Episode 185: Drink your own dog food

Drink your own dog food

No matter the searing product strategy insight, ops is always left holding the bag. With few exceptions (like NSX), infrastructure software has to be free and easy to check out and even use. All product management and strategy decisions flow from that. Usually. Except when they don’t. Also, developers don’t pay for anything, they trick ops into it. Maybe that’ll change in public cloud land, but who knows?

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Also:

• Dark green smoothies.
• Immediate value.
• Gotta schedule a phone call to optimize phone calls.
• A light under a bushel.
• Free bread crumbs to the public cloud oven.
• Don't feel ashamed, everywhere else is fucked too, cf. Lean accounting.
• OpenShift too expensive, but no one actually checked the price.
• Slit your wrists with a business card.
• “DJ Pull Request.”
• Brandon’s organic trash matter.
• Kim did no approve this wallet.

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• Huge fluctuations in database market-share.
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• Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
• Slack CEO, ahead of NYSE debut, predicts the end of company email as we know it in 7 years
• Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi
• How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today
• The Power of Costco
• Software Below the Poverty Line
• Deconstructing Balenciaga’s Wacky Instagram Nonsense
• Acquired Podcast about SuperHuman

Nonsense

• Talk Like a Texan: This One’s for All Y’All

Sponsors

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Conferences, et. al.

• ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
• 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.
• Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
• Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
• DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th

Recommended Jobs from Listeners

• Check out GO CARDLESS.
• Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform Netflix.
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• Chef - Community Manager.
• Platform Operations Engineer Aspect.
• Come work at Pivotal.
• Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides and Talk.

Listener Feedback

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Recommendations

• Brandon: City of Austin Garbage Collection Reminders.
• Matt: “I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers.”
• Coté: Secrid (Coté got the “Vintage Cognac-Rust”).

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