Episode 106: Is “observability” just “instrumentation”? Or, monitoring sucks? No, you suck.
The DevOps kids have decided to come up with a new term “observability.” We get to the bottom of the WTF barrel on what that is - it sounds like a good word-project. Also, there’s a spate of kubernete...
22 Sep 201759min
WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Kubernetes & container landscapes from Forrester & Gartner
This week we look at a recent Forrester paper, “Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem,” by Charlie Dai and Dave Bartoletti from June 23rd, 2017 ($499 MSRP). See Charlie’s blog post on the paper, too. Also...
1 Sep 20171h 2min
Episode 105: Kubernetes Rules Everything Around Me, VMworld, Pivotal Container Service
It’s VMworld this week, so there’s fresh news from the Dell Technologies universe to sort through. VMware releases it’s SDDC on AWS scheme and Pivotal announces its container service/stack, Pivotal Co...
31 Aug 201758min
Episode 104: “When I go to the grocery store, I just buy the bananas” - Amazon/Whole Goods, J(2)EE, building your own kubernetes stack
Come Monday, we’ll see what full-on “digital transformation” looks like when Amazon fully owns Whole Foods. Also, Oracle is looking to move JEE to a foundation, closing out a long era of Java stewards...
25 Aug 20171h 3min
Episode 103: AI is no longer limited by the garbage that is UNIX
AWS plods on with new capabilities, this time with an AI and enterprise app migration focus, plus, AI: is it actually a thing? We also discuss Microsoft acquiring Cycle Computing and how HPC fits into...
17 Aug 201757min
Episode 102: That thermometer don’t work with my iPhone 7, also, AWS kube’ed & DevOps Thought Lordin’
At long last, Amazon joins the CNCF to work on kubernetes and container related projects. While it's not incredibly clear how strong this embrace is, it's pretty high up there. We also discuss if ther...
10 Aug 201756min
Episode 101: Cloud is just "jigglin’ wires"
Calling in hot from New Braunfels Texas, we got a country mile’s worth of topics this week: we have container services from Microsoft, a lengthy discussion of how enterprise software companies organiz...
3 Aug 20171h 4min
Episode 100: “I’ve seen The Hot Dog more times this week than 2FA,” or, is The Hot Dog incremental innovation, or disruptive innovation?
“Which chasm is being leaped by this hot dog app?” Sniffing out a huge market in hot dog apps, Amazon might start a messaging app. Also, Google has their ant-data gravity device out and Basho seems t...
20 Jul 20171h 2min
