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
• Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2018 Edition
• Add It Up: C-suite Doesn't Have a Clue About App Dev
• Red Hat's Hidden Treasure - Avalia - Software Due Diligence
• Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
• New VMware Kubernetes product comes courtesy of Heptio acquisition
• VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser
• Rancher Labs strips Kubernetes to its bare essentials for edge computing
• Google’s hybrid cloud platform is now in beta
• Top ten most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities
• Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
• The Value Chain Constraint
• Microsoft combines AI and humans to boost cloud security with Azure Sentinel and Threat Experts
• Is it time to be afraid of IBM again?

Questionable marketing decisions…?

• Slack has decided to somehow make its icon even duller and less notable
• USB 3.0 & USB 3.1 merger into USB 3.2 branding by overseers further confusing USB-C

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Abducted in Plain Sight.
• Matt: Anti-recommendation: The Discovery of Witches.
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