Software Defined Talk

With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the “losers” are. Also, the low-down on CostCo in Australia! Mid-roll Coté: I’m speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/agenda/), day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off! Matt: Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group (https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/events/232172236/) Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk (https://events.chef.io/events/microsoft-ignite-australia/) ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84) Coté: much self-promotion to catch up on: I’m writing more “original content” on my blog (https://cote.io/), and plan to write more; subscribe to my newsletter for a round-up of stuff I blog, sent out on Sunday night (http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=806adba588), will tweak more. Also, in the “grim” vein, Coté reviews some books on "automation," (http://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics) which John Allspaw rightly says (https://www.facebook.com/drunkandretired/posts/10155023406864169?comment_id=10155023650914169&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D) should be called "new technology," fair enough. The 1983 paper on automation and humans (http://www.bainbrdg.demon.co.uk/Papers/Ironies.html) is a good read too. CostCo field report: Australia It’s great! US: No need for a hot pizza sign holder. US: Rayban Wayfarers are like $130 now! AppDynamics files for IPO… Cisco says NOT SO FAST IPO filing... (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/appdynamics-files-ipo-133542304.html) “Our revenues for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016 were $23.6 million, $81.9 million and $150.6 million, respectively” Cisco (http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-announces-enterprise-news) $3.7 billion, about a 14-17X multiplier (https://cote.io/2017/01/25/at-3-7bn-appdynamics-sells-to-cisco-at-17-3x-estimated/) Atlassian Buys Trello for $425 Million Wired coverage (https://www.wired.com/2017/01/trello-simple-app-worth-425-million-dollars/) 451 report, paywall (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=91333). Public blog from 451 (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/atlassian-inks-its-biggest-buy-with-425m-collaboration-software-deal/). Oracle Buys Apiary “API Integration Cloud” (https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/apiary/index.html) Coté’s coverage, with plenty more links (https://cote.io/2017/01/19/oracle-acquiring-apiary-api-design-for-the-660m-in-2020-api-market/): small asset working on a $660m API management market. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. HP Buys Stuff Cloud Cruiser for management/chargeback, $650 million (http://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-to-acquire-cloud-cruiser-for-measuring-it-usage/) SimpliVity for converged systems, $650 million (http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2017/01/17/hewlett-packard-enterprise-pays-650-million-in-cash-for-simplivity/) You Know What DevOps Needs? An IEEE Standard They’re working on it (https://standards.ieee.org/develop/wg/DevOps.html) Twitter Google buying Fabric. Facebook still king. Do We Talk About Trump? OpenStack Summits leaving the US (https://www.openstack.org/blog/2017/01/supporting-our-global-community/) Red Hat, Microsoft, others making announcements against the Muslim ban Coté says: these people are proven idiots. Don’t work with them (https://cote.io/2017/01/30/tech-must-rethink-working-with-the-hobgoblins-cf-scorpions-turtles-trumptech/). Trump’s Twitter Moves Markets Apparently he watches Fox and parrots their lines (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/every-trump-tweet-activates-thousands-of-computer-algorithms-2017-01-12), so maybe someone at Fox is making a killing with “insider trading”? RethinkDB: Why We Failed Good read for how hard it is to crack the DB and OSS markets (http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html). “In hindsight, two things went wrong – we picked a terrible market and optimized the product for the wrong metrics of goodness.” Coté follow-up: be careful with TAM picking (https://cote.io/2017/01/21/choose-your-tam-wisely-and-remember-to-charge-a-high-price-rethinkdb/). Yahoo is Altaba … wut? (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-m-a-verizon-idUSKBN14T2I7) Dreams $45bn (https://twitter.com/IvanTheK/status/818810602839744512) Google’s AI Awakening “How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.” Extensive article on Google’s AI push from back in December (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html) Alexa Amazon’s OS (https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-operating-system/) Also, there’s an estimated 24.5m of these voice things around (https://cote.io/2017/01/26/alexa-how-many-of-your-type-exists/). ClusterHQ Shutting Down Docker storage startup shuts down (http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/start-ups/start-up-clusterhq-shutting-down/) Facebook’s 2016 Open Source Contributions Open source continues to be great for recruiting (and probably code) (https://code.facebook.com/posts/1058188987642144/facebook-open-source-2016-year-in-review/) Google buys Twitter’s Fabric CASH! (http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-buys-fabric-from-twitter-1201962640/) Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky “State of the World” Always a good read (http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/495/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html) Recommendations Brandon: RTIC 30oz Tumbler (http://amzn.to/2kNhcrw). Matt: Donate to the ACLU (https://www.aclu.org/). RTJ3 is out, and free (https://runthejewels.com/)! My 2016 year in the air (http://cem.re/year-in-review/3b675cc593dc326ec6d2835144db5800d0b28e35.html) Tennis ball making video (http://mentalfloss.com/article/83414/mesmerizing-video-shows-how-tennis-balls-are-made) Coté: big jar of green hatch! Get a 40 (http://amzn.to/2kHP6hQ)! Also, how to feed three people with one bean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEVYbPw9lI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m26s).

30 Tammi 20171h 1min

In part two of Coté navel gazing, we discuss Coté’s life as an analyst and strategists. Matt Ray is off in Australia-land, so it’s just Brandon and Coté. We discuss: what IT analyst work on; working with marketers that have poor, nothing new material; learning how to function inside a large company in the executive suite; M&A and investment bankers, getting shit done in large companies (it’s always slow), like Project Sputnik. Mid-roll DevOpsDays Charlotte (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/welcome/), Feb 6th and 7th, 2017 - get 25% of when you register with the code SDT. Coté’s speaking at it! ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84) Show Notes See part one of this series (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/79). Coté’s published work (http://redmonk.com/cote/) at RedMonk. Coté’s analysis on disruption in the industry analyst business (https://cote.io/2015/02/19/the-new-industry-analysts-again/), going over the business as it matters to the individual analysts. A discussion of Project Sputnik with Coté and Barton George, episode 34 of Pivotal Conversations (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/all-things-pivotal-34). Collected tips on surviving and thriving in a big company, recording a presentation at Devoxx Poland 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFqz5xkgRbs). Recommendations Brandon: Prototyping for Designers, by Kathryn McElroy. Pod Save America podcast (https://getcrookedmedia.com/here-have-a-podcast-78ee56b5a323#.pfuvakf9n) (née Keepin’ it 1600) Coté: Bolthouse Farms, 100% Carrot Juice, 32 oz (http://amzn.to/2iTRwIa) The perfect shoe for white collar yokels: Clarks Men's Trapell Form Slip-On Loafer (http://amzn.to/2kb73sg) At CostCo (or Amazon): 505 Southwestern Hatch Valley Green Chile Salsa 40 Oz (http://amzn.to/2iTsJ75)

20 Tammi 201748min

After speculating on GitHub’s business we throw out our 2017 predictions. We cover AWS, containers, AI, and government IT. Since holiday family time is coming up, Brandon also suggests some simple family IT help-desk tasks - like backup - and throws out the stretch goal of discussing 2FA at the dinner table. Mid-roll Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix (https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/236191762/), 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking! Coté: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 is out. It adds in Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready; it will run 250,000 containers concurrently; you can now auto-scale on based on new metrics like HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput, so when your app seems slow to users, the platform kicks in to make it go faster (previously, CPU; Spring Boot developers will see handy diagnostics info about their apps with new Actuator (diagnostic thing) integrations; devs can use PCF to run “tasks” (one time processes); and, of course, a slew of security updates are bundled in. Go to cote.io/pcf19 (https://cote.io/pcf19/) to check out my highlights and see a link to a longer, more detailed post. Feedback & Follow-up Nice review from Kiyoto (https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk/status/811247748511055872)! We’re in the 2,500 downloads an episode range now - thanks listeners! Show Notes GitHub Bloomberg cover their recent year (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap). ...losing $66 million so far for 2016 - what would GitHub be spending that on? Did some upload a lot of JPGs to their repo? 'Sitting in a conference room featuring an abstract art piece on the wall and a Mad Men-style rollaway bar cart in the corner, GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath says the business is running more smoothly now and growing. “What happened to 2015?” says the 31-year-old co-founder and chief executive officer. “Nothing was getting done, maybe? I shouldn’t say that. Strike that."' “Secular” (http://www.cnbc.com/id/47266526) growth. Brandon's Predictions Growth on the Edge (http://a16z.com/2016/12/16/the-end-of-cloud-computing/), presentation (from a16z GP Peter Levine) - the end of cloud computing and the return to the edge. Recommendations Matt: Surfing Santas: Sun, Fun and an Aldi Ham! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuFr76btbnE) Brandon: DBAN - Darick Boot & Nuke (http://www.dban.org/), Crashplan (https://www.crashplan.com), Time Machine Multiple Disk (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18863?locale=en_US) Coté: Stratechery newsletter (https://stratechery.com/). He can be a little trying at times, but who isn't? He’s one of the most interesting, open, and honest IT analysts out there. See the 2016 round-up from Ben (https://stratechery.com/2016/the-2016-stratechery-year-in-review/)

21 Joulu 20161h 7min

...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie ...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?. ...Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get into Amazon's new managed hosting offering. There's some new container news with containerd from DockerInc land, and some little notes on Azure's features and Cisco's InterCloud shutting down. Also, we find out which Muppet each of us would be played by in The Muppets Take Over Software Defined Talk. Mid-roll Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix (https://www.meetup.com/Arizona-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/236191762/), 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking! Coté: check out my interview with Tony at Home Depot about their first year being cloud native, on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (https://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-conversations/features/045-cloud-native-at-home-depot-with-tony-mcculley). They went from 0 to ~150 apps in their first year. Like, real, business critical apps that you probably end up interacting with (pro tools, paint), plus internal facing apps. Feedback & Follow-up The Doc Martin shoes: Hickmire (http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ). Thanks to Chris Short (https://twitter.com/ChrisShort/status/808339167604338688). The DevOps App dev vs. IT service delivery. DevOps Kung Fu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEToXsgrPc), Adam Jacob's talk on the inclusion of everyone in the org chart in DevOps What is DevOps without Dev? Is there OpsOps? AWS Managed Services Amazon will manage your shit now, with real live peoples (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-managed-services-infrastructure-operations-management-for-the-enterprise/) "This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." (http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/12/amazon-launches-aws-managed-services-to-help-more-big-companies-adopt-cloud/) "This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." - this is a good example of the more subtle way of "paying off analysts." (https://twitter.com/cote/status/809205833586409472) More like: changing their minds. "Designed for the Fortune 1000 and the Global 2000, this service is designed to accelerate cloud adoption" AKA "We're eating our partners" AKA "RACKSPACE: YOU'RE UP!" Coté: Is this like a service desk and a runbook for spinning up AWS stuff? Plus actual AMZN staff to "manage" the infrastructure like patching and such right? Coté: I was just talking with someone yesterday who's mission was "optimize how we do IT without me telling you what I want to do with IT." That is: lower costs and give us the ability to do whatever we may want in the future in under a year's planning/effort. Bezos doesn't like meetings without a memo http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5851aebfca7f0c24018b5b6f-2400/ap16349721408436.jpg Don't Sleep on Microsoft Damn, that's a monstrous URL (https://pages.email.microsoftemail.com/page.aspx?qs=773ed3059447707dab3a47fc5c2937dcbf750d2a6d7e8feab247991209f258cd86e8606f2837501c341831b6f3896ebcb5673dff86feb6303e458a94181db250c28f58237fd3b737cd39c6339094ff6800649c38da065423db508d0369c1992e) GPUs, HANA, Media Services, Machine Deep Learning, Data Lake, Single-instance virtual machines Coté: I hear data is a thing. And AI. Cisco Shutting Down Their InterCloud Coté's audition for an ElReg headline writer: Cloud InterRUPPTED $1 Billion isn't enough (http://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-claims-another-victim-cisco-kills-its-1-billion-cloud-2016-12), "score another body bag win for the unstoppable Amazon Web Services" "Meanwhile, the cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren't using a lot of Cisco gear. They are increasingly using a new style to build networks that relies more on software and less on high-end, expensive hardware." Sharwood@ElReg (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/13/cisco_to_kill_its_intercloud_public_cloud_on_march_31st_2017/): "OpenStack public clouds have an unhappy history: Rackspace felt it could build a business on the platform, but has since changed tack. HP pulled out of its own Helion public cloud. If Cisco is indeed changing direction, the OpenStack Board has some interesting matters to ponder." Theory: AWS means on-premise IT is over-serving. You actually don't need all that. Incumbent vendors succumbed to the strategy aphasia of the disruptor's' dilemma (weren't willing to sacrifice/take eye off the ball of existing success and revenue) and lost to Amazon's lower capabilities, lower price approach. WHEN WILL TECH PEOPLE LURN? There was this talk several years ago that was all like: "well, obviously, we shouldn't compete strategy-to-strategy with Amazon. We should provide the enterprise version!" Apparently, that was dead wrong. People confused Apple's ability to sell at an insane premium with the market not caring about x86 &co. Docker Contributes Containerd Docker-engine standardized container runtime for the industry (https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/introducing-containerd/) Engine vs. Machine (https://docs.docker.com/machine/overview/#/whats-the-difference-between-docker-engine-and-docker-machine) Check out this TheNewStack story for a new strategy slide (http://thenewstack.io/docker-spins-containerd-independent-open-source-project/): Containers in Production! Round-up of some container survey poking (http://redmonk.com/fryan/2016/12/01/containers-in-production-is-security-a-barrier-a-dataset-from-anchore/) n=338 respondents Sidenote: Jenkins win. Good job biffing that one Oracle. But then again: is there any money in it? "This leads us to a very difficult operational problem – how do we ensure security, and understand the makeup of an application while still allowing developer velocity to increase." More Docker usage numbers from DataDog (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/3-clear-trends-in-ecs-adoption/)! "ECS adoption has climbed steadily from zero to 15 percent of Docker organizations using Datadog. (And more than 10 percent of all Datadog customers are now using Docker.)" How do I read this? Does it mean adoption is fast after an initial tire-kicking? "In the 30 days after an organization starts reporting ECS metrics, we see a 35 percent increase in the number of running containers as compared to the 60-day baseline that came before. Using the same parameters, we see a 27 percent increase in the number of running Docker hosts." CoreOS Tectonic Goes Freemium Erryone's favorite business model (https://coreos.com/blog/tectonic-self-driving.html) Kubernetes 1.5 coming soon Shipping upstream version3 Renamed their distro to Container Linux They have attempted to coin the phrase "self-driving Kubernetes" -- God help us. BONUS LINKS! Not discussed on show. More AWS Followup Missed a talk (https://gist.github.com/stevenringo/5f0f9cc7b329dbaa76f495a6af8241e9)? Open sourced a Deep Learning library (https://github.com/amznlabs/amazon-dsstne/blob/master/FAQ.md): AWS is still really new to contributing to OSS, Cockcroft has been pushing them. Also see the Blox.github.io stuff we didn't talk about last show AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Q&A (https://blog.chef.io/2016/12/08/rule-the-cloud-with-chef-automate-and-aws/) AWS Canada & London! Strange Brew Region (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/canada-central-region-now-open/) hello hello hello what's all this then region (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-london-region/) "brings our global footprint to 16 Regions and 40 Availability Zones, with seven more Availability Zones and three more Regions coming online through the next year" Docker Acquires Distributed Storage Startup Inifinit "the Infinit platform provides interfaces for block, object and file storage: NFS, SMB, AWS S3, OpenStack Swift, iSCSI, FUSE etc." (https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/docker-acquires-infinit/) To be open-sourced Extends the stateful application story CA Buys Automic for $635 million "CA fights legacy status with DevOps automation tools buy" (http://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/450404297/CA-fights-legacy-status-with-DevOps-automation-tools-buy) - that's not a good headline for your Christmas cards. $635 million, Crunchbase says they were founded in 1985(?) Hey look, it's my man Carl Lehmann at 451! New CEO at BMC Beauchamp goes to board, Polycom dude steps in a CEO (http://www.forbes.com/sites/maribellopez/2016/12/12/bmc-adds-peter-leav-as-ceo-prepares-for-new-growth-chapter/#1b2662bc4651) "Beauchamp said many of BMC's products are achieving double digit growth and double-digit profitability." Red Hat OpenShift on GCE and JBoss on OpenShift In case you need more management on your GCE (http://www.cio.com/article/3148671/cloud-computing/red-hat-brings-openshift-to-google-cloud-platform.html)? AWS is already there, probably Azure soon. I wonder if there's a deficiency in Google's offering that it's more of a consumed resource than a platform a la AWS? Plenty of management in AWS already? JBoss on it (http://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-brings-full-jboss-software-stack-to-openshift/) Dell Q3 "Dell Technologies Posts $2B Loss, But EMC Deal Already Boosting Revenue" (http://austininno.streetwise.co/2016/12/08/dell-technologies-q3-earnings-report-revenues-and-losses/) Stonic, (not) An Ansible Fork? Stonic (https://blog.stonic.io/0000-it-is-not-a-fork-c0b03c33e408) will be licensed under AGPL-3.0 :facepalm: Coté: why is AGPL bad? Australian 2016 Word of the Year: "Democracy Sausage" (saved you a click) Democracy Sausage (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-14/democracy-sausage-snags-word-of-the-year/8117684) Google Makes So Much Money It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline - Until Now Candy, not CREAM (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-08/google-makes-so-much-money-it-never-had-to-worry-about-financial-discipline) Brandon called this way back when. But what about Google Fiber in my neighborhood? Best shruggie use of th eyear (https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i2yPkZEJdBec/v0/1000x-1.jpg) NVIDA $129k computer. "Fewer than 100 companies and organizations have bought DGX-1s since they started shipping in the fall, but early adopters say Nvidia's claims about the system seem to hold up." (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603075/the-pint-sized-supercomputer-that-companies-are-scrambling-to-get/) Does it pass the Coté AI Test? I.e.: can it fix scheduling meetings across different organizations? Recommendations Brandon: Mobile eating the world (http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/12/8/mobile-is-eating-the-world). Matt: Jenn Schiffer's "No One Expects The Lady Code Troll" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewAC5X_CZ8) Coté: Senso bluetoother headphones (http://amzn.to/2hLC0lF). Trapper hats (http://amzn.to/2hAupDi) all winter long (https://www.instagram.com/p/BODJGTPjv2b/).

16 Joulu 201654min

...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza. ...That sweet OpEx. ..."Easy to stay." Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas. Footware Kenneth Cole slip on shoes (http://amzn.to/2gH6OzD). Keen Austin shoes, slip-on (http://amzn.to/2h2gveX) and lace (http://amzn.to/2ggll4y). The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire (http://amzn.to/2hlPnIJ). Mid-roll Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 (http://cote.io/cloud2) or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors (https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l), selecting initial projects (https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.v7jpyjvro), and dealing with legacy (https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/deal-with-legacy-before-it-deals-with-you-cc907c800845#.ixtz1kqdz). Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo (https://connpass.com/event/46308/) AWS re:Invent Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here. Richard has a write-up as well (https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/12/aws-reinvent-recap). RedMonk re:Cap (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/12/07/the-redmonk-reinvent-recap/) Global Partner Summit Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners" (http://www.zdnet.com/article/andy-jassy-warns-aws-has-no-time-for-uncommitted-partners/) "10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months" (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-global-partner-summit-report-from-reinvent-2016/) Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…" Amazon Lightsail (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lightsail-the-power-of-aws-the-simplicity-of-a-vps/) Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage & static IP Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean & Linode Amazon Athena (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-athena-interactive-sql-queries-for-data-in-amazon-s3/) S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others Coté: this seems pretty amazing. Amazon Rekognition (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rekognition-image-detection-and-recognition-powered-by-deep-learning/) Image detection & recognition Amazon Polly (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/polly-text-to-speech-in-47-voices-and-24-languages/) Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages Coté: Makes transcripts? Amazon Lex (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lex-build-conversational-voice-text-interfaces/) Conversational voice & text interface builder (ie. chatbots) Coté: make chat-bots and such. AWS Greengrass (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-greengrass-ubiquitous-real-world-computing/) Local Lambda processing for IoT Coté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car? AWS Snowball Edge & Snowmobile (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowball-edge-more-storage-local-endpoints-lambda-functions/) Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I'm thinking easy hybrid on-ramp Not just me (https://twitter.com/CTOAdvisor/status/806320423881162753) More on it (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-amazon-is-moving-closer-to-on-premises-compute-with-snowball-edge/) Move exabytes in weeks (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/) "Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center." Coté: LEGOS! More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for Aurora High I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared) (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/) Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-work-amazon-ec2-elastic-gpus/) More! (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/) F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-update-postgresql-compatibility/) RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently? Day 2 AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate (https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/chefautomate/) Chef blog (https://blog.chef.io/2016/12/01/chef-automate-now-available-fully-managed-service-aws/) Fully managed Chef Server & Automate Previous OpsWorks now called "OpsWorks Stacks" Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy (https://twitter.com/cloud_opinion/status/804374597449584640) EC2 Systems Manager Tools for managing EC2 & on-premises systems (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/systems-manager/) AWS Codebuild Managed elastic build service with testing (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-codebuild-fully-managed-build-service/) AWS X-Ray (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-see-inside-of-your-distributed-application/) Distributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda? "easy way for developers to "follow-the-thread" as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services" AWS Personal Health Dashboard (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-personal-health-dashboard-status-you-can-relate-to/) Personalized AWS monitoring & CloudWatch Events auto-remediation Disruptive to PAAS monitoring & APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics) AWS Shield (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-shield-protect-your-applications-from-ddos-attacks/) DDoS protection Amazon Pinpoint Mobile notification & analytics service (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-pinpoint-hit-your-targets-with-aws/) AWS Glue Managed data catalog & ETL (extract, transform & load) service for data analysis AWS Batch Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-batch-run-batch-computing-jobs-on-aws/) C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions Werner Vogels: "serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd" Lambda Edge (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-lambda-at-the-edge/) for running in response to CloudFront events, ""intelligent" processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close" More (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/) Step Functions a visual workflow "state machine" for Lambda functions More (https://serverless.zone/faas-is-stateless-and-aws-step-functions-provides-state-as-a-service-2499d4a6e412) BLOX (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-blox-from-amazon-ec2-container-service/): EC2 Container Service Scheduler Open source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deployments Blox.github.io Analysis discussion for all the AWS stuff Jesus! I couldn't read it all! So, what's the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it. What's the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you'd go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn't flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.) BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. Docker for AWS "EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS." (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3145696/application-development/docker-for-aws-whos-it-really-for.html) Docker gets paid on usage? Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox? Time to Break up Amazon? Someone has an opinion (http://www.geekwire.com/2016/new-study-compares-amazon-19th-century-robber-barons-urges-policymakers-break-online-retail-giant/) HPE Discover, all about the "Hybrid Cloud" Hybrid it up! (http://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-updates-its-converged-infrastructure-hybrid-cloud-software-lineup/) Killed "The Machine" (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/29/hp_labs_delivered_machine_proof_of_concept_prototype_but_machine_product_is_no_more/) HPE's Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?) Not great timing for a conference Sold OpenStack & CloudFoundry bits to SUSE (http://thenewstack.io/suse-add-hpes-openstack-cloud-foundry-portfolio-boost-kubernetes-investment/), the new "preferred Linux partner": How Google is Challenging AWS Ben on public cloud (https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-challenging-aws/) "open-sourcing Kubernetes was Google's attempt to effectively build a browser on top of cloud infrastructure and thus decrease switching costs; the company's equivalent of Google Search will be machine learning." Exponent.fm episode 097 — Google vs AWS (http://exponent.fm/episode-097-google-versus-aws/) Recommendations Brandon: Apple Wifi Calling (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032) & Airplane mode (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204234). Westworld worth watching (http://www.hbo.com/westworld). Matt: Backyard Kookaburras (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmNn7P59HcQ). Magpies too! (http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/swooping-season/) This gif (https://media.giphy.com/media/wik7sKOl86OFq/giphy.gif). Coté: W Hotel in Las Vegas (http://www.wlasvegas.com/) and lobster eggs benedict (https://www.instagram.com/p/BNxAyQbjKCQ/) at Payard's in Ceasers' Outro: "I need my minutes," Soul Position (http://genius.com/Soul-position-i-need-my-minutes-lyrics).

8 Joulu 201657min

It's a special interloper episode from Australia! Matt Ray guests on the Arrested DevOps show live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Sydney, along with Bridget Kromhout, Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick Pollard, Katie McLaughlin. Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.

7 Joulu 201646min

With all the domestic, direct flight, the gang lays out the case for Southwest. Coté salivates at the prospect but is worried about sitting next to chicken cages, but there's plenty of $500 shoe sales people on board. We also discuss Oracle buying Dyn, AWS's power, the looming cloud success of Microsoft, and, of course, containers. Octogenarian style: It’s episode 80! The Brittle Bones Anniversary. Feedback & Follow-up At least one person came correct (https://twitter.com/scrub/status/800844876908789760) and said CostCo. I think we’re now in the 2,000 to 2,500 downloads range (https://twitter.com/SoftwareDefTalk/status/803315322996555781). Good job listeners! Mid-roll Coté: stop the container madness and just use Pivotal Cloud Foundry (http://cote.io/pivotal). Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have: - or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors (https://medium.com/@cote/auditors-your-new-bffs-918c8671897a#.et5tv7p7l), selecting initial projects (https://medium.com/@cote/getting-started-picking-your-first-cloud-native-projects-or-every-digital-transformation-starts-d0b1295f3712#.v7jpyjvro), and dealing with legacy (https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/deal-with-legacy-before-it-deals-with-you-cc907c800845#.ixtz1kqdz). Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016). Matt: Sydney AWS Meetups: December 6 (https://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/235116364/), December 7 (https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/events/230091220/). Oracle Buys Dyn Coté needs a dial-a-friend on this one. Fleshing out their cloud coverage (https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/index.html) This is what Coté frequently concluded when doing cloud strategy (https://twitter.com/craig_tracey/status/800742523270402048) Softlayer and AWS compared (https://medium.com/worm-capital/does-ibm-have-an-accounting-problem-in-softlayer-ccafd582059c#.5fcng7ctc) Sorry Oracle, Taking Down AWS is Alibaba’s Job “Alibaba Cloud president Simon Hu has said the company is working to surpass AWS within four years.” (http://www.itnews.com.au/news/aws-rival-alibaba-to-open-sydney-data-centre-442145) We’ll see if YUGEly can wrap his head around IaaS protectionism. Skyliner.io “You only get one hill to die on, so choose wisely” (https://blog.skyliner.io/the-happy-genius-of-my-household-2f76efba535a) New AWS-native PaaS from Etsy/Stripe/SquareSpace veterans Coté: I feel like I’ve read this blog post before. Maybe I even wrote it? So much typing. Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation - we’re beyond the cats and dogs mirror! Steve Ballmer is spinning in his grave (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/microsoft-fortifies-commitment-to-open-source-becomes-linux-foundation-platinum) More than just Linux (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3142128/open-source-tools/4-no-bull-takeaways-from-microsoft-joining-the-linux-foundation.html) Add to this Visual Studio on the Mac (http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/14/13621116/microsoft-visual-studio-coming-to-mac). Google joined .Net Foundation (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Google-Cloud-to-join-NET-Foundation-Technical-Steering-Group.html) Windows, internet, phone, cloud BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show Recent Coté Nonsense “Largile” (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/21/largile_for_management_babies/) Recent DevOps books review (http://thenewstack.io/review-understanding-devops-putting-place-even-scale/). Red Hat wants to make Kubernetes boring (and successful) They’ve certainly made OpenStack boring (zing!) “Not that Red Hat is calling Kubernetes "boring." (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-red-hat-aims-to-make-kubernetes-boring-and-successful/) Instead, they're calling it "Enterprise-Ready," which is basically the same thing.” I dig that Matt Asay style. Dude knows how to pick a quick topic. The End of General Purpose Computing More precisely, as the title says “The End of the General Purpose Operating System“ “What we're witnessing in the market is the development of vertically integrated stacks” (http://www.morethanseven.net/2016/11/05/the-end-of-the-general-purpose-operating-system-as-it-happens/) “In all of these cases the operating system is an implementation detail of the higher level software. It's not intended to be directly managed, or at least managed to the same degree as the general purpose OS you're running today.” Apple Drops AirPort Routers I’ve got 3 of them, pretty solid (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/apple-said-to-abandon-development-of-wireless-routers-ivs0ssec). We don’t talk about Apple much here. Possible topic: what’s up with Apple now-a-days? Trump vs. Tech “Now we will have a president whose affinity for high-tech seems limited to Twitter bullying” (https://backchannel.com/tech-ceos-nightmare-a-president-totally-at-odds-with-their-values-20dd7b01e037#.tbk9vft4z) Interesting when you think that the heads of Google, Microsoft, Apple and probably Amazon (Bezos owns Washington Post) are all at odds with Trump. Facebook is trying to not piss anyone off. Not sure if we want to talk about it, so maybe it’s just a show note. MacOS Security and Privacy Guide Lots of practical tips for a safer Mac experience (https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide) Black Friday & Cyber Monday "the sweet smell of cyber dealz" (https://twitter.com/rachelbinx/status/803335197785632769) Recommendations Brandon: Left, Right, Center (https://www.amazon.com/Left-Center-Right-Dice-Game/dp/B005UP14VY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480369890&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=dice+game+left+center+right&psc=1) Matt: Thanksgiving in Sydney: http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/thanksgiving/ Magpie Attacks (http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/swooping-season/)! Play your music at 10x slowdown, makes for good ambient listening. It’s up on GitHub if you want to do it to your own music collection (http://slowradio.rumblesan.com/), currently Ogg-only :( Coté: It Follows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows).

28 Marras 201645min

How does one go from living in a vegan, clothing option co-op working on a philosophy degree to hustling enterprise software? That's the story of Coté's career that we discuss in this episode. Matt Ray is out, getting the bills paid, so Brandon interviews Coté about how he got here, professionally. We end the story around 2011; maybe we'll pick up next time it's just the two of us. Show Notes House of Commons Co-op (http://www.iccaustin.coop/hoc/), Austin, Texas. See some pictures (https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=12261156%40N00&view_all=1&text=HoC) of a simpler time there. I think this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Zachary_Newton) is that Victorian Literature professor. He's the one that taught me how to use books as tools (https://cote.io/2009/01/05/writeinbooks/), writing in them and whatnot. A typical day at BMC (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/58711356). Always lots of jokes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/63256825/), there. See more pictures (https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=12261156%40N00&view_all=1&text=bmc). In 2005, Coté wrote two pieces on IBM Lotus stuff: one on "Workplace for Business" (https://cote.io/2005/10/25/workplace-for-business-strategy-execution/) and another on how I thought they should move it to Eclipse (https://cote.io/2005/12/22/put-the-outlook-killer-in-eclipse/). Who knows why, really? Lala's (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/19919473/), where it's Christmas all year round (https://www.yelp.com/biz/lalas-austin). James Governor (https://twitter.com/monkchips) and Stephen O'Grady (https://twitter.com/sogrady). Coté at RedMonk (http://redmonk.com/cote/). Recommendations Brandon: Ready Player One (http://amzn.to/2gjn9z1). Coté: Start and Scaling Devops (http://amzn.to/2eI6gg8) in the Enterprise, Gary Gruver’s new book, an awesome 90 minutes read.

17 Marras 201654min