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.

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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.
  • “In the future K8s will exist as an infrastructure API almost universally.”
  • “Daimler takes 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.
• IBM brings Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift together
  • “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
• Why Red Hat sees Knative as the answer to Kubernetes orchestration
• BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage
• Data Protection Services Firm Carbonite Considers a Sale
• Recap of the “funding” experiment
  • “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?
• Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken
• Google Could Acquire Nutanix For $9 Billion To Further Its Cloud Ambitions
  • 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
• It's Not Just You: Software Has Gotten Far More Expensive - check out their spreadsheet, with sparkle lines!
• Uber stock price drops after missed Q2 expectations
• Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube
• Announcing Terraform Cloud
• 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
  • WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10 billion...
  • Cloudflare Raises $525 Million in Above-Range IPO
• New Rita McGrath book out, Seeing Around Corners.

Nonsense

• Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain, just moved to eliminate 500 million small bottles.
• Jack Ma's performance.
• “;; I'm using use-package and el-get and evil”

Sponsors

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Conferences, et. al.

• Sep 25th - Something in London.
• Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
• Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
• Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
• Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 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: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
• December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Land of Giants and Pivot. Related: Robert Scoble.
• Matt: Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Mics and Men.
  • Jim Plamondon: Microsoft Evangelist.
• Coté: Trick Mirror.

Outro: "Spottieottiedopalicious (Instrumental)."