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.

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Conferences, et. al.

• Oct 1st to 2nd - New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London, Coté on a partner panel on Oct 1st, also, come see The Governor in action at FutureStack on the 2nd.
• Oct 2nd, London! Coté talking metrics at the NO NAME Pivotal Meetup.
• Oct 4th - ITQ Transform, Utrecht - Coté talking.
• Oct 16th - DevOpsDays Paris - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle!
• Oct 17th - JDriven Managers summit - near Amsterdam - Coté talking.
• Oct 10th to 11th - Cloud Expo Asia - Matt’s presenting!
• Oct 11th to 12th - DevOps Days Singapore - Matt’s keynoting & igniting!
  • Discount Code
• Oct 31st - Coté speaking at New Relic’s FutureStack Amsterdam.
• Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th.
• Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture.
• Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto, Coté.

SDT news & hype

• Join us in Slack.
• Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast - Cote on Tech Evangelism
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• Buy some t-shirts! All T-Shirts $5.50 T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER
• Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker.
• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.

Recommendations

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• Brandon:
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  • Cloud Rankings from Liftrnews