebook in particular has become more tenuous. The fact of the matter is that Facebook (and Google) is more powerful than any entity we have seen before. Magnifying the problem is that, over the last year, Facebook has decided to “take responsibility”, and what is that but a commitment to exercise their control over what people see?’
Tech industry doesn’t think/care about the effects of their products
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/925828976882282496
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
MongoIPO
Don’t hate if you have options (http://news.architecht.io/issues/why-enterprise-it-startups-should-be-rooting-for-mongodb-79152).
## Australasian technology update - what’s the long-term plan at Atlassian?
"Revenue climbed 41.7% year over year to $193.8 million.”
Things are going well down under (https://cote.io/2017/10/20/atlassian-revenue-up-47-yy/).
Well, they do spend as much on R&D as sales & marketing (https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATEAM&fstype=ii&ei=bCL7WamlC5K2e5LttLgP). Compare to Mongo, which is 1:2 or so (https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AMDB&fstype=ii&ei=8iH7Wfi2NMTEeKLXj7gF).
Misc
Using the Correct Tool for the Job (http://jjasghar.github.io/blog/2017/10/31/using-the-correct-tool-for-the-job/) written by J Asghar (https://twitter.com/jjasghar)
(http://jjasghar.github.io/blog/2017/10/31/using-the-correct-tool-for-the-job/)- Monetizing The Hot Dog (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/18/16500522/snap-dancing-hot-dog-costume-halloween-for-sale) - I’m sure the ~~VC~~ stockholders are ecstatic about this development
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)!
Coté’s junk:
Innotech Microservices Conference (http://www.innotechconferences.com/austin/about-2/microservices-day/), Austin, 11/16/2017.
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration). Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
November 6-7 - AgileNZ (http://www.agilenz.co.nz)
November 10 - Microsoft Open Source Roadshow (https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x2525006abcd&)
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Kevin Shields/Brian Eno collaboration, “Only Once Away My Son (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/brian-eno-kevin-shields-only-once-away-my-son/). (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/brian-eno-kevin-shields-only-once-away-my-son/)” (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/brian-eno-kevin-shields-only-once-away-my-son/)
Brandon: Mindhunter (https://www.netflix.com/title/80114855) and Netflix Skip Intro (https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14959650/netflix-skip-intro-button)
Coté: Programmed Inequality (http://amzn.to/2z9iF3q).
11/2/2017 • 53 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 109: I’m getting Kubernetes Stockholm syndrome
Docker’s now into kubernetes, being the last major vendor outside of Amazon to latch the orchestration framework into its strategy. Yup, as usual, it’s pretty much just kubernetes business yappin’.
This week’s exegesis
We’ll be looking at (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) The Four (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) this week in the exeges (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)i (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)s podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). Coté is vacillating between upset and ¯_(ツ)_/¯
$1 Class-action settlements
Got my Apple iBooks pay-day (https://twitter.com/cote/status/920720718639370247)!
It was $1.14.
For $1.14, I don’t think any sort of crime was committed. Coffee costs triple that (double if you shop around). Sounds like a big waste of time and money.
Did I ever tell you about that refund gift card from T-Mobile I got? For 3 cents? What the fuck I do with that?
Soon we’ll all bow to kubernetes
Docker adds in support (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/17/docker_ee_kubernetes_support/), official web-page with burger and brief value-props (https://www.docker.com/kubernetes), and over at (https://thenewstack.io/docker-fully-embraces-kubernetes/) The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/docker-fully-embraces-kubernetes/).
Now we can all just start The Battle of Death by a Thousand Value-props. E.g., hittin’ up that security angle hard-core (https://thenewstack.io/docker-fully-embraces-kubernetes/), talking about easily migrate-n-save for existing apps (https://thenewstack.io/docker-updates-legacy-application-migration-program/).
Dave Bartoletti, Forrester: ‘said it's clear that Kubernetes has won at the orchestration layer. "There's too much mindshare around it," he said in a phone interview with The Register. "There are too many developers who just want this.”’…”Bartoletti said he expects vendors will try to move up the stack by providing security, integration, workflow, and managed services. He said Docker now will be free to focus on trying to be the best container platform for enterprises.”
Looks like Bartoletti was the analyst sent around, he shows up in other coverage (https://cote.io/2017/10/17/docker-and-kubernetes/).
Derrick Harris’s take (http://news.architecht.io/issues/intel-takes-on-nvidia-in-the-ai-data-center-and-docker-embraces-kubernetes-78832): “The problem is that it’s difficult to make enterprise sales when users want open source at the lower layers and to pay (real money, at least) at layers they deem more strategic. If that’s Kubernetes, then Docker either needs to support it commercially, or let someone else take all the revenue from the orchestration layer up while Docker keeps on spending money to keep the free part of the puzzle chugging. By supporting Kubernetes as part of Docker Enterprise, it now can make the argument that nobody understands containers better than Docker does, and there’s now no real reason to not pay for its enterprise version.”
MTA IN DA HIZ-OUSE (https://thenewstack.io/docker-updates-legacy-application-migration-program/)!
“We’ve seen 100 percent success rate for applications that meet our criteria across hundreds of Java and .NET applications (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvQFtlNQ-M). Customers are able to see these results in five days or less.
“Johnston added that some customers are able to double the release frequency of their software and cut total cost of ownership by 50 percent.”
Snoopy on that shit: “MetLife applied this modernization pattern in one day to their Java application. They were able to look across their portfolio and identify 600 other applications that fit this pattern, for a 66 percent savings on total cost of ownership. That nets out to millions of dollars at MetLife. They have over 6,000 applications they want to apply this to.”
Meanwhile, earlier this month, more for the whale (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/sec-filing-shows-docker-raising-75-million-funding-round/?utm_campaign=Revue%20newsletter&utm_medium=webfeeds&utm_source=feedly): “[Docker] has been putting together a $75 million funding round, which would bring the total amount of money raised by the company to $255 million.”
IBM Wins the Cloud
That revenue (https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2017/07/28/ibm-beats-amazon-in-12-month-cloud-revenue-15-1-billion-to-14-5-billion/#2fc46d139d64)!
Hopefully IBM figures it out.
Tech people
Coté’s (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/it_staff_supply_problems/) Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/it_staff_supply_problems/) column this month (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/it_staff_supply_problems/) is on “the skills gap,” hiring in tech.
Coincidently, there’s also a story on The Olds in tech (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/tech_workers_terrified_theyll_age_out/).
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Misc.
Brandon’s favorite chart updated (https://twitter.com/dankohn1/status/919689314706931714/photo/1).
Oracle says don’t do custom IT (https://www.fedscoop.com/it-modernization-public-comments-oracle/).
One of the better recordings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiVbWAF-6xhC-2n6OeI0ND13&v=qvdt8uRf8RY) of Coté’s talk is up, from DevOpsDays Kansas City.
Red Hat likely to be a $3bn company soon (https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/red-hat-continues-steady-march-toward-5-billion-revenue-goal/?ncid=rss&utm_campaign=Revue%20newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=ARCHITECHT) - 24 years in the making. Open source is hella hard.
Ben on MongoDB S1 (https://stratechery.com/2017/netflix-follow-up-sonos-alexa-mongodb-ipos/): “This is the key to understanding SaaS companies: the first year is hugely negative because of sales costs, but future years are hugely profitable because the customer doesn’t go anywhere.” SaaS businesses are subscription businesses, profits in the out-years.
This week in Azure Stack
Dell has some info out on the SKUs and such (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/19/dell_microsoft_azurestack_servers/).
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)!
Coté’s junk:
Solarwinds THWACKcamp (http://slrwnds.com/TC17Cote), all online Oct 18th and 19th. DevOps panel (https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/thwackcamp-2017/when-devops-says-monitor) on Oct 19th, noon central. http://thwackcamp.com (https://t.co/791HswzxdQ).
All Day DevOps, Oct 24th (http://www.alldaydevops.com/) - Coté is speaking, 2:45pm central (http://sched.co/C0Fx).
Fedscoop Digital Transformation Summit (https://www.fedscoop.com/events/digital-transformation-summit/), in DC Oct 26th. Meetup the night before (https://www.meetup.com/DC-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/242927085/) on EA & DevOps.
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration). Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
October 25-26/27-28 DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-singapore/)/PowerShell Asia (http://powershell.asia/)
November 6-7 - AgileNZ (http://www.agilenz.co.nz)
Recommendations
Brandon: Machine Learning (http://amzn.to/2zpHsPT).
Matt Ray: Roseheaven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosehaven), Utopia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)).
Coté: now that it’s getting cooler: Patagonia Men's Merlow Wool 1/4-Zip Sweater (http://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-merlow-wool-quarter-zip-sweater/50355.html?dwvar_50355_color=FGE&cgid=root). I have two!
10/20/2017 • 51 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 108: FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting, & Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50%
Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendors - even Oracle! - have announced support and road-maps for using Google’s container orchestrator in their cloud-native stacks. Also, Chef and Puppet have new suites of tools, Docker sets its sites clearly on reducing VMware costs, and there’s some new momentum stats on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
Do people actually do the DEV-ops?
DevOps sounds cool, but, SREs?
See discussion over on Coté Show (http://www.cote.show/40).
Chef launches Habitat Builder SaaS
Habitat Builder for the People (https://www.habitat.sh/blog/2017/10/Habitat-Builder-for-the-People/)
Adam Jacob’s commentary (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/917417673960644608)
James Governor’s take (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/10/10/whats-on-your-plate-twelve-factortraditional-hybid-apps-and-habitat/)
TNS coverage (https://thenewstack.io/chef-launches-saas-version-habitat-build/), plus, bold muscle-t choice! Celebrate it!
We all succumbing to the cloud-native, even Oracle
JavaEE off the Eclipse, to be more modular (again).
Some deep kubernetes talk (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/04/oracle-emulates-google-aws-cloud/).
Chef (https://blog.chef.io/2017/10/09/habitat-builder-fastest-path-code-cloud-native/) and Puppet (http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/300093676/puppet-launches-barrage-of-products-to-enable-new-age-of-software-automation-and-devops.htm) and Pivotal and supporting kubernetes.
CF Summit EU
Round-up press release (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/third-annual-cloud-foundry-european-summit-begins-today-in-basel/) - mostly more on kubernetes in the Cloud Foundry world (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/cloud-foundry-launches-container-runtime-default-container-deployment-method-cloud-foundry-using-kubernetes-bosh/). Some Istio mentioning, adding legitimacy to that effort; see Istio discussion in episode #96 (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/96).
James “my flight got canceled” Governor coverage (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/10/11/some-thoughts-on-cloud-foundry-summit/):
“enterprises now account for more than 40% of Cloud Foundry’s membership”
“Kubernetes too is seeing plenty of tyre kicking, but nowhere near the level of enterprise commitment [to Cloud Foundry] at this point.”
“54% of Cloud Foundry target Amazon Web Services as a platform, that 40% of users are targeting VMware vSphere certainly [i]s” - I assume this is across all distros and OSS, which makes sense. In Pivotal land, it’s mostly on on-premises VMware, last I checked.
Habitat and Cloud Foundry (http://https://blog.chef.io/2017/10/11/running-habitat-apps-cloud-foundry/)
Programming Languages and Code Quality
Large-scale overview of GitHub projects, their languages and their bug reports (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/10/221326-a-large-scale-study-of-programming-languages-and-code-quality-in-github/fulltext?imm_mid=0f7103&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20171007)
“The data indicates that functional languages are better than procedural languages; it suggests that disallowing implicit type conversion is better than allowing it; that static typing is better than dynamic; and that managed memory usage is better than unmanaged. Further, that the defect proneness of languages in general is not associated with software domains.”
Docker as a cost-cutter
Their CEO says you can slash costs by 50% (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300093681/docker-ceo-steve-singh-on-the-vmware-relationship-security-and-the-opportunities-around-containers-for-partners.htm/pgno/0/3).
Meg Whitman says it’s more like 40% (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300093601/hpe-ceo-meg-whitman-on-upcoming-changes-to-field-compensation-the-impact-of-dell-on-hpes-vmware-relationship-and-why-hardware-still-matters-in-the-software-defined-era.htm/pgno/0/15).
But partners make $7 off of every $1 of Docker spend (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300093681/docker-ceo-steve-singh-on-the-vmware-relationship-security-and-the-opportunities-around-containers-for-partners.htm/pgno/0/5) - does that math work? Scenario:
I used to pay $2 for VMware (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300093681/docker-ceo-steve-singh-on-the-vmware-relationship-security-and-the-opportunities-around-containers-for-partners.htm/pgno/0/4), now I pay $1 for Docker (50% reduction).
But it costs me $7 to get there, giving me a one time payment of net $8, and, hopefully, just $1 a year after that? (Never mind opex vs. capex GAAP-crap.)
So, then: after 4+ years I’ll start saving money? (with VMware, I would have paid $2/yr., so $8 total, and with Docker over that four year period I pay $8 first year, $1 next three years, so $11 total - hrmm..where’s Excel when you need it?)
Follow-up from 2011: so, Docker really is about replacing VMware…?
Overall, this interview with Docker’s CEO is good stuff (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300093681/docker-ceo-steve-singh-on-the-vmware-relationship-security-and-the-opportunities-around-containers-for-partners.htm) for industry watchers. It didn’t occur to Coté that the former CEO of Concur would know, like, every single CFO and CEO at G2000 companies.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Microsoft Ignite News
SQL Server 2017, Oracle migrations, AzureStack! (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/microsoft-releases-sql-server-2017-azure-stack-oracle-database-migration-tool-2017-9)
Azure (https://mspoweruser.com/azure-data-box-is-the-microsofts-answer-to-aws-snowball/) Snowball (https://mspoweruser.com/azure-data-box-is-the-microsofts-answer-to-aws-snowball/) Data Box (https://mspoweruser.com/azure-data-box-is-the-microsofts-answer-to-aws-snowball/)
Meanwhile, Azure Stack is out now (https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/digital-economy/microsoft-launches-azure-stack%E2%80%A6-finally), as of Oct 4th (close enough to September, really).
Security/Acquisitions
SAP buys customer identity management firm Gigya for $350M (https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/24/sap-is-buying-identity-management-firm-gigya-for-350m/)
Google acquires identity management company Bitium (http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-acquires-identity-management-company-bitium/)
Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 31 Percent in 2016
Don’t get 100% excited, this just covers public cloud. Cf. “The Problem with PaaS Marketsizing.” (https://cote.io/2016/01/13/paas-market-size/)
Look who’s #3 (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3808563) (not Google)
Coverage from TPM (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/10/public-cloud-doesnt-dominate-quite-yet/), including this chart (https://3s81si1s5ygj3mzby34dq6qf-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/gartner-public-cloud-forecast.jpg):
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_45572DCBF960FC189F32D453FB73D3392C80FA25D24C502EA3549B9B622A9A58_1507751894499_image.png
MongoDB Going Public
IPO is gonna be webscale! (https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/21/database-provider-mongodb-has-filed-to-go-public/)
## HPE, migrate them workloads to cloud
Interview with Meg Whitman (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300093601/hpe-ceo-meg-whitman-on-upcoming-changes-to-field-compensation-the-impact-of-dell-on-hpes-vmware-relationship-and-why-hardware-still-matters-in-the-software-defined-era.htm/pgno/0/10).
“We aim to be the largest infrastructure provider that Azure Stack runs on on-prem, and collectively we can sell that to our joint customers.”
HPE's opening bid for cash repatriotization: 2.9% (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300093601/hpe-ceo-meg-whitman-on-upcoming-changes-to-field-compensation-the-impact-of-dell-on-hpes-vmware-relationship-and-why-hardware-still-matters-in-the-software-defined-era.htm/pgno/0/30) taxfee.
Random
Amazon Treasure Truck (https://www.amazon.com/b?node=15020057011)
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Mid-roll & Conferences
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)!
Coté’s junk:
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/), $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/speakers/michael-cote/) - October 17th and 18th, 2017.
Solarwinds THWACKcamp (http://slrwnds.com/TC17Cote), all online Oct 18th and 19th. DevOps panel (https://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/thwackcamp-2017/when-devops-says-monitor) on Oct 19th, noon central. http://thwackcamp.com (https://t.co/791HswzxdQ).
All Day DevOps, Oct 24th (http://www.alldaydevops.com/).
Fedscoop Digital Transformation Summit (https://www.fedscoop.com/events/digital-transformation-summit/), in DC Oct 26th. Meetup the night before (https://www.meetup.com/DC-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/242927085/) on EA & DevOps.
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration). Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
October 25-26 DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-singapore/)
(https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-singapore/) - October 27 Serverless India (http://inserverless.com)
November 6-7 - AgileNZ (http://www.agilenz.co.nz)
Listener Shout Outs
Daniel Barker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-barker/) sent me (Brandon) I nice Linkedin Message.
Lots of people at DevOpsDays Kansas City and Auckland.
Recommendations
Brandon:
More Perfect Episode: Who’s Gerry and Why Is He So Bad at Drawing Maps? (http://www.wnyc.org/story/whos-gerry-and-why-he-so-bad-drawing-maps) (http://www.wnyc.org/story/whos-gerry-and-why-he-so-bad-drawing-maps)
Vox: How the Supreme Court could limit gerrymandering, explained with a simple diagram (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/9/16432358/gerrymandering-supreme-court-diagram)
Matt Ray: Baby Driver, the movie. The forbidden backpack: Echo Rucksack (https://www.goruck.com/echo/).
Coté: Workflow app (https://workflow.is/) - I thought Apple had shut this down after acquiring it, but I guess not. Pro-tip, leave your fruit on the plane when you enter the US; unlike ANZ, there’s no big bins to throw away your stuff and you end up going to a dumb line where they take your fruit and put it in a trash can for you.
10/12/2017 • 59 minutes, 14 seconds
WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Just another kubernetes article
This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-1-8-arrives-improvements-simplicity-stability-security-storage-improvements/). Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter.
See the much more detailed notes on this piece (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP009-Just-another-kubernetes-article-3Ycdt0BnCTwnhHGzhVI7O).
This week, the episode is free since we’ve been neglecting mainline Software Defined Talk. We hope you enjoy this sample. If you like this, sign up as a member (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) for $5/month (or, if you’re cheap, $1) to get about 4 episodes like this a month. Check it all out over at in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sdt (https://www.patreon.com/sdt).
10/4/2017 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 107: Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City!
Live from DevOpsDays Kansas City! Coté moderates a panel of speakers (https://twitter.com/devopsdayskc/status/910968813218394113) from the event. We discuss how widely DevOps is actually practiced, mentoring and filling the tech pipeline, security, and other topics, including Kansas City BBQ.
The guests: @ChloeCondon, @wickett, @kantrn, and Julie Stark. Plus, of course, @cote.
The audio quality is a little weird, so sorry about that.
9/25/2017 • 38 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 106: Is “observability” just “instrumentation”? Or, monitoring sucks? No, you suck.
The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term “observability.” We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there’s a spate of kubernetes news, as always, and some interesting acquisitions. Plus, a micro-iOS 11 review.
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Is “observability” just “instrumentation”?
Write-up (https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/monitoring-and-observability-8417d1952e1c) from Cindy Sridharan.
This guy (https://medium.com/@steve.mushero/observability-vs-monitoring-is-it-about-active-vs-passive-or-dev-vs-ops-14b24ddf182f): “Thinking directionally, Monitoring is the passive collection of Metrics, logs, etc. about a system, while Observability is the active dissemination of information from the system. Looking at it another way, from the external ‘supervisor’ perspective, I monitor you, but you make yourself Observable.”
So, yes: if developers actually make their code monitorable and manageable…easy street! It’s a good detailing of that important part of DevOps.
Cloud Native Java (http://amzn.to/2jPJHcv) has a good example with the default “observability” attributes for apps, and then an overview of Zipkin tracing.
Weekly k8s News
Heptio gets funding (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/heptio-raises-25m-series-b-funding-round-kubernetes-takes-world/), now “has raised $33.5 million in funding to date.”
I think we’ll cover this press release in a WP episode.
Also, something called “StackPointCloud” now with the Istio (https://thenewstack.io/stackpointcloud-drops-istio-service-mesh-integration/).
Mesosphere adding K8s support (https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/06/mesosphere-says-its-not-bowing-to-kubernetes/) - “Guagenti also noted that he believes that Mesosphere is currently a leader in the container space, both in terms of the number of containers its users run in production and in terms of revenue (though the company sadly didn’t share any numbers).”
"I think it’s fair to call Kubernetes the de facto standard for how enterprises will do container orchestration,” Derrick Harris (http://news.architecht.io/issues/with-oracle-on-board-kubernetes-has-to-be-the-de-facto-standard-for-container-orchestration-73880).
Is Kubernetes Repeating OpenStack’s Mistakes? (https://www.mirantis.com/blog/is-kubernetes-repeating-openstacks-mistakes/) - Boris throwing bombs
Meanwhile, an abstract of a containers penetration study (https://redmonk.com/fryan/2017/09/10/cloud-native-technologies-in-the-fortune-100/), from RedMonk: "Docker, is running at 71% across Fortune 100 companies. Kubernetes usage is running in some form at 54%, and Cloud Foundry usage is at 50%”
This update from the Cloud Foundry Foundation (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/update-containers-2017-research-shows/) is a little more, er, “responsible” in pointing out flaws. Instead it just says there’s lots of growth and tire-kicking: 2016/2017 y/y shows those evaluating containers went up from 31% to 42%, while “using” ticked up a tad from 22% to 25%, n=540.
Oracle’s in the CNCF (https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/13/oracle-joins-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation-as-a-platinum-member/) club! K8s on Oracle Linux, K8s for Oracle Public Cloud. “At this point, there really can’t be any doubt that Kubernetes is winning the container orchestration wars, given that virtually every major player is now backing the project, both financially and with code contributions.”
James checks in on Red Hat (http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/09/21/red-hat-is-pretty-good-at-being-red-hat/).
(https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/13/oracle-joins-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation-as-a-platinum-member/)
Acquisitions & more!
Rackspace acquires Datapipe (https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/rackspace-acquires-datapipe-as-it-looks-to-expand-its-managed-cloud-business/) “The reason we’re buying them is that we want to extend our leadership in multi-cloud services,” Rackspace chief strategy officer Matt Bradley told me. “It’s a sign and signal that we’re going for it.” Bradley expects that the combined company will make Rackspace the largest private cloud player and the largest managed hosting service.
Datadog acquires Logmatic.io to add log management to its cloud monitoring platform (https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/datadog-acquires-logmatic-io-to-add-log-management-to-its-cloud-monitoring-platform/)
Puppet Acquires Distelli (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/puppet-acquires-distelli-bolster-cloud-computing-automation-platform/), known for their Kubernetes dashboard.
Jay Lyman at 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=93381).
Sizing Puppet: “The company has grown to more than 500 employees, and has estimated annual revenue in the $100m range.”
Coverage from Susan Hall: “What we haven’t had up to this point is all the requisite automation for moving infrastructure code and application code through any kind of automated delivery lifecycle” and now they gots that. https://thenewstack.io/puppet-will-extend-infrastructure-automation-capabilities-distelli-acquisition/
“In May, the company launched its Kubernetes dashboard K8S. It allows users to connect repositories, build images from source, then deploy them to that Kubernetes cluster. You can also set up automated pipelines to push images from one cluster to another, promote software from test/dev to prod, quickly roll back and do all this in the context of one or more Kubernetes clusters… The Kubernetes service is offered as a hosted service or in an on-prem version. It provides notifications through Slack.”
Google pays $1.1 billion for HTC team and non-exclusive IP license (https://www.axios.com/login-2487682498.html?rebelltitem=2&utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic#rebelltitem2)
Security Corner
The Apple Effect? — Why BMW might get rid of car keys (http://www.autonews.com/article/20170915/OEM06/170919789/why-bmw-might-get-rid-of-car-keys)
Don’t blame Apache — EQUIFAX OFFICIALLY HAS NO EXCUSE (https://www.wired.com/story/equifax-breach-no-excuse/)
Is there anything to do here? Setup layers of credit cards? Require Touch ID (etc.) approval of all financial decisions and transactions in your “account”? Food & Safety like inspectors for security?
Hackers respond to Face ID on the iPhone X (http://bgr.com/2017/09/21/iphone-x-release-date-soon-hackers-eye-face-id/)
iOS 11
Coté has been running the beta. It seems fine.
There’s the usual Re-arrangement of how some gestures work that’s jarring at first, but after using it for awhile, you forget what they even are.
The extra control center stuff is nice.
The Files.app is interesting, but not too featureful.
The new photo formats are annoying because, you know, non-Apple things need to support it (which they seem to?)
Bonus Links
Coté gives up on defining DevOps, and more
Interview about DevOpsDays Auckland (https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/09/michael-cote-devops-days-nz).
(https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/13/oracle-joins-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation-as-a-platinum-member/)
Is Solaris dead yet?
Strongly confirmed rumors that Oracle is shutting it down (http://www.zdnet.com/article/sun-set-oracle-closes-down-last-sun-product-lines/).
This guy has written a big Solaris-brain to Linux-brain manifesto/guide (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-09-05/solaris-to-linux-2017.html), plus: “[n]owadays, Sun is a cobweb-covered sign at the Facebook Menlo Park campus, kept as a warning to the next generation.” SICK BURN!
Layoffs and more (http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/): “In particular, that employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call — “robo-RIF’d” in the words of one employee — is both despicable and cowardly.”
HPE
We Can See The New Hewlett Clearly Now, Says CEO Whitman (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2017/09/05/hpe-we-can-see-the-new-hewlett-clearly-now-says-ceo-whitman/?mod=BOLBlog) - AI in storage arrays, Docker in OneView.
Clearly (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hp-enterprise-has-yet-another-confusing-plan-to-simplify-itself-2017-09-05)?
Making money (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/05/hpe-earnings-q3-2017.html).
They bought CTP!? (https://www.cloudtp.com/doppler/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-cloud-technology-partners/)
Selling hardware to cloud providers is rough (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/06/prospects-leaner-meaner-hpe/).
Huawei
New board (http://talkincloud.com/cloud-services/chinas-huawei-braces-board-revamp-western-markets-beckon).
Microsoft app support.
We can all agree on food
Someone has to pay attention to this real world stuff (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/).
This Tiny Country Feeds the World
More on VMware/AWS
The possible failures in the partnership (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-01/how-vmware-s-partnership-with-amazon-could-end-up-backfiring) - sort of an odd article in that the larger point is “maybe it won’t work.”
Meanwhile, Matt Asay does some loopty-loops on it all (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/11/kubernetes_envy/).
JEE
Code put in github (http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/06/oracle_java_ee_java_se_github/).
They’re giving it over to the Eclipse Foundation (https://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/opening-up-ee-update). Probably a good idea.
VMware’s OpenStack
Little report form 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=93303&type=mis&alertid=693&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=93303-VMware+sheds+free+version+of+its+OpenStack+distribution).
“Going forward, users pay a onetime $995-per-CPU socket license fee, in addition to ongoing support.”
Recommendations
Brandon: Prophets of Rage (http://prophetsofrage.com/).
Matt:
American Gods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods_(TV_series)), the TV show.
Zero History (https://www.amazon.com/Zero-History-Blue-William-Gibson-ebook/dp/B003YL4AGC/): finale(?) to William Gibson’s Blue Ant trilogy
LOT (https://www.lot2046.com/): a subscription-based service which distributes a basic set of clothing, footwear, essential self-care products, accessories, and media content.
Engineering the End of Fashion (https://www.ssense.com/en-gb/editorial/fashion/engineering-the-end-of-fashion)
Coté:
Rick & Morty (http://amzn.to/2xrHo3L).
These cultural guides (http://www.commisceo-global.com/country-guides) are fucking awesome! See America (http://www.commisceo-global.com/country-guides/usa-guide), Australia (http://www.commisceo-global.com/country-guides/australia-guide), and Latvia (http://www.commisceo-global.com/country-guides/latvia-guide) (no one sang at the meals I was at!).
Cardenal Mendoza (https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/996/cardenal-mendoza-brandy-solera-gran-reserva), brandy de jerez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandy_de_Jerez). And, you know, cognac/brandy in general - be a fucking adult already, you damn kids.
9/22/2017 • 59 minutes, 11 seconds
WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Kubernetes & container landscapes from Forrester & Gartner
This week we look at a recent Forrester paper, “Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem,” (https://www.forrester.com/report/Navigate+The+Kubernetes+Ecosystem/-/E-RES133445) by Charlie Dai and Dave Bartoletti from June 23rd, 2017 ($499 MSRP). See Charlie’s blog post (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/17-07-06-navigate_the_kubernetes_ecosystem/) on the paper, too. Also, because we’re good boys, we added some bonus reading, a similar paper from Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3782167/market-guide-container-management-software).
If you like this kind of thing, sign up as a Patreon for $1/month or more (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) and you’ll get about one of these types of exegesis’s a week. See past episodes (https://www.patreon.com/sdt).
9/1/2017 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 105: Kubernetes Rules Everything Around Me, VMworld, Pivotal Container Service
It’s VMworld this week, so there’s fresh news from the Dell Technologies universe to sort through. VMware releases it’s SDDC on AWS scheme and Pivotal announces its container service/stack, Pivotal Container Service (PKS). We discuss both, including a meandering overview of what PKS is and some theory about what enterprises actually want with all that VMware in public cloud. Also, the tragic story of airline and hotel upgrades, like pearls to tired business travelers.
Misc.
Australia is bigger than France (http://imgur.com/z02XGzQ). Checks out (http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/how-big-is-texas-compared-to-other-land-masses/).
Coté got the SSSS TSA search. What fun!
Now you can buy kubernetes from Dell
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIlS4bPUQAEcO6Y.jpg:small
VMware/Pivotal/Google make a kubo distro (https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2017/08/29/vmware-pivotal-container-service/). Uses BOSH, NSX, and kubo to setup clusters. Will run on vSphere and Google Cloud, promises to work with other Google Cloud services, be continuously updated to be compatible with GCE containers. Also, VMware storage services and comparability with VMware systems management tools.
El Reg coverage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/30/google_vmware_and_pivotal_team_for_onpremises_kubernetes/), and also from The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/pivotal-container-service-hard-wires-cloud-foundry-kubo-google-cloud/).
TPM (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/08/29/vmwares-platform-revolves-around-esxi-except-cant/): “The private PKS stack will use vSAN for storage, vRealize Automation for orchestration and governance, vCloud Director for provisioning, and vRealize Operations for monitoring. (So, in theory, one could run the PKS stack on the AWS cloud slices that VMware has partnered with Amazon to create, effectively creating a clone of GKE to run on AWS bare metal iron. . . .)”
More laundry listing of the parts from Google (https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/vmware-and-pivotal-launch-new-hybrid-kubernetes-solution-optimized-gcp/), that is, Google Cloud services you can use in a PKS environment: BigQuery, Bigtable, Spanner, Storage, SQL, Pub/Sub, Vision API, Speech API, Natural Language API, Translate API.
A list of capabilities (https://twitter.com/cloudnativeapps/status/902674269125042176) from Cornelia’s(?) talk, and what BOSH does (https://twitter.com/cloudnativeapps/status/902607633168818176) (and, thus, does in k8 management).
Use it for (https://pivotal.io/pks): “PKS™ is ideal for workloads like Spark and ElasticSearch, and when you need access to infrastructure primitives. Further, use PKS for apps that require specific co-location of container instances, and for those that need multiple port binds.”
The Pod affinity thing here is for when you want to run multiple things grouped together, like with Spark, Elastic Search, etc. where you the different things go together.
More value-props’ing (https://twitter.com/cloudnativeapps/status/902606759176486912):
i.e., kubernetes on it’s own is hard.
As Ramji points out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HErHINvyIA), PKS means you’ll get a consistent, standardized kubernetes/container technology across the Dell Technologies portfolio.
Watters lays it out (https://twitter.com/wattersjames/status/902571713057001472).
Positioning: guidance seems to be that PKS is mostly for large organizations, “enterprises.”
PKS to GA in 2017Q4, pricing then too.
Diagram here (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/vmware-partners-with-pivotal-google-cloud-to-launch-kubernetes-based-container-service/):.
Some vendor exec story-time here (http://social.techcrunch.com/2017/08/29/pivotal-vmware-google-partner-on-container-project/), and Pivotal blog post (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/introducing-pivotal-container-service-pks-the-simple-way-to-bring-kubernetes-to-enterprise-customers).
So, you can run PCF and PKS side-by-side (https://twitter.com/cloudnativeapps/status/903048428581560320).
See longer explanation from Chad Sakac (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2017/08/vmworld-2017-pivotal-container-services-pks.html):
“historically, [Dell Technologies’] point of view on the container/cluster manager abstraction ecosystem wasn’t clear”
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_57F3D537859409EDBA712760195C49AEF69FA177BC08164311E795F7016DE1F9_1504121396993_PCF+ERT+and+PKS.png
See also this pro'er diagram (https://twitter.com/cote/status/903344343003664386).
Lots of emphasize on a unified, compatible approach/GTM: “We now have a Cloud Native/Digital Transformation stack where there is a SINGLE target we are furiously running towards now as VMware, Pivotal, and Dell EMC – no mis-alignment, no differences in PoV. “
Market context: (https://cote.io/2017/06/02/451s-container-orchestration-usage-survey-notebook/)
You may recall Coté’s summary of the CoreOS commissioned 451 survey (https://cote.io/2017/06/02/451s-container-orchestration-usage-survey-notebook/), which linked to a 2016(?) Gartner survey (https://www.gartner.com/document/3574617) where 18% of respondents had containers in production, with 4% being “significant production”
That CoreOS/451 survey (https://cote.io/2017/06/02/451s-container-orchestration-usage-survey-notebook/) had a very important footnote: the survey respondents were already running containers already. It was more about which container orchestration platforms they liked.
It was hard to do conclusive ranking of container orchestrators since people were using multiple ones. But, if you lump together CoreOS’s kubernetes distro with generic kubernetes, kubernetes wins out over Docker Swarm, 49% vs. 36%.
Meanwhile (https://www.gartner.com/document/3782167): “By 2020, 50%+ of global enterprises will be running containerized applications in production, up from <20% today.”
RedMonk’s “developers are the kingmakers” theory (https://thenewkingmakers.com/), more (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/09/09/the-new-kingmakers/).
SDDC on VMware
Run the VMware stack on AWS, out of beta (http://www.eweek.com/virtualization/vmware-goes-ga-with-its-development-cloud-on-aws): “For the IT and software development sectors, the deal means that VMware mainstays such as all its software-defined data center ware—vCenter, NSX, vSphere, VSAN and others—will run on AWS instead of VMware's own cloud.”
Pricing (http://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/450425287/Enterprises-weigh-VMware-Cloud-on-AWS-as-vendors-pivot-cloud-strategies)?
”The three-year contract costs $109,366 per host, which would save about 50% compared to the on-demand hourly billing rate, according to VMware. Another program can cut costs by up 25% based on their on-premises VMware product licenses, as long as those on-premises products remain active…. There are separate charges for IP and data transfers, as the standard AWS egress fees still apply. Each host has 2 CPUs, 36 cores, 72 hyper-threads, 512 GiB RAM and local flash storage.” - ”the estimated total cost of ownership for VMware Cloud on AWS is up to $0.09 per VM per hour, according to VMware”
More pricing info (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/08/29/vmwares-platform-revolves-around-esxi-except-cant/) from TPM: “The base on demand price for this server is $8.3681 per hour, which works out to around $6,109 per month.”
Cloud-context, from Derrick Harris (http://news.architecht.io/issues/but-does-aws-really-need-vmware-71628): “Look at the companies’ most-recent fiscal years—2016—during which VMware grew about 9 percent to just over $7 billion in revenue, while AWS grew about 45 percent to more than $12.2 billion in revenue (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-posts-3-5b-revenue-47-last-year/). It’s on pace for about $16 billion in revenue in 2017.”
And, more from Derrick (http://news.architecht.io/issues/but-does-aws-really-need-vmware-71628) on public cloud companies ever elusive quest to grab on-premises workloads and revenue: “There will continue to be a lot of big workloads running inside company data centers. If AWS and Google really want a shot at owning them, they’ll probably need to get their hands (and code) a little dirty by going to where those applications live and showing there’s a better way of doing things.”
It makes you wonder if a strategy for public cloud companies going behind-the-firewall is just wishful projection on the on-premise set’s part. 451 surveys a predicting (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=93256&type=mis&alertid=678&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=93256-Featured+Data%3A+By+2019%2C+60%25+of+IT+workloads+will+run+in+the+cloud) that by 2019, 60% of work-loads will run on cloud technologies (across public, hosted, and private), with under 25% on private cloud (hosted/managed and on-premises).
VMworld, in general
Round-up of news (http://www.zdnet.com/article/vmworld-2017-everything-you-need-to-know-about-vmwares-hybrid-cloud-strategy/) from Larry Dignan - lot’s of security stuff, of which Coté has no clue. And, of course, the VDI/desktop stuff. It’s like the old Project Octopus era vision of VMware.
Delving into VMware financials (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/08/29/vmwares-platform-revolves-around-esxi-except-cant/), and some product portfolio strategy typing.
VIO, VMware’s OpenStack distro has a few production users, but, “for the most part customers are deploying it for their development and test environments, where programmers want to embrace OpenStack and the IT managers want to keep everything on a VMware substrate”
VIO pricing: “The other thing that is new with VIO 4.0 is that it is no longer free. Starting with this release, VIO will cost $995 per server socket in a Datacenter Edition, but customers who are using VIO in conjunction with the vRealize management suite will be able to get it for $495 per socket. That is just the price of the perpetual license; reckon another 18 percent or so on top of that for annual support.”
Chad Sakac explains all the stacks (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2017/08/vmworld-2017-continued-advances-in-hybrid-cloud-diy-choices.html), how it does hybrid cloud, etc.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
SDN
Turns out, SDN is a condiment, not an entrée (http://blogs.gartner.com/andrew-lerner/2017/08/29/the-state-of-sdn-september-2017/).
Also, a good list of adoption challenges any new technology/thought-technology faces.
# Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Mid-roll
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
Coté’s on the road!
September 13th - Charlotte Cloud Foundry Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Charlotte-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/242848125/), speaking.
September 18th and 19th - DevOpsDays Riga, Latvia (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-riga/welcome/).
September 21st and 22nd - DevOpsDays Kansas City (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-kansascity/welcome/). Use the code SDT2017 when you register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-kansas-city-2017-tickets-31754843592?aff=ado).
October 3rd and 4th - DevOpsDays Auckland (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-auckland/), speaking
October 17th and 18th - DevOpsDays Nashville (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/), $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/speakers/michael-cote/).
October 25h - DC Cloud-Native Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/DC-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/242927085/), speaking.
October 26th - FedScoop Digital Transformation Summit (https://www.fedscoop.com/events/digital-transformation-summit/), panel.
November 6th to 10th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/).
December 4th and 5th - SpringOne Platform (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/). Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
Matt’s on the road!
September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-bangalore/)
September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Sydney-User-Group/events/242374004/)
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
November 6-7 - AgileNZ (http://www.agilenz.co.nz)
I won’t be there, but lots of Chef Summits coming up (https://www.chef.io/summits/) (Seattle, NYC, London)!
Andrew Clay Shafer will be at DevOpsDays Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-singapore/) (so will Matt) October 25-26, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum.
Recommendations
Brandon: The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition (https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/The-Handmaids-Tale-Special-Edition-Audiobook/B06XFW9YZ5). Coté ads Alias Grace (http://amzn.to/2xalUJ2). Coté still doesn’t like Diaspora (http://amzn.to/2wl6AbF).
Matt Ray: Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History “ (http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-of-worlds/)Destroyer of Worlds (http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-of-worlds/).” (http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-of-worlds/)
Coté: Normal (http://amzn.to/2wJnF05), Warren Ellis (http://amzn.to/2wJnF05). Don’t worry about eating cicada grubs.
8/31/2017 • 58 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 104: “When I go to the grocery store, I just buy the bananas” - Amazon/Whole Goods, J(2)EE, building your own kubernetes stack
Come Monday, we’ll see what full-on “digital transformation” looks like when Amazon fully owns Whole Foods. Also, Oracle is looking to move JEE to a foundation, closing out a long era of Java stewardship: how will “open source” like this work in a mature market? We also discuss the trend of private equity buying tech firms and GitHib’s write-up of building their own platform with kubernetes and series of small bash scripts.
Traveling to China
Coté is a terrible work-trip tourist.
AA 263, DFW to PEK (https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/American_Airlines/American_Airlines_Boeing_787-8.php?flightno=263&date=), seat 19K. Exit row seat is good, but the front part of the airplane looked good too (rows 8 to 13?).
Pack some breakfast tacos.
This VPN situation is a mess, rather, I didn’t prepare correctly. Sometimes Cloak works, sometimes it doesn’t. LTE seems better than hotel wifi, but the speeds are high.
Amazon Whole Foods update
All done on Monday (http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2295514), August 28th. See (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/technology/whole-foods-amazon-lower-prices-prime.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&referer=)NY Times (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/technology/whole-foods-amazon-lower-prices-prime.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&referer=) article (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/technology/whole-foods-amazon-lower-prices-prime.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&referer=) as well.
John Mackey (http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=527979061:528000104) interview.
Cheaper private label (I think they were top three or five sold in US).
Return items in Amazon lockers.
Cheaper groceries is cool, but for us, the interesting/instructive things to watch will be how Whole Foods goes full on digital transformation (or, even more eyebrow raising, does not!).
Will they move everything to AWS?
true Omni-channel and digital madness.
Alexa: ”You look fat in that t-shirt, Michael, would you like me to order you some organic kale smoothies from Whole Foods?”
Also, the potential for a culture clash seems high.
As a side-effect, expect grocers to be trying out new computer stuff more, and observe their experience. How will the razor thin margin set cope with Amazon who’s been consistently rewarded for loosing money?
Walmart and Google Hub thing (https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/google-walmart-voice-ordering/), Andrew on the AI winter (https://twitter.com/littleidea/status/900577868383637504).
The Undying J(2)EE
Oracle looking to open source it (https://adtmag.com/articles/2017/08/17/java-open-source.aspx), move it to a foundation.
This worked out relativly OK for Java proper. It was hella weird, though, and I’m not sure the OSS version ever gained traction: maybe for, like, whatever Google, AWS, and Azure’s JRE is.
Using this as a competitive ¯_(ツ)_/¯ is dicey, most people who compete here do open core themselves…so you can’t really say it’s bad; and if Oracle’s goal is to move it away from Oracle, you can’t say that Oracle is mismanaging it, etc.
John Waters’ round-up of opinions (https://adtmag.com/articles/2017/08/23/java-open-source.aspx), pretty predictable.
Steve Yegge’s Kotlin Writeup (https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/why-kotlin-is-better-than-whatever-dumb.html), The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2017 (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2017/06/08/language-rankings-6-17/).
Kubernetes at GitHub
Just a few bash scripts (https://githubengineering.com/kubernetes-at-github/), eh? Here, hold my beer (https://thenewstack.io/github-goes-kubernetes-tells/).
Real world discussion about moving one of their most popular services to Kubernetes. Sounds like the real deal, but there are a few bumps in the road.
# PE to do 25% of tech M&A
At least the analysis (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/investment-banking/meet-the-new-buyer-of-your-tech-company/) confirms this notion.
That said, the underlying numbers are weird: “Between direct acquisitions and deals done by portfolio companies, PE firms are on pace to purchase roughly 900 tech companies in 2017.”
Who exactly are these 900 tech companies?
Speaking of, a PE firm bought ThoughtWorks.
ICO stuff (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/initial-coin-offering-ico.asp), Coté is confused.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Alibaba Dwarfs Amazon
That’s a lot of revenue growth (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/alibabas-revenue-growth-dwarfing-amazon-michael-spencer).
Not on the cloud computing side yet, but definitely on the retail side.
Coté: what’s the deal with Alipay being so hard to setup for Yankees? They really, really want a bankcard. Also, I don’t speak Chinese.
Rescuing Open Source from Failed Startups
bet365 (http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2017-August/019500.html) buying (http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2017-August/019500.html) and open sourcing Basho stuff.
“It is our intention to open source all of Basho's products and all of the source code that they have been working on."Hi
See previously RethinkDB by the CNCF (https://thenewstack.io/cloud-native-computing-foundation-scoops-orphaned-rethinkdb-project/)
Pivotal news - build pipelines
Concourse is out (https://thenewstack.io/pivotal-cloud-foundry-now-can-offer-automated-patching-concourse/), see also CRN (http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300091001/pivotal-releases-commercial-version-of-concourse-an-internal-continuous-integration-tool-capable-of-rapidly-closing-security-vulnerabilities.htm) coverage (http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300091001/pivotal-releases-commercial-version-of-concourse-an-internal-continuous-integration-tool-capable-of-rapidly-closing-security-vulnerabilities.htm).
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Mid-roll
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NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/), $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/speakers/michael-cote/) - October 17th and 18th, 2017.
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-kansascity/welcome/), September 21st and 22nd.
Use the code SDT2017 when you register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-kansas-city-2017-tickets-31754843592?aff=ado).
PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that.
Coté speaking at DevOps Riga (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-riga/welcome/), also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium.
Coté will also be at Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Nov 6th and 10th, in Antwerp. The train station there is nutty-balls awesome (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/5201413370/in/photolist-8UyvGj-8UmSEs-8VCAYS-8VzxWp-8VzxUc-8VzyVr-8VCA2Q-8VCA1o-8VCAVC-8VCATj-8VCA4q-8UmSx1-8VCAsm-8VCABs-8VzyHR-8Vzyii-8VCAbh-8VzyvT-8Vzydr-8VCARE-8UiNDe-8VCApA-8VCA7C-8VCAFo-8VCzTs-8V8gFi-yn3eBQ-yoqTCW-y7JJiS-yq594D-y7QtEk-y7Koam-yq4JLX-yn2Hdo-y7KmUf-8UmRYY), y’all.
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)!
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
Matt’s on the Road!
August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/canberra-public-sector/)
September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-bangalore/)
September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Sydney-User-Group/events/242374004/)
October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-auckland/)
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
November 6-7 - AgileNZ (http://www.agilenz.co.nz)
Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore (so will Matt) October 25-26, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum.
Recommendations
Brandon: TRUECar (https://www.truecar.com/).
Matt Ray: Baby Driver.
Coté: Taco Deli (http://www.tacodeli.com/). Michael Christmas (https://twitter.com/MickeyChristmas/status/900775508975263745), not too shabby (https://soundcloud.com/michaelchristmas).
8/25/2017 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 103: AI is no longer limited by the garbage that is UNIX
AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into cloud, also what exactly HPC is and how you measure vibrations passing through a human torso. But most importantly, we’re joined by Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea) in this episode, standing in for Brandon.
Removing rebel-slaver memorials
Good job (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/baltimore-confederate-statues.html), Old Bay land. There’s more cities too (https://www.axios.com/what-other-states-are-doing-with-confederate-era-statues-2472806400.html) on the case too.
You like white papers? We got white papers
Four new Pivotal white papers (https://content.pivotal.io/white-papers/running-microservices-on-pivotal-cloud-foundry): CI/CD, microservices, PCI (wake up! wake up!), and The Scary Clam (BOSH).
We discuss them with the co-author of all of them on this week’s Pivotal Conversations. (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/pci-bosh-cicd-and-microservices-whitepapers-galore-with-jared-ruckle)
Also, check out the Members only podcast if you like white papers, which you probably do, because you’re listening to this bullshit.
Amazon Summit NYC
There was some Amazon event this week. Anything happen (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-summit-new-york-summary-of-announcements/)?
Machine learning (http://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-has-largest-a-i-platform-in-the-world-its-machine-learning-guru-boasts-1502735878), and such. Deep dive blog post (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-amazon-macie-securing-your-s3-buckets/).
Interview with Amazon exec (http://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-has-largest-a-i-platform-in-the-world-its-machine-learning-guru-boasts-1502735878), Matt Wood.
AI Winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter#Overview).
Maths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_smoothing).
Also, on various industry CEOs strategamizing around Amazon (https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-effect-echoes-across-industry/).
“Alexa, what’s ‘anti-trust’?” (https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/897489269069107200)
Building out Azure HPC
Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing.
A market ready for some cash, both for HPC and analytics (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/microsoft-tones-its-hpc-cloud-with-cycle-computing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InorganicGrowth+%28Inorganic+Growth%29): “[a]ccording to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise Cloud Transformation survey, 21% of data and analytics workloads will move to public clouds in the next two years”
What about the GreenButton (https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/01/microsoft-acquires-high-performance-cloud-computing-company-greenbutton/) acquisition in 2014? Peep the long piece on that from 2014 (https://www.cio.co.nz/article/544160/latest_tech_merger_microsoft_acquires_kiwi_cloud_computing_company_greenbutton/).
Excellent chart (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/files/2017/08/Vote-for-KBI.png) showing migrating COTS to SaaS, etc.
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_2B8493BBB6C86E07A5CDF46F818EAD2B22A9BA45EDBC764A7613A8A9E0E13576_1502894906368_image.png
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
Docker raising more cash-money, container land items
Lizette Chapman & Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/docker-is-said-to-be-raising-funding-at-1-3-billion-valuation): “HPC is about three to five years behind enterprise computing when it comes to new technology adoption – the applications are generally more sophisticated, and engineers are conservative…. Business software company Docker Inc. (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/1041069D:US) is raising fresh funds, valuing the company at $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.”
Also, check out this ADP using Docker case, moderated by Alex Williams (https://thenewstack.io/adp-adopted-container-mindset/), pretty good: 1,000 containers in Nov 2016 to 3,771 in April 2017 (I think these were across dev and prod).
MIPS rule everything around me (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-version-docker-enterprise-edition-adds-new-admin-features-support-old-reliable-mainframes/).
Docker Enterprise feature matrix:
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_2B8493BBB6C86E07A5CDF46F818EAD2B22A9BA45EDBC764A7613A8A9E0E13576_1502889970877_file.jpeg
Also, putting Oracle in a container (https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/08/containers-core-banking), over there in European banking.
Hold my beer platforms (https://thenewstack.io/github-goes-kubernetes-tells/) - It’s easy, just build out all the platform things you need yourself. Yaml all the things! Also, Bash, puppet, terraform, go for log draining(!) and more!
Bare-metal, what’s the deal?
Oracle got it (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/08/14/oracle-supercharges-cloud-database-bare-metal-servers/).
What’s Twitter got to say (https://twitter.com/cote/status/897477974496342016)?
“You get my deck? Let me check Outlook. Who’s doing meeting notes in Word?”
https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_2B8493BBB6C86E07A5CDF46F818EAD2B22A9BA45EDBC764A7613A8A9E0E13576_1502811233384_image.png
Cloud’s cool, but PowerPoint is the shit (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-numbers-show-microsofts-biggest-businesses-really-cloud-era/?utm_content=bufferb54e8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer): “$25.4 billion in revenue in Microsoft’s 2017 fiscal year, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year”
Hot Dog Watch
Ever vigilant, we’re keeping an eye on the future.
The future is stiching together videos for 360 panorama things (http://mashable.com/2017/08/14/snapchat-crowd-surf-concerts-our-stories/#PqhbXnU0cSqO).
See the underside of The Hot Dog.
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
Mid-roll
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/), $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/speakers/michael-cote/) - October 17th and 18th, 2017.
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-kansascity/welcome/), September 21st and 22nd.
Use the code SDT2017 when you register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-kansas-city-2017-tickets-31754843592?aff=ado).
PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that.
Coté speaking at DevOps Riga (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-riga/welcome/), also will be at DevOpsDays London and Devoxx Belgium.
Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/241908089/), August 17th, 2017. See slides (https://www.slideshare.net/cote/the-cloudnative-enterprise-architect-how-devops-changes-eas-role).
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)!
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
Matt’s on the Road!
August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/241712226/)
August 23rd - AWS Sydney North User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/240951267/)
August 30th - AWS Australian Public Sector Summit (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/canberra-public-sector/)
September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Perth-Cloud/events/241297999/)
September 15-16 - DevOpsDays Bangalore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-bangalore/)
September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Sydney-User-Group/events/242374004/)
October 3-4 - DevOpsDays New Zealand (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-auckland/)
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
Andrew will be at DevOpsDays Singapore, and a few other places. He doesn’t want to make platinum.
# Recommendations
Andrew: SLOs, three chapters from the Google SRE (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html) book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html).
Matt Ray:
Run Bootcamp Windows 10 on a USB Stick (https://hackernoon.com/how-to-run-bootcamp-windows-10-on-a-usb3-86551dc3def8)
The secret rhythm in Radiohead’s Videotape (https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/8/4/16092184/videotape-radiohead-secret-rhythm-earworm)
Coté: bacon grease in a mug by the stove, that’s how we was livin’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0s0XHVUGF0). Speaking of saving bacon grease: Spyderco ParaMilitary 2 G-10 Plain Edge Knife (http://amzn.to/2fImmaR); works well for camping; I got a good deal. WOCStock (https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat/) - mix up them pasty white-boy slides.
Outro from Angela Rye (https://twitter.com/angela_rye), on (http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/16/august-16-2017-hn-two) Here & Now (http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/16/august-16-2017-hn-two), August 16th, 2017 (http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/08/16/august-16-2017-hn-two). Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.
8/17/2017 • 57 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 102: That thermometer don’t work with my iPhone 7, also, AWS kube’ed & DevOps Thought Lordin’
At long last, Amazon joins the CNCF to work on kubernetes and container related projects. While it's not incredibly clear how strong this embrace is, it's pretty high up there. We also discuss if there's any new topics in DevOps and check-in on the anti-trust in tech meme.
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
AWS caves to the kube
Press release: “Amazon Web Services Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Platinum Member.” (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/amazon-web-services-joins-cloud-native-computing-foundation-as-platinum-member-300501820.html)
Does this mean they’ll do Kubernetes stuff?
“AWS plans to take an active role in the cloud native community, contributing to Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies such as containerd, CNI, and linkerd.”
Adrian is all like (https://medium.com/@adrianco/cloud-native-computing-5f0f41a982bf): “we doin’ the open sourcery.”
Heptio release (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-releases-heptio-co-founders-continue-unfinished-mission-make-kubernetes-easier-use/): Ark and such.
What’s the deal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqiLGvZpVY) with Andy Rooney (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpJDg476Vkg)?
By the way, what’s “cloud-native” meaning now-a-days. We got the way Coté uses it (https://pivotal.io/cloud-native), we got CNCF (straight up containers?), and then we got whatever this type of thing is (https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/9612-cloudnatives-2017) (think it’s the Coté/Pivotal definition).
Thought Lord Problems
Is DevOps tired? What are the new topics in DevOps
Disruption vs. the Government
Google and Facebook (http://fortune.com/2017/07/17/should-we-use-antitrust-law-against-google-or-facebook/).
Amazon and Whole Foods (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-14/u-s-congressman-calls-for-hearings-on-amazon-s-whole-foods-bid).
The Best Buy pain trade (http://investorfieldguide.com/wes/).
“Why the grim reaper of retail hasn't come to claim Best Buy.” (http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agenda-best-buy-20170717-htmlstory.html)
Amazon doesn't kill everyone (yet) (http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/my-advice-anyone-starting-business-remember-someda-56539)
All your svn and stories belong to us
Collabnet and VersionOne merge (https://adtmag.com/articles/2017/08/08/collabnet-versionone.aspx).
End-roll
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/), $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/speakers/michael-cote/) - October 17th and 18th, 2017.
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Kansas City (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-kansascity/welcome/), September 21st and 22nd.
Use the code SDT2017 when you register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-kansas-city-2017-tickets-31754843592?aff=ado).
PLUS we have one free ticket to give away. So, we need to figure out how to do that.
Coté speaking at DevOps Riga (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-riga/welcome/) and DevOps Kansas City (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-kansascity/welcome/).
Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/241908089/), August 17th, 2017.
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)!
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration). Check out this cool animated gif (https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DG0RbbEXoAEbTSr.mp4).
Matt’s on the Road!
August 17th - Sydney Chef Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Chef-Sydney/events/240660647/)
August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/241712226/)
August 23rd - AWS Sydney North User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/240951267/)
September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Perth-Cloud/events/241297999/)
September 20 - Azure Sydney Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Sydney-User-Group/events/242374004/)
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
Recommendations
Matt Ray: exa (https://the.exa.website), a modern replacement for ‘ls’; Sed & Awk 2nd Edition (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565922259.do)!
Brandon: Sleeping Gods (https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Sleeping-Giants-Audiobook/B01A98UKAC) and Walking Gods (https://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/Waking-Gods-Audiobook/B01NGUBLBW/ref=a_search_c4_1_2_srTtl?qid=1502315059&sr=1-2).
Coté: CostCo Saint Louis ribs. I feel like these are not healthy at all, but they sure are good. Also, the three European cheese plate. And use this good scallop recipe (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/08/the-food-lab-best-seared-scallops-seafood-recipe.html).
Andy Rooney picture (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andy_Rooney.jpg) from Stephenson Brown.
8/10/2017 • 56 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 101: Cloud is just "jigglin’ wires"
Calling in hot from New Braunfels Texas, we got a country mile’s worth of topics this week: we have container services from Microsoft, a lengthy discussion of how enterprise software companies organize their global sales regions, the possible emergence of a new private cloud meme, and rumors that BMC is no longer in acquiring CA.
Also, be sure to check out this week’s white paper analysis for patrons, on IoT (https://www.patreon.com/posts/trillion-iot-by-13636097).
Global expansion tips and tricks
“EMEAians.”
Open source as the scouts.
Microsoft laying off 19,000 people
Link (http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-starts-layoffs-with-reportedly-thousands-of-job-cuts/)
Who’s hirin’?
Microsoft Container Service
What’s a “container service” (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/microsoft-launches-new-container-service-joins-cloud-native-group-isolating-aws-kubernetes/)?
TechCrunch notices private cloud
Link (https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/all-clouds-dont-have-to-be-public/)
Vendors have begun offering a variety of approaches that give the feel of the public cloud, but inside the comfort zone of a customer’s data center.
Oracle cited rather large customers like AT&T and Bank of America using the Cloud at Customer product.
Oracle cloud news picking up.
That Antitrust Meme in Tech
As you know, I’m not a lawyer (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-20/should-america-s-tech-giants-be-broken-up)
How would it make sense? What’s the justification?
“Google and Facebook Account For Nearly All Growth in Digital Ads (http://fortune.com/2017/04/26/google-facebook-digital-ads/).”
Coté looking down the barrel of getting taxed at way high (https://twitter.com/cote/status/892063123288580097)?
BMC not buying CA
Too much regulation (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ca-m-a-bmcsoftware-idUSKBN1AC2L8)
CA financials (https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ACA&fstype=ii&ei=sjyCWZjTNczG2AbQ95SQCg).
Flash, he gone
Link (http://redmonk.com/fryan/2017/07/25/adobe-eol-flash-content-continues-to-move-to-mobile/)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
GoDaddy dumps OpenStack cloud
The cloud business is hard (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/24/gone_daddy_gone_godaddy_offloads_its_cloud_businesses/)
More from 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92982&type=mis&alertid=601&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=92982-GoDaddy+to+shut+down+its+Cloud+Servers+offering)
HEB was an Amazon Option?
Not really, just some dude talking (http://austin.culturemap.com/news/innovation/07–18–17-amazon-acquisition-whole-foods-heb/).
Containers are Linux
Link (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-thoughts-containers-frank-feldmann).
“DevOps is more suitable for containerisation compared to other traditional approaches”
Operating system vendors have something to sell you say?
A History of Docker/Linux Containers
Link (https://opensource.com/article/17/7/how-linux-containers-evolved).
Red Hat maintainer breaking down the short but convoluted history of containers.
## Slack Getting Paid
Link (https://www.recode.net/2017/6/15/15810088/slack-deal-funding-amazon-microsoft-buyers-business-communication?stream=top-stories).
Slack is raising another $500 million — and has attracted interest from a range of big buyers like Amazon
# Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack).
End-roll
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NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/), $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-nashville/speakers/michael-cote/).
Coté speaking at DevOps Riga (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-riga/welcome/) and DevOps Kansas City (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-kansascity/welcome/).
Coté also speaking at Austin OpenStack Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/241908089/), August 17th, 207.
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle (https://continuouslifecycle.london/), in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something (https://continuouslifecycle.london/call-for-papers/)!
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
Matt’s on the Road!
August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community (https://www.meetup.com/AWS_NZ/events/237833579/)
August 8th - Canberra Infracoders (https://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders-Canberra/events/241775704/)
August 10th - Sydney AWS Security Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Sydney-AWS-Security-User-Group/events/239370748/)
August 17th - Sydney Chef Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Chef-Sydney/events/240660647/)
August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/241712226/)
September 12 - Perth MS Cloud Computing User Group (https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Perth-Cloud/events/241297999/)
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
Recommendations
Brandon: Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552)’s (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552)Ozark (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552).
Matt Ray: Mr. Robot.
Coté: BaseIQ microSD adaptor (http://amzn.to/2vjFdiH). Ikea STUNSIG World t-shirt (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40376911/). Also: not giving a shit.
8/3/2017 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 100: “I’ve seen The Hot Dog more times this week than 2FA,” or, is The Hot Dog incremental innovation, or disruptive innovation?
“Which chasm is being leaped by this hot dog app?”
Sniffing out a huge market in hot dog apps, Amazon might start a messaging app. Also, Google has their ant-data gravity device out and Basho seems to be shutting down. We discuss the wonders of Snap’s hot dog app, the mystery of Amazon’s lack(?) of brand allegiance, and giving up on kale.
“Share price down? I gotcha bro.”
Dancing Hot Dog (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/11/snapchat-hotdog-meme-explained/468211001/).
Amazon to Start a Messaging App
Link (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/16/15978920/amazon-anytime-messaging-app-rumor)
I get the whole need to control networks, but it seems like we’ve kinda saturated a lot of these (Allo, is this thing on?). Why not just buy Slack? (Wasn’t that a rumor (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-interested-in-buying-slack-2017-6)? Could this be that diapers.com-style retaliation.)
80m Prime customers
Twitch and “Stimpy.” The pair of people doing Minecraft.
@profgalloway
Uber driver on Whole Foods acquisition.
Google Transfer Appliance
Snowball envy (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/introducing-Transfer-Appliance-Sneakernet-for-the-cloud-era.html)?
So, by “data,” they mean not only CSV files, but also VM images? HRM!
Data gravity, from Dave McCrory (https://blog.mccrory.me/2010/12/07/data-gravity-in-the-clouds/).
Someone finally made a data gravity chart:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SnFabcStXhM/WW4SEhj6adI/AAAAAAAAEIE/wd6Yqlbt9FELUxsvTc2F92GZDZq2I-_6QCLcBGAs/s640/transfer-appliance-2.png
Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, etc.
Brandon Butler summerizes (https://twitter.com/BButlerNWW/status/887367272263766020)
Techcrunch on the announcement (https://cote.io/2017/07/18/rackspace-partners-with-pivotal-to-launch-managed-services-for-cloud-foundry/)
List of core stuff (http://www.zdnet.com/article/rackspace-launches-pivotal-cloud-foundry-managed-service-spins-up-managed-google-cloud-platform-beta/):
Management of upgrades, releases, and integration of services.
Multiple cloud options with Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry across private clouds and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack.
Support and service level agreements with 99.99 percent uptime and 15 minute response on emergency issues.
PCF services put another way (http://sdtimes.com/rackspace-pivotal-cloud-native-app-development/): “...on any public or private cloud as well as on customer-owned infrastructure…. The Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry solution will feature 24/7 management for troubleshooting, managing updates, feature releases, and integration with various services; multi-cloud capability; and on-demand expertise for handing version updates, feature enhancements and other technical updates.”
Check out dem success numbers: “Fortune 500 customers using Pivotal Cloud Foundry to build, deploy, and run their legacy and cloud-native apps have experienced 2,000 percent increase in developer productivity, as well as a 50 percent reduction in IT costs due to platform automation”
Basho Shuts it Down
“The Reg was obviously keen (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/13/will_the_last_person_at_basho_get_the_lights_oh_too_late/) to put the claims in this story to Basho, but we’ve struggled to find anyone still working at the company to answer us.”
Kafka, Casandra - WTF is going on in NoSQL-land, is this shit done yet?
Sep. 2016 451 profile (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90267):
“While open source did not fully disappear, the company's primary focus moved from a support and services model to a subscription-based model. Today, Basho reports that support and services make up 10-12% of total revenue, with subscriptions taking up the rest.”
“In 2015 Basho cited more that 200 customers and approximately 120 employees. Basho reports similar numbers this time around, except with a higher average deal size among its customer base. Average deal size is greater than $100,000, with high single-digit-customer deals exceeding $1m in total contract value. From 2014-2015, Basho reported a 50% increase in total contract value, a 45% increase in billings and a 50% increase in growth revenue.”
Let’s do math...so...oh wait, left my Monte Carlo simulator in my other car.
Products: “While both products share some underlying commonalities, they both address certain use cases. Riak KV is a key-value-based NoSQL database promoted generally to address use cases for content storing of session data, log file data, profile data and chat messaging data, particularly with gaming and gambling applications. Basho points out the product's resiliency and scaling capabilities, with integrations to Spark and Redis. Riak TS, on the other hand, is a database geared toward time-series data, with an emphasis on IoT use cases. Specifically, Riak TS can be used for gathering weather, seismic and traffic data, as well as for financial trading data. Time-series data has more structure, so Basho has added functionality to describe the data schema and the ability to query the data with SQL.”
Coté was on Speaking in Tech
Listen in (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/19/speaking_in_tech_episode_270/)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
CREAM for one
Remember When Martin Shkreli Bought the Wu Tang Album? (https://www.wired.com/story/martin-shkreli-bought-the-wu-tang-clan-album)
“This wasn’t just calamitous—this was Calamity walking into a bar, sweet-talking Catastrophe, getting really drunk together, smoking some crack, punching Fiasco in the face, then going on a shooting spree while eating orphans and setting fire to kittens.”
## AWS’s private cloud stuff
The short pointer-piece (https://cote.io/2017/07/18/aws-talking-with-vmware-about-building-on-premises-software-report/) also has some mention of VMware partnership for THE HYBRID.
Coté doesn’t know anything about VMware.
In-depth Dive into Schedulers
Something Coté didn’t read, but probably should have (https://medium.com/@cindysridharan/schedulers-kubernetes-and-nomad-b0f2e14a896).
Probably not a great conversation topic, but a really great article on the use of schedulers and why they chose Nomad over K8s
Misc. chuckles
#areyounormal (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23areyounormal%20%40Speakingintech&src=typd) from @SPEAKINGinTech (https://twitter.com/SPEAKINGinTECH).
CostCo Pizza (https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman/status/887398593472196608)
@vennsplain (https://twitter.com/vennsplain/status/886479589006073857)
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Current status: 8 people, driving $14 a month. TIME TO QUIT OUR JOBS, BOYS!
But, more seriously, thanks to the folks who've signed up! It's encouraging.
We’ll do our first members only episode. See overly-detailed noted here (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP001-PwC-says-you-suck-at-THE-DIGITAL-X1hjDkyd1nWpJ70HLUsMr); it might be giving away too much for free, but you’ll at least get a sense of what we’re doing here.
SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack)
End-roll
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Looks sold out. DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
The Register’s conference in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open - submit something!
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
Matt’s on the Road!
July 20th - DevOps Sydney (https://www.meetup.com/devops-sydney/events/232788708/)
July 24th - Chef Meetup Singapore (https://www.meetup.com/mssgug/events/241446061/)
July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ (http://www.alldaydevops.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-devops-connect-devsecops-at-rsac-singapore)
August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community (https://www.meetup.com/AWS_NZ/events/237833579/)
August 8th - Canberra Infracoders (https://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders-Canberra/events/241775704/)
August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/241712226/)
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
Recommendations
Brandon: The Defiant Ones (http://www.hbo.com/the-defiant-ones).
Matt Ray: Western Australia and Bali (photos soon); Sriracha on scrambled eggs.
Coté: some local flavor this week: The Tigress (http://thetigresspub.com/); Veterans Park Pool (https://www.yelp.com/biz/veterans-memorial-park-cedar-park-2).
7/20/2017 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 99: Private cloud is the Reuben sandwich of clouds, or, Shafer’s Theory of (Private) Cloud
Microsoft will ship it’s private cloud stack, Azure Stack, in September. Will this work? Will people buy it? What could you even put in that cloud? You can feel that pull people have towards private cloud, so we’re looking forward to what happens. On a related topic, by our reckoning, kubernetes to small to have already fallen. Also: the elusive Baltimore accent, Oracle and containers, and recommendations.
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Where does Matt Ray find all these stories?
Patreon for this thing (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack)
“Not all ‘guys.’”
Mid-roll
This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758). If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758), and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews (https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Casper-EI_IE990859.11,17.htm), it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs (https://casper.com/jobs/).
Also, get $50 off mattresses with the code: horraymattray
End-roll
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&) - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
The Register’s conference in London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/) (May 2018) has it’s CFP open - submit something!
Matt:
July 20th - DevOps Sydney (https://www.meetup.com/devops-sydney/events/232788708/)
July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ (http://www.alldaydevops.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-devops-connect-devsecops-at-rsac-singapore)
August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Chef-Sydney/events/240660647/)
August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community (https://www.meetup.com/AWS_NZ/events/237833579/)
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
Up there in New England
What is the Baltimore accent (http://peopleof.oureverydaylife.com/speak-baltimore-accent-11264.html)?
Watching The Keepers, and it’s reminding me of John Water movies, but I can’t figure out the patterns of the accent.
Season three of The Wire has samples.
Oracle Enters the OCI-runtime with Railcar - Oracle, the dark-horse of The Container Wars
Link (https://thenewstack.io/oracle-opens-oci-container-runtime)
Rust! Also Smith and Sidecar
Oracle requires joint copyright assignment though…
Azure Stack, coming in September
Charges by consumption (https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/10/microsoft-azure-stack-hardware-available-to-order-ships-in-september/) - how MIPS-y! “Compute charges start at .8 cents per virtual CPU per hour and go up from there, while storage starts at .6 cents per GB per hour. Those charges will be included in customers’ invoices for their overall use of Microsoft’s public cloud platform.”
Hardware via partners: “The exact pricing for Azure Stack hardware, including support contracts, will be up to each individual manufacturer. Microsoft is working with Dell EMC, Lenovo, HPE, Cisco, and Huawei to make the hardware available, and the first machines should be available in September.”
IDC estimates private cloud HW at $34bn or so runrate (based on 3Q2016 estimates) (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/16/worldwide_quarterly_cloud_it_infrastructure_tracker_q3_2016/), with 8% q/q growth. So, not too shabby there. This doesn’t include software, Microsoft’s take.
Scott Guthrie (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/10/interview_with_microsofts_scott_guthrie/?page=2): “We talked to lots of customers who said, please don’t do that [allow so much customization that it's hard to debug problems]. The model we came up with instead was to work with a large spectrum of hardware providers, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Cisco and Huawei. Those are the five largest server manufacturers in the world. They will have systems that start with three nodes, not massive big purchases, that you can unbox and plug in. And have a fully working cloud in a day or two. Regardless of whom you call, we own the whole solution.”
Pivotal Cloud Foundry will run on it (https://rcpmag.com/articles/2017/07/10/azure-stack-partner-preorders.aspx)
Microsoft has a rocky road of delivering on private cloud. But, I’d wager the get it this time.
We discussed this on the most recent Pivotal Conversations (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/its-private-cloud-all-over-again), along with other delightful ephemera.
K8s Days May Be Numbered
Matt Asay strikes again! (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3204597/open-source-tools/kubernetes-days-may-be-numbered-as-open-source-changes.html)
Funny how OpenStack is now a cautionary tale. See Coté’s weasly, non-position on OpenStack in his May Register column (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/22/window_closing_on_openstacks_future/).
I thought Cote’ was going to write this one up? (see below)
“Whitepaper review” a la The Weeds!
You have to be careful how you read that 451 survey.
On Asay’s 71%, Coté wrote (https://cote.io/2017/06/02/451s-container-orchestration-usage-survey-notebook/): On that note, it’s easy to misread the widely quoted finding of “[n]early three-quarters (71 percent) of respondents indicated they are using Kubernetes” as meaning only Kubernetes. Actually, people are using many of them at once. The report clarifies this: “The fact that almost 75% of organizations reported using Kubernetes while the same group also reported significant use of other container management and orchestration software is evidence of a mixed market.”
Read: they’re trying everything. Nothing has won yet. Proving Asay’s point, but also defanging his link-bait lead.
“It seem far-fetched that Kubernetes could be heading for a fall” - there is no fall to be had because ascension hasn’t yet begin.
The core base of 201 people are organizations already using containers, so it doesn’t include organizations not using containers.
In a broader survey (where, presumably, not every enterprise was already using containers), of 300+ enterprises, production container use was: 19% in initial production, 8% were in broad production implementation.
This isn’t to say there hasn’t been huge growth in this space, but it’s the huge growth of small numbers.
This survey (though sponsored by CoreOS - I’m always suspicious of sponsored surveys, having worked on them myself!) is definitely worth paying attention to (as well as ongoing 451 and Gartner work here). Just make sure you read it right and don’t get too excited.
See Coté’s Notebook for more (https://cote.io/2017/06/02/451s-container-orchestration-usage-survey-notebook/).
(Related: I’ve been thinking we should do special, “paid members only” [in Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt)?] “whitepaper review” episodes. Because, let’s be honest: only people who liked us enough to pay would be interested in that.)
Alright, now some vendor-sports:
So, can a vendor be successful if they “chase” the standards? Do you need to be in OpenWhisk, and OCI shit to operate in this space? Do you need to be Java EE compliant?
There may be no money in OSS, but maybe it’s the kingmaker, to steal O’Grady’s line (http://amzn.to/2sVtmms).
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Could Facebook run on AWS?
Lots of fun speculation with sizes of services and numbers of servers (http://blog.sqlizer.io/posts/facebook-on-aws/).
From now on, this is the only content to send to people asking about running private cloud.
“In the real world it clearly wouldn’t make sense for Facebook to migrate over to AWS.“
First of all (https://youtu.be/X9ELENWZqLE)...
As John Willis would say, “I wanna be Ashlee Vance when I grow up.” Look at that guy: he’s kickin’ it no undershirt with the button-up style. Writes for Bloomberg, and only let’s just enough sass through in his tone to keep his broad, concise appeal but still have style that harkens back to his Register days.
And he wrote that Elon Musk book. CASH MONEY!
Second: “serverless is someone else’s server” manifest in 3D
Third, a lot of people ask me, “Coté, how do I get a job like yours?” Writing a lot of posts like this is one answer.
Thriving in a “Post AWS World”
Link (https://www.packet.net/blog/how-to-thrive-in-a-post-aws-world/)
“Why You Can Have the Advantages and Still Not Win”
Touches on some of the previous conversations of anti-trust, how do you operate with a Goliath in your market?
Distributions are Becoming Irrelevant
Link (https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2017/06/distributions-becoming-irrelevant/)
“The distribution users are, for most of the biggest projects, sysadmins.”
Nice history of how developers and distros have long been at odds.
Coté: I recall reading this. Did I get the summary right?
gems show that people will subvert the gate-keeper of being in the distro, thus, there is no power of a distro: people will just assemble whatever they want. Docker x10’s this.
Linux distro people fight too much and are, sort of, bags of dicks that are making the evolution of distros slow and further irrelevant. Hey, guys, “can’t we all just get along?”
Future of Serverless?
Link (https://www.morethanseven.net/2017/06/26/predictions-for-the-direction-of-serverless-platforms/) - that’s a helluva headline..
Who can take on Lambda? OpenWhisk on K8s?
IBM Backing off OpenStack?
“Seemingly unable to innovate, IBM allegedly retreats from its OpenStack plans” (http://www.diversity.net.nz/seemingly-unable-to-innovate-ibm-allegedly-retreats-from-its-openstack-plans/2017/06/29/)
Lots of BlueBoxers coming back on the market
DevOps Insights from RightRelevance
Wut? (http://info.rightrelevance.com/devops-insights-analysis-may-2017/)
Echo chambers exist, but some folks and events cut through “flocks”
IBM/Compuware stuff feels anomalous to me
OpenBSD with Randomized Kernels
When you really care about security… (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openbsd-will-get-unique-kernels-on-each-reboot-do-you-hear-that-linux-windows/)
Recommendations
Brandon: Oasis Supersonic (http://amzn.to/2sWDgnG)
Matt Ray: Veep (http://amzn.to/2sWDbjY). Also: Visualization of sorting algorithms, it’s hypnotic (http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/?imm_mid=0f4065&cmp=em-prog-na-na-newsltr_20170701)
Coté: thigh and leg chicken, BONELESS!, at CostCo. Enterprise Architecture as Strategy (https://twitter.com/cote/status/885501022206132225) book - old (2006), but really, the topic doesn’t seemed to have change much, despite DevOps &shit.
7/14/2017 • 1 hour, 28 seconds
Episode 98: “Do I just need some better medication?” or, advertising, antitrust, and talking to strangers
Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of the DoJ knocking at your door, you’re probably doing it wrong. Those are two whacky theories about advertising and antitrust, at least. With Matt Ray on vacation, Brandon and Coté talk about The Attention Merchants and the recent Google EU antitrust ruling. We also discuss several other books, and how to talk to non-tech people at parties. Surprisingly, no container talk!
Mid-roll
This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758). If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758), and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews (https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Casper-EI_IE990859.11,17.htm), it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs (https://casper.com/jobs/).
End-roll
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&) - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
Matt
July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ (http://www.alldaydevops.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-devops-connect-devsecops-at-rsac-singapore)
August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st (https://www.meetup.com/Chef-Sydney/events/240660647/)
August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd (https://www.meetup.com/AWS_NZ/events/237833579/)
October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
Show Links
The Drunk & Retired Reboot (http://www.cote.show/hosts/cowboyd), Charles and Coté return...every two weeks.
Attention Merchants (http://amzn.to/2sOiANY), Chaos Monkeys (http://amzn.to/2sIpNE8).
Slate Monet podcast, #163 (http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/slate_money/2017/07/google_s_antitrust_violations_italian_banks_and_seattle_s_minimum_wage.html).
Recommendations
Brandon: Apple Airpods (http://amzn.to/2uMuNUW)
Coté: Fixing iPad screens, fixin’ to try ATX Cell Repair (https://www.yelp.com/biz/atx-cell-repair-austin).
7/6/2017 • 57 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 97: The novel strategy of making money, and investing to do so - Amazon + Whole Foods
Looks like we’ll be getting cheaper organic food what with Amazon buying Whole Foods. What exactly is the strategy at play here, though? Other than the obvious thing of doing online groceries, how is Amazon advantaged here such that others (like Wal-mart), can’t simply do this themselves. We go over these questions and how they related to M&A in general. Plus recommendations and some podcast meta talk.
Mid-roll
This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758). If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758), and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews (https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Casper-EI_IE990859.11,17.htm), it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs (https://casper.com/jobs/).
LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&) - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
Matt will be at:
DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ (http://www.alldaydevops.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-devops-connect-devsecops-at-rsac-singapore)
Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st (https://www.meetup.com/Chef-Sydney/events/240660647/)
Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd (https://www.meetup.com/AWS_NZ/events/237833579/)
Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
Podcast meta-talk
Podcasts.app to be able to track what you listen to (https://cote.io/2017/06/28/apple-makes-major-podcast-updates/).
Just paying for podcasts.
$220m+ estimated TAM (https://cote.io/2017/06/28/podcast-market-estimated-at-over-220m/).
We have a Casper ad!
Amazon Buys Whole Foods
This was not covered in the Mary Meeker slide-fest.
Coté’s notebook on the topic (https://cote.io/2017/06/28/amazon-buying-whole-foods-notebook/).
Stratechery on WF Acquisition (https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/)
Exponent Podcast (http://exponent.fm/)
What exactly are the barriers to entry here for other grocery stores.
The business: online, and just the grocery store on it’s own...plus the 460+ physical stores for other goods?
Barriers to entry, Amazon buyers (Whole Foods looks good now?), culture clash?, HEB love, private label
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for IAAS is Here!
Larry D. (http://www.zdnet.com/article/gartner-puts-aws-microsoft-azure-top-of-its-magic-quadrant-for-iaas/)
Once again, what a change from way back when:
CRN (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300087321/heres-who-made-gartners-2017-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-iaas.htm)
The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/19/gartner_confirms_what_we_all_know_aws_and_microsoft_are_the_cloud_leaders_by_a_fair_way/)
Johnny Leadgen can get a copy (https://pages.awscloud.com/mq-download-report.html).
On Oracle: “Gartner warns potential customers to be cautious of high-pressure sales tactics.”
How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source
Link (https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-shifting-emphasis-open-source/)
“Chef is used to manage thousands of nodes internally across Azure, Office 365 and Bing.”
Amazon Eyeing Slack?
Link (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/messaging-startup-slack-said-to-draw-interest-from-amazon-com)
“Buying Slack would help Seattle-based Amazon bolster its enterprise services as it seeks to compete with rivals like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.”
Walmart Buys Bonobo
I’ve got a Bonobo suit I really like (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/walmart-buy-bonobos-310m-continues-e-commerce-battle-amazon/).
They had ModCloth and some others. Their M&A strategy has really shifted of late.
Walmart Sez Get Off the AWS
Finally a reason for multi-cloud (https://thenewstack.io/wal-mart-kicks-partners-off-amazons-cloud-implications-organizations/)
BigCo’s gonna bully that supply-chain.
What’s Wrong with Jenkins?
Jenkins is the Nagios of CI/CD (https://thenewstack.io/many-problems-jenkins-continuous-delivery/)
“No toolchain is perfect, but you can achieve software delivery perfection (or something close to it, at least) when you implement the right culture.” Tools don’t substitute culture.
Oracle’s Swinging For the Fences (and missing)
Link (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/13/specsavers_says_no_to_oracle_cloud/)
“He was also unwilling for Specsavers to become a guinea pig for Oracle's cloud.”
Ubuntu Mobile Post Mortem
Not much strategy… (http://www.lieberbiber.de/2017/06/20/my-ubuntu-for-mobile-devices-post-mortem/)
Serverless and the Death of DevOps
Link (http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/06/02/serverless-and-the-the-death-of-devops-can-you-not/)
Spoiler: “DevOps is the ultimate reactive, or event-driven, tech use case. It’s not going anywhere”
State of DevOps 2017 Report
Johnny Leadgen to the rescue (https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-devops-report)!
Commercial Open Source Software Companies
Link (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/17nKMpi_Dh5slCqzLSFBoWMxNvWiwt2R-t4e_l7LPLhU/htmlview#gid=0)
A bit of sourcing on the numbers would be valuable
Glad Chef’s not on the list, wouldn’t want to comment on the numbers
Cloud Foundry Summit
A whole mess of videos! 121 of them. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLhuMOCWn4P9hTlDEWJZV8JbVsW01avHF1&v=em-W0rVbCLc)
Heptio Out of Stealth Mode with K8s Management Tool
TheNewStack covere (https://thenewstack.io/heptio-comes-stealth-mode-ksonnet/)
Official page (http://ksonnet.heptio.com/)
File under “It didn’t already do that. I see.”
Not sure this qualifies as “coming out of stealth”, everyone knows they work on open source K8s. I’m not seeing a monetization strategy yet beyond support & training. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but they raised $8.5 for their A-round
BMC Software Exploring Merging with CA
STOP THE PRESSES! TERRIBLE MEETS TERRIBLE (https://mobile-reuters-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN19C036)?
So far, no confirmation, but (https://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/CA+Technologies+%28CA%29%3A+Anti+Trust+Should+Not+Prevent+CABMC+Merger+-+Bernstein/13052376.html):
“While the two companies were once dominant in the systems management industry, the analyst notes that CA and BMC have 7.5% and 8% share respectively as of FY16 which combined would put them on a near even footing with IBM, the largest vendor, at 15%.”
“There are also many other vendors in the market including MSFT (7%) and NOW (5%) so anti trust concerns should not be an issue.”
High Level Kubernetes Overview
Link (https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/06/04/learning-about-kubernetes/)
“Basically Kubernetes is a distributed system that runs programs (well, containers) on computers. You tell it what to run, and it schedules it onto your machines.”
More on Service Meshes
From James Governor, RedMonk (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/31/so-what-even-is-a-service-mesh-hot-take-on-istio-and-linkerd/)
Recommendations
Brandon: The Scholar and the Drop Out podcast (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-scholar-and-the-drop-out/id1143931540?mt=2); Coté’s add-on: Karl Lagerfella’s day (http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/trends/a865/24-hours-with-karl-lagerfeld-0412/), no exercise and long night-shirts.
Matt: Commando: Johnny Ramone’s Autobiography (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IV89TS/)
Coté: Gulf Shores, Alabama; Hillbilly Elegy (http://amzn.to/2tpO6Gm) and “The Dead Pig Collector.” (http://amzn.to/2tpoU2L)
6/29/2017 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 96: An AWS private cloud strategy, kubernetes aplenty, microservices by yaml, & detailed hot-dog creature analysis
The cat-nip of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report is out this week so we discuss the highlights which leads to a sudden discussion of what an Amazon private cloud product would look like. Then, with a raft of new container related news we sort out what CoreOS is doing with their Tectonic managed service, what Heptio is (the Mirantis of Kubernetes?), and then a deep dive into the newly announced Istio which seems to be looking to create a yaml-based(!) standard for microservices configuration and policy and, then, the actual code for managing it all. Also, an extensive analysis of a hot-dog display, which is either basting itself or putting on some condiment-hair.
Alternate Titles
I've seen this hot-dog before.
I’ve been doing this since dickity-4
I’m sticking with the Mary Meeker slides, you nerds go figure it out
Mid-roll
Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th (http://connect.pivotal.io/Cloud-Native-Strategy-Workshop-DC.html).
LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/).
20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&)
SpringDays.io
Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff
Chicago (May 30th to 31st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago)
New York (June 20th to 21st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york)
Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
Hot-dog guy in Japan
Zoom in on that little fellow (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/35012640896/).
Internet Trends 2017
300 plus slides of charts (http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends)
Computes!
Coté’s notebook (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/analysis-of-mary-meeker-s-internet-trends), summary of summary:
Google and Facebook make a lot of ad money.
The Kids like using smart phones, the olds like using traditional telephones. One of them will die sooner.
Voice, image recognition, etc.
China is pretty much a mature market, and it’s huge.
India has potential, but doing business there is hard and you need more Internet in a pocket rollout.
The public/private cloud debate is still far from over.
But, AWS, Microsoft, and Google have pretty much won.
Bonus: there’s surprisingly little funding and exits this year.
Would Amazon sell some private clouds?
Isotoner and Hephaestus - All the new container orchestration poop
Coté: Catching up on all this week's container poop & as always, my first reaction is “oh, I thought the existing stuff did all that already..so."
Managed service for Tectonic as a Service (https://thenewstack.io/coreos-takes-cloud-portability-tectonic-release/) - so, keeping your Kubernates cluster software updated? Presumably enforcing config, etc?
However, not all done, still working on the complete solution.
But, there’s an etcd thing ‘As a first step, Tectonic 1.6.4 will offer the distributed etcd key-value data store as a fully managed cloud service. “It’s the logical one to offer first because it is everything else gets built on it,” Polvi explained. The data store “guarantees that data is in a consistent state for very specific operations,” he said, referring to how etcd can be essential for operations such as database migrations.’
Another etcd description (https://blog.heptio.com/core-kubernetes-jazz-improv-over-orchestration-a7903ea92ca): “etcd is a clustered database that prizes consistency above partition tolerance… Interestingly, at Google, chubby is most frequently accessed using an abstracted File interface that works across local files, object stores, etc. The highly consistent nature, however, provides for strict ordering of writes and allows clients to do atomic updates of a set of values.
So, you need locks for - dun-dun-dun! - transactions! Queue JP lecturing me in 2002.
Then there’s Istio (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/05/managing-microservices-with-istio-service-mesh.html):
Istio (https://istio.io/)?!
Whao! Check out the exec-pitch (https://istio.io/blog/istio-service-mesh-for-microservices.html): “ Istio gives CIOs a powerful tool to enforce security, policy and compliance requirements across the enterprise.” And Google (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/istio-modern-approach-to-developing-and.html): “Through the Open Service Broker model CIOs can define a catalog of services which may be used within their enterprise and auditing tools to enforce compliance.”
I love their idea of what a CIO does.
“An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices“
SDN++ overlay for container orchestrators from Google, IBM & Lyft - once you control the network with the “data plane,” you add in the “control plane” (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html#architecture) which allows you to control the flow and shit of the actual microservices.
Tackling the “new problems emerge due to the sheer number of services that exist in a larger system. Problems that had to be solved once for a monolith, like security, load balancing, monitoring, and rate limiting need to be handled for each service.”
And, you know, all the agnostic, multi-cloud, open stuff.
Thankfully, they didn’t use a bunch of garbage, nonsense names for things.
Let’s look at the docs (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html) (BTW, can you kids start just putting out PDFs instead of only these auto-generated from markdown web pages?):
First of all, these are good docs.
Monkey-patching for the container era: “You add Istio support to services by deploying a special sidecar proxy throughout your environment that intercepts all network communication between microservices, configured and managed using Istio’s control plane functionality.”
The future! Where we all shall live! “Istio currently only supports service deployment on Kubernetes, though other environments will be supported in future versions.”
Problems being solved, aka, “ways you must be this tall to ride the microservices ride”: “Its requirements can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring, and often more complex operational requirements such as A/B testing, canary releases, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.”
Also: Traffic Management (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html), Observability, Policy Enforcement, Service Identity and Security.
Does it have the part where it reboots/fixes failed services for you?
So:
you monkey-patch all this shit in (er, sorry, “sidecar”),
which controls the network with SDN shit,
Istio-Manager + Envoy (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html) does all your load-balancing/circuit breaker (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/handling-failures.html)/canary/AB shit, service discovery/registry, service versioning (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/request-routing.html#service-model-and-service-versions) (i.e., running n+1 different versions of code - always a pretty cool feature), configuring “routes,” what connects to what (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/rules-configuration.html),
I don’t think it provides a service registry/discover service (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/load-balancing.html)? Maybe just a waffer thin API (“a platform-agnostic service discovery interface”)?
Question: what does this look like in your code?
The (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/policy-and-control/mixer.html) thing 12 factor-style passes a configuration into your actual code. Here, you’re adding a bunch of name/value pairs (which can be nested) and also translating them to the name/value pairs that your code is expecting...on an HTTP call? Executing a command in your container? As ENV vars?
And then, I think you finally get ahold of the network to reply back with some HTML, JSON, or some sort of HTTP request by (https://istio.io/docs/tasks/ingress.html).,
So, big questions, aka, Coté mental breakdown that only Matt Ray can cure:
Er...so this all really is a replacement for the VMware stack, right? And OpenStack? Or do you still need those. What the fuck is all this stuff? It just installs the Docker image on a server? And then handles multi-zone replication, and making sure config drift is handles (bringing up failed nodes, too)?
So, it’s just cheaper and more transparent than VMware?
What’s the set of shit one needs? Ubuntu, Moby Engine (?), Moby command line tools, etcd? Actuality kubernetes code? What’s Swarm do? And then there’s monitoring, which according to Whiskey Charity, is all shit, right?
Where’ my fucking chart on this shit?
Please write two page memo for the BoD by 2pm today.
Meanwhile: Oracle’s cool with it (https://thenewstack.io/oracle-joins-kubernetes-fray/), “WTF is a microservice” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14414031), compared to SOA/ESB and RESTful (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1441150), and James Governor tries to explain it all (http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/31/so-what-even-is-a-service-mesh-hot-take-on-istio-and-linkerd/).
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
Rackspace Buys Enterprise Apps Management TriCore
Link (http://www.enterprisecloudnews.com/author.asp?doc_id=733171§ion_id=571)
New CEO and biggest acquisition, I thought they were quieting down with the PE
Red Hat buys Codenvy
Codenvy sets up your developer environments (https://codenvy.com/developers/), and has team stuff.
Red Hat is really after the developer market.
TaskTop has a good chance of being acquired in this climate.
Pour one out from BMC/StreamStep.
Notes from Carl Lehmann report at 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92575):
In-browser IDE and devtool chain(?) for OpenShift.io, based on Eclipse Che
“Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based Codenvy raised $10m in January of that year, and used a portion of its funds to buy its initial codebase from eXo Platform, which had developed the eXo Cloud IDE in-browser coding suite to support its social and collaboration applications.”
“The company's suite works with developer tools like subversion and git, CloudBees, Jenkins, Docker, MongoDB, Cloud Foundry, Maven and ant, as well as PaaS and IaaS offerings such as Heroku, Google AppEngine, Red Hat OpenShift and AWS.”
Check out the Dell Sputnik call-out: “Rivals to Codenvy include cloud-based development suites Eclipse Orion (open source), Cloud9 IDE and Nitrous.IO. There are other 'cloud IDEs,' including Codeanywhere, CodeRun Studio, Neutron Drive and ShiftEdit. On the developer environment configuration front, Pivotal created and open-sourced a developer and OS X laptop configuration tool called Workstation, and now Sprout. Dell's Project Sputnik is seeking to address similar build environment standup productivity challenges.”
Uber back in Austin
Is that a thing? (https://twitter.com/Uber_ATX/status/867781159178051584)
Amazon Hiring Old Folks (Like Me)
Anecdotes are the singular of data (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/23/how-aws-cloud-is-demolishing-the-cult-of-youth/)?
More Tech Against Texas’ Discriminatory Laws
Lords of Tech sign a thing (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2017/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-tim-cook-texas-gov-abbott-pass-discriminatory-laws)
“In addition to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook, the letter was signed by Amazon CEO Jeff Wilke, IBM Chairman Ginni Rometty, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The leaders of Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Silicon Labs, Celanese Corp., GSD&M, Salesforce and Gearbox Software also signed the letter.”
“Peeing is not political” (https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05/28/bathroom-bill-showdown-has-been-building-years/) - recap of the history of the bathroom bill. Still doesn’t really address “is there actually a problem here, backed up with citations.” Without such coverage, it’s hard to understand (and therefore figure out and react to) the hillbilly’s side on this beyond: "It's just common sense and common decency — we don't want men in women's, ladies' rooms." It also highlights the huge, social divide between “city folk” and the hillbillies.
A lot more from TheNewStack (https://thenewstack.io/tech-leaders-ask-texas-governor-halt-discriminatory-legislation/).
ChefConf Retrospective
ICYMI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtF3oScoYqk)
Competing in Public Cloud is Crazy Expensive
Link (http://www.platformonomics.com/2017/04/follow-the-capex-cloud-table-stakes/)
Tracks the CAPEX spend over the years for MS, Google and Amazon
A Year of Google & Apple Maps
Link (https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps)
Comprehensive drill-down into the mapping changes made by Google and the smaller moves by Apple.
Probably not content for conversation, but whoa.
FAA Flight Delay Tracking
Check the map, fool (http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp)
Recommendations
Brandon: Beauty of A Bad Idea — with Walker & Company's Tristan (http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/masters-of-scale/e/beauty-of-a-bad-idea-with-walker-companys-tristan-walker-50186227)
Matt:
Arrested DevOps #84 (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/) Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill Epic rants. Also, Bryan Cantrill sounds like Bob Odenkirk
Enjoying Westworld and everything Brandon recommended months ago
Coté: Butternut-squash hash (http://www.paleorunningmomma.com/butternut-squash-hash-paleo-whole30/).
Live-to-tape from ChefConf 2017, in Austin, we talk about what's going on in Chef land now, esp. in relation to compliance/policy and Habitat. We also discuss the Texas bathroom bill and Matt Ray's latest trip report on international travel. There's an important update on Coté's bean position as well.
See the video recording (https://www.pscp.tv/cote/1DXxyyoyRjLxM), if you're into that kind of thing.
Mid-roll
Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th (http://connect.pivotal.io/Cloud-Native-Strategy-Workshop-DC.html).
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/).
20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&)
SpringDays.io
Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff
Chicago (May 30th to 31st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago)
New York (June 20th to 21st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york)
Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
No more beans, now on that fruit shit
Paleo French Cuisine (http://amzn.to/2qXFogV)
Stuck in that low 190’s weight zone for over a long time (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/34485073370/in/datetaken-public/):
Coté's last year of weight https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4276/34485073370_f3840ea1cb_b.jpg
International Travel Trip Report
Matt’s Ray’s international travel experience as Platinum.
Traveling as a vegetarian.
What’s the plan for all the free booze? Bring a flask...
Why Do They Keep Messing With Texas?
The Hillbillies are obsessed with bathrooms (https://thenewstack.io/new-texas-bathroom-bill-tech-promising-exit/)
It's really depressing how aggressively stupid Texas is sometimes. I don't blame anyone avoiding it.
Coté’s notebook on the topic (https://cote.io/2017/05/24/the-bathroom-bill-texas-sb6-notebook/)
ChefConf!
Round-up from The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/chef-brings-automation-portfolio-cloud/)
More (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2017/05/23/chef-expands-app-automation-tools/)
“Continuous automation, when you do it right, is a bridge between your current environment and where you need to go in the future”
Chef 13, InSpec cloud profiles, Habitat build service
Consolidating under less brands?
Configuring the stuff that goes in the containers: “now includes capabilities for security and compliance checking, as well as the ability to further automate the process of assembling and updating container-based applications.”
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
Mirantis getting out of the (pure) OpenStack game
So...Coté was right?! (https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/mirantis-launches-its-new-openstack-and-kubernetes-cloud-platform/)
“announced that it will end-of-life Mirantis OpenStack support in September 2019”
“it’s important to distinguish between popularity and value. Popular kids in high school aren’t always the ones that end up driving a Ferrari when adults. It’s true that OpenStack is no longer the popular kid; Kubernetes is — and customers often like to go with what’s popular.” - Mirantis CMO Boris Renski
Getting out of VIM
Link (https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping-one-million-developers-exit-vim/#.WSR2gBF9z8k.twitter)
“In the last year, How to exit the Vim editor has made up about .005% of question traffic: that is, one out of every 20,000 visits to Stack Overflow questions. That means during peak traffic hours on weekdays, there are about 80 people per hour that need help getting out of Vim.”
What’s up with Ukraine?
Amazon in Charts
SDT catnip (https://www.recode.net/2017/5/15/15610786/amazon-jeff-bezos-public-company-profit-revenue-explained-five-charts)
Recommendations
Matt:
Seveneves (http://amzn.to/2riweMZ) by Neil Stephenson, almost hesitant to recommend this one given Cote’s reaction to previous books.
Containers (https://soundcloud.com/containersfmg) “Containers is an 8-part audio documentary about how global trade has transformed the economy and ourselves.”
Coté:
The Elephant in the Room (http://amzn.to/2rijZ3c).
My Register column on OpenStack (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/22/window_closing_on_openstacks_future/)
Coté Show podcast (http://www.cote.show/) - subscribe already!
Anti-recommendation: Outcast of the Islands (http://amzn.to/2riiAJS).
Brandon:
Everybody Lies (http://amzn.to/2qkOBfs) book.
Matt: TrackMeNot (http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/), search fuzzer.
5/24/2017 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 94: The Donnie Berkholz Episode, "Freedom in health-care: a regular 'heck of a job, Comey' situation," DevOps & security, & Canonical's IPO ambitions
In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it'd be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical's IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk's acquisition of Conjur to discuss the state of privileges access management (PAM). We end, as always, with recommendations, including some CostCo discussion.
See the full show notes at http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/94
Mid-roll
DevOpsDays MSP, July 25th to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/).
20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&)
SpringDays.io
Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff
Chicago (May 30th to 31st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago)
New York (June 20th to 21st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york)
Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
Matt:
ChefConf May 22-24 (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) NEXT WEEK!
The news from Australia
Y'all gotta get your avocado pricing under control (http://time.com/money/4778942/avocados-millennials-home-buying/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter). $1.50 for a large one is about the ceiling 'roind here.
As ever (https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/864170776873840640), the first step of your life-plan should be to become independently wealthy in your early 20s. Go work in a coal-mine otherwise.
Also, pro-tip: if you're rich, your default position on social commentary should generally by STFU.
Matt needs a driver's license
Health-insurance choices
HSA is probably a good idea.
Better get a FAX machine.
This is a trigger issue for Coté, beware.
Donnie Berkholz at Carlson Wagonlit
He Tweetered it (https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/862706228127965184): "to help them with their DevOps journey."
He's a VP! (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dberkholz/) - exec level #AchievementUnlocked
He says: " With an all-new CEO and CPO/CTO, we're making a major pivot to become a software company focused on travel, rather than a travel agency with some apps."
It'll be fun to see (hopefully!) what his group actually procures, uses, and does.
He's already on that "welcome to enterprise software" shit (https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/862494049160355840): "Current status: Hating on vendors that don't publicly post pricing."
Conference, travel, expenses? - like Concur/Amex travel?
I recall using them for a lot of travel in the analyst days.
Checks out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit_Travel): "Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company reported $23 billion in total transaction values[2] in 2016 and recorded almost 59 million transactions. The company has over 18,000 employees across nearly 150 countries."
Their owner, Carlson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Companies) (yes, of hotel fame, but also used to own things like TGI Friday's [from 1975 to 2014] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.G.I._Friday%27s)) is in MN.
But then the hotels were bought by a Chinese group, HNA (https://skift.com/2016/12/09/hna-closes-its-acquisition-of-carlson-hotels/)?
So now, Carlson Group is mostly just Wagonlit?
Canonical Eying an IPO?
Coté's notebook on the topic (https://cote.io/2017/05/09/canonical-refocusing-on-ipoing-momentum-in-cloud-native-highlights/).
Link (http://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-starts-ipo-path/): "in the last year, Ubuntu cloud growth had been 70 percent on the private cloud and 90 percent on the public cloud." In particular, "Ubuntu has been gaining more customers on the big five public clouds." 5?
Still, there is "no timeline for the IPO." First, Shuttleworth wants all parts of the slimmed down Canonical to be profitable. Then "we will take a round of investment." After that, Canonical will go public.
The S1 filing is going to be fascinating.
Mirantis still into OpenStack, Coté was straigh-up wrong (https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/mirantis-launches-its-new-openstack-and-kubernetes-cloud-platform/): "The new platform allows users to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters side-by-side with OpenStack — or separately."
CyberArk Buys Conjur
"DevOps" is used 19 times in the press release (https://www.cyberark.com/press/cyberark-acquires-conjur-revolutionizing-devops-security-drive-greater-business-agility/).
Coté: so, is this like "vault" type stuff in cloud-native land?
Coté talked with a CyberArk SE at DevOpsDays Austin, they had a booth!
451 report from Garrett Bekker (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92456&type=mis&alertid=473&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=92456-A+whiff+and+a+homer%3A+CyberArk+misses%2C+but+adds+DevOps+security+with+Conjur+pickup):
"privileged access management (PAM)"
"Conjur [founded in 2013] marks CyberArk's third acquisition, following the 2015 pickups of endpoint security vendor Cybertinel for an undisclosed sum and Windows least privileged management and application whitelisting firm Viewfinity for $30m. CyberArk paid $42m in cash and we estimate a multiple slightly north of 10x trailing revenue, potentially boosted by a competitive bid. Once the transaction closes, 20 Conjur employees will join CyberArk."
Conjur's "three core products are Privileged Access Management for managing 'secrets' such as SSH keys, Dynamic Traffic Authorization for controlling and brokering access to resources, and Compliance Monitoring for real-time reporting."
Founded in 1999, CyberArk "went public in September 2014 and is currently valued at about $1.7bn, with 2016 revenue of $216m."
JJ on avoiding SSH (http://www.cote.show/21), Coté Show #21.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in the show.
GNU GPL Stands Up In Court
Keith Collins, Quartz write-up (https://qz.com/981029/a-federal-court-has-ruled-that-an-open-source-license-is-an-enforceable-contract/).
Appears willful, embedding GPL software implicitly accepts the license.
It's over (http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=98d5ec53-ce49-40fc-a2e4-7a1c84a2aa46): "Ghostscript—an interpreter for the PostScript language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)." It has dual-licensing, a la MySQL and friends.
"Hancom issued a motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the company didn't sign anything, so the license wasn't a real contract."
"[Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley] denied the motion, and in doing so, set the precedent that licenses like the GNU GPL can be treated like legal contracts, and developers can legitimately sue when those contracts are breached."
This has come up for Artifex as well, back in 2008 (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081104/1621182738.shtml).
Not sure what this lawyer-cant is (http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=98d5ec53-ce49-40fc-a2e4-7a1c84a2aa46), but: "A few aspects of the decision are of particular interest to the open source community. For example, Hancom argued that Artifex could not plead breach of contract for violation of GPL and could not request specific performance of the terms of GPL. Hancom also argued that copyright damages were not available because the GPL grants royalty-free rights."
More: "Here, in denying a motion to dismiss, the District Court only holds that the claims may proceed on the theories enunciated by Artifex, not necessarily that they will ultimately succeed."
More history and context from Kieren McCarthy, at The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/13/gnu_gpl_enforceable_contract/), which Coté didn't really read.
DevOpsDays Austin Recap?
Coté's main talk ("Not Actually a DevOps Talk") (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIF4iAGx2Z0&feature=youtu.be&t=1h57m17s), and then Ignite (not up yet, but here's slides (https://www.slideshare.net/cote/surviving-thriving-in-a-big-compay)).
Also, a rare chance to see me setting up for a talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIF4iAGx2Z0&feature=youtu.be&t=1h55m46s), with all the cord shit and all.
Nicole Forsgren's slides (https://www.slideshare.net/nicolefv/how-metrics-make-your-devops-awesome)
Kelsey Hightower's talk, very personal and a great story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36S7N7OZSTI&feature=youtu.be&t=45m30s).
Videos are sort of up, just not cut-up (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK65QYThGym3D6eNxw3rn_A/videos).
WannaCry
Windows XP still?
Realish-time twitter bot watching ransomware payments into the BitCoin accounts (https://twitter.com/actual_ransom/).
Find it with InSpec and fix it (https://blog.chef.io/2017/05/15/detecting-wannacry-exploit-inspec/).
Linux in the Microsoft Store
- Pigs seen flying over Redmond (https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-will-offer-3-flavors-of-linux-on-the-windows-store/)
"Straightening" Out the Moby Story
Coté: at the end of this, it seems like a pretty small deal to normals, only vendors should care…?
From Lee Calcote at TheNewStack (https://thenewstack.io/what-is-the-moby-project/).
## Rackspace + Dell EMC Doing OpenStack
Partnership (https://blog.rackspace.com/rackspace-dell-emc-team-revolutionize-private-cloud)
Recommendations
Brandon:
Nobel Sandwich (http://noblesandwiches.com/), in Austin, esp. breakfast/brunch.
Freakonomics episode: "Why is my life so hard" (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-my-life-so-hard/)
Matt:
Catastrophe Season 3 (http://amzn.to/2pHxj0H) - profane, realistic comedy with Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan (Amazon/BBC)
Fuzzes search engines to prevent them from profiling you (http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/).
Coté:
Early on use, but, Google Photos (https://photos.google.com) - the XKCD perspective](https://xkcd.com/1832/) on photo management. Coté's Apple photo management rant in episode 22 of the Coté Show (http://www.cote.show/22).
Also, butterfly your CostCo chicken breasts (eating just one half, or both) and cook to about 150-155 degrees, letting it heat up to 165 on the plate (http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/10/how-to-take-meat-temperature-thermometer-cooking-doneness.html). Much better than figuring out the wicked problem of cooking a full, thick breast.
5/16/2017 • 59 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 93: Cloud Rules Everything Around Me - Red Hat, Moby, Docker CEO, and Halo Effect’ing The First Cloud Wars
There's much news in the container world with DockerCon and Red Hat having had conferences, plus Docker gets a new CEO. We also do a hindsight analysis of what wrong with the losers of the Cloud Wars. And, as always, recommendations from the three of us.
Mid-roll
Coté: CF Summit 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/) - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&). Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago), New York (June 20th to 21st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
Coté: OSCON Expo Plus (https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx/public/content/exhibitplus) discount: I wanted to present to you a Free Expo hall Plus Pass for OSCON coming to Austin May 10/11. You get way more than just a pass to the expo, it also covers three full-day events: TensorFlow Day, InnerSource Day, and our Open Container Summit. If you are interested, you can use the code AUSTIN at checkout. You can see the entirety of what is offered here (https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx/public/content/exhibitplus).
Matt: ChefConf May 22-24 (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/)
Matt Ray’s APAC Biz Travel Fun
5 different airlines in a month.
Emirates is the best.
This is why we can’t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay.
Red Hat.
Some cloud stuff we need to read-on more.
Check out Coté's summary of a recent Brian Gracely post on the OpenShift momentum (https://cote.io/2017/05/01/red-hat-openshift-momentum-highlights/).
Cloud Rules Everything Around Me
As summarized by Derrick (http://news.architecht.io/issues/architecht-daily-it-s-earnings-and-ipo-season-for-cloud-and-cloudera-55782) (via CNBC (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/27/microsoft-azure-growing-faster-than-aws-google-cloud-behind.html):
AWS brought in $3.66 billion in revenue, which was up 42 percent from last year. However, year-over-year growth dropped from last year’s first quarter.
Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year.
Google Cloud is buried somewhere in “Other Bets” on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion.
What’s the Halo Effect on this? It’s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008.
Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM (http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-to-snap-up-remnants-of-verizons-cloud-managed-hosting-business/).
Docker is now Moby, wait what?
LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers.
“Moby (https://mobyproject.org/) is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system”
Moby = open source development
Docker CE = free product release based on Moby
Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE
Moby is the name of the upstream umbrella project supervising the open source pieces that are used to build Docker, which is now the commercial-focused product Docker CE/EE
Letter about Moby (https://osenetwork.com/2017/04/21/)an-open-letter-to-docker-about-moby/
Moby is Fedora, Docker is like RHEL, Eclipse, Genuitec.
Coté’s Notebook on Moby and such (https://cote.io/2017/04/22/the-news-from-docker-land-plus-the-money-being-fought-over-notebook/)
Coté's Notebook on Docker's new CEO (https://cote.io/2017/05/03/dockers-new-ceo-steve-singh-highlights/).
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
EngineYard done!
Press Release (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/engine-yard-leader-ruby-rails-131500016.html)
A snarky Tweet (https://twitter.com/craig_tracey/status/857004524447432704)
Another Press Release (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/engine-yard-a-leader-in-ruby-on-rails-acquired-by-crossover-to-become-a-full-stack-ruby-platform-300444820.html)
Jay Lyman at 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92309&type=mis&alertid=445&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=92309-Engine+Yard%27s+end+of+the+road+is+acquisition+by+Crossover): “It generated revenue of about $36m in 2016.” - I seem to recall that EngineYard would report on revenue.
“Native” Windows Server Support for Docker
Link (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2017/04/18/dockercon-2017-powering-new-linux-innovations-with-hyper-v-isolation-and-windows-server/)
“Linux containers running natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology”
Sysdig Docker Usage Report 2017
Link 1 (https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-docker-usage-report-2017/)
Link 2 (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3189385/open-source-tools/kubernetes-is-king-in-container-survey.html)
Always fun to read “real” numbers
10 containers/host and Kubernetes out in front
Microsoft and the NSA Exploits Leak
Link (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/04/14/protecting-customers-and-evaluating-risk/)
Patch your servers and run modern versions people.
Amazon’s Coming to Australia
Link (http://mashable.com/2017/04/19/amazon-confirms-australia-expansion/)
“The moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. “
Intel Drops out of OpenStack Innovation Center
Link (http://fortune.com/2017/04/14/intel-openstack-project-rackspace/)
30 Rackers moving internally, Intel is still participating within OpenStack
Huawei Want to Enter the Cloud Fray
Link (http://www.cbronline.com/news/cloud/public/cloud-wars-huawei-enters-fray-sets-sights-aws/)
Everybody wants a piece of AWS
Microsoft buys Deis
Coté’s notebook on the topic (https://cote.io/2017/04/10/microsoft-buys-deis-deeper-into-kubernetes-1-1bn-container-market-notebook/).
Oracle Buys Wercker
Link (http://blog.wercker.com/oracle)
“container lifecycle management” - foundation for a container PaaS if you tie it to the StackEngine acquisition?
How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide
Link (http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/how-many-data-centers-needed-world-wide/)
Deep cut from James Hamilton, AWS Datacenter guru
Re: Oracle “if you assume the big three are spending roughly equally, how can $1.7B compete with more than $10B when it comes to serving customers?”
“2+1 redundancy is cheaper than 1+1 and, when there are 3 facilities, a single facility can experience a fault without eliminating all redundancy from the system. Consequently, whenever AWS goes into a new region, it’s usual that three new facilities be opened rather than just one with some racks on different power domains.”
“latency is not the prime driver of very large numbers of regions”
“being close to population centers and major communications hubs matters to most operators more than cooling costs”
Canonical/Ubuntu priorities
Link (https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/)
Dropping Unity desktop and phone stuff in favor of desktop, cloud & IOT
BrickerBot Bricks Unsecured IOT Devices
Link (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-malware-intentionally-bricks-iot-devices/)
“BrickerBot the work of a vigilante?”
OmniTI Shutting Down OmniOS Development
Link (https://lists.omniti.com/pipermail/omnios-discuss/2017-April/008699.html)
Open source Solaris-compatible clone
“OmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS”
Apple makes GarageBand, iMovie and iWork free
Link (http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/18/15344834/apple-free-apps-garageband-imovie-pages-keynote-numbers)
MacOS and IOS!
Keynote is the best, why not open source for an attempt at cross-platform?
Recommendations
Brandon: S-town podcast (https://stownpodcast.org/), some background from the creator (https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-239-brian-reed).
Matt Ray: Google Translate video realtime AR stuff.
Coté: The Big Sleep (http://amzn.to/2pyAeak).
5/3/2017 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 47 seconds
Episode 92: The middle-class metallurgical people - boothing, streaming sportsball, M&As & IPOs
Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There's also some brief talk of Akamai buying SOASTA, Cloudera filing to IPO, and the lost dichotomy of agent/agentless.
Mid-roll
Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/).
20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Coté: Cloud Native Roadshows, with Pivotal and Google Cloud (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow): Boston, Chicago, MSP, Atlanta, DC, Charlotte, Detroit, Toronto, St. Louis, Paris, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Dallas, Denver, LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore.
Coté: my big old how to cloud strategy paper is out, find the link at cote.io/cloud2 (https://content.pivotal.io/ebooks/crafting-your-cloud-native-strategy). LEAD-GEN YERSELF!
Matt:
DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-tokyo/welcome/)
Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th (https://events.chef.io/events/hands-habitat-tokyo/)
Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th (https://pages.chef.io/ChefMeetup_Singapore_RSVP.html)
ChefConf May 22-24 (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/)
Boothing
Wearing the t-shirt.
Success criteria for boothing.
Don't speak Spanish in Japan.
Sponsoring the coffee.
Oracle NOT Buying Accenture
From Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/oracle-never-considered-buying-accenture-2017-4)
"The Accenture rumour is completely untrue. Never even considered it. Completely made up."
Coté round-up, small as it is (https://cote.io/2017/04/05/that-rumor-about-oracle-buying-accenture-nope/).
Amazon streaming NFL
10 Thursday night games, CBS or NBC broadcasts streamed (http://news.morningstar.com/all/market-watch/TDJNMW20170404635/amazon-nfl-sign-50-million-streaming-deal-for-thursday-games.aspx)
Ben Thompson on bundling (https://stratechery.com/2017/the-great-unbundling/), sports and bundling (https://stratechery.com/2016/the-sports-linchpin/).
Chef 13 is coming
April 10th (https://blog.chef.io/2017/03/29/upgrading-chef-client-13/)
Client only, server stays on 12
Time-Series Data
In Google SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/practical-alerting.html).
Now you can actually do something with it.
Akamai Buys SOASTA
Monitoring acquisition (https://www.soasta.com/press-releases/akamai-agrees-to-acquire-soasta-inc/)
SOASTA is testing right? A commercial district of some synthetic user testing thing?
"Through SOASTA solutions, Akamai customers will then be able to test optimizations at scale prior to deployment and validate the business impact of those optimizations once they are live in production. The result is a comprehensive set of cloud-based performance and business outcome optimization."
Maybe Brandon can tell us the context/issues (good and bad) for synthetic web transaction monitoring from the SiteAngel days.
Cloudera Going Public
Link (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/31/cloudera-ipo-s-1-sec-filing.html), Link 2 (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/31/cloudera-posts-long-awaited-ipo-filing/)
Revenue: $261.0 million in the year ending Jan. 31, up from $166.0 million a year ago
Net loss: $187.32 million, narrower than the $203.14 million from a year ago (cut ~$16m in spending).
Analysis from Brenon at 451 (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/investment-banking/an-earthbound-ipo-for-cloudera/), esp. comparing to HortonWorks.
BONUS LINKS!
VMware offloading vCloud Air
To OVH, a France-based hosting company expanding into the US
Seems complicated (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/05/ovh_vmware_details/)
Another story (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/04/04/vmware-sells-off-cloud-services-business-to-ovh/).
Rackspace done with OpenStack as an AWS defense
Now back to the classics (https://cote.io/2017/03/31/rackspace-positioning-around-cloud-and-openstack-from-the-ceo/)
Still on that private cloud thing: "What we are learning is the world doesn't need another public cloud, so OpenStack is shifting from and going private cloud."
Yahoo/AOL to be called "Oath"
Link (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/aol-and-yahoo-will-become-oath-after-merger-closes-2017-4)
First there was Yahoo + Alibaba as "Altaba", now there is "Yahoo + AOL" as "Oath". Clearly this is corporate trolling at this point.
DellEMC financials
Link (http://www.eweek.com/pc-hardware/reality-sets-in-for-dell-emc-with-1.7-billion-q4-earnings-loss)
Backstory on Python moving to GitHub
Link (https://snarky.ca/the-history-behind-the-decision-to-move-python-to-github/)
"But what ended up happening is nearly none of those volunteers stuck around."
Recommendations
Matt: anti-recommendation: macOS 10.12.4. Broke USB headset. BOO! (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7904080)!
Coté: AUKEY USB Wall Charger, ULTRA COMPACT Dual Port 2.4A Output & Foldable Plug for iPhone iPad Samsung & Others (http://amzn.to/2oJUQcY) - go ahead and buy two. Also, always bring one of those car adaptors thingies (http://amzn.to/2oJQv9H) on trips for those broke-ass, Trans-Atlantic flights.
Brandon:
The Undoing Project (http://amzn.to/2nXtpvw)
Freakonomics Episode (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/men-started-thinking-revolution/) on the book.
4/9/2017 • 51 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 91: Container orchestration framework names you can't pronounce, for $500. Or, everything’s coming Up kubernetes.
We discuss the continual rise of Kubernetes, with Amazon as seemingly the main hold-out. This leads to a not-too-painful discussion of the stat of open source, at least how companies are using it tactically. Then we close out discussing the rumor that Oracle is considering buying Accenture and how the enterprise software plus services model seems to be panning out.
Mid-roll
Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/) - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote.
Also: DrunkAndRetired reboot (http://www.cote.show/22), hopefully.
Matt:
AWS Summit Sydney next week (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/)
DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-tokyo/welcome/)
Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th (https://events.chef.io/events/hands-habitat-tokyo/)
Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th (https://pages.chef.io/ChefMeetup_Singapore_RSVP.html)
ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84), early-bird pricing through March 31st
Brandon
Try Contextual Sync (http://www.contextualsync.io/)
New Meetup - Microservices Austin (https://www.meetup.com/Microservices-Austin/).
EBay Replaces native OpenStack Container Manager with Kubernetes-based one
Still OpenStack though
Link (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3154936/open-source-tools/kubernetes-tool-saves-ebay-from-its-openstack-woes.html)
"It elected to roll its own Kubernetes-based solution for container management in OpenStack rather than try to improve Magnum."
¯_(ツ)_/¯ (https://twitter.com/cote/status/844996693284343812)
"It's not clear if Tess.io can or will be released as open source" - what's the point of open sourcing something if a vendor isn't going to make it more accessible for consumption? Do they really expect anyone else to use something built for Ebay by Ebay and find use? Rip out Magnum in OpenStack and toss it in there? I'm always skeptical about adoption when I hear about non-software companies open sourcing a big project. -Matt
There can only be one Netflix.
A software company that just happens to be an auction company.
What's the deal with OSS now?
Companies open sourcing software for the sake of open sourcing it...but not for a revenue reason.
Is open source about tactically creating standards?
Pivotal can deploy k8 with BOSH, thus manage it and such
Blog post on it, in alpha (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/meet-kubo-bosh-powered-web-scale-release-engineering-for-kubernetes).
Rackspace Replacing Docker-based CaaS Carina with Kubernetes
Get Carina (https://getcarina.com/)
EOL (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7X1zsfVoAAaJMi.jpg)
IBM InterConnect
BlueMix Container Services (http://containerjournal.com/2017/03/20/ibm-launches-managed-kubernetes-service/)
And a vulnerability scanner!
How do IBM and others (ie. Oracle) regain mindshare with a "me-too" approach?
Will Smith?!? (https://twitter.com/AyleeNielsen/status/843885300027805696/video/1)
Peyton Manning previously. Remember Bill Clinton at DellWorld?
Coté's Analyst-hack: Watch keynotes from your hotel room.
containerd & rkt donated to the CNCF
Something was contributed (https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-container-runtime-to-the-cncf.html)
More... (https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-donates-containerd-to-cncf/)
Boring part of the stack commoditized & foundationed
"Container-D or Contai-Nerd" is the real question
"contaiNERD" - GET IT?!?!!
Oracle Eyeing Accenture
From The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/28/oracle_doing_due_diligence_on_accenture_yep_you_heard_that_right/)
Everybody wants to be IBM Global Services
Coté'd tl;dr: financial aside (which I don't know), probably makes sense. While we might bemoan EDS and GBS downsizing, there's endless money in the "solution" sales (tech + meatware). And - I'm sure the deal decks are saying - with SaaS penetration at 20-30%, there's a shit-ton of churn in IT in the next 10-20 years, all requiring services. Most importantly, the G2000 and governments will want to hire "trusted" brands, like Accenture, to help them. On the other hand, maybe that goofy Accenture touch screen in ORD will now be a way to touch-screen up Oracle wares: God help us.
HP EDS, IBM GBS, Dell Services (Perot), etc.
"Accenture has a market cap of $77.5bn, and shareholders will expect a premium offer."
HPE Services and CSC, it's a thing (http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/614361/combined-csc-hpe-enterprise-services-company-named-dxc-technology/).
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Chef Survey 2017 Results
Analysis (https://blog.chef.io/2017/03/15/chef-survey-2017-results/), Infographic (https://pages.chef.io/rs/255-VFB-268/images/chef-survey-2017.pdf)
Reads really well if you imagine bullet points as spinning newspaper headlines:
"Workloads are increasing faster than headcount"
More:
"61% are automating infrastructure, 30% are automating compliance, and only 27% are automating container management."
"Of those users, 73% wait to assess compliance after development work has begun and new features have been implemented. 59% assess compliance once code is already running in production, possibly resulting in additional rework as change is re-architected to meet Information Security standards."
On the one hand, this is a bummer.
On the other hand: "hey, you 59% lot: you call yourself auditors?"
Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs
"Containers on the other hand are not real things"
Down in the weeds on containers vs. everything else (https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/)
SoundCloud
I don't understand it (http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/soundcloud-may-run-out-of-cash-this-year-as-it-posts-e51m-loss/)
Newsletters!
Monitoring Love (http://weekly.monitoring.love/).
Last Week in AWS (https://lastweekinaws.com/).
Recommendations
Coté:
Google SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html), and the Google SRE/CRE podcast with Coté and Andrew Sahfer (https://cote.io/2017/03/20/pivotal-conversations-running-like-google-the-cre-program-pivotal-with-andrew-shafer/).
Also: The Economist Espresso app (http://www.economist.com/digital).
Anti-recommendation, the "Southern Carbonara Recipe" at the Le Méridien Dallas By The Galleria (http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3041&SWAQ=63EP&PS=LGEN_AA_DNAD_CGGL_TPRP) by the Galleria. It's like a cheesecake with spaghetti and fried chicken tenders.
Brandon:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (http://amzn.to/2oeLN75)
Homo Deus (http://amzn.to/2nPic31)
Ezra Klein interview with Yuval Harari (http://www.vox.com/2017/2/28/14745596/yuval-harari-sapiens-interview-meditation-ezra-klein).
Matt:
New Spoon album Hot Thoughts (http://www.spoontheband.com/)
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (https://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect), a Brandon retro-recommendation (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/66).
Floppy Drive Orchestra: Beat It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YosUQjIaVBs)
Fighting Johnny Leadgen (https://www.10minutemail.com) and Mailinator (https://www.mailinator.com/)
Cover-art from You Had One Job (https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/844302886486130689).
3/30/2017 • 54 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 90: These strategies work really well except for when they’re totally fucked
While it's unknown how much time you should let your kids play Minecraft, it's equally unclear at the moment who'll win the second cloud wars. Between Google, Azure, AWS, and all the others, how companies differentiate themselves and what customers will buy on isn't sorted just yet. We discuss Google Next, Pivotal's momentum announcement, and serious theories for Okta IPO'ing.
Pardon the shoddily formatted show notes below, Coté was in a hurry to get to Spring Break.
Google NEXT
Competing on features? Or just pricing and brand? The "complete solution."
Richard summarizes announcements (https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/03/google-cloud-next)
More from Google... (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/Google-Cloud-Platform-your-Next-home-in-the-cloud.html)
Cheaper, faster, more data centers
Google Cloud Dataprep for cleaning up data for ingestion
Cloud Opinion's Keynote Day 1 (https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/google-next-day-1-keynotes-45c78be3dbfc)
"Differentiation from other cloud providers — "we are Google, damn it" isn't working too well"
Hangouts to take on Slack (http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14864552/google-hangouts-chat-update-announced-slack-group-messaging-video)? This space is getting crowded
Customers (http://fortune.com/2017/03/06/google-cloud-event/): Snapchat, Evernote, Disney, Coca Cola, Home Depot, Whirlpool.
Hosted container builder service (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/Google-Cloud-Container-Builder-a-fast-and-flexible-way-to-package-your-software.html)
Pivotal was the Google partner of the year (https://twitter.com/phillip_webb/status/839506314975821825)!
Mid-roll
Coté at a Meetup next Tuesday, March 21st, in DFW. "Digital transformation in the streets." (https://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/237314533/) Hopefully some new material from my ImpossibleDevOps writing (https://cote.io/2017/03/07/cloud3/).
Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/).
20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Matt:
DevOps Melbourne March 28th (https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/) Talking Compliance as Code
DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-tokyo/welcome/)
Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th (https://pages.chef.io/ChefMeetup_Singapore_RSVP.html)
ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84), early-bird pricing through March 31st
Pivotal: we make money, cause we have paying customers
"over $270 million in bookings in one year" (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/why-the-fortune-100-turn-to-pivotal-for-digital-transformation)
Previous years:
2015 (https://pivotal.io/corporate/press-release/pivotal-announces-changes-in-executive-leadership-and-record-results): In 2015Q3 "Pivotal Cloud Foundry has crossed $100 million in annual bookings run-rate"
2014 (https://pivotal.io/platform/press-release/pivotal-cloud-foundry-record-breaking-fastest-first-year-sales-growth-for-an-open-source-product): "In less than a year, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has booked ~$40 million in software sales"
In addition to customers mentioned there, see some more testimonials in John Allwright's post (https://content.pivotal.io/cloud-native/the-cloud-native-ops-opportunity).
Okta files to go public
S1 filed (http://www.businessinsider.com/okta-files-for-ipo-2017-3).
I don't get it. This is going to be a disaster.
Whatever the fantasy running SFDC and MSFT running identity.
BONUS LINKS!
Five AI Startup Predictions for 2017
Link (http://www.bradfordcross.com/blog/2017/3/3/five-ai-startup-predictions-for-2017)
"Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them" <- GOLD
Bots go bust
Deep learning goes commodity
AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs
MLaaS dies a second death
Full stack vertical AI startups actually work
Facebook Bots are failing (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/22/facebook_ai_fail/).
Enterprise product management
The Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides (https://www.enterpriseready.io/)
Coté summarizes Brandon's rant (https://twitter.com/cote/status/839535143585005568).
USAF locks in with Oracle
"consolidates the 745,768 Oracle licenses already in use" (https://defensesystems.com/articles/2017/03/08/oracle.aspx?m=1)
$293,247,466 with Mythics, Inc.
US Immigration's "Code Test"?
I'd fail this (https://www.wired.com/2017/03/immigrant-says-customs-quizzed-prove-can-code/).
Recommendations
Coté: The Art of Business Value (https://cote.io/2017/03/08/were-getting-exactly-the-government-it-we-asked-for/) - I haven't even finished this yet and it's already fantastic.
Also, I added most all of the DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast to archive.org (https://archive.org/details/DrunkAndRetired/). As Matt Ray used to say it's "better than half the stuff out there."
Also: Patriot (http://amzn.to/2nulTbS) in Amazon Video.
Brandon:
Missing Richard Simmons (https://www.missingrichardsimmons.com/) podcast.
Matt:
Tripit Pro's Seat Tracker (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/839354510493429760)
While reading James Clear's post on Reading Comprehension Strategies (http://jamesclear.com/reading-comprehension-strategies) he linked to his Book Summaries (http://jamesclear.com/book-summaries) which are amazing good. I really like this idea, have to try to implement it for myself
Hypnotic video of global earthquake data (https://www.facebook.com/scienceonasphere/videos/10157877630135083/)
3/15/2017 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 1 second
Episode 89: The Shit Show Matrix, or, they’re following the playbook which is basically unprofitable
Docker’s new enterprise SKUs and, once again, the open-core model. Also: IPO mania with Snap and MuleSoft. In discussion Docker EE, we start with a discussion on how socket-based pricing may seem goofy, but all pricing schemes are pretty weird, so you gotta choose one. We then try to dissect what exactly you get with the enterprise edition and conclude that we should have done more prep work.
Mid-roll
Coté wrote about Java at The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/03/pizza_roaches_and_java/).
Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/) - register with the code cfsv17cote for 20%!
Matt:
DevOps Melbourne March 28th (https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/) Talking Compliance as Code
ChefConf May 22-24 (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) - early-bird pricing through March 31st
Coté: check out Pivotal’s DIY platform paper (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn’t match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow.
Docker Goes Enterprise
Community Edition (CE) & Enterprise Edition (EE) (https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-enterprise-edition/)
Version jumps from 1.13.1 to 17.03 for monthly releases, very enterprisey.
Love the socket-based pricing (https://www.docker.com/pricing)
Solomon weighs in vs. Kubernetes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13774295) - what the fuck are these nerds even arguing about?
TPM has some good coverage (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/03/02/docker-reaches-enterprise-milestone/)
Whichard’s Maxim of Enterpriseyness: Well, they added AD support. DONE-AND-FUCKIN-DONE!
MuleSoft Prepares to IPO
Link (https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/17/app-platform-company-mulesoft-files-for-ipo/)
I don’t get the proposed $100 million IPO when they took $259 million in funding. Please explain it to me.
OpenNMS on FLOSS Weekly
Open source monitoring for years and years (https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/418)
HashiCorp News
Making Money With Freemium (http://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2017/02/23/jay-fry-leaves-new-relic-to-head-hashicorp-marketing/2/#2248032a235c)
“The question of how to make money from Open Source is a vexed one, with Red Hat frequently held up as the poster child of commercial open source success, yet it remains a lonely occupant of the category "Open Source Companies That Are Profitable”
Good Narrative fallacy going here: "The open source products are really focused on the practitioner," McJannet said. "The enterprise products are focused on the needs of the organisation."
August, 2016 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2016/08/10/exclusive-david-mcjannet-joins-hashicorp-as-ceo/#71ad1dc7864d): “Hashimoto said HashiCorp has just finished its first 7-figure revenue quarter” Up from “triple-digit”/month in July 2015 (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hashicorps-atlas-leaves-beta-triple-040100802.html). So, whatdwegot: $2-3m run-rate?
Twitter, SnapChat & Facebook
Snap IPO is leveling out (http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-stock-price-falls-march-6-2017-2017-3).
Exstensive coverage from The Economist (http://www.economist.com/news/business/21716070-app-company-has-pioneered-distinctive-vision-internet-snaps-ipo-will-be-largest).
TAM (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/even-an-old-dude-knows-that-snap-isnt-another-twitter-2017-02-27): “The ad market is $652 billion worldwide and will hit $760 billion by 2020, research firm IDC says. Mobile-ad sales will triple — to $196 billion from $66 billion.”
Where’s Steve Gillmor when you need him (http://www.zdnet.com/article/getting-a-piece-of-the-action-the-attention-economy/)? See also closing plea in The Attention Merchants (book review from Coté forth coming once he finishes Chaos Monkeys): “If we desire a future that avoids the enslavement of the propaganda state as well as the narcosis of the consumer and celebrity culture, we must first acknowledge the preciousness of our attention and resolve not to part with it as cheaply or unthinkingly as we so often have.” SO ADORABLE!
The SnapChat demo is good but the The Snap Company Council looks weird (http://snap.netroadshow.com/retail/roadshow.aspx).
Facebook found a product but it was ugly (https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure/dp/0062458191)
Ben Thompson picking on Twitter (https://stratechery.com/2017/twitter-live-and-luck/)
Hindsight fallacy
Twitter could have been WhatsApp or Instagram or something else...
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
AWS S3 Outage
Good post-mortem here (https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/)
Tweet (https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/836659635159379969)
Tweet (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5xo9n7UoAEfnCo.jpg)
TIL Google supports S3 API (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673).
TIL The 11 9's of are for durability, and not availability. 99.9% is S3's monthly SLA (43 minutes downtime).
WTF Uber (...and The Rest of the Software Industry)?
Uber is Doomed (https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/02/uber-is-doomed/)
Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber (https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber)
I Am An Uber Survivor (https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-uber-survivor-c6d6541e632f#.msxr8pge9)
Uber SVP Leaves Over Previous Sexual Harassment Allegation (https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/27/ubers-svp-amit-singhal-leaves-company-because-he-didnt-disclose-a-sexual-harassment-allegation/)
Waymo Sues Uber (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-robocar-lawsuit-kill-ubers-future-send-execs-prison/)
Uber Circumvents Authorities by “Greyballing” (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html)
Containers, Kubernetes & AWS
Matt Asay (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/kubernetes_aws_great_undoing/?mt=1488387031974)
No More Pixel Laptops from Google
Link (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/03/01/pixel-towel)
“Google hasn’t backed away from laptops. We have the number two market share in the U.S. and U.K. — but we have no plans for Google-branded laptops.”
Texas Legislature Takes Action on Emojis
“although it is a nice flag” (http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/85R/billtext/html/HC00075I.htm)
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Quote (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/miketyson382439.html)
Trump is Killing Productivity
Link (https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/02/cant-get-any-work-done-new-survey-reveals-politics-is-killing-productivity/)
She didn’t want to be “that person,” the one who is always opining on social media. But all of that changed Nov. 8.
Recommendations
Matt:
Finally a practical use for AI (http://blog.zikes.me/post/how-i-ruined-office-productivity-with-a-slack-bot/)
Warren Ellis’ Dead Pig Collector (http://amzn.to/2lZQHze)
Coté: I always forget how good Madvillian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madvillain) and/or MF DOOM are. I’m not smart enough to know what kind of hip-hop this it, but I like it (https://open.spotify.com/track/3T06pIOmXJ6EkJmVRN2sv6). Also: grapes. They’re delicious! Matt: Four Tet.zx (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3EFJK0-Sxw)
Brandon: Hit Makers (http://amzn.to/2lZSioE)
Music heard at the end: Courtney Barnett's "Avant Gardener" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnIhzaDTd0).
3/8/2017 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 88: Docker is just cheap VMware, right?
There's tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad "cloud-native stuff." We discuss that idea, plus "the enterprise cloud wars," and also our feel that Slack is actually a really good tool and company.
Old folk jokes
Steve Gillmor (https://twitter.com/stevegillmor)
Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson's (http://giphy.com/gifs/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW).
"The Southern Cross" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw)
Follow-up
No call yet from papercall (https://twitter.com/cote/status/832260016346431488)
JJ says when you SSH into a container then you are doing lightweight virtualization. I ask is this really a bad thing? Check it out on Coté Show #21 (http://www.cote.show/21).
It was Hooch, Turner was the human (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_%26_Hooch).
Coté: follow-up, my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJE0c7kY8rg). Also, finally learned how to spell "Charlotte." - See it at cote.io/not-devops (http://cote.io/not-devops)
Slack executes the perfect Freemium
Minimum Delight Experience vs. Minimum Viable Product
Build and charge for the enterprise features required by the Fortune 500
Don't apologize that you don't support Markdown (https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202288908-Format-your-messages) or other power user features.
Mid-roll
Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/), March 7th to 8th. The best how to DevOps experience in Maine this year!! Use the code SDT-BALTIMORE to get 10% off. Pivotal's sponsoring, no Coté, tho.
Also, we have one free ticket to give away. If you want it, write us a review in iTunes and email us up that you did so (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact), and we'll semi-randomly select a winner.
Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd (https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/)
Matt:
DevOps Melbourne March 28th (https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/) Talking Compliance as Code
ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin, (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we'll likely record a "live-to-tape" episode.
Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform).
Jassy Talks About the Competition
Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company (http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-cloud-leader-andy-jassy-sizes-competition-rare-public-remarks-rivals/)
"I don't think in our wildest dreams we ever thought we'd have a six- to seven-year head start"
When people say lock-in, it's dog-whistling for "Oracle."
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
AI & the Middle Class
Link (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class/)
"If current trends continue, people are going to rise up well before the machines do."
"He also argued that these trends are reversible, that improved education and a greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and research can help feed new engines of growth"... we (the US) are so screwed
Coté: I keep going back to McKinsey saying 70% of work is menial; I'm sure that "study" is wonky and loaded, but still, we do so much bullshit in daily work. Another example: several Pivotal customers (Allstate, HCSC) say they usually get 40%+ productivity improvements because they stop going to meetings and actually code 7 hours a day instead of bullshit.
Grim. Really, really, really grim (https://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics/).
2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries
Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin (https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017).
"In Austin, the average salary for a software engineer on Hired is $110K. But this is the equivalent to making $198K in San Francisco when you consider the cost of living difference between the two cities."
"...we see a similar trend in Melbourne. Even though Melbourne's average salary for software engineers is a relatively low $83K (A$107K), this is equivalent to making nearly $150K in San Francisco."
Don't Trust the Status Page
FAKE STATUS! (https://blog.ably.io/honest-status-reporting-and-aws-service-status-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-8b9a31c8cc90)
"We cannot trust Amazon AWS status updates because the information provided to us about the severity of the issue or how quickly it will really be resolved"
Reminder: https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/
Chef Joins the CNCF
Link (https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2017/02/14/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-11-new-members-annual-open-source-leadership-summit)
Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium
Link (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/15/next_superdome_cpu_chips_amble_into_hpe/)
"HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025"
Recommendations
Matt:
Spoon in Sydney! (http://www.frontiertouring.com/spoon)
http://atlasobscura.com I just signed up and started looking for more fun places to check out while traveling. My wife made an entry for Tasmazia (http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tasmazia-and-the-village-of-lower-crackpot)
(Sub-req: Political Gabfest (http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html), The Weeds (http://www.vox.com/the-weeds), Kara Swisher (https://overcast.fm/+F_9GoG-WU).)
Coté: "Don't tell me what to do!" (https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/832247845302521856/photo/1) Also, Bragg's (http://amzn.to/2ls48v0) and Hindenberg audio editor (https://hindenburg.com).
Brandon: The Upstarts (https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/The-Upstarts-Audiobook/B01MU30HTG)
2/18/2017 • 1 hour, 2 seconds
Episode 87: Snap's cloud billions, Google's social, Monitoring Startups considered hard, DHS wants your passwords
Snap is looking to spend billions on AWS and Google Cloud over the next five years. We talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google's social strategy and thermostat strategies; meanwhile, the America Fuck Yeah crew wants to start gathering passwords at the boarder. Also, Brandon lays out the case that an open-core monitoring startup is a hard row to hoe.
Also, Baltimore is not in Maine. (But Coté is pretty sure it actually is.)
Mid-roll
Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/), March 7th to 8th. No discount code yet, but we're getting one.
Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd (https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/)
Matt:
Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk (https://events.chef.io/events/microsoft-ignite-australia/)
ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84)
Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform).
SnapChat's S-1
The S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517029199/d270216ds1.htm)
"We had 158 million Daily Active Users on average in the quarter ended December 31, 2016"
"We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years." - perhaps 10% of their billing.
Also (http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/09/snap-will-spend-1-billion-on-aws-through-2021/): "Snap will spend $1 billion on AWS through 2021."
Coté Show interview with former cloud boy, JJ (http://www.cote.show/21).
The McLaughlin Group covers Google: What's up with them!
Robots opening doors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFkrwagYfc&index=5&list=RDYEjQMMhDkjU).
Google, Nest, and DropCam (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/nests-time-at-alphabet-a-virtually-unlimited-budget-with-no-results/) - despite rocky start, maybe it's just a slow ramp-up, they have 50% y/y growth.
People think GCP is the shit.
"Purity vs. pragmatism."
Corrections
"Barra-mundi" (https://twitter.com/owenhollands/status/826326363367837696)
Pronunciation tips (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=barramundi+pronunciation)
Thing to get angry about this week
DHS considering asking foreigners for passwords (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/08/dhs_wants_enhanced_digital_vetting/)
I mean, really? A criminal is just gonna let you see their stuff? They'll just delete it, set up fake accounts, etc.
It's not like popping the trunk for a thief and finding lock picks and guns in the boot: with digital crime tools and weapons, you can hide and subterfuge.
And then the only people getting harmed are innocent people.
What the fuck is wrong with these people, and more importantly the shit-for brains who voted for them? (How can we de-shit those brains for 2018?)
Tweet about 3D chess of this meaning the government can't hack into your stuff...or can they?!?!
CNCF Buys RethinkDB's Code and Donates to the Linux Foundation
Not just marketing, but actually "freeing" code (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/06/cncf-purchases-rethinkdb-source-code-contributes-linux-foundation-apache-license)
Switched from AGPLv3 to ASLv2
"Abby," (https://twitter.com/ab415/) head of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. See a recent discussion (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/filling-the-developer-skills-gap-with-abby-kearns-and-james-governor) with her and RedMonk's James Governor on developer skills in large organizations.
$2.5 million VC for Sensu!
Nagios replacement!!! (https://sensuapp.org/blog/2017/01/30/introducing-sensu-inc.html)
Brandon has some advice (https://sensuapp.org/features#compare).
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode
Microsoft does Azure Patent Indemnification
"The system is supposed to help ease the transition to the cloud by giving companies extra peace of mind. Right now, lawsuits over intellectual property relating to open source technology in the cloud are rare" Link (http://www.cio.com/article/3167724/cloud-computing/microsoft-launches-new-azure-intellectual-property-protections.html)
"those companies operating in a multi-cloud configuration won't be entirely covered"
Attempting to Categorize the Cloud Native Landscape
Project in GitHub (https://github.com/cncf/landscape)
Cloud native Landscape diagram (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cncf/landscape/master/landscape/CloudNativeLandscape_v0.9.3.jpg)
Cloud Displacing Intel's Enterprise Sales
"Tectonic shifts in the pattern of Intel's business show the devastating speed at which cloud is displacing traditional enterprise server sales" Link (http://diginomica.com/2017/02/01/tectonic-shifts-at-intel-as-cloud-rips-into-enterprise-server-sales/)
Slack Enterprise Grid should make user management easier
Link (http://www.itpro.co.uk/collaboration-software/28001/slack-enterprise-grid-should-make-user-management-easier)
Uber Steers Away from Trump
"More than 200,000 customers had deleted their accounts." (Link (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/technology/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-trump-advisory-council.html))
"Many employees were not satisfied with his answer. On Wednesday, Uber staff members followed up by circulating a 25-page Google document titled "Letters to Travis" to tell the chief executive how and why his willingness to engage with the administration had affected them."
Puppet adds two vice presidents, hiring from Hewlett-Packard and EMC
"Puppet replaced nearly its entire executive team in 2016, including its chief executive and chief financial officers. It hired six vice presidents last year." (Link (http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2017/02/puppet_adds_two_vice_president.html))
Rackspace lays off 6%
"Since being taken private [by Apollo], Rackspace has been working to trim its annual budget by 7%, or $100 million, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission." (Link (https://therivardreport.com/rackspace-lays-off-200-locals-in-companywide-cuts/))
More figures from Barb Darrow (http://fortune.com/2017/02/08/rackpace-layoffs/).
Brief 451 coverage from Al (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=91609&type=mis&alertid=299&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=91609-Rackspace+lays+off+6%25+of+workforce):
"After eight years as a public company, Rackspace went private in August 2016 in $4.3bn leveraged buyout with Apollo Global Management (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90092)."
"Rackspace just announced a layoff of 6% of its 4,600 employees"
"The company is expected to exceed $2bn in revenue and top 33% EBITDA margin for 2016."
Meanwhile, AWS at ~$10bn for 2016 with something like 20-23% profit margin (OpInc based on 2016Q4 numbers (http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/02/aws-posts-3-53-billion-in-revenue-in-q4-2016-up-47-from-last-year/)), Azure and GCP catching up (http://www.geekwire.com/2017/cloud-report-card-amazon-web-services-12b-juggernaut-microsoft-google-gaining/): MSFT is probably $5-6bn, depending on how you categorize it. GCP probably $3bn at most (they don't break it out)?
Other thing to get worked up about: eliminating remote work
IBM on that colo shit (https://twitter.com/cote/status/829739491850022912)
Brandon is safe! (He lives in Austin.)
Coté: I won't deny that working in smelling range is the best. But, the gains never feel like enough to enforce it. Plus, mega-city congestion and resulting classist systems, cf. The Wealth of Humans (http://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics/). It's a problem that should be solved, not embraced.
Recommendations
Matt:
Manly Daily newspaper, so much unbridled snark. Link (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/manly-daily/naked-ice-suspect-swings-into-karate-kid-mode/news-story/03245799b7b0a33001c004e96c9765fd)
RTJ on NPR (http://uproxx.com/realtalk/run-the-jewels-npr-tiny-desk-concert-video/).
I'm not sure I can pull this off (http://uglyxmasrashie.com.au/).
Coté: Ezra Klein interview with Kara Swisher (https://overcast.fm/+F_9GoG-WU). She's inspiring is several ways, not least of which in modeling a way to be politely strident and opinionated: the opposite of imposture syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome). Also, his talk with the Hillbilly Elegy guy (http://www.vox.com/2017/2/2/14404770/jd-vance-trump-hillbilly-elegy-ezra-klein-show). I mean: most of the whole podcast, just skip the ones that look trivial and repetitive, e.g., we get it: Trump is a lunatic (https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws/status/830115871657910272). (See The Weeds (http://www.vox.com/the-weeds) and "The Nate Silver podcast." (https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast/))
Brandon:
Skiing in Solitude, Utah (https://skisolitude.com/).
The Daily podcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes1200361736/the-daily), from NYT.
2/11/2017 • 59 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 86: Life after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&A), CostCo Down Under
With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the “losers” are. Also, the low-down on CostCo in Australia!
Mid-roll
Coté: I’m speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/agenda/), day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off!
Matt:
Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group (https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/events/232172236/)
Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk (https://events.chef.io/events/microsoft-ignite-australia/)
ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84)
Coté: much self-promotion to catch up on: I’m writing more “original content” on my blog (https://cote.io/), and plan to write more; subscribe to my newsletter for a round-up of stuff I blog, sent out on Sunday night (http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=806adba588), will tweak more.
Also, in the “grim” vein, Coté reviews some books on "automation," (http://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics) which John Allspaw rightly says (https://www.facebook.com/drunkandretired/posts/10155023406864169?comment_id=10155023650914169&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D) should be called "new technology," fair enough. The 1983 paper on automation and humans (http://www.bainbrdg.demon.co.uk/Papers/Ironies.html) is a good read too.
CostCo field report: Australia
It’s great!
US: No need for a hot pizza sign holder.
US: Rayban Wayfarers are like $130 now!
AppDynamics files for IPO… Cisco says NOT SO FAST
IPO filing... (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/appdynamics-files-ipo-133542304.html)
“Our revenues for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016 were $23.6 million, $81.9 million and $150.6 million, respectively”
Cisco (http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-announces-enterprise-news)
$3.7 billion, about a 14-17X multiplier (https://cote.io/2017/01/25/at-3-7bn-appdynamics-sells-to-cisco-at-17-3x-estimated/)
Atlassian Buys Trello for $425 Million
Wired coverage (https://www.wired.com/2017/01/trello-simple-app-worth-425-million-dollars/)
451 report, paywall (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=91333).
Public blog from 451 (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/atlassian-inks-its-biggest-buy-with-425m-collaboration-software-deal/).
Oracle Buys Apiary
“API Integration Cloud” (https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/apiary/index.html)
Coté’s coverage, with plenty more links (https://cote.io/2017/01/19/oracle-acquiring-apiary-api-design-for-the-660m-in-2020-api-market/): small asset working on a $660m API management market.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
HP Buys Stuff
Cloud Cruiser for management/chargeback, $650 million (http://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-to-acquire-cloud-cruiser-for-measuring-it-usage/)
SimpliVity for converged systems, $650 million (http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2017/01/17/hewlett-packard-enterprise-pays-650-million-in-cash-for-simplivity/)
You Know What DevOps Needs? An IEEE Standard
They’re working on it (https://standards.ieee.org/develop/wg/DevOps.html)
Twitter
Google buying Fabric.
Facebook still king.
Do We Talk About Trump?
OpenStack Summits leaving the US (https://www.openstack.org/blog/2017/01/supporting-our-global-community/)
Red Hat, Microsoft, others making announcements against the Muslim ban
Coté says: these people are proven idiots. Don’t work with them (https://cote.io/2017/01/30/tech-must-rethink-working-with-the-hobgoblins-cf-scorpions-turtles-trumptech/).
Trump’s Twitter Moves Markets
Apparently he watches Fox and parrots their lines (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/every-trump-tweet-activates-thousands-of-computer-algorithms-2017-01-12), so maybe someone at Fox is making a killing with “insider trading”?
RethinkDB: Why We Failed
Good read for how hard it is to crack the DB and OSS markets (http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html).
“In hindsight, two things went wrong – we picked a terrible market and optimized the product for the wrong metrics of goodness.”
Coté follow-up: be careful with TAM picking (https://cote.io/2017/01/21/choose-your-tam-wisely-and-remember-to-charge-a-high-price-rethinkdb/).
Yahoo is Altaba
… wut? (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-m-a-verizon-idUSKBN14T2I7)
Dreams $45bn (https://twitter.com/IvanTheK/status/818810602839744512)
Google’s AI Awakening
“How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.”
Extensive article on Google’s AI push from back in December (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html)
Alexa
Amazon’s OS (https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-operating-system/)
Also, there’s an estimated 24.5m of these voice things around (https://cote.io/2017/01/26/alexa-how-many-of-your-type-exists/).
ClusterHQ Shutting Down
Docker storage startup shuts down (http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/start-ups/start-up-clusterhq-shutting-down/)
Facebook’s 2016 Open Source Contributions
Open source continues to be great for recruiting (and probably code) (https://code.facebook.com/posts/1058188987642144/facebook-open-source-2016-year-in-review/)
Google buys Twitter’s Fabric
CASH! (http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-buys-fabric-from-twitter-1201962640/)
Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky “State of the World”
Always a good read (http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/495/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html)
Recommendations
Brandon: RTIC 30oz Tumbler (http://amzn.to/2kNhcrw).
Matt:
Donate to the ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/).
RTJ3 is out, and free (https://runthejewels.com/)!
My 2016 year in the air (http://cem.re/year-in-review/3b675cc593dc326ec6d2835144db5800d0b28e35.html)
Tennis ball making video (http://mentalfloss.com/article/83414/mesmerizing-video-shows-how-tennis-balls-are-made)
Coté: big jar of green hatch! Get a 40 (http://amzn.to/2kHP6hQ)! Also, how to feed three people with one bean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEVYbPw9lI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m26s).
1/30/2017 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 52 seconds
Episode 85: Being an analyst without being an asshole - Coté’s professional life, part 2
In part two of Coté navel gazing, we discuss Coté’s life as an analyst and strategists. Matt Ray is off in Australia-land, so it’s just Brandon and Coté. We discuss: what IT analyst work on; working with marketers that have poor, nothing new material; learning how to function inside a large company in the executive suite; M&A and investment bankers, getting shit done in large companies (it’s always slow), like Project Sputnik.
Mid-roll
DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/welcome/), Feb 6th and 7th, 2017 - get 25% of when you register with the code SDT. Coté’s speaking at it!
ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84)
Show Notes
See part one of this series (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/79).
Coté’s published work (http://redmonk.com/cote/) at RedMonk.
Coté’s analysis on disruption in the industry analyst business (https://cote.io/2015/02/19/the-new-industry-analysts-again/), going over the business as it matters to the individual analysts.
A discussion of Project Sputnik with Coté and Barton George, episode 34 of Pivotal Conversations (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/all-things-pivotal-34).
Collected tips on surviving and thriving in a big company, recording a presentation at Devoxx Poland 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFqz5xkgRbs).
Recommendations
Brandon:
Prototyping for Designers, by Kathryn McElroy.
Pod Save America podcast (https://getcrookedmedia.com/here-have-a-podcast-78ee56b5a323#.pfuvakf9n) (née Keepin’ it 1600)
Coté:
Bolthouse Farms, 100% Carrot Juice, 32 oz (http://amzn.to/2iTRwIa)
The perfect shoe for white collar yokels: Clarks Men's Trapell Form Slip-On Loafer (http://amzn.to/2kb73sg)
At CostCo (or Amazon): 505 Southwestern Hatch Valley Green Chile Salsa 40 Oz (http://amzn.to/2iTsJ75)
1/20/2017 • 48 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 84: 2017 Predictions: cloud, containers, AI
After speculating on GitHub’s business we throw out our 2017 predictions. We cover AWS, containers, AI, and government IT. Since holiday family time is coming up, Brandon also suggests some simple family IT help-desk tasks - like backup - and throws out the stretch goal of discussing 2FA at the dinner table.
Mid-roll
Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix (https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/236191762/), 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking!
Coté: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 is out. It adds in Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready; it will run 250,000 containers concurrently; you can now auto-scale on based on new metrics like HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput, so when your app seems slow to users, the platform kicks in to make it go faster (previously, CPU; Spring Boot developers will see handy diagnostics info about their apps with new Actuator (diagnostic thing) integrations; devs can use PCF to run “tasks” (one time processes); and, of course, a slew of security updates are bundled in. Go to cote.io/pcf19 (https://cote.io/pcf19/) to check out my highlights and see a link to a longer, more detailed post.
Feedback & Follow-up
Nice review from Kiyoto (https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk/status/811247748511055872)!
We’re in the 2,500 downloads an episode range now - thanks listeners!
Show Notes
GitHub
Bloomberg cover their recent year (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap).
...losing $66 million so far for 2016 - what would GitHub be spending that on? Did some upload a lot of JPGs to their repo?
'Sitting in a conference room featuring an abstract art piece on the wall and a Mad Men-style rollaway bar cart in the corner, GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath says the business is running more smoothly now and growing. “What happened to 2015?” says the 31-year-old co-founder and chief executive officer. “Nothing was getting done, maybe? I shouldn’t say that. Strike that."'
“Secular” (http://www.cnbc.com/id/47266526) growth.
Brandon's Predictions
Growth on the Edge (http://a16z.com/2016/12/16/the-end-of-cloud-computing/), presentation (from a16z GP Peter Levine) - the end of cloud computing and the return to the edge.
Recommendations
Matt: Surfing Santas: Sun, Fun and an Aldi Ham! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuFr76btbnE)
Brandon: DBAN - Darick Boot & Nuke (http://www.dban.org/), Crashplan (https://www.crashplan.com), Time Machine Multiple Disk (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18863?locale=en_US)
Coté: Stratechery newsletter (https://stratechery.com/). He can be a little trying at times, but who isn't? He’s one of the most interesting, open, and honest IT analysts out there. See the 2016 round-up from Ben (https://stratechery.com/2016/the-2016-stratechery-year-in-review/)
12/21/2016 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 83: I think the word we object to is "DevOps"
...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie
...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?.
...Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything
What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get into Amazon's new managed hosting offering. There's some new container news with containerd from DockerInc land, and some little notes on Azure's features and Cisco's InterCloud shutting down. Also, we find out which Muppet each of us would be played by in The Muppets Take Over Software Defined Talk.
Mid-roll
Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix (https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/236191762/), 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking!
Coté: check out my interview with Tony at Home Depot about their first year being cloud native, on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (https://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-conversations/features/045-cloud-native-at-home-depot-with-tony-mcculley). They went from 0 to ~150 apps in their first year. Like, real, business critical apps that you probably end up interacting with (pro tools, paint), plus internal facing apps.
Feedback & Follow-up
The Doc Martin shoes: Hickmire (http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ). Thanks to Chris Short (https://twitter.com/ChrisShort/status/808339167604338688).
The DevOps
App dev vs. IT service delivery.
DevOps Kung Fu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEToXsgrPc), Adam Jacob's talk on the inclusion of everyone in the org chart in DevOps
What is DevOps without Dev? Is there OpsOps?
AWS Managed Services
Amazon will manage your shit now, with real live peoples (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-managed-services-infrastructure-operations-management-for-the-enterprise/)
"This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." (http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/12/amazon-launches-aws-managed-services-to-help-more-big-companies-adopt-cloud/)
"This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." - this is a good example of the more subtle way of "paying off analysts." (https://twitter.com/cote/status/809205833586409472) More like: changing their minds.
"Designed for the Fortune 1000 and the Global 2000, this service is designed to accelerate cloud adoption"
AKA "We're eating our partners" AKA "RACKSPACE: YOU'RE UP!"
Coté: Is this like a service desk and a runbook for spinning up AWS stuff? Plus actual AMZN staff to "manage" the infrastructure like patching and such right?
Coté: I was just talking with someone yesterday who's mission was "optimize how we do IT without me telling you what I want to do with IT." That is: lower costs and give us the ability to do whatever we may want in the future in under a year's planning/effort.
Bezos doesn't like meetings without a memo
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5851aebfca7f0c24018b5b6f-2400/ap16349721408436.jpg
Don't Sleep on Microsoft
Damn, that's a monstrous URL (https://pages.email.microsoftemail.com/page.aspx?qs=773ed3059447707dab3a47fc5c2937dcbf750d2a6d7e8feab247991209f258cd86e8606f2837501c341831b6f3896ebcb5673dff86feb6303e458a94181db250c28f58237fd3b737cd39c6339094ff6800649c38da065423db508d0369c1992e)
GPUs, HANA, Media Services, Machine Deep Learning, Data Lake, Single-instance virtual machines
Coté: I hear data is a thing. And AI.
Cisco Shutting Down Their InterCloud
Coté's audition for an ElReg headline writer: Cloud InterRUPPTED
$1 Billion isn't enough (http://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-claims-another-victim-cisco-kills-its-1-billion-cloud-2016-12), "score another body bag win for the unstoppable Amazon Web Services"
"Meanwhile, the cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren't using a lot of Cisco gear. They are increasingly using a new style to build networks that relies more on software and less on high-end, expensive hardware."
Sharwood@ElReg (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/13/cisco_to_kill_its_intercloud_public_cloud_on_march_31st_2017/): "OpenStack public clouds have an unhappy history: Rackspace felt it could build a business on the platform, but has since changed tack. HP pulled out of its own Helion public cloud. If Cisco is indeed changing direction, the OpenStack Board has some interesting matters to ponder."
Theory: AWS means on-premise IT is over-serving. You actually don't need all that. Incumbent vendors succumbed to the strategy aphasia of the disruptor's' dilemma (weren't willing to sacrifice/take eye off the ball of existing success and revenue) and lost to Amazon's lower capabilities, lower price approach. WHEN WILL TECH PEOPLE LURN?
There was this talk several years ago that was all like: "well, obviously, we shouldn't compete strategy-to-strategy with Amazon. We should provide the enterprise version!" Apparently, that was dead wrong. People confused Apple's ability to sell at an insane premium with the market not caring about x86 &co.
Docker Contributes Containerd
Docker-engine standardized container runtime for the industry (https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/introducing-containerd/)
Engine vs. Machine (https://docs.docker.com/machine/overview/#/whats-the-difference-between-docker-engine-and-docker-machine)
Check out this TheNewStack story for a new strategy slide (http://thenewstack.io/docker-spins-containerd-independent-open-source-project/):
Containers in Production!
Round-up of some container survey poking (http://redmonk.com/fryan/2016/12/01/containers-in-production-is-security-a-barrier-a-dataset-from-anchore/)
n=338 respondents
Sidenote: Jenkins win. Good job biffing that one Oracle. But then again: is there any money in it?
"This leads us to a very difficult operational problem – how do we ensure security, and understand the makeup of an application while still allowing developer velocity to increase."
More Docker usage numbers from DataDog (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/3-clear-trends-in-ecs-adoption/)!
"ECS adoption has climbed steadily from zero to 15 percent of Docker organizations using Datadog. (And more than 10 percent of all Datadog customers are now using Docker.)"
How do I read this? Does it mean adoption is fast after an initial tire-kicking? "In the 30 days after an organization starts reporting ECS metrics, we see a 35 percent increase in the number of running containers as compared to the 60-day baseline that came before. Using the same parameters, we see a 27 percent increase in the number of running Docker hosts."
CoreOS Tectonic Goes Freemium
Erryone's favorite business model (https://coreos.com/blog/tectonic-self-driving.html)
Kubernetes 1.5 coming soon
Shipping upstream version3
Renamed their distro to Container Linux
They have attempted to coin the phrase "self-driving Kubernetes" -- God help us.
BONUS LINKS! Not discussed on show.
More AWS Followup
Missed a talk (https://gist.github.com/stevenringo/5f0f9cc7b329dbaa76f495a6af8241e9)?
Open sourced a Deep Learning library (https://github.com/amznlabs/amazon-dsstne/blob/master/FAQ.md):
AWS is still really new to contributing to OSS, Cockcroft has been pushing them. Also see the Blox.github.io stuff we didn't talk about last show
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Q&A (https://blog.chef.io/2016/12/08/rule-the-cloud-with-chef-automate-and-aws/)
AWS Canada & London!
Strange Brew Region (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/canada-central-region-now-open/)
hello hello hello what's all this then region (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-london-region/)
"brings our global footprint to 16 Regions and 40 Availability Zones, with seven more Availability Zones and three more Regions coming online through the next year"
Docker Acquires Distributed Storage Startup Inifinit
"the Infinit platform provides interfaces for block, object and file storage: NFS, SMB, AWS S3, OpenStack Swift, iSCSI, FUSE etc." (https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/docker-acquires-infinit/)
To be open-sourced
Extends the stateful application story
CA Buys Automic for $635 million
"CA fights legacy status with DevOps automation tools buy" (http://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/450404297/CA-fights-legacy-status-with-DevOps-automation-tools-buy) - that's not a good headline for your Christmas cards.
$635 million, Crunchbase says they were founded in 1985(?)
Hey look, it's my man Carl Lehmann at 451!
New CEO at BMC
Beauchamp goes to board, Polycom dude steps in a CEO (http://www.forbes.com/sites/maribellopez/2016/12/12/bmc-adds-peter-leav-as-ceo-prepares-for-new-growth-chapter/#1b2662bc4651)
"Beauchamp said many of BMC's products are achieving double digit growth and double-digit profitability."
Red Hat OpenShift on GCE and JBoss on OpenShift
In case you need more management on your GCE (http://www.cio.com/article/3148671/cloud-computing/red-hat-brings-openshift-to-google-cloud-platform.html)? AWS is already there, probably Azure soon.
I wonder if there's a deficiency in Google's offering that it's more of a consumed resource than a platform a la AWS? Plenty of management in AWS already?
JBoss on it (http://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-brings-full-jboss-software-stack-to-openshift/)
Dell Q3
"Dell Technologies Posts $2B Loss, But EMC Deal Already Boosting Revenue" (http://austininno.streetwise.co/2016/12/08/dell-technologies-q3-earnings-report-revenues-and-losses/)
Stonic, (not) An Ansible Fork?
Stonic (https://blog.stonic.io/0000-it-is-not-a-fork-c0b03c33e408) will be licensed under AGPL-3.0 :facepalm:
Coté: why is AGPL bad?
Australian 2016 Word of the Year: "Democracy Sausage" (saved you a click)
Democracy Sausage (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-14/democracy-sausage-snags-word-of-the-year/8117684)
Google Makes So Much Money It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline - Until Now
Candy, not CREAM (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-08/google-makes-so-much-money-it-never-had-to-worry-about-financial-discipline)
Brandon called this way back when.
But what about Google Fiber in my neighborhood?
Best shruggie use of th eyear (https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i2yPkZEJdBec/v0/1000x-1.jpg)
NVIDA $129k computer.
"Fewer than 100 companies and organizations have bought DGX-1s since they started shipping in the fall, but early adopters say Nvidia's claims about the system seem to hold up." (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603075/the-pint-sized-supercomputer-that-companies-are-scrambling-to-get/)
Does it pass the Coté AI Test? I.e.: can it fix scheduling meetings across different organizations?
Recommendations
Brandon: Mobile eating the world (http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/12/8/mobile-is-eating-the-world).
Matt: Jenn Schiffer's "No One Expects The Lady Code Troll" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewAC5X_CZ8)
Coté: Senso bluetoother headphones (http://amzn.to/2hLC0lF). Trapper hats (http://amzn.to/2hAupDi) all winter long (https://www.instagram.com/p/BODJGTPjv2b/).
12/16/2016 • 54 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 82: Attack of the two-pizza teams
...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza.
...That sweet OpEx.
..."Easy to stay."
Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.
Footware
Kenneth Cole slip on shoes (http://amzn.to/2gH6OzD).
Keen Austin shoes, slip-on (http://amzn.to/2h2gveX) and lace (http://amzn.to/2ggll4y).
The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire (http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ).
Mid-roll
Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 (http://cote.io/cloud2) or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors (https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l), selecting initial projects (https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.v7jpyjvro), and dealing with legacy (https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/deal-with-legacy-before-it-deals-with-you-cc907c800845#.ixtz1kqdz).
Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo (https://connpass.com/event/46308/)
AWS re:Invent
Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.
Richard has a write-up as well (https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/12/aws-reinvent-recap).
RedMonk re:Cap (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/12/07/the-redmonk-reinvent-recap/)
Global Partner Summit
Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners" (http://www.zdnet.com/article/andy-jassy-warns-aws-has-no-time-for-uncommitted-partners/)
"10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months" (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-global-partner-summit-report-from-reinvent-2016/)
Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…"
Amazon Lightsail (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/)
Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage & static IP
Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean & Linode
Amazon Athena (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/)
S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine
JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others
Coté: this seems pretty amazing.
Amazon Rekognition (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rekognition-image-detection-and-recognition-powered-by-deep-learning/)
Image detection & recognition
Amazon Polly (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/polly-text-to-speech-in-47-voices-and-24-languages/)
Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages
Coté: Makes transcripts?
Amazon Lex (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lex-build-conversational-voice-text-interfaces/)
Conversational voice & text interface builder (ie. chatbots)
Coté: make chat-bots and such.
AWS Greengrass (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-greengrass-ubiquitous-real-world-computing/)
Local Lambda processing for IoT
Coté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car?
AWS Snowball Edge & Snowmobile (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowball-edge-more-storage-local-endpoints-lambda-functions/)
Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I'm thinking easy hybrid on-ramp
Not just me (https://twitter.com/CTOAdvisor/status/806320423881162753)
More on it (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-amazon-is-moving-closer-to-on-premises-compute-with-snowball-edge/)
Move exabytes in weeks (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/)
"Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center."
Coté: LEGOS!
More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for Aurora
High I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/)
Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-work-amazon-ec2-elastic-gpus/)
More! (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/)
F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-postgresql-compatibility/)
RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently?
Day 2
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate (https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/chefautomate/)
Chef blog (https://blog.chef.io/2016/12/01/chef-automate-now-available-fully-managed-service-aws/)
Fully managed Chef Server & Automate
Previous OpsWorks now called "OpsWorks Stacks"
Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy (https://twitter.com/cloud_opinion/status/804374597449584640)
EC2 Systems Manager
Tools for managing EC2 & on-premises systems (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/)
AWS Codebuild
Managed elastic build service with testing (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-codebuild-fully-managed-build-service/)
AWS X-Ray (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-see-inside-of-your-distributed-application/)
Distributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda?
"easy way for developers to "follow-the-thread" as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services"
AWS Personal Health Dashboard (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-personal-health-dashboard-status-you-can-relate-to/)
Personalized AWS monitoring & CloudWatch Events auto-remediation
Disruptive to PAAS monitoring & APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics)
AWS Shield (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-shield-protect-your-applications-from-ddos-attacks/)
DDoS protection
Amazon Pinpoint
Mobile notification & analytics service (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-pinpoint-hit-your-targets-with-aws/)
AWS Glue
Managed data catalog & ETL (extract, transform & load) service for data analysis
AWS Batch
Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-batch-run-batch-computing-jobs-on-aws/)
C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions
Werner Vogels: "serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd"
Lambda Edge (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-lambda-at-the-edge/) for running in response to CloudFront events, ""intelligent" processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close"
More (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/)
Step Functions a visual workflow "state machine" for Lambda functions
More (https://serverless.zone/faas-is-stateless-and-aws-step-functions-provides-state-as-a-service-2499d4a6e412)
BLOX (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-blox-from-amazon-ec2-container-service/): EC2 Container Service Scheduler
Open source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deployments
Blox.github.io
Analysis discussion for all the AWS stuff
Jesus! I couldn't read it all!
So, what's the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it.
What's the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you'd go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn't flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
Docker for AWS
"EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS." (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3145696/application-development/docker-for-aws-whos-it-really-for.html)
Docker gets paid on usage?
Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox?
Time to Break up Amazon?
Someone has an opinion (http://www.geekwire.com/2016/new-study-compares-amazon-19th-century-robber-barons-urges-policymakers-break-online-retail-giant/)
HPE Discover, all about the "Hybrid Cloud"
Hybrid it up! (http://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-updates-its-converged-infrastructure-hybrid-cloud-software-lineup/)
Killed "The Machine" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/29/hp_labs_delivered_machine_proof_of_concept_prototype_but_machine_product_is_no_more/)
HPE's Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?)
Not great timing for a conference
Sold OpenStack & CloudFoundry bits to SUSE (http://thenewstack.io/suse-add-hpes-openstack-cloud-foundry-portfolio-boost-kubernetes-investment/), the new "preferred Linux partner":
How Google is Challenging AWS
Ben on public cloud (https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-challenging-aws/)
"open-sourcing Kubernetes was Google's attempt to effectively build a browser on top of cloud infrastructure and thus decrease switching costs; the company's equivalent of Google Search will be machine learning."
Exponent.fm episode 097 — Google vs AWS (http://exponent.fm/episode-097-google-versus-aws/)
Recommendations
Brandon:
Apple Wifi Calling (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032) & Airplane mode (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204234).
Westworld worth watching (http://www.hbo.com/westworld).
Matt:
Backyard Kookaburras (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmNn7P59HcQ).
Magpies too! (http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/swooping-season/)
This gif (https://media.giphy.com/media/wik7sKOl86OFq/giphy.gif).
Coté: W Hotel in Las Vegas (http://www.wlasvegas.com/) and lobster eggs benedict (https://www.instagram.com/p/BNxAyQbjKCQ/) at Payard's in Ceasers'
Outro: "I need my minutes," Soul Position (http://genius.com/Soul-position-i-need-my-minutes-lyrics).
12/8/2016 • 57 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 81: DevOpsDays Sydney 2016
It's a special interloper episode from Australia! Matt Ray guests on the Arrested DevOps show live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Sydney, along with Bridget Kromhout, Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick Pollard, Katie McLaughlin. Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.
12/7/2016 • 46 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 80: The case for flying Southwest and Oracle buying Dyn, and containers
With all the domestic, direct flight, the gang lays out the case for Southwest. Coté salivates at the prospect but is worried about sitting next to chicken cages, but there's plenty of $500 shoe sales people on board. We also discuss Oracle buying Dyn, AWS's power, the looming cloud success of Microsoft, and, of course, containers.
Octogenarian style: It’s episode 80! The Brittle Bones Anniversary.
Feedback & Follow-up
At least one person came correct (https://twitter.com/scrub/status/800844876908789760) and said CostCo.
I think we’re now in the 2,000 to 2,500 downloads range (https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk/status/803315322996555781). Good job listeners!
Mid-roll
Coté: stop the container madness and just use Pivotal Cloud Foundry (http://cote.io/pivotal).
Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have: - or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors (https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l), selecting initial projects (https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.v7jpyjvro), and dealing with legacy (https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/deal-with-legacy-before-it-deals-with-you-cc907c800845#.ixtz1kqdz).
Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016).
Matt: Sydney AWS Meetups: December 6 (https://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/235116364/), December 7 (https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/events/230091220/).
Oracle Buys Dyn
Coté needs a dial-a-friend on this one.
Fleshing out their cloud coverage (https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/index.html)
This is what Coté frequently concluded when doing cloud strategy (https://twitter.com/craig_tracey/status/800742523270402048)
Softlayer and AWS compared (https://medium.com/worm-capital/does-ibm-have-an-accounting-problem-in-softlayer-ccafd582059c#.5fcng7ctc)
Sorry Oracle, Taking Down AWS is Alibaba’s Job
“Alibaba Cloud president Simon Hu has said the company is working to surpass AWS within four years.” (http://www.itnews.com.au/news/aws-rival-alibaba-to-open-sydney-data-centre-442145)
We’ll see if YUGEly can wrap his head around IaaS protectionism.
Skyliner.io
“You only get one hill to die on, so choose wisely” (https://blog.skyliner.io/the-happy-genius-of-my-household-2f76efba535a)
New AWS-native PaaS from Etsy/Stripe/SquareSpace veterans
Coté: I feel like I’ve read this blog post before. Maybe I even wrote it? So much typing.
Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation - we’re beyond the cats and dogs mirror!
Steve Ballmer is spinning in his grave (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/microsoft-fortifies-commitment-to-open-source-becomes-linux-foundation-platinum)
More than just Linux (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3142128/open-source-tools/4-no-bull-takeaways-from-microsoft-joining-the-linux-foundation.html)
Add to this Visual Studio on the Mac (http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/14/13621116/microsoft-visual-studio-coming-to-mac).
Google joined .Net Foundation (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Google-Cloud-to-join-NET-Foundation-Technical-Steering-Group.html)
Windows, internet, phone, cloud
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
Recent Coté Nonsense
“Largile” (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/21/largile_for_management_babies/)
Recent DevOps books review (http://thenewstack.io/review-understanding-devops-putting-place-even-scale/).
Red Hat wants to make Kubernetes boring (and successful)
They’ve certainly made OpenStack boring (zing!)
“Not that Red Hat is calling Kubernetes "boring." (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-red-hat-aims-to-make-kubernetes-boring-and-successful/) Instead, they're calling it "Enterprise-Ready," which is basically the same thing.”
I dig that Matt Asay style. Dude knows how to pick a quick topic.
The End of General Purpose Computing
More precisely, as the title says “The End of the General Purpose Operating System“
“What we're witnessing in the market is the development of vertically integrated stacks” (http://www.morethanseven.net/2016/11/05/the-end-of-the-general-purpose-operating-system-as-it-happens/)
“In all of these cases the operating system is an implementation detail of the higher level software. It's not intended to be directly managed, or at least managed to the same degree as the general purpose OS you're running today.”
Apple Drops AirPort Routers
I’ve got 3 of them, pretty solid (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/apple-said-to-abandon-development-of-wireless-routers-ivs0ssec).
We don’t talk about Apple much here. Possible topic: what’s up with Apple now-a-days?
Trump vs. Tech
“Now we will have a president whose affinity for high-tech seems limited to Twitter bullying” (https://backchannel.com/tech-ceos-nightmare-a-president-totally-at-odds-with-their-values-20dd7b01e037#.tbk9vft4z)
Interesting when you think that the heads of Google, Microsoft, Apple and probably Amazon (Bezos owns Washington Post) are all at odds with Trump. Facebook is trying to not piss anyone off. Not sure if we want to talk about it, so maybe it’s just a show note.
MacOS Security and Privacy Guide
Lots of practical tips for a safer Mac experience (https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide)
Black Friday & Cyber Monday
"the sweet smell of cyber dealz" (https://twitter.com/rachelbinx/status/803335197785632769)
Recommendations
Brandon: Left, Right, Center (https://www.amazon.com/Left-Center-Right-Dice-Game/dp/B005UP14VY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480369890&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=dice+game+left+center+right&psc=1)
Matt:
Thanksgiving in Sydney: http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/thanksgiving/
Magpie Attacks (http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/swooping-season/)!
Play your music at 10x slowdown, makes for good ambient listening. It’s up on GitHub if you want to do it to your own music collection (http://slowradio.rumblesan.com/), currently Ogg-only :(
Coté: It Follows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows).
11/28/2016 • 45 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 79: From a vegan, clothing optional co-op to working with banks and oil companies - Coté’s professional life, part 1
How does one go from living in a vegan, clothing option co-op working on a philosophy degree to hustling enterprise software? That's the story of Coté's career that we discuss in this episode. Matt Ray is out, getting the bills paid, so Brandon interviews Coté about how he got here, professionally. We end the story around 2011; maybe we'll pick up next time it's just the two of us.
Show Notes
House of Commons Co-op (http://www.iccaustin.coop/hoc/), Austin, Texas. See some pictures (https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=12261156%40N00&view_all=1&text=HoC) of a simpler time there.
I think this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Zachary_Newton) is that Victorian Literature professor.
He's the one that taught me how to use books as tools (https://cote.io/2009/01/05/writeinbooks/), writing in them and whatnot.
A typical day at BMC (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/58711356). Always lots of jokes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/63256825/), there. See more pictures (https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=12261156%40N00&view_all=1&text=bmc).
In 2005, Coté wrote two pieces on IBM Lotus stuff: one on "Workplace for Business" (https://cote.io/2005/10/25/workplace-for-business-strategy-execution/) and another on how I thought they should move it to Eclipse (https://cote.io/2005/12/22/put-the-outlook-killer-in-eclipse/). Who knows why, really?
Lala's (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/19919473/), where it's Christmas all year round (https://www.yelp.com/biz/lalas-austin).
James Governor (https://twitter.com/monkchips) and Stephen O'Grady (https://twitter.com/sogrady).
Coté at RedMonk (http://redmonk.com/cote/).
Recommendations
Brandon: Ready Player One (http://amzn.to/2gjn9z1).
Coté: Start and Scaling Devops (http://amzn.to/2eI6gg8) in the Enterprise, Gary Gruver’s new book, an awesome 90 minutes read.
11/17/2016 • 54 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 78: Trump's possible effect on tech, plus, containers
We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before that, of course, we talk about containers.
This episode features Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote).
Mid-roll
Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016).
Coté: Nov 16th - Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha, next week (https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/omaha).
Coté: Various dates - Pivotal Cloud Native Roadshows (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow) - Cincinnati - Nov 10 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/cincinnati); St. Louis - Nov 14 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/stlouis); Hartford - Nov 16 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/hartford); Denver - Nov 18 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/denver); New York - Nov 22 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/newyork); Los Angeles - Nov 28 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/losangeles).
K8s Operators
Stateful applications for K8s, a shot at Mesos (https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operators.html)?
Prometheus & etcd first examples (spark? hadoop?)
This begs the broad question: so, what’s CoreOS’s business posture now?
Azure Container Service, now with K8s
Those Microsoft folks will just put anything that looks tasty in their cloud (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-container-service-the-cloud-s-most-open-option-for-containers/) - what a reversal from the Microsoft we grew up with.
Docker in Production: A History of Failure
From this dude’s perspective (https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/): a failure of product management and stable releases.
Bugs, documentation spotty, cleanup scripts, kernel support (Debian!?), aufs & overlay & overlay2, 7-hour outage with no post-mortem
“Docker only moves forward and breaks things”
“The docker hype is not only a technological liability any more, it has evolved into a sociological problem as well.”
A retort… that mostly agrees (https://patrobinson.github.io/2016/11/05/docker-in-production/)
“boring tech is what makes money” shiny tech makes resumes?
Mesosphere
Jay Lyman on the momemtum (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=88226): “Mesosphere does not disclose its number of paying clients, but says it has dozens of large enterprise customers, its primary target. The company says its experience supporting software deployments in production is among its key differentiators, helped by the use of Apache Mesos by companies such as Twitter, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal and Yelp, which was featured in a 451 User Deployment Report. Mesosphere says its focus is customer deployments of 500-1,000 nodes per day in production. It also says the bulk of its customers are licensees with professional services accounting for less than 10% of its clients, which tend to move to its subscription software.”
TrumpTech, aka, “Putting the 400 lbs hackers on diets.”
Turns out there is some marginally clear policy, just not McKinsey title mode versus white papers (http://www.vox.com/2016/11/10/13584390/donald-trump-first-100-days).
Jonathan Shieber@Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/09/what-does-a-president-elect-trump-mean-for-silicon-valley-nothing-very-good/): "The biggest question facing millions of Americans this Wednesday is: just how much of what Donald Trump said on the campaign does he intend to actually try to make happen." (For example, Korea (http://www.vox.com/world/2016/11/10/13585524/donald-trump-phone-call-south-korea-park-geun-hye).)
Dave Lee, at the BBC has a good laundry list: “Uncertainty, frustration and an increased fragility for the global home of tech innovation. Mr Trump certainly won't want to go down as the president who destroyed Silicon Valley, but the concern here is that of the few policies that have been explained in detail, some seem directly at odds with each other.”
10% repatriation program (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/11/09/apple-adobe-cisco-citi-focuses-on-big-techs-big-trump-tax-windfall/) - tech companies have tons of cash abroad:
Historic rates (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/repatriation.asp): “At the highest tax rate, corporations must pay 35% to repatriate capital, minus local taxes charged by countries in which the funds are held.”
Hardware: “AAPL (93% of $230bln), CSCO (91% of $64.6B), IBM ($8.2B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but note 58% of earnings are from non US operations), HPE ($10.0B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65% of earnings are from non US operations), HPQ ($5.6B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65%-70% of earnings are from non US operations), JNPR (94% of $3.2B).”
Software: “Specifically, some of the mid and large cap companies that have large cash balances “trapped” offshore are likely to benefit from being able to return a portion of this cash to shareholders. We note companies with high gross cash balances trapped offshore include: ADBE (85% of $4B – from 2015 10-K), ADSK (86% of $2.1B), CA (76% of $2.7B), CTXS (80% of $2.45B), FTNT (38% of $1.2B), ORCL (76% of $56B – pre-N), MSFT (96% of $113B – pre-LNKD purchase), RHT (42% of $2.0B), SYMC (93% of $5.6B – post-BC), VMW (77% of $7.5B), VRSN (68% of $1.9B). We believe the chances increase of a larger share repurchase or (lesser chance) dividend from these companies.”
Apple & Amazon are not in a good situation (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/09/tech_trump_silicon_valley/) - they’ll be a good test of WTF happens. Meanwhile, tech stocks dropping a bit (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tech-stocks-plunge-for-second-straight-day-after-trump-win-2016-11-10).
Ovum has a shit ton of quick analysis, all free (https://www.ovum.com/us-presidential-election-2016/):
Fear of US public cloud companies, globally (https://www.ovum.com/will-trump-presidency-mean-public-cloud-computing-2-2/). Remember the freak-out from NSA stuff? Same idea. I think the Gemans got over it.
Outsources (https://www.ovum.com/providers-prepare-trump-presidency-potential-impact-global-delivery-2/):
“A massive curtailing of H-1B visas, for example, will mean providers will need to make immediate shifts in what they’re able to offer customers locally, unless or until they’re able to compensate with talent.”
“For providers, there’s also the unanswered question of the impact on US government spending.”
[Education](https://www.ovum.com/trumping-expectations-now-us-public-sector-2/ - some proposals for de-centralizing, meaning fragmentation of IT spend.
Government talent, regulations, and spending (https://www.ovum.com/trumping-expectations-now-us-public-sector-2/) - “If there is a large exodus of high-caliber and skilled staff, how will departments fill the gap? It also raises the question of funding for programs aimed at modernizing tech in the federal government such as F18 and FedRAMP. Trump might reduce the barriers to swapping out tech and push down expenditure that way. Certainly, the high cost and length of time needed to get Authority to Operate (ATO) under FedRAMP has been a barrier to uptake.”
Telcos (https://www.ovum.com/trumps-victory-will-affect-us-telecoms-market/) - other than him stating he’d stop the AT&T/TimeWarner merger, telco stuff is very unclear. No one’s sure what the traditional Republican +/- Trump equals, or what the formula is.
M&A from Brenon@451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90759&type=mis&alertid=211&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=90759-In+Trump%2C+an+M%26A+watchdog+with+more+bite): “Chinese buyers probably won't be shopping as freely in the US in the coming years.” They spent $14bn this year, I think.
Chinese buyers have recently picked up Ingram Micro, which swings nearly $50bn worth of tech gear and services each year, 25-year-old printer maker Lexmark and even a majority stake in the gay dating app Grindr." Also see shorter blog post with chart of Chinese M&A spend (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/investment-banking/in-trump-a-tech-ma-watchdog-with-more-bite/).
Snowden for Head of NSA! (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/346998236776640513).
Follow-up
That’s how you do it! (https://twitter.com/simonmcc/status/794951901720805376)
We got actual comments (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/77#disqus_thread)!
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode
Matt wrote up an Amazon ECS thing
The blog entry (https://blog.chef.io/2016/11/07/habitat-amazon-elastic-container-service/)
Doing Business in Japan
Not new, but a good primer (http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/).
Recommendations
Brandon: New season of The Startup podcast (https://gimletmedia.com/episode/shadowed-qualities-season-4-episode-3/)
Matt: TransferWise (https://transferwise.com/u/matthewr9) for transferring money abroad. A16Z on TransferWise (https://a16z.com/2016/01/29/a16z-podcast-when-banking-works-like-my-smartphone/).
Coté:
“Tighten Up.” (https://open.spotify.com/track/2pBgtxhgqevCHEnJ7W5UKI), Archie Bell & The Drells - once you’re done being depressed, get your shit back together.
HSAs.
Meanwhile, this “pastrami burger” (https://www.instagram.com/p/BMpHcIhDJkk/) at 3 Greens Market (http://3greensmarket.com/) in Chicago is AMAZING.
11/11/2016 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 77: If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile.
Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever.
Show Notes
Follow-up
Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap.
Check out the last episode, the show page (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/76) is- God-damned nifty!
Review in iTunes France (https://twitter.com/matt_traverse/status/790600017778249728)
Osprey “one bag” style backpack (https://twitter.com/scrub/status/790190603023843328).
The Best Uber Driver Ever
Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-rVFBC5Ps).
The Sweat Hotel (http://thesweathotel.iheart.com/)
Coté’s Agile shit
Excerpt from a PDF in process (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/you-re-not-really-agile-airports-hitting-yourself-absurd-ai-tams-cote-memo-18-34432).
IBM design people.
We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely.
It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming (https://twitter.com/cote/status/794349731627446272).
UK GDS rant (https://medium.com/@sheldonline/the-government-it-self-harm-playbook-6537d3920f65#.p8cuon2mj).
Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/culture
How do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom.
Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptions
The Product Manager's Lament.
If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile
The big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on (https://docs.google.com/document/d/19T1B-jdhpNr58p7sONWtT5W48xFtV92aV9hMeb29w6I/edit?usp=sharing) - leave some comments!
The End-roll Mid-roll
Coté: Check out cote.io/promos (https://cote.io/promos/) for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in the All Day DevOps virtual conference (http://www.alldaydevops.com/).
Coté: Nov 16th, Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha (https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/omaha) - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list.
Coté: Various dates - Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow).
Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016).
Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code” (http://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders/events/233990769/).
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
OpenStack Anyone?
There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona (http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2475081/openstack-revenues-predicted-to-top-usd5bn-by-2020)
35% annual growth sounds good
With friends like these… (http://www.computerworlduk.com/cloud-computing/mark-shuttleworth-on-openstack-hpe-layoffs-prove-bs-as-service-theory-3648336/): “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.”
Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.”
OTH, 🤔: "If you do these things the old fashioned way with Puppet, Chef and Ansible, they can be incredibly expensive because now you need the experts for everything," he says. "If you do them with Juju and Charms, you're sharing the cost of operational code with everybody else using those Charms."
Meanwhile: 451 says “OpenStack revenues to grow at a 35% CAGR and exceed $5bn by 2020.” See chart in my newsletter from this week (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/you-re-not-really-agile-airports-hitting-yourself-absurd-ai-tams-cote-memo-18-34432).
New York Times Buys The Wirecutter for $30 Million
Good write-up about how The Wirecutter is/was very different from Gizmodo and the like (https://15minutes.inthemorni.ng/the-nyt-buying-wirecutter-and-sweethome-is-so-much-more-amazing-than-you-think-d9c7a3d04482#.h98byp0k0)
Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY
http://www.recode.net/2016/10/24/13381002/new-york-times-wirecutter-purchase-30-million-briam-lam-consumer-guide
Adrian Cockcroft to AWS
This (http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/10/welcoming-adrian-cockcroft-to-tthe-aws-team.html) is like the Warriors getting Kevin Durant, if the Warriors had won the championship last season ;)
AWS Server Migration Service
“automatically replicate live server volumes to AWS and create Amazon Machine Images (AMI) as needed.” (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-server-migration-service/)
Currently VMware, more hypervisors coming
Thanks for the partnership VMware!
RackN gets Funding
Looks like a seed round, yay for Rob (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/10/prweb13766404.htm).
The Barbarian Establishment
Economist on Private Equity (http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21709007-private-equity-has-prospered-while-almost-every-other-approach-business-has-stumbled)
“private equiteers”
“The fees they pay each time they buy or sell a company provide a fifth of the global banking system’s revenues from mergers and acquisitions.”
“This is a particular issue for pension funds, which often need to earn 7% or 8% to meet their obligations.”
Microsoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter
“The company now claims that its commercial cloud annualized run rate has passed $13 billion (it was $12.1 billion last quarter), and that the gross margin of its commercial cloud business is up 7 points quarter-on-quarter to 49 percent.” (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/microsoft-cloud-annualized-run-rate-hits-13bn-in-strong-first-quarter/)
Azure revenue growth was 116% last quarter; now have 11% market share compared to Amazon's 31% (http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsofts-cloud-buoys-earnings-1476995257)
IBM
Hiring lots of people? (http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2016/10/30/ibm-from-firing-to-hiring-spree/#155ad4467ce8)
Stackanetes as a Product?
“OpenStack on Kubernetes, or “Stackanetes” as the CoreOS team sadly likes to call it” (https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/coreos-launches-its-openstack-on-kubernetes-project-as-a-technical-preview/)
VMware & AWS: Harder Than it Looks
Former VMware/EMC exec, now at Oracle (http://chucksblog.typepad.com/chucks_blog/2016/10/vmware-and-aws-mixed-emotions.html).
“hope is not a strategy.”
“VMware wants the world to use their stack, AWS wants the same for their technology. Not exactly what I would call a long-term stable situation.”
Picks
Brandon: Westworld (http://www.hbo.com/westworld).
Coté: Sugar Bowl Madeleines (http://amzn.to/2ewqNlU) at CostCo. I just ate five and the box ain't empty! Also, while you’re there: Tillamook Cheddar cheese slices (http://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/Tillamook-Medium-Cheddar-Cheese,-52-Slices,-2.5-lbs.product.11899115.html), in the expensive refrigerated section. And I got another pair of brushed khaki Kirkland 5 pocket pants.
Matt: Tokyo!
Coté’s Bonus Recommendation: Matt Ray’s hair (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/793653770424987648)!
11/4/2016 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 76: Convergental and the battle for the new stack
With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/4131abb5-d143-4e84-93f3-2050aeb31c05.mp3).
With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote).
Mid-roll
Oct 25th - Matt at AWS North Sydney (http://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/234184228/).
Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there (https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/kansas-city).
Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016).
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP).
VMware doing Kubernetes
VMware's post (http://www.vmware.com/radius/vmware-introduces-kubernetes-as-a-service-on-photon-platform/), and a product page (http://www.vmware.com/products/photon-platform.html).
Photon platform is VMware’s container-play, trying to leverage the VMware ecosystem (vSAN & NSX stuff)
The New Stack coverage (http://thenewstack.io/vmware-photon-present-kubernetes-service/)
BONUS LINKS, not covered in the show
Ubuntu 16.10
Canonical’s doing Kubernetes too (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3130822/linux/ubuntu-1610-ups-cloud-ante-with-kubernetes-openstack.html)
AWS & Government
Debunking FUD and using AWS in (Australian) government (http://fractio.nl/2016/10/12/aws-in-government-myths-risks-misconceptions/)
Randy Bias Leaves EMC
OpenStack advocate/critic, Pets vs. Cattle
2 years to the day after the Cloudscaling acquisition
Heading to… Juniper (https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/my-last-day-at-emc/)
Cisco is AWS Skeptical
Good luck with that (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/14/aws_cisco_canalys/)
What $50 buys You at Huaqianbei
Fascinating article, I hadn’t realized how ridiculously cheap everything had gotten (https://shift.newco.co/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most-fascinating-electronics-market-f0384d9fca32#.ec626kidu)
Recommendations
Brandon: Accused Podcast (http://www.cincinnati.com/series/accused/).
Matt: Song Exploder podcast and the Tobacco album “Sweatbox Dynasty” (http://songexploder.net/tobacco)
Coté: Kirkland brushed khaki pants. Also, espadrilles from that store in BCN, La Manual Alpargatera (http://www.lamanualalpargatera.es/). Apple Live Photos.
10/21/2016 • 52 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 75: "AWS and VMware are having a LAN party” or “Matt Ray’s deep story” or “some five year old gibberish”
Summary
Big shakes in cloud land this week with VMware and AWS partnering up. Is this the hybrid cloud enterprises have been dreaming on? We also cover systems of records, Oracle, and something about Google phones. It’s a regular episode on all the hot topics!
See full show notes: http://cote.io/sdt75
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
Sponsors/Mid-roll
Check out cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Also: Lords of Computing is now Coté.show. Will put upcoming DrunkAndRetired.com special episode in there. And as always check out Pivotal Conversations.
Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there.
For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
Matt at DevOps Sydney October 20.
Matt at AWS North Sydney October 25.
Show notes
Follow-up
Buy-side commentary on Oracle storming the AWS castle
Those reviews are awesome, thanks so much!
I’ll be re-jiggering the podcast back end again, so expect some annoying weirdness (fireside.fm appears to be awesome, if expensive)
So who’s buying Twitter?
Tyler Cowe’s short term focus and going private escape hatch.
VMware and AWS
“VMware Cloud on AWS”
“The service will be operated, sold and supported by VMware (not AWS) but integrate with the rest of AWS’ cloud portfolio (think storage, database, analytics and more).”
https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/aws-blinked–20cddbb537ed#.9cuvcp75o
“these customers will go to Cloud, but its really a glorified co-lo.”
“AWS should be encouraging customers to develop their workloads to take advantage of Cloud ( microservices, serverless etc ) and not delay it further.”
InfoWorld piece:
They keep talking about hybrid cloud, but what does that mean here? Just “we use multiple cloud types/providers,” or one application running across different clouds?
“As part of the deal, VMware will be AWS’s preferred private cloud partner and Amazon will be VMware’s preferred partner in the public cloud.”
Some MSP action: “One of the key differences between this deal and the one VMware announced with IBM in February is that this service is being offered and managed by VMware.”
“Interested customers can request access to the service’s private beta starting Thursday, but VMware doesn’t expect the service to be live until early next year. General availability of VMware cloud on AWS will have to wait until even later in 2017.”
Brief 451 note
No data in DevOps
Google Devices Roundup, and AI interlude
Revisiting the Apple or Google ecosystem question. I hate having to think about ecosystems when buying electronics.
And AI.
Walt Mossberg Thinks Siri is Dumb
Wired Interview with Obama - dude knows AI.
BONUS LINKS, not covered in podcast
Container Madness!
Nothing much new, just content to riff on
Microsoft shipping Commercially Supported (CS) Docker Engine
Red Hat and containers - relabel, transitioned from originally a PaaS to CaaS.
DockerCon coming to Austin
Opentracing joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Announcement
Open tracing
Luke transitions to new Puppet CEO
Luke’s announcement in Twitter
Luke is one of the main people who started all this stuff, based on annoyance of BladeLogic, cfengine, etc.
Did I ever tell the one of how I did a terrible sales job getting Reductive Labs signed up with RedMonk?
The new dude looks like the real deal of enterprise infrastructure.
Recommendations
Matt: Warren Ellis’ Normal - From his latest newsletter “What science fiction, as a field, is good for, is looking at ten thousand possibilities at once," Zapp Branigan reading Trump quotes
Brandon: Slate Plus. Also, Harry’s Blades.
Coté: iPhone 7 Plus. Live Photos, Rotate mode, Bokeh stuff actually in beta, Home button takes getting used to, Two speakers is better?
10/14/2016 • 51 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 74: Being a tech evangelist, with Bridget Kromhout
This week it’s just Coté and Bridget talking about tech evangelism, business travel, and other fascinating topics deep in the boiler room of whatever it is we do around here.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/29d80059-77a3-415b-a662-4bb0d1247f81.mp3). Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.
10/1/2016 • 47 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 73: “My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, & Oracle storms the AWS castle
Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/69b48ec5-05d5-4440-a2ae-4cd30027952b.mp3).
With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote).
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Come to DellEMCWorld on Oct 18th to 20th (http://dellemcworld.com/), in Austin. I'll be speaking there.
There's also the annual vBBQ event (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vbbq-2016-dellemcworld-edition-tickets-27951018248?ref=estw), Oct 17th at the Salt Like. Pivotal is sponsoring (check out my CORPORATE AMEX, BITCHES!). Come to it, it's mostly free-ish.
For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io (http://summit.chef.io) to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
Show notes
Wordpress Talk
Pantheon (https://pantheon.io/features/wordpress-hosting-on-pantheon)
Dreamhost (https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/wordpress/)
WP Engine (https://wpengine.com/)
macOS Sierra
Try rebooting (https://twitter.com/b6n/status/767263631230636032).
Can't get Apple Watch thing to work. Bartender broke-dick.
What have you done for me lately, FREE SOFTWARE?
(Just freed up 15 gigs of space with the storage optimizer (http://lifehacker.com/all-the-new-stuff-in-macos-sierra-1786817117), so, there's that.)
Also, ordered a ~$1,000 phone today. JESUS (https://twitter.com/cote/status/778981660175937536)!
Another way to find big files on OS X (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/).
YubiKey support for OSX (https://www.yubico.com/2016/09/yubikey-smart-card-support-for-macos-sierra-2/)
Oracle is gonna cream AWS. Wait, wut?
Lydia has a good write-up (https://cote.io/2016/09/21/oracle-launches-a-new-iaas-checks-out/). She's a bit wry, you know.
This is like the 3rd or 4th go at it.
To be an apologist: doing cloud is freakin' hard. Maybe Oracle should try being less of a jerk rhetorically though? It's help with their credibility (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/19/oracle_openworld1/).
Ben Thompson is on the case (https://stratechery.com/2016/oracles-cloudy-future/)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
This week in tech PE
Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6 Billion (http://fortune.com/2016/09/19/vista-infoblox/)
Microservices - Please don't
Maybe microservices ain't all they're cracked up to be (https://blog.komand.com/microservices-please-dont)
5 "truths" (spoiler, maybe not)
It keeps the code cleaner
It's easy to write things that only have one purpose
They're faster than monoliths
It's easy for engineers to not all work in the same codebase
It's the simplest way to handle autoscaling, plus Docker is in here somewhere
This piece (http://www.kennybastani.com/2016/08/strangling-legacy-microservices-spring-cloud.html) by my man Kenny (https://twitter.com/kennybastani) is ball-exploding awesome.
Too Old to Code?
Tim Bray is old and codes (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/09/14/Old-Geek).
"That's fine for you, Marge, but I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. ... Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky.". – Homer Simpson
Recommendations
Brandon: Reminders App (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205890)
Matt: Usual Suspects (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/); also, my wife’s blog (http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/?p=1795)
Coté: Logitech Keys-To-Go Ultra-Portable Bluetooth Keyboard for Tablets, Red (http://amzn.to/2cUzeao) - $37.90 at Amazon: only 16 left in stock! GOOD PRICE! Also, don’t get Fantastical...if you’re like me.
9/22/2016 • 59 minutes, 41 seconds
BONUS: DevOpsDays DFW, with ADO and The Food Right Show
At DevOpsDays DFW, Coté recorded a joint-podcast with Arrested DevOps and The Food Fight Show. Along with some local guests, we discuss the event, DevOpsDays, and computers in North Texas.
9/22/2016 • 57 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 72: “Oh! Scurvy! Again.”
Too old https://giphy.com/gifs/3b1JW7LxfsAKs
It's all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it's software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee...plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/7b7bb7d7-4596-4d97-8d14-b1d09feada3d.mp3).
With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote).
Show Notes
Twitter going to sell:
The rumors (https://www.thestreet.com/story/13692580/1/twitter-is-finally-starting-to-wake-up-to-reality-and-consider-selling-itself.html)
“I still think Alphabet makes for the most logical acquirer of Twitter”
Dark Horse: Apple.
Really Dark Horse: IBM.
This Week in Tech PE: HPE Spins off Software
They got divested (https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-spin-off-software-assets-in-8-8b-transaction/)
“HPE will be retaining tools that support the company’s cloud and infrastructure businesses but will be spinning off tools for application delivery management, big data, enterprise security, information management, governance and IT operations management.”
From what I know of HPE, this seems to be overlapping. I’d love a list of “stays vs. goes”
Q3 2017, and you thought Dell/EMC was slow
Where does this leave HP? Will they acquire more SW or stay a “systems” company.
It makes you realize how “small” their SW group was.
Coté’s notebook on this topic (https://cote.io/2016/09/07/hpe-software-sold-for-88bn-to-micro-focus/).
Also, Thoma Bravo says it gets, like, 20-45% returns on assets it takes private (https://cote.io/2016/09/12/thoma-bravo-getting-20-45-returns-on-taking-tech-companies-private/).
Mid-roll
Check out cote.io/promos (https://cote.io/promos/) for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Lead-gen free webinar (https://cote.io/pivotal/) with an actual, real customer talking about cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. An analyst and Coté too.
Check out my Sep. column over on The Register, about ROI and shit for DevOps (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/13/return_on_investment_for_devops/). I’m really desperate to answer this “question.” Put on some high-waders and check out the comments, leave some to go spice it up in that asylum.
For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event.
Go to summit.chef.io (https://summit.chef.io/) to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
Google buying Apigee. The whole API Economy thing.
They got bought! (http://apigee.com/about/apigee-join-google)
More (http://www.recode.net/2016/9/8/12851164/google-diane-greene-enterprise-apigee-acquisition)
Hear us talk about it on Pivotal Conversations: the gigantic strangler pattern (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/033-gigantic-strangler-and-crazy-infrastructure-working-on-legacy-code-with-rohit-kelapure)!
MASHUPS FTW!
Hashicorp Gets $24 million B-round
Vault Enterprise, Nomad Enterprise, Terraform Enterprise, Consul Enterprise (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/devops-leader-hashicorp-announces-24-163500016.html)
Coté: what’s the deal with these folks? Are they a competitor to all us?
Blogging is dead
Coté gets better views/reads in Medium (https://twitter.com/cote/status/775857081479856128) than on his broke-dick blog (https://twitter.com/cote/status/775857543591530497). (Maybe about 80-100 RSS subscribers.)
This makes him sad and confused about what he should do.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
A16Z Not Best of the Best?
Clickbait (http://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/marc-andreessen-vc-firm-may-trail-behind-competitors.html)
“Thought(sp?) it may fall short of some rivals, the company outperforms the average fund: Overall, its three funds have almost doubled their investment capital since inception.”
What’s Cisco Up To?
Our favorite Halo Effect company (http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/01/ciscos-buy-up-of-containerx-reveals-a-larger-game-plan/)
What’s up with “software defined networking”? I was talking with someone recently and they posited that it’s
“dead-as-in-over-cause-all-the-big-cos-won.” Plus NSX does a lot (1,700 customers (https://cote.io/2016/09/12/vmwares-portfolio-mix/)), right?
Short History of Open Source Forks
Lots of examples of successful open source forks (http://thenewstack.io/may-fork-short-history-open-source-forks/)
“Oracle doesn’t seem to have a very good reputation with open source communities.”
OS X <- NeXT <- “select parts of BSD” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#History)
Thoughts on Nano Windows Server 2016
Is this the future of Windows (no Windows)? (https://www.petri.com/nano-server-debate-yes-no)
Moving from Docker to Rocket
Bumps in the road but rkt is staying “smaller” per last week’s conversation. (https://medium.com/@adriaandejonge/moving-from-docker-to-rkt-310dc9aec938#.k1vhi6skt)
Picks
Brandon: The Night Of (http://www.hbo.com/the-night-of).
Coté: Complete Works of HP Lovecraft (http://amzn.to/2cwx6EC). Checks out. Also see the series of commentary from the two authors over on tor.com (http://www.tor.com/series/the-lovecraft-reread/).
Matt: Silent music videos: Dancing In The Streets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc) (And, the original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ)). The Terror (http://amzn.to/2d3LSSy). They found the boat (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt).
9/16/2016 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 71: Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants
Eventually, you have to decide how your open source software is going to make money, and your partners probably won’t like it. That’s what the dust-up around Docker is this week, it seems to us. We also talk briefly about VMware’s big conference this week, and rumors of HPE selling off it’s Software group to private equity.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/ea25eafd-1d31-4f4f-a3a6-efad5b9cd5a5.mp3).
With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote).
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I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4VB0cauli7-_RIvpmn651ePtddw9_Fp). It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16 (https://ti.to/highops/operability-io-2016/discount/COTEMEMOOIO16).
Check out cote.io/promos (https://cote.io/promos/) for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Show notes
Nippers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippers) - "Nippers learn about safety at the beach. They learn about dangers such as rocks, and animals (e.g. the blue-ringed octopus), and also about surf conditions, such as rip currents, sandbars, and waves. Older Nippers also learn some basic first aid and may also learn CPR when they reach the age of 13."
Can someone explain this “Docker forking” hoopla?
Coté’s write-up (https://cote.io/2016/09/01/deciding-where-the-docker-ecosystem-will-make-money/).
Docker Inc. doesn’t want to be a commoditized building block (http://thenewstack.io/docker-fork-talk-split-now-table/)
From a Red Hat person (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forking-docker-daniel-riek): “The conflict started to escalate earlier this summer, when Docker Inc used its controlling position to push Swarm, it’s own clone of Kubernetes-style container orchestration, into the core Docker project, putting the basic container runtime in a conflict with a notable part of its ecosystem. Docker Inc. then went on to essentially accuse Red Hat of forking Docker - at the Red Hat Summit no less. After that, Docker Inc’s Solomon Hykes came out strongly against the efforts to standardize the container runtime in OCI - an initiative his company co-founded.”
Re: that episode where we discuss Docker ecosystem challenges (https://cote.io/2015/04/17/sdt30/): “Yet on a regular basis, Red Hat patches that enable valid requirements from Red Hat customer use cases get shut down as it seems for the simple reason that they don’t fit into Docker Inc’s business strategy.”
A fight over where to draw the line between free/open/commodified and costs/proprietary/competitive: "And while I personally consider the orchestration layer the key to the container paradigm, the right approach here is to keep the orchestration separate from the core container runtime standardization. This avoids conflicts between different layers of the container runtime: we can agree on the common container package format, transport, and execution model without limiting choice between e.g. Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm."
Don't bring a pistol to a bazooka fight. Enterprises love RHEL - have you ever tried to sell Ubuntu into organizations? It’s like what selling NT must have been like.
VMware hybrid cloud solutionaring
Brief notebook from Coté (https://cote.io/2016/08/30/vmwares-foundation-is-a-solution-bundling-of-hybrid-cloud-software/). More coverage (http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/08/29/ibm-vmware-deepen-hybrid-cloud-partnership-for-customers-like-marriott/#629acff12853)
Keywords “mostly cloud”
A representative, not too poorly supported VMware obit (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/31/thoughts_from_vmworld_2016_is_vmware_becoming_synonymous_with_legacy/)
NSX up in the cloud (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/vmworld-2016-vmware-lays-out-its-strategy-for-cross-cloud-support/)
This Week in Tech Private Equity…
HPE looking to sell off Software group (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-hp-enterprise-talks-sell-181749881.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw), sources say.
“hoping it can fetch between $8 billion and $10 billion”
“HPE's software unit generated $3.6 billion in net revenue (http://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/revenue/understanding-top-bottom-line-difference-net-revenue-net-income/) in 2015, down from $3.9 billion in 2014.”
Dell/EMC thing set to close on Sep 7th, 2016 (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160830006294/en/Historic-Dell-EMC-Transaction-Set-Close-September)
Quest Software, One Identity To Operate Separately From SonicWall After Dell Software Sale (http://www.crn.com/news/security/300081913/quest-software-one-identity-to-operate-separately-from-sonicwall-after-dell-software-sale.htm)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in podcast.
Spaces vs. Tabs
The data delivers the truth (spaces) (https://medium.com/@hoffa/400-000-github-repositories-1-billion-files-14-terabytes-of-code-spaces-or-tabs-7cfe0b5dd7fd#.m4axg5pe7)
Recommendations
Matt: Bubble-sort algorithm explained with Hungarian ("Csángó") folk dance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZQPjUT5B4)
Brandon: LastChanceU (https://www.netflix.com/title/80091742)
Coté: Ulysses (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ulysses/id950335311?mt=8&at=1010lohg) - I don’t think there’s any expensive text editors left for me to buy. [This American Life's Worst Song Ever], hear it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08).
9/2/2016 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 70: “No one wants to eat a finger-pie.”
This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray's first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monuments. Also, a little bi-modal flavor for ya.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/4101204e-ce1b-4cf8-9af1-fe0bb04aa0eb.mp3).
With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote).
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I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4VB0cauli7-_RIvpmn651ePtddw9_Fp). It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16 (https://ti.to/highops/operability-io-2016/discount/COTEMEMOOIO16).
Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
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See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
Show notes
RAX goes private for $4.3bn
The usual need to hide from the Wall Street eye (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-26/apollo-agrees-to-buy-cloud-company-rackspace-for-4-3-billion)
OpenStack dead, again.
"Tough times ahead" (http://containerjournal.com/2016/08/19/beginning-end-openstack/).
"There was a time when it was hard to read an article about OpenStack without hearing about 'pets vs. cattle,' and OpenStack was designed to herd cattle"
"It has itself become a big, complex pet, which is why Mirantis and others can make a living providing services, software and training."
What could have happened: (1.) "we can beat AWS," or, (2.) "containers, shoulda thought of that."
Innovation is hard, esp. business-wise
How could you compete with AWS?
Word vs. Google Docs vs. Office 365.
Uber has spent at least $4bn (https://cote.io/2016/08/25/do-why-do-you-have-to-burn-4bn-to-add-mobile-apps-to-taxis/)?
BONUS LINKS! Not Covered in show
AWS Sentinel is Coming
Skunkworks-ish project from AWS (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/managed-services/300080396/6-key-things-to-know-about-amazon-web-services-sentinel-managed-services-offering.htm) for managed services. Potentially lots of partner conflict
"MSPs need to work with customers to convert their infrastructure to Platform-as-a-Service using microservices architecture," said one AWS partner. "They also need to bring DevOps into the heart of the organization. Unfortunately, most MSPs don't have the developers that truly understand this."
“Few AWS Partners Are Really Surprised By Sentinel's Emergence“
MariaDB switches away from open source license
MaxScale proxy switching to commercial-only license (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3109213/open-source-tools/open-source-uproar-as-mariadb-goes-commercial.html)
“The MaxScale move shows MariaDB Corporation wants to switch from a Red Hat-style service and support model to a Sugar-style sole-vendor approach.”
Hashicorp Shuts Down Otto
Interesting to see an open source project publicly shut down (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/decommissioning-otto.html).
Microsoft Open Sources Powershell
Coverage (https://redmondmag.com/blogs/the-schwartz-report/2016/08/microsoft-open-sources-powershell.aspx)
MSFT blog post (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/08/17/windows-powershell-is-now-powershell-an-open-source-project-with-linux-support-how-did-we-do-it/)
Follows open-sourcing of .NET earlier this year
available for Linux and Mac OS
Recommendations
Brandon: first US college football game in Australia
Matt: Rugby, help me learn it.
Coté: BCG on two speed IT (https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/technology-digital-people-organization-end-of-two-speed-it/); Wizard of Oz series.
8/27/2016 • 52 minutes, 42 seconds
Episode 69: The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs
There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs at Cisco we look at the broader numbers around layoffs in the tech sector. Before recommendations we briefly talk about Walmart buying Jet.
(Sorry the audio quality is so bad.)
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/fcdc5a2c-ebee-477b-9757-67bf42ddd4bd.mp3).
With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote).
SPONSOR
On August 31st, come hear (https://pivotal.io/platform/webinar/platform-and-cloud-portability) about launching your cloud strategy and why multi-cloud matters with myself, an analyst, and an actual enterprise user of all this stuff. Register and watch it for free (https://pivotal.io/platform/webinar/platform-and-cloud-portability)!
I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4VB0cauli7-_RIvpmn651ePtddw9_Fp). It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16 (https://ti.to/highops/operability-io-2016/discount/COTEMEMOOIO16).
Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/).
See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP).
Gartner IaaS MQ is Out.
Check out the free re-print (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2G2O5FC&ct=150519&st=sb&adbsc=gc_20160805_64546406&adbid=761351131440095232&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587), from Amazon I believe.
I collected these notes in it's own blog post, check it out (https://cote.io/2016/08/19/gartner-iaas-magic-quadrant/).
Layoffs at Cisco
Several thousand get pink slips (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cisco-laying-off-5-500-202254031.html), more (http://mobile.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSKCN10S05D)
"I do not think that they are going to be done after this."
"We are committed to making the necessary decisions to drive our future growth"
The performance didn't impress investors as Cisco's stock shed 42 cents to $30.30 in extended trading after the numbers came out. The decline may have been driven by disappointment that Cisco's job cuts weren't nearly as deep as published reports had speculated they would be.
But it’s not just Cisco (http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/08/17/tech-wreck-100-k-jobs-gone-and-more-cuts-coming.html).
Be sure to read The Halo Effect (http://amzn.to/2bjp6XS).
Walmart buys Jet
$3.3bn (http://www.geekwire.com/2016/walmart-confirms-3-3b-jet-com-acquisition-heres-plan-take-amazon/).
I miss Amazon, Matt in Australia.
Ben Thompson provides extensive color (https://stratechery.com/2016/walmart-and-the-multichannel-trap/).
Recommendations
Brandon: PIN/Kings podcast (http://www.espn.com/espnradio/podcast/archive/_/id/17138574).
Matt: Flying in Australian is awesome, civilized even; the curved screen of the Samsung SAMSUNG C27F390F 1800R Curved 27 inch LED Free Sync Full HD 1920x1080 VA panel HDMI D-Sub Monitor (http://amzn.to/2brNqsc), Australian edition, but Yankee plugs are cool too.
Coté: James Governor on Pivotal and SpringOne Platform (http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2016/08/16/spring-won-platform-the-big-switch-just-happened/); Irie's Island Food in Port Aransas (https://cote.io/2016/08/13/11132/).
8/19/2016 • 51 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 68: Too old for the buffet
SPONSOR
See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
I have a discount code for Operability.IO, September 19th and 20th in London. I hear good things about this conference; check out their talks from last year (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4VB0cauli7-_RIvpmn651ePtddw9_Fp). It has a good list of speakers, including our very own Casey West. You can 10% off registration if you use the code COTEMEMOOIO16 (https://ti.to/highops/operability-io-2016/discount/COTEMEMOOIO16).
Check out https://cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/).
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP).
HPE on the block?
Coverage (http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/08/01/hpe-subject-of-rumored-40-billion-takeover-attempt/): “several private equity firms, including KRR, Apollo Global Management and the Carlyle Group, are looking to pay $40 billion or more to buy HPE outright”
Bill Hilf out of HPE, another cloud re-org at HPE (http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/08/01/hpe-cloud-boss-bill-hilf-departs-the-company/)
Let’s compare: IBM, Oracle, EMC/Dell, even Verizon/Yahoo! - big tech companies surviving long term.
Meanwhile: rumors of Rackspace going private (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/08/04/rackspace-halted-in-advanced-talks-with-private-equity-to-be-taken-private-says-dj/).
YAHOO!
What’s Verizon doing over there (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-24/verizon-said-to-announce-4-8-billion-deal-to-buy-yahoo-tomorrow)?
Coté’s notes on this: one (https://cote.io/2016/07/25/verizon-buying-yahoos-core-businesses-for-4-83bn-a-third-place-com-contender/) and two (https://cote.io/2016/07/26/vzyahoo-the-next-step-is-how-do-we-differentiate-our-strategy/).
ChefConf
Unified products as Automate (http://thenewstack.io/chef-rolls-management-ingredients-one-package-chef-automate/)
Certifications!
Lots of videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL11cZfNdwNyPo_EEgCGDe9mrUlMtTf361)
Recommendations
Brandon: Stranger Things (https://www.netflix.com/title/80057281)
Matt: Utopia/Homeland (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3163562/?ref_=fn_al_tt_)2. My kids love Tim Tams (http://www.arnotts.com.au/products/tim-tam/). Manly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSXEZe7tRuw). http://fan-o-rama.com/ (http://fan-o-rama.com/)
Coté: Field Notes Byline (https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/byline), reporter's notebook.
SPONSOR
See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-minneapolis/welcome/), July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too.
August 1st to 4th, SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/) – I'll be talking on DevOps and generally hanging out with the cloud native folks. You can get $300 off registration when you use the code pivotal-cote-300 (https://2016.event.springoneplatform.io/register).
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1EVS6l8R0Y).
Rainbow Chicken vs. Chick-fil-A
The "happy meal" barter system.
The Left needs some fried chicken chain.
DockerCon
Docker now includes SwarmKit, making K8s more contentious
In LinkedIn, well documented exploration of Docker adoption in big firms by LinkedIn profiles (https://medium.com/@mmullany/quantifying-docker-adoption-with-linkedin-fecde64d10a#.v7lumsfyx).
Shows exponential growth vs. Java, Ruby on Rails, visualization terms
Is there product strategy going on in the container space?
Accident-driven intentionality.
Yes, they're building up momentum and then monetization.
Midroll
SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/) - funny name, etc. $300 off registration with code pivotal-cote-300.
ChefCon (https://chefconf.chef.io) - July 11th and 13th in Austin!
Brook & Bob memorial segment, On the Tech Media
Matt Asay piece: The press will believe anything about open source. Not all Sunshine and Lollipops in Open Source Land (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3086264/open-source-tools/the-press-will-believe-anything-about-open-source.html)
What do expect?
What's business model?
Apple & ZFS
More detail than you'd care to want (http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/)
It's like a story of the ups and (mostly) downs of enterprise infrastructure software. Also, the flirtation nature of announcements that keeps eager nerd-beavers on tender-hooks.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
Infrastructure Software is Dead, or, "With friends like these…"
Hard truths from Mirantis (https://www.mirantis.com/blog/infrastructure-software-is-dead/)
"Everybody's OpenStack software is equally bad."
"But none of this matters, because today customers don't care about software. Customers care about outcomes." (Because, you know, they used to not care about outcomes…? Plz. advise.)
Infrastructure Investments by Cloud Service Providers
Charts! Numbers! Cloud! (http://redmonk.com/rstephens/2016/06/16/infrastructure-investments-by-cloud-service-providers/)
I like her By the Numbers (http://redmonk.com/rstephens/category/by-the-numbers/) thing. Coté used to do something like that (http://redmonk.com/cote/category/numbers/) and it was fun to put together.
10 Hour Maintenance Windows on Oracle Cloud?
I seem to remember Google having something similar (http://fortune.com/2016/06/24/oracle-cloud-offline-for-10-hours/)
Operational Best Practices for Serverless
Charity Major's write-up from her talk at the #Serverless conference (https://charity.wtf/2016/05/31/operational-best-practices-serverless/)
If you chose a provider, you do not get to just point your finger at them in the post mortem and say it's their fault. You chose them, it's on you. It's tacky to blame the software or the service, and besides your customers don't give a shit whose "fault" it is.
Checking in on CostCo
Which Visa to get (http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/06/21/best-visa-card-costco/)
Recommendations
Brandon: Chaos Monkeys (http://amzn.to/29a7k8e).
Matt: Boston Dynamics robot video & moar falling robots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng)! The Inevitable (http://amzn.to/29xV1kx). Also, the podcast mentioned earlier: "Brian Christian on Algorithms to Live By," (http://longnow.org/seminars/02016/jun/20/algorithms-live/) presented at The Long Now Foundation.
Coté: Hey, as beef sticks go, the Ostrim ones look pretty good (http://amzn.to/297Wz6s). No sugar, mostly? Also, The King Killer Chronicles (http://amzn.to/29a890G).
7/1/2016 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 66: I-Bankers Smokin' L's in the Hot-tub
SPONSOR
See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too.
Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/).
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP).
Samsung Buys Joyent
Joyent notes (https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective)
Coverage from Venturebeat (http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/15/samsung-buys-cloud-infrastructure-provider-joyent-will-keep-operating-as-standalone-company/)
"Until today, we lacked one thing. We lacked the scale required to compete effectively in the large, rapidly growing and fiercely competitive cloud computing market. Now, that changes,"
Microsoft acquires LinkedIn
Press Release from Microsoft (http://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/06/13/microsoft-to-acquire-linkedin/)
M&A Synergies Theoretical WTF'ing:
Slideshare, extended to all Office formats (https://twitter.com/monkchips/status/742379875667955713).
Login with LinkedIn + AD = SSO won (https://twitter.com/cloud_opinion/status/742383636507328513). Also (http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11921064/microsoft-ceo-memo-linkedin-ceo-memo): "Massively scaling the reach and engagement of LinkedIn by using the network to power the social and identity layers of Microsoft's ecosystem of over one billion customers. Think about things like LinkedIn's graph interwoven throughout Outlook, Calendar, Active Directory, Office, Windows, Skype, Dynamics, Cortana, Bing and more."
433 million professionals in LinkedIn (from MSFT internal memo (http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11921064/microsoft-ceo-memo-linkedin-ceo-memo)).
...but it's probably all the same people, tho (https://twitter.com/MYDemaray/status/742386678363361280).
"Along with the new growth in our Office 365 commercial and Dynamics businesses this deal is key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes." (MSFT CEO, from MSFT internal memo (http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11921064/microsoft-ceo-memo-linkedin-ceo-memo))
Ads and dumb-AI context: "This combination will make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn newsfeed that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete. As these experiences get more intelligent and delightful, the LinkedIn and Office 365 engagement will grow. And in turn, new opportunities will be created for monetization through individual and organization subscriptions and targeted advertising." (MSFT CEO, from MSFT internal memo (http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11921064/microsoft-ceo-memo-linkedin-ceo-memo))
LinkedIn growth since Dec, 2008: "Our team has grown from 338 people to over 10,000, our membership from 32M to over 433M and our revenue from $78M to over $3 billion." (MSFT internal memo (http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11921064/microsoft-ceo-memo-linkedin-ceo-memo)).
Others from memo: Lydia training inline in MSFT apps; paid content in MSFT apps (a la Spiceworks); HR and recruiting.
Deal PR deck (https://ncmedia.azureedge.net/ncmedia/2016/06/msft_announce_160613.pdf) - pretty good. I can see how the social graph and all the "semantic web sit" in LinkedIn, crossed with MSFT assets works well.
One take on ads, doesn't like the Office angle, cause privacy, but oh wait: Google Apps and GMail (http://marketingland.com/microsofts-linkedin-acqusition-represents-huge-opportunity-bing-ads-180572)
It's the 1 dataset MS can keep out of Facebook and Google's hands.
https://trackchanges.postlight.com/9-things-microsoft-could-do-with-linkedin-2aec55c2bc72#.iv7cofd13
"Microsoft could improve LinkedIn": Microsoft designs for people who have to do boring things with computers in order to make money. It's the 9–5 software vendor.
Previous big acquisitions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft#Acquisitions): Nokia for $7.2bn (http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/2/4688530/microsoft-buys-nokias-devices-and-services-unit-unites-windows-phone), Skype for $8.5bn, Xamarin for $400m.
From 451 M&A coverage (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=89397&type=mis&alertid=78&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=89397-Microsoft+connects+with+LinkedIn+with+%2426bn+acquisition):
I-banker stuff: "Microsoft will pay $196 per share to acquire LinkedIn, a 50% bump up from where it was trading ahead of the deal announcement, although well behind the $250 each share was worth in November. The price tag values LinkedIn at 8.2x trailing revenue."
"The company [Microsoft] must find new ways to differentiate. Integrations with LinkedIn offer potential functionality that will be challenging to duplicate. When the two companies are joined, there will be multiple ways that LinkedIn's member network, and the data from that, will go into improving Microsoft's Office and Dynamics apps, besides the other benefits from running a combined company."
"LinkedIn's tools for recruiters account for 58% of the $860m in revenue it generated in the first quarter of the year [so, $3.440bn run rate]. When combined with educational material from its Lynda.com acquisition, HCM tools make up 65% of sales. Tools for marketers and premium subscriptions (including its offering for sales teams) each make up less than 20% of the business, and are the slowest growing parts of the business."
"Microsoft is the world's largest software developer, with about $100bn in sales and a $400bn market cap."
I-Bankers rejoice (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/06/13/microsoft-for-linkedin-deal-shows-accelerating-pace-of-ma-says-ubs/)!
Tim Anderson inadvertantly makes a good case of CRM/HCM (http://www.itwriting.com/blog/9393-microsoft-and-linkedin-some-early-thoughts.html)
Private Equity buying Tech Companies
Why private equity is buying up software companies (http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/10/why-private-equity-is-buying-up-software-companies.html)
The theory seems to be: SaaS companies are undervalued, and PE firms are looking to buy cheap assets and grow them, and re-exit them. This vs. the usual cut costs and re-exit then. Of course, Qlik and Ping aren't SaaS.
Vista Acquires Ping Identity for $600m (http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/12/ping-shapes-new-identity-after-600-million-acquisition/)
Symantec buys Bluecoat from Bain (http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/symantec-grabs-blue-coat-systems-for-4-65-billion/)
bignews.chef.io
It's habitat (https://habitat.sh)
Habitat centers application configuration, management, and behavior around the application itself, not the infrastructure that the app runs on.
Habitat is comprised of plan and build system, a supervisor, an HTTP interface on that supervisor to report package status, a depot, a communication model for disseminating rumors through a supervisor ring, and many other components.
Check out the code (https://github.com/habitat-sh)
Don't look at the camera, and don't smile - Cade Metz story (http://www.wired.com/2016/06/chef-just-took-big-step-quest-make-code-work-like-biology/)
Adam Throwing Eggs at Nathan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD0vRW4G82U).
Mid-roll
Matt talking habitat (http://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/228918510/) - June 21st in Austin!
Coté in Poland next week (https://cote.io/2016/05/27/come-see-me-in-poland/).
Pivotal Conversations podcast (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations) - subscribe (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:232731292/sounds.rss).
SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/) – get $300 off your registration with the code pivotal-cote-300!
Discounts to DevOpsDays: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-minneapolis/), July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016.
Cloud Native Roadshows (http://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow) - all year long, in many cities globally. Check 'em out (http://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow) and come learn about Pivotal and Cloud Foundry for free, including some lunch.
As always, see Crazy Coté's Discount Codes and Special Promotions (https://cote.io/promos/)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
What enterprise wants from Google's cloud
Google, in short, needs to learn to be boring (http://readwrite.com/2016/06/07/enterprise-wants-googles-cloud-pl1-2/)
...according to Gartner analyst Lydia Leong (https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/713825582719582209): "Azure almost always loses tech evals to AWS hands-down, but guess what? They still win deals. Business isn't tech-only." What a weird thread that is!
"Greene is also tapping her VMware Rolodex, talking with big enterprise rivals like SAP SE, Microsoft and Oracle, to get more of their products into the Google cloud. That's must-have for some large companies, which need prepackaged software from these providers to run their businesses. No Oracle or SAP products are available on Google's cloud today. Microsoft and Oracle declined to comment, while SAP confirmed early talks." From Jack Clark's Bloomberg piece (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-22/google-s-greene-hastens-cloud-expansion-in-race-with-amazon).
Docker, K8s and Mesos as Interoperability Targets
Piece from TheNewStack (http://thenewstack.io/vendors-working-towards-k8s-docker-interoperability/)
Meta Podcast Stuff
Scrrips by Sticher (http://www.wsj.com/articles/e-w-scripps-buys-podcast-company-stitcher-1465239600)
Future of Podcasting by Ben Thompson (https://stratechery.com/2016/the-future-of-podcasting/)
Apple Announcement
WWDC 2016: Apple's 8 key enterprise stories (http://www.computerworld.com/article/3083396/apple-mac/wwdc-2016-apple-s-8-key-enterprise-stories.html)
Recommendations
Brandon: Keepin it 1600 (https://theringer.com/keepin-it-1600-podcast-politics-election-jon-favreau-dan-pfeiffer-220924af4c94#.c8pj2lmhn). Radlolab Presents More Prefect (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect/).
Matt: I miss Uber; Matt's gets Mercutio'ed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercutio) by Austin and Uber. Occupied (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4192998/).
Coté: Nine minute history of "old IBM" (http://www.marketplace.org/2016/06/08/world/profit-ibm) - Poison Ivy treatments: I gotcha covered, so to speak.
6/17/2016 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 65: The High-level WTF on "Scheduling"
SPONSOR
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Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I’ll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too.
August 1st to 4th, SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/) – I’ll be talking on DevOps and generally hanging out with the cloud native folks. You can get $300 off registration when you use the code pivotal-cote-300 (https://2016.event.springoneplatform.io/register).
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP).
Father’s Day
It’s coming, June 19th (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_Day_(United_States)). What should fathers be asking for?
Time alone a la Nathaniel Fisher (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/08/20/six_feet_under_best_episode_to_watch_first_is_the_room.html).
The Buff (http://buffusa.com/), neck-ware thing: be like Kevin Rayburn (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1500704768/ch0507670?ref_=chmd_md_nxt).
Aerobie AeroPress Coffee Maker with Tote Bag (http://amzn.to/1syP13i)
Tortuga one-bag backpack (http://amzn.to/1PPy66N)
MesosCon
Platform Infrastructure at Twitter: The Past, Present and - Future - Chris Pinkham, VP of Engineering, Twitter
Forgot to talk about this, but here are my notes from the MesosCon presentation by Twitter
Former Nimbula founder (Oracle acquisition), early AWS founder.
Twitter's kinda big deal, maybe you've heard of them. Over 1000 services manage Twitter, over 1,000,000 cores.
http://twitter.github.io (http://twitter.github.io)
Heron is a newly open-sourced replacement for Storm. Supporting all of our own code isn't sustainable, need an open source community.
The Ellen Degeneres photo tweet from the 2015 Academy Awards knocked a couple of services over. 25% traffic spike, hit 255k/tweets per second. 2016 Academy Awards had 2x the traffic, no failures.
30,000 node Mesos cluster (probably largest). "We don't like being the biggest of anything, we find the edge cases." 130,000,000 containers launched daily.
Some of their acquisitions were in public cloud, they don't move them in-house. They're actually pushing new services out to AWS where they can. Vine, TellApart, Crashlytics, MoPub, BlueFin, etc. Ad-serving is mostly in AWS.
Users: Time Warner, Twitter (30,000 host deployment), Apple Siri.
What exactly is scheduling?
BMC CONTROL-M (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_Control-M)
Coté gets Matt to "checks out" his crudes understanding. (Spoiler: Checks out.)
Serverless, what’s the deal?
Wardly hitches it to Cloud Foundry (http://blog.gardeviance.org/2016/06/how-cloud-foundry-will-save-world-from.html)
Mid-roll
SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/) – get $300 off your registration with the code pivotal-cote-300!
Discounts to DevOpsDays: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-minneapolis/), July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016.
Cloud Native Roadshows (http://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow) - all year long, in many cities globally. Check 'em out (http://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow) and come learn about Pivotal and Cloud Foundry for free, including some lunch.
As always, see Crazy Coté’s Discount Codes and Special Promotions (https://cote.io/promos/)
Big News From Chef (https://bignews.chef.io)
Matt’s presenting at the Austin Cloud User Group (http://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/228918510/)
Chef’s got a sales event on the 16th in Austin (https://pages.chef.io/201606-Pop-upAustin-WholeFoods_RSVP.html)
Leave us some comments and reviews in iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2), or just tell your friends to listen. Also, talking to us in Twitter is better than all these things! (We just want to be loved.)
BONUS LINKS!
Not covered in show:
Somebody’s using Kubernetes
Hear the tale (http://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/450297178/Tech-firms-roll-out-Kubernetes-in-production)!
Concur & Barkly Protects
Both shops did customizations to the codebase (AWS AZ & ELB support, Prometheus)
AWS & Australia News
It went down (http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/web-chaos-mostly-over-after-amazon-web-services-hit-by-power-outage-during-sydney-storm-20160605-gpc707.html)
Message from Amazon (http://aws.amazon.com/message/4372T8/)
Coté’s revamped Pivotal Conversations Podcast
First episode (https://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-conversations/features/21-pivotal-conversations-podcast)
One in the can; iTunes feed (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-things-pivotal/id923143430?mt=2)
Going to use SoundCloud. Let’s see how this goes!
Typosquatting Package Managers
Seriously messed up (http://incolumitas.com/2016/06/08/typosquatting-package-managers/).
“In the thesis itself, several powerful methods to defend against typo squatting attacks are discussed. Therefore they are not included in this blog post.”
A Docker on every HPE Server
Running on HPE (https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/docker-enterprise-hpe/)
Reference Architectures!
HPE 3PAR and SiteScope plugins!
Maybe Brandon can regale us with some history: tales of The Mercury Wars!
Also, some ALM stuff (https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/press-release/2016/06/1262106-hewlett-packard-enterprise-introduces-new-application-lifecycle-management-software-for-devops-and-agile-environments.html?es_p=1926232). Sadly, I don’t have access to the IDC reports on this (http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US40818015), however, they’re expecting big things: “IDC's analysis of this market resulted in worldwide agile application life-cycle management software 2014 revenue of $450.3 million, up 30.5% from the 2013 revenue of $345 million. IDC expects very strong growth for agile ALM software for the 2014–2019 time frame, with growth to $1.8 billion by 2019 and a high CAGR of 32%”
erry-one doin’ it! What’s up with Chef’s ALM/CD stuff? Pivotal circle of code vision (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7APZD0me1nU), with ConcourseCI.
Recommendations
Brandon: (1.) Listener Feedback: Amazon does let you have addenda, from Josh Hoover](https://twitter.com/joshuahoover/status/728921712486572032 ); (2.) App Store Announcements overview (https://www.relay.fm/radar/31); (3.) Ben Thompson on how to make it in the media in 2016 (http://www.vox.com/technology/2016/4/21/11464604/ben-thompson-ezra-klein-show)
Matt: Diaspora (http://amzn.to/1UHpLy3)
Coté: Follow-up: that machette (http://amzn.to/20XxoVR) works, but watch out for poison ivy. Also, try out @WuTangFinance (https://twitter.com/Wu_Tang_Finance/status/741292651614326786) to really freak 'em.
6/10/2016 • 55 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 64: Residential Diaper Rash
SPONSOR
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Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/).
See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP).
"Residential Diaper Rash"
Shit's wet in Texas (https://twitter.com/priskillya/status/738404958391787520)
The right kind of rain
Battling Billionaires
Thiel-attack (https://stratechery.com/2016/peter-thiel-comic-book-hero/)!
Internet History podcast (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/) - Microsoft gets the internet (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/03/chapter-2-part-2-bill-gates-gets-the-internet/) and Microsoft at the Dawn of the Internet Era (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/02/chapter-2-part-1-microsoft-at-the-beginning-of-the-internet/).
Making money in open source
Something about a16z and O'Grady's open source piece (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/06/02/future-of-open-source/).
ARM licensing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings#Licensees).
Battery Ventures conference (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BVOSS) - Mårten Mickos says RDS has probably made more money off MySQL than Oracle has (https://twitter.com/jgrayla/status/738497915195269120).
Mid-roll
Chef's got something new soon Just wait 260 more hours (https://bignews.chef.io/)
SpringOne Platform, August 1st to 4th (https://springoneplatform.io/) - speaker line-up announced, including Coté and some stars from LordsOfComputing.com (https://cote.io/podcasts/loc/) (Matt and Brian (https://cote.io/2016/04/29/loc12/)).
Discounts to DevOpsDays: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-minneapolis/), July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016.
More shit at https://cote.io/promos/ (https://cote.io/promos/).
See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals and "mid-roll" stuff currently going on.
Notes from Corporate Strategy Land
Qlik goes private - Thoma Bravo pays $3bn. Good summary of historic BI acquisitions from 451 (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/thoma-bravo-qliks-buy-on-3bn-analytics-deal/).
Wither JasperSoft? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JasperReports): "On April 28, 2014, TIBCO announced it had acquired Jaspersoft for approximately $185 million."
Court ruling on Dell going private (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/31/michael_dell_buyback_on_the_cheap/) - Coté has nothing to say about that. However, the story of going private in the first part of the 115 page court ruling (http://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=241590) is gripping stuff if you're into corporate strategy - it's a rare chance to see what happens in all these M&A deals.
Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report
Video of the presentation (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/06/01/meeker-report)
Quartz highlights (http://qz.com/697050/mary-meekers-2016-internet-trends-report-all-the-slides-plus-highlights/)
Software is getting faster at eating the (ecommerce) world: "The time it takes retailers to get to $100 million in online sales is shrinking. It took Nike 14 years from the time its retail site launched, compared to nine years for Lululemon, and eight year for Under Armour."
213 slides of charts (http://www.kpcb.com/blog/2016-internet-trends-report) (PDF).
BONUS LINKS!
Ezra Klein on productivity loss (http://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/technology-productivity)
Oracle loses their case against Google - APIs aren't copyrightable (http://www.wired.com/2016/05/google-doesnt-owe-oracle-cent-using-java-android-jury-finds/)- Counter-view: "cartoon vision of the world" and "banana republics." (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/02/google_oracle_comment/)
AWS launches Flourish - Framework for serverless computing (http://thenewstack.io/amazon-debuts-flourish-runtime-application-model-serverless-computing/) - Open up the ability to add new language runtimes
Salesforce moving into AWS? - $400 million over 4 years (http://fortune.com/2016/05/25/salesforce-inks-major-aws-deal/) - But what about Oracle?
CoreOS launches Torus - GIFEE strikes again (https://coreos.com/blog/torus-distributed-storage-by-coreos.html)!
Recommendations
Matt: Weird history of fake bands in the 60s (https://www.buzzfeed.com/danielralston/the-true-story-of-the-fake-zombies-the-strangest-con-in-rock). #tronc (https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/738478489322586112).
Coté: (1.) Weatherproof button-up shirts from CostCo (http://amzn.to/1XWuLEl). (2.) The old guy hair of Bloodline (http://www.gq.com/story/old-guy-hair-bloodline-sam-shepard). (3.) Coach Taylor seem like a real nice guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chandler). (4.) Provisional recommendation: Gerber Bear Grylls Parang Machete (http://amzn.to/20XxoVR).
Brandon: Tortuga Air (http://www.tortugabackpacks.com/products/tortuga-air-carry-on-backpack) - no more fear of gate-checking.
6/4/2016 • 58 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 63: The Snack-Tracker, Uber in Austin, & Tater Salad
SPONSORS
Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too.
Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/).
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8HsST6BzTc).
Cost Cutting Perks in Silicon Valley
More from the snack-track files (http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-cutting-at-dropbox-and-silicon-valley-startups-2016-5).
Employees at Kabam, the online-gaming startup worth $1 billion, recently felt like there was a decrease in the number of office snack stands. Although the company denies it, some believe the snack stands are now placed more sporadically in order to reduce the employees' frequency of snack consumption by making it a little harder to get to them.
No Uber in Austin
Brandon sets us straight on the details.
Coté defends the uber-haters.
Will Containers Replace Hypervisors, Almost Certainly Yes
TL;DR; is the title :) (https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/will-containers-replace-hypervisors-almost-certainly/)
Randy Bias, the "pets vs. cattle" godfather, makes a strong case for hypervisors being on the way out.
Once all the legacy apps are re-written to be in containers (cloud native) or decom'ed (you know, in the future (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzpdd4pWvM&feature=youtu.be&t=1m19s)), and we don't want to run multiple OSes (so don't need the driver handling that hypervisors give us)...no need for hypervisors. QED.
Cloud chief Diane Greene on how Google can beat Amazon and Microsoft
A brief interview (http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/05/06/cloud-chief-diane-greene-on-how-google-can-beat-amazon-and-microsoft/)
"Q: How will Google differentiate against AWS and Microsoft? A: Only 5 percent of workloads are in the public cloud. Effectively you're riding another company's innovation curve for free. We've open-sourced a lot of technologies like Kubernetes and TensorFlow. As we add more features, we'll be able to share a lot more strengths with applications." - can OSS be used to attack on-premises cloud?
Not in my tater salad (https://twitter.com/Oak2278/status/537436262097907713)!
BONUS LINKS!
Apprenda buys Kismatic
"Apprenda will also take the lead in building out Windows support for Kubernetes, which has been Linux focused," said Sinclair Schuller (http://fortune.com/2016/05/19/apprenda-buys-kismatic/), chief executive of Apprenda.
Do you even pop-up, bro? (https://apprenda.com/blog/apprenda-acquires-kismatic/)
Apprenda pivoted towards Kubernetes recently, Kismatic was building "Enterprise friendly" Kubernetes
"Per Incident" pricing (https://apprenda.com/kubernetes-support/) is really hard to scale. Perhaps Brandon has comments on open source business models.
"[I]t is what most would call a dynamic market." (http://fortune.com/2016/05/19/apprenda-buys-kismatic/)
Digging into Microsoft's Cloud Numbers
Charts! (https://mattermark.com/taking-stock-cloud-wars/)
Microsoft has something like $102.6bn cash on-hand (http://www.geekwire.com/2016/apple-microsoft-google-hold-nearly-quarter-u-s-corporate-cash/). Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
Internet Giants Resume Data Center Spending
"Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook spent a combined $23 billion in 2015 on capital projects. During an investment flurry from 2011 to last year, the companies' combined capex nearly tripled." (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/09/break-internet-giants-resume-data-center-spending-gadfly/)
"Parsimony at Alphabet is all relative. The company's $9.9 billion in capital expenditures for 2015 was nearly more than the combined capex spending of Microsoft and Amazon."
Facebook Sponsors the Republican National Convention
The social network says its participation (http://recode.net/2016/05/05/facebook-republican-national-convention-sponsor/) — which will include a lounge — should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any candidate, issue or political party. It plans to do the same at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Tell me more about this lounge…
So, who's going to sponsor the RNC JumboTron for SDT?
Nazis on Reddit!
Never read the comments (http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11595472/reddit-hitler-nazi-comments-godwins-law)
Recommendations
Brandon: Y20U noise canceling headphones - cheap! (http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-headphones-under-40/) and the full Area X triology on audible, for just one credit! (http://amzn.to/1sPZ04A)
Matt: Doing the Lord's work (https://twitter.com/DungeonsDonald); super heros jumping (https://twitter.com/hownottodraw/status/729797659431686144)
Coté: Lomo al Trapo, aka, "towel meat." (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/08/lomo-al-trapo-colombian-cloth-wrapped-salt-crusted-beef-tenderloin-recipe.html). Also fast.com (https://fast.com/). Also The Botanist gin (https://www.thebotanist.com/).
5/26/2016 • 56 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 62: Peak Ping Pong
This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal's funding round, and some follow-up for the OpenStack Summit: turns our Gartner doesn't hate them. Also, with the new ping-model out, we discuss the potential for peak ping pong.
SPONSOR
Get 30% off OSCON, in Austin on May 18th and 19th, when you register with the code REFERCOTE.
Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too.
Get 20% off registration for the Cloud Foundry Summit, May 23rd to 25th, with the code CF16COTE.
Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/).
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP).
Agile & Beyond Conference - Jeffrey Liker keynote.
DevOpsDays Austin earlier this week.
500 to 600 people, +200 y/y
Matt Ray's talk on compliance (http://www.slideshare.net/mattray/compliance-as-code), Coté's talk (https://cote.io/2016/05/02/devops-for-normals/).
Pivotal gets a series C
Press release (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160505005598/en/Pivotal-Announces-Series-Financing-Fuel-Continued-Expansion#.Vyta_lwqu5I.twitter)
$253 million with new investors Ford and Microsoft. Existing: GE, EMC, and VMware.
Momentum by penetration: "30% of the Fortune 100 currently work with Pivotal… The company now works with seven of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the top five global auto manufacturers, and five of the top 10 telecommunication companies."
Momentum by run-rate: "Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Big Data Suite having crossed the $200 million and $100 million annual bookings run-rate milestones, respectively."
Momentum by logos: "GE, Ford, Verizon, Home Depot, Comcast, Humana, Lockheed Martin, and Allstate"
"Person familiar" says (http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0XW11G) Pivotal now has a $2.8bn valuation. From the same article, Ford's chunk is $182.2m.
Gartner actually "likes" OpenStack
OpenStack and Gartner: The Facts - Alan Waite (http://blogs.gartner.com/alan-waite/2016/05/03/openstack-gartner-facts/)
Good representation of many things: how difficult it is to be "part of the conversation" with a paywall.
The perception of Gartner is usually skewed
Tip: always read the primary source, be it a Gartner PDF or a talk, etc.
Ping Pong and the Tech Bubble?
"Falling table-tennis sales give a peek into the economics of Silicon Valley, where the right to play on the job is sacrosanct" (http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-tech-bubble-popping-ping-pong-offers-an-answer-1462286089#:K4CFGVr2Ylj1GA)
Seriously? No wonder people hate Silicon Valley
Hey, look, it's the Pivotal SF offices! Love that chunky coconut water.
More
DevOpsDays Seattle next week, May 12th and 13th (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-seattle/) - Coté has an ignite talk there (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-seattle/proposals/How_to_survive_and_thrive_in_a_big_company/).
Ignite talks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_(event))
Jeff Bezos weighs in on rewrites
This anecdote has really stuck with me (https://storify.com/jrauser/on-the-big-rewrite-and-bezos-as-a-technical-leader)
Recommendations
Brandon: SaveFrom.net/ (http://en.savefrom.net/) - save videos from the web.
Matt: New Radiohead "Burn the Witch" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2oS2hoL0k)
DevOpsDays Austin speaker gifts.
Coté: Lords of Computing #12 (https://cote.io/2016/04/29/loc12/) - with Brian Gregory of Express Scripts. I don't usually toot my own content horn, but this was a good episode. Also, that Elon Musk book by Ashlee Vance (http://amzn.to/1XboAw1). It was $2 on Amazon the other day, so YOLO. Also: James Governor on an Apple Watch with an explosion behind him (https://twitter.com/bennycrime/status/728261918213943296).
5/6/2016 • 53 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 61: Baltimore is not the same as Annapolis. Also, they like crab there
OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise number on private vs. public cloud adoption. Coté also manages to insult the entire Eastern seaboard, esp. Annapolis.
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Go to a conference on the cheap! Discount Codes
I round up all sorts of discount codes for conferences and such, here's what I got today:
Get 30% off OSCON (http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us), in Austin on May 18th and 19th, when you register with the code REFERCOTE.
Get 15% off DevOpsDays Seattle (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-seattle/), May 12th and 13th, when you register with the code SOFTWARETALK. I'll be there staffing the Pivotal table and also giving an ignite talk.
Get 20% off registration for the Cloud Foundry Summit (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/community/summits/attend/?summitId=10016), May 23rd to 25th, with the code CF16COTE.
Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-minneapolis/), July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too.
Show notes
If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://youtu.be/x2ClCSW_sks).
Agile and Beyond conference (http://agileandbeyond.com/2016/)
OpenStack
Coté's developer relations and marketing panel (https://twitter.com/alsadowski/status/724746954522021889) - see sample of questions (http://drunkandretired.com/post/143486274111/im-moderating-a-panel-tomorrow-at-the-openstack).
Big name membership momentum from @alsadowski (https://twitter.com/alsadowski/status/724746954522021889)
Also, 451 market-size estimates (https://twitter.com/cote/status/725374178191265792): 2013: $486m; 2015: $1.2bn; 2018E: $3.37bn
Docker Survey out - #WhatDoYouMakeOfThat
Get the PDF (https://goto.docker.com/rs/929-FJL-178/images/Docker-Survey-2016.pdf)
Respondents are the HN set? - 511 respondents, 59% from software companies, 56% orgs less than 100 employees, 47% devs or dev managers
51% in production
"survey respondents reported on average a 13X increase in frequency of software releases."
"Because Docker makes it simple and easy to push software out, isolate issues and roll back, over 63% of organizations report a reduction in their MTTR which impacts overall software quality and customer satisfaction."
Cloud about to get HUGE
"CIOs report that 16.2% of workloads are currently running in the public cloud, and that in five years 41.3% of workloads will run in a public cloud. This suggests at least a 20% CAGR in public cloud workloads over the next five years. In our view, a near- tripling of the public-Cloud-based workload mix represents a monumental architectural shift, which shows no signs of abating and is likely to create a major ripple effect across the entire technology landscape." - "Amazon Seeing 'Momentous' Change of Guard as Public Cloud 'Booms,' Says JP Morgan" (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/04/14/amazon-seeing-momentous-change-of-guard-as-public-cloud-booms-says-jp-morgan/)
How does Wall Street work, again?
A Rolex-level of "failure" (https://500ish.com/a-flop-unlike-any-other-c15545c985b5#.skx53yiw9)
Back of the Envelop podcast (http://thebackoftheenvelope.tumblr.com/) - where Ed used to teach Coté about how money works.
Cisco OSpod podcast (http://www.nextcast.net/openstackpod-events/michael-cot-director-of-technical-marketing-at-pivotal-software-on-ospod-at-openstack-summit-austin-2016)
Dan Lyons book (http://amzn.to/1Tz9y0b) - candy walls and HubSpot.
Feedback & Follow-up
Full Snack Developer: Old Bay Seasoning on French Fries (https://twitter.com/rlangford77/status/723662056117784576) - that is Coté's new God.
Mesos is fleet management (https://twitter.com/ryan_maclean/status/723667528782737408). How's that one handle on the curves?
Chapters in podcasts. I used Chapter app (http://chaptersapp.com/) and it was better than the half-ass results with Fission (https://rogueamoeba.com/fission/). But, still, the marks didn't line up perfectly. Computers - amiright? (Don't get me wrong: Fission is awesome, but: really?)
We should be in Google Play Podcasts - can someone verify this before they EOL it?
I heard that two people have used the code CF16COTE to register for the CF Summit. I'm going to believe they're from the listeners here and not my newsletter. HOW YOU LIKE MY CPM NOW?!
They love us in Brazil!
Recommendations
Brandon: TICKR heart-rate monitor (http://amzn.to/1STPmZX).
Matt: Public cloud (www.slideshare.net/mattray/why-not-public-cloud). Also: renting your house is hard.
Coté: OH YEAH! (https://twitter.com/imgur/status/725459722241892352)