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, DORA edition:
  • Coté’s notes.
  • Effective DevOps.
  • “Thread.” (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!)
• VMworld 2018 Recap.
• VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications.
• Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world.
• Elastic S-1. Some actually useful summary/commentary on HN.
• H-E-B Plans New Tech Facility, Innovation Lab In Austin. Hopefully Buddy will crush it.
  • https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/1037485524972457990

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Conferences, et. al.

• Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
• DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th - Coté at a table.
• New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Oct 1st and 2nd - Coté on a partner panel, also, come see The Governor. Later that night, Oct 2nd, Coté speaking at a meetup, topic TBD.
• ITQ Transform, Oct 4th, Utrecht - Coté talking.
• DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle.
• JDriven Managers summit, Oct 17th, near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
• Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11. Matt’s presenting!
• DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12. Matt’s presenting!
• DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25. Matt’s presenting!
• Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. Coté’s presenting.
• SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th. Also, Toronto, Dec 12th to 13th.

Listener Feedback

• Rob from slack tells how to pronounce Galway. Bryan wants you to know about DevOps Days Galway November 18-20th
• We are working on the Google Chrome Security thing. Actually, Fireside.fm is working on it.

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.
• Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism
• CashedOut.coffee podcast.
• Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) — T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER
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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.

Recommendations

• Brandon: Ozark Season 2.
• Matt: StarCraft 2, free to play! (Not to be confused with StarControl.)
• Coté: Embedded Netflix, in your TV. Also: Sharp Objects - like all great shows, the end is a massive disappointment of Chekhovian-ease, but the rest is great. Anti-recommendation: whatever reasons make it so I have three remotes.