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 seems unhelpful.

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Also:

• Pretty hard stop in an hour.
• Slack Messaging Transport Protocol and The Cold Chain
• Drum-circle free zone at Vondelpark!
• Like us on Facebook as we hate on Facebook
• As people would call it… bong talk.
• If I’m gonna do a good job I’m gonna need a good editor.
• Do .ini files still exist? Or has Microsoft gone all yaml?
• The back 1/3 of all sci fi movies and religions.

Relevant to your interests

• The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic
  • Only half use CI/CD? Been like that in surveys for many years, since 2012 or so.
  • Also, only 44% use an issue tracker? Weird.
  • Testing is pretty good with 70% doing unit testing.
• Kubernetes Turns Five: Cloud Native Goes Mainstream
• Open Core Summit 2019
  • This is a VC/startup conference, seems.
• Why cloud is the best defense against AWS
  • I guess it’s some fanfic on OSS companies being good at running managed middleware services?
  • Not too far fetched of an idea: they just need good SREs and the ability to reliably and cheaply run on public clouds.
  • Kind of like selling against generics in grocery stores.
• Kubernetes and the future of cloud native: We chat with Kelsey Hightower
• TechExplorers: Kelsey Hightower
  • Lots of people doing it wrong: gotta have cloud native apps; don’t build platforms?
• Apple joins the open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• The goal of digital transformation is outcomes, not engineering
  • Coté just wanted to point out that this is a good newsletter. Listeners will like it, relevant to your interests.
• Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet - Pull Panda is joining GitHub
• Mission critical apps make successful open source platforms
  • Really good write-up of the sales life-cycle for any type of infrasture software.
  • Good attention to the whole life of a customer and paying attention total revenue across their “life,” e.g.:“A customer might spend 6 months scaling their deployment on their own. But if we could help them do that in 3 months, then we probably just pulled in our next sale by one quarter. “
  • What are the “average” prices for thing here? Analogously, you can bucket the pricing for all condemnts (with truffle oil being an outlier) in the $1 to $15 range. But not, like, $100. There must be some basic clusters of OSS pricing. (Expensive stuff is hard to sell in this funnel.)
  • I suppose looking at avg. annual revenue per customer for all these OSS companies would get you there.
• “Bodies in Seats” - Facebook moderators
  • Even FB outsources! Here to Cognizant.
  • Seems terrible.
• Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop?
  • Follow-up on Hortonworks acquisition, road-map confusion: ‘Cloudera was also dogged by other factors that resulted in a slowing of bookings in the quarter by existing customers, which represent more than 90 percent of the company’s usual growth, Reilly said during a conference call with Wall Street analysts yesterday. The merger with Hortonworks “created uncertainty, particularly regarding the combined company roadmap, which we rolled out in March of this year,” he said. “During this period of uncertainty, we saw increased competition from the public cloud vendors.”’

Nonsense

• Subway History: How OS/2 Powered The NYC Subway For Decades
• The machines are going to hate us
• English units

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Conferences, et. al.

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• 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
• ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
• Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.

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Recommendations

• Coté: Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs.
• Matt: 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: "The Cold Chain".

Outro: “All I Eat is Pizza,” Koo Koo Kanga Roo.