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This year’s DevOps Report, as always, great. The new sections on culture and a peek at finance are dandy. We discuss it. Relevant to your interests 2018 State of DevOps Report (https://cloudplatformonline.com/2018-state-of-devops.html), DORA edition: Coté’s notes (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/DevOps-Report-2018-notes--AMFAauySL95JbMXriSwp5EzSAg-jcQAlt7wo7TqgpgeYj5RB). Effective DevOps (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039846.do). “Thread.” (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1036966455215095808) (I thought if you do a Twitter thread you get 20,000 followers instantly. That’s obviously a lie!) VMworld 2018 Recap (http://www.virtubytes.com/2018/09/03/vmworld-2018-recap/). VMware's vision - your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications (https://diginomica.com/2018/09/03/vmwares-vision-your-multi-cloud-substrate-for-enterprise-applications/). Atlassian launches Jira Ops to fix the fragmented incident response world (https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/09/04/atlassian-launches-jira-ops-to-fix-the-fragmented-incident-response-world/). Elastic S-1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1707753/000119312518266861/d588632ds1.htm). Some actually useful summary/commentary on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17921878). H-E-B Plans New Tech Facility, Innovation Lab In Austin (http://www.texastechpulse.com/h_e_b_plans_new_tech_facility_innovation_lab_in_austin/s-0075909.html). Hopefully Buddy will crush it. https://twitter.com/hhoover/status/1037485524972457990 Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by our great friends at DataDog. This week DataDog wants you to know about Logging without Limits. Logging without Limits lets you cost-effectively process and archive all of your logs, and decide on the fly which logs to index, visualize, and retain for analytics in Datadog. Now you can collect every single log produced by your applications and infrastructure, without having to decide ahead of time which logs will be most valuable for monitoring, analytics, and troubleshooting. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! DevOpsDays Berlin (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-berlin/welcome/), September 12th to 13th - Coté at a table. New Relic (aka “Not Datadog”) FutureStack London (https://newrelic.com/futurestack/london), Oct 1st and 2nd - Coté on a partner panel, also, come see The Governor. Later that night, Oct 2nd, Coté speaking at a meetup, topic TBD. ITQ Transform (https://itq.nl/transform/#transform_4), Oct 4th, Utrecht - Coté talking. DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/), October 16th - Coté at a table. Pivotal will have a raffle. JDriven Managers summit (https://www.jdriven.com/events/), Oct 17th, near Amsterdam - Coté talking. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018). Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/). Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 (https://devopsdaysnewy.org/). Matt’s presenting! Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. Coté’s presenting. SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore). Also, Toronto, Dec 12th to 13th (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto). Listener Feedback Rob from slack tells how to pronounce Galway (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjLWj1J3e3o&feature=youtu.be). Bryan wants you to know about DevOps Days Galway (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-galway/welcome/) November 18-20th We are working on the Google Chrome Security thing. Actually, Fireside.fm is working on it. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) - Cote on Tech Evangelism (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/75) CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) — T-SHIRTS GONE IN SEPTEMBER Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Ozark (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552) Season 2 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80117552). Matt: StarCraft 2 (https://starcraft2.com/en-us/), free to play! (Not to be confused with StarControl.) Coté: Embedded Netflix, in your TV. Also: Sharp Objects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Objects_(miniseries)) - like all great shows, the end is a massive disappointment of Chekhovian-ease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun), but the rest is great. Anti-recommendation: whatever reasons make it so I have three remotes.

6 Sep 201859min

Related image https://media1.tenor.com/images/e83b2b5aef8c8af0dd36a0d33d3046a4/tenor.gif?itemid=5038124 This week, we discuss Redis’ license changing move, open source business models in general (of course), SUSE revenue, and some VMworld selections. Relevant to your interests Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/08/15/istio-aims-to-be-the-mesh-plumbing-for-containerized-microservices/) Michael Cot (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business)é (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business) from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business) Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHertz (https://theninehertz.com/blog/becoming-an-iot-developer/) Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump? (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/has-bezos-become-more-powerful-in-dc-than-trump) What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative? (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/what-will-be-the-real-impact-from-knative/2018/08/) Google just gave control over data center cooling to an AI (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611902/google-just-gave-control-over-data-center-cooling-to-an-ai/) O11yCon 2018: Notes and Observations (https://dev.to/dangolant/o11ycon-2018-notes-and-observations-4nbf) Slack just raised a whopping $427 million to become a $7.1 billion company. Now, it has to defeat Microsoft. (https://www.businessinsider.com/slack-funding-valuation-microsoft-teams-2018-8) Apple Pay Now Accepted at All Costco Warehouses in United States (https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/20/costco-now-widely-accepts-apple-pay/). 10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey (https://www.simform.com/serverless-examples-aws-lambda-use-cases/). Announcing resource-based pricing for Google Compute Engine (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/announcing-resource-based-pricing-for-google-compute-engine.html). DevOps Report 2018 released (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/devops-research-and-assessment-dora-announces-the-2018-accelerate-state-of-devops-report-300703837.html). Will talk about it next week. Until then, enjoy 78 pages of landscape PDF glory. Spoiler alert: elite high performers are elite high performers. Pivotal has a webinar on Oct 11th (https://content.pivotal.io/webinars/oct-11-the-accelerate-state-of-devops-report-webinar) about it. Community management is a career cul-de-sac (https://thenewstack.io/why-community-manager-is-a-dead-end-job-and-what-to-do-about-it/). See interview next week (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Good example of corpdev thinking, in the US (legal) drugs market (https://contrarianedge.com/2018/08/28/investors-have-misdiagnosed-amazons-push-into-the-pharmacy-business/). “Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/29/google-steps-back-from-running-the-kubernetes-infrastructure/) to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community.” Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/armory-lands-10m-series-a-to-bring-continuous-delivery-to-enterprise-masses/). VMworld NA 2018 VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for multi-cloud management (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/27/vmware-acquires-cloudhealth-technologies-for-multi-cloud-management/) - Carl@451 (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95582/Toc?ref=Email%3Amis): “Primarily a cost management and analysis platform, it has roughly 3,500 users and has also grown to cover automation, security and governance with a broad, API-based management platform for the major public clouds: AWS, Azure and GCP. CloudHealth mainly operates in the US, meaning VMware will have to square overseas operations and data management with other jurisdictions – primarily the EU GDPR regulations – going forward.” Est. $500m valuation. They monitor your cloud costs. Cf. Dr. Cloud Pricing Guy at 451 (https://twitter.com/owenrog/status/970708698879406080). Still that MoM in the Clouds vision. “With CloudHealth, VMware not only gets the multi-cloud management solution, it gains its 3000 customers which include Yelp, Dow Jones, Zendesk and Pinterest.” VMware CEO: A Virtual Machine Is Still the Best Place to Run Kubernetes (https://thenewstack.io/vmware-ceo-a-virtual-machine-is-still-the-best-place-to-run-kubernetes/). Cameo (https://twitter.com/camhaight/status/1034101496332279810) from the Hill Country’s favorite systems management (former) analyst (https://twitter.com/camhaight). VMware's Software-Defined Vision (https://www.actualtech.io/vmwares-software-defined-vision/). Coté remember when he met with Kit Colbert at DockerCon EU 2014 (https://blog.docker.com/2015/01/dockercon-europe-the-future-of-micro-services/), and Coté had no idea what this “cloud native” stuff was. Now, it seems like it’s slowly moving to be the new word for PaaS, but more like the under-girding of PaaS. Also, went back to the NEMO recently. They no longer have the closet of dead things (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/shares/R61a89), sadly. Project Dimension (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/08/introducing-project-dimension.html) - on-demand private clouds, driven by SDDC stuff. Pat’s Pillars (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-step-forward-capturing-full-potential-tech-pat-gelsinger/): ‘“Superpowers” that are unlocking game-changing opportunities on a global scale – Cloud, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things.’ Redis stinkup - the mysteries of making money by actually selling something Coté: now, what’s the deal here? They closed source some stuff that maybe others had contributed to, taking advantage of good will, and/or they’re just now charging for what used to be free? (Are there other open source scandal scenarios?) Joab and Lawrence at (https://thenewstack.io/redis-pulls-back-on-open-source-licensing-citing-stingy-cloud-services/) The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/redis-pulls-back-on-open-source-licensing-citing-stingy-cloud-services/): “While the core of Redis itself remains under the permissive BSD license, the company has reworded the licensing for some of its add-on modules, in effect blocking their use by third parties offering commercial Redis-based services — most notably cloud providers. Redis Labs was able to make this change because it retains the copyright to the open source code.” Commons Clause (https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/), (https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/) Redis Labs (https://redislabs.com/community/commons-clause/). Adam Jacob Twitter thread on commons clause (https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1032285457978208257). SUSE Revenue Watch SUSE is all like “PE Mane, call me!” https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/mcgregor-cash.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1 Somehow, this has become a bit in the show. Blame Coté. Something like ~$360m based on trailing 6 months runrat’ed to 12 trailing. Also, likely non-GAAP reporting (not clear if it’s ACV vs. TCV), but whatever. Grind and stack: “EBITDA for that period was $56 million, nearly 23 percent year-over-year growth.” So: ~$112m profit, ~31% margins. That’s the kind of stable (they claim to run 70% of SAP apps), growing cash-throw-off that should make PE people drool on their Patagonia puffy vests: “Following last week's shareholder approval of Micro Focus' proposed sale of SUSE to EQT Partners for $2.535 billion, the transaction is expected to complete in the first quarter of calendar 2019, subject to customary regulatory approvals.” If my math (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tq65HkucftfmO7YUDpfAWEK7Eq3vb9DYfwYeuNqLQ1U/edit#gid=0) is right (it’s established that I don’t know how numbers work), clawing in all profits would pay that $2.5bn off by 2026: 8 or 10 years of holding growth and profit %. Of course, you’d sell it off before that. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! DevOpsDays Berlin (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-berlin/welcome/), September 12th to 13th. DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/), October 16th. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018). Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/). Matt’s presenting! DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 (https://devopsdaysnewy.org/). DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-wellington/). Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Listener Feedback Bryan wants you to know about DevOps Days Galway (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-galway/welcome/) November 18-20th DevOps Days Singapore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) wanted us to let folks know it’s October 11-12! Camille sent us some feedback and really liked Matt’s Red Atlas recommendation (https://www.amazon.com/dp/022638957X/ref=asc_df_022638957X5555077?tag=shopz0d-20&ascsubtag=shopzilla_mp_1475-20;15350415381076093153510070301008005&creative=395261&creativeASIN=022638957X&linkCode=asn) because she lives near a missile site. Joshua built a service that creates an RSS feed of podcasts based on keywords. Here’s an example: https://prod.mypod.online/feed?q=kubernetes Try it out. Soon to be Honey Ninja subscribes to SDT (https://twitter.com/michaelwilde/status/1035392934110273536), citing host “wit” as driver. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) Dustin on Linux and Google Cloud (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/73) Rachel Stephens from RedMonk on Numbers (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/74) Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Acquired Podcast (http://www.acquired.fm/). Matt: Blindsight (http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm) by Peter Watts; The Good Fight (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5853176/). Coté: Friendly Fire (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/friendly-fire) podcast (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/friendly-fire), the intros. Ikea knives.

31 Aug 201859min

This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) for more conversations like this one. Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup. Links: * Dustin’s Blog (http://blog.dustinkirkland.com) * Dustin on Twitter (https://twitter.com/DustinKirkland) * Dustin’s presentation at Google Next (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rkYV4Chfw&feature=youtu.be) * Run-one (http://launchpad.net/run-one) * Vasa Museum (https://www.vasamuseet.se/en) Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.

23 Aug 20181h 18min

“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.” The title says it all. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics. Trace Search & Analytics allows you to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data using high-cardinality attributes. You can search and filter request traces using key business and application attributes, such as user IDs, host names, or product SKUs, so you can quickly pinpoint where performance issues are originating and who's being affected. Tight integration with data from logs and infrastructure metrics also lets you correlate these specific trace events to the performance of the underlying infrastructure so you can resolve the problem quickly. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Observations on Observability (https://posts.google.com/bulletin/share/MXKJKfKL/E16dl-/) https://medium.com/@copyconstruct This GDPR madness has to stop (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1029254783700541441), son! AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180809005850/en/AWS-Announces-General-Availability-Amazon-Aurora-Serverless) State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/state-cloud-amazon-web-services-bigger-four-major-competitors-combined/) AWS Serverless Application Repository (https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/serverlessrepo/) Taking Tesla Private (https://www.tesla.com/blog/taking-tesla-private) CNCF Serverless Whitepaper v1.0 (https://github.com/cncf/wg-serverless/tree/master/whitepaper) - not too bad so far. Kelsey Hightower on Serverless… (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1029483537840263168) but wait…. Isn’t this just PaaS? A developer’s view (https://frontside.io/blog/2018/08/09/kubernetes-for-the-kubernewbie/) of getting up and running with kubernetes. “Progressive delivery,” (https://launchdarkly.com/blog/progressive-delivery-a-history-condensed/) see also James Governor on the term (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2018/08/06/towards-progressive-delivery/). Nonsense It’s raining tacos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3YmHZ9HMPs) AWS icon quiz (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnEEo0o2JgnIt8VOGffhkcYj-C2h9m5_NFzM0Q1AU-P8d0zA/viewform) To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/15/room-phone-booths/) SoftBank May Invest up to $750 Million in Robotic Pizza Startup Zume (https://www.barrons.com/articles/softbank-may-invest-up-to-750-million-in-robotic-pizza-startup-zume-1533753812) “I took the cool out of Cool Rick.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Y_3Q5YnTc) Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey! (http://devopstalks.com/devops.html) DevOpsDays Berlin (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-berlin/welcome/), September 12th to 13th. DevOpsDays Paris (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-paris/welcome/), October 16th. Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018). DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/). DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 (https://devopsdaysnewy.org/). DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-wellington/). Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp, November 12th to 16th. SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Listener Feedback Andy from Netflix send me a LinkedIn request and got a sticker SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Subscribe to Software Defined Interviews Podcast (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) Chris Donaldson on Automation (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/72) Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/71) Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Westworld (https://www.hbo.com/westworld). Matt: Dune fandom (https://theoutline.com/post/5333/dune-revival-2018-david-lynch). As heard on Song Exploder (http://songexploder.net/jon-hopkins): Jon Hopkins Singularity (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jon-hopkins-singularity/). The Red Atlas (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022638957X/). Coté: Hemingway app (http://www.hemingwayapp.com/). Slate Podcast Plus (http://www.slate.com/plus/home). PodCTL on registries (https://blog.openshift.com/podcast-podctl-45-container-registries/).

17 Aug 20181h 5min

After some rumination, Coté thins that the people backing “serverless” are just wangling to make it mean “doing programming with containers on clouds.” That is, just programming. At some point, it meant an event based system hosted in public clouds (AWS Lamda). Also, we discuss Cisco buying Duo, potential EBITA problems from Broadcom buying CA, and robot pizza. Of course, with Coté having just moved to Amsterdam, there’s some Amsterdam talk. Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk. Relevant to your interests Everyone’s favorite Outlook feature, now in G Suite (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/google-calendar-makes-rescheduling-meetings-easier/). Do we know what “serverless” is yet? Someone named that got some funding (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/serverless-inc-lands-10-m-series-a-to-build-serverless-developers-platform/). Related, Istio 1.0 (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/31/istio_sets_sail_as_red_hat_renovates_openshift_container_ship/): “It is aiming to be a control plane, similar to the Kubernetes control plane, for configuring a series of proxy servers that get injected between application components. It will actually look at HTTP response codes and if an app component starts throwing more than a number of 500 errors, it can redirect the traffic.” MUST BE THIS HIGH TO RIDE (https://k1k1chan.com/post/590832918/do-not-want)! Follow-up: Brenon at 451 says (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/broadcom-cant-get-there-from-here/) Broadcom is gonna have to sell off some stuff to make it’s margin targets. The mainframe profits are too high, while distributed is low enough to throw the margins out of whack. So, sell off distributed to Micro Focus? To PE BMC? Or a bad analysis. Austin Regional Clinic is in Apple Health records. Pretty nifty that it sucks them all in...sort of. Robots make your pizza (https://www.barrons.com/articles/softbank-may-invest-up-to-750-million-in-robotic-pizza-startup-zume-1533753812). Featured in that OKR book. For real. AWS: still makes lots of money, market-leader by revenue (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/state-cloud-amazon-web-services-bigger-four-major-competitors-combined/). See also Gartner on the topic (https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3884500): “The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.” Gartner estimates that AWS is ~4 times as big as the next, in 2017. Tibco might be sold off (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/vista-equity-is-said-to-weigh-sale-of-software-maker-tibco): “Vista took Tibco private in 2014 in a deal valued at about $4.3 billion including debt. The company, based in Palo Alto, California, makes software that clients use to collect and analyze data in industries from banking to transportation. It currently has about $2.9 billion of debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.” Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Duo Security, $2.35bn (https://duo.com/about/press/releases/cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-duo-security). What’s this ABN e.dentifier thing (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.dentifier)? Apprenda shuts down (https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Troy-based-Apprenda-stopping-operations-investor-13111235.php). SASSY (https://www.networkworld.com/article/2848762/cloud-computing/hitting-them-where-they-work.html)! Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! (http://devopstalks.com/devops.html)- DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey! (http://devopstalks.com/devops.html) Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11 (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/cloud-asia-2018) DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-singapore/) DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25 (https://devopsdaysnewy.org/) DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-wellington/) Listener Feedback Lindsay from London got a sticker an tell us: “Really enjoy the podcast, just the right level of humour, sarcasm and facts for a cynical Brit like me.” SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: Masters of Doom (https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Masters-of-Doom-Audiobook/B008K8BQG6?qid=1533849060&sr=sr_1_3&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_3&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=754XS4GQGN71K8XCBNWW&). Matt: Deadpool 2 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5463162/). If you liked the first, you’ll like the second. Coté: 1980’s Action Figure tumblr (https://1980sactionfigures.tumblr.com/) - now that I have fast Internet, tumblr is workable. Mask, Cops, sweet Dune figures (https://www.networkworld.com/article/2848762/cloud-computing/hitting-them-where-they-work.html), generic GI Joe figures. Dutch Internet (https://www.ziggo.nl/alles-in-1/max/), son! SHIT DOG!

10 Aug 201859min

"Harness that peer pressure for good” This week we cover all the important announcements from the Google Next conference including: GKE On-Prem, Knative and “serverless containers.” Plus, an important parenting discussion on tying shoes. Relevant to your interests Google Next GKE On-Prem | Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/gke-on-prem/) Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/24/google_cloud_next/) Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud (https://thenewstack.io/knative-enables-portable-serverless-platforms-on-kubernetes-for-any-cloud/) IBM, Google Give Birth to Knative Serverless Cloud Project (http://www.eweek.com/development/ibm-google-give-birth-to-knative-serverless-cloud-project) Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/googles-cloud-functions-serverless-platform-is-now-generally-available/) Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration/continuous delivery platform (https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/24/google-announces-cloud-build-its-new-continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-platform/) Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/google-ceo-confirms-target-big-cloud-customer-continuing-retail-defections-aws/) Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud (https://blog.golang.org/go-cloud) (Supports AWS and GCP) Matt’s skeptical https://deltacloud.apache.org/ https://libcloud.apache.org/ https://github.com/fog/fog Bonkers Azure bookings give Microsoft a record-breaking $110bn year (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/19/microsoft_huge_2018_q4/) Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers (https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/20/google-facebook-microsoft-data-transfer-project/) IBM stock rises after earnings beat (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/ibm-earnings-q2-2018.html) SolarWinds | SolarWinds Acquires Trusted Metrics (https://www.solarwinds.com/company/press-releases/2018-q3/solarwinds-acquires-trusted-metrics?mc_cid=8b3259d8a3&mc_eid=825c180d0b) Cisco, networking stocks drop on a report Amazon Web Services is considering selling network devices (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/13/aws-network-devices-report-cisco-juniper-fall.html) Exclusive: Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway (https://www.google.com/amp/s/bgr.com/2018/07/10/apple-1password-acquisition-deal/amp/) Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-web-services-crosses-6-billion-mark-quarterly-revenue-49-percent/') Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) This week DataDog is pleased to announce that Datadog APM has officially released support for monitoring Node.js applications, which joins our existing support for Java, Ruby, Python and Go. Read their announcement blog. (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/node-monitoring-apm/) Important nonsense I got the beer you asked for (https://reddit.app.link/lNcM81P9BO) Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (40% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: The Sinner (http://www.usanetwork.com/thesinner/blog/season-1-of-the-sinner-streaming-on-netflix) on Netflix Home Depot text message shortcut: Text the this message “121 hammer” to 24564 and you will get a link to the a map of the store showing the section for hammers. Replace "121” with the store number you are in and replace “hammer” with the item you are searching for to make new queries. You will likely have to ask a Home Depot Associate what the store number is or find it online. This is an internal tool used by Home Depot Associates to find stuff when customers ask them. Matt: https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT2600ac https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ photo credit (https://www.flickr.com/photos/chefranden/241215585/in/photolist-ehUp3w-7SxrtA-njhZp-573GUS-cCYit-bDSQx-f6dDAs-23pXxU7-f6dyqQ-2FeTSt-6gt5NM-3KqSC-8sJDib-2SENLL-jUSMBZ-9Ftikz-f6dCd5-HSmQ1-f6dAco-87rJB2-f6do9Y-f6dqUS-f6dmaC-f5Y9Kn-f6dshY/)

27 Jul 201859min

We try to discern the strategy behind two acquisitions this week: Broadcom buying CA and AT&T buying AlienVault. Seems fine. Meanwhile, you get to join conversation as we talk about how much different product management seems at cloud native vendors than traditional, “enterprise product management.” Important nonsense Vinsanto (https://www.google.com/search?q=Vinsanto&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl2eOyz5LcAhXj5IMKHaK6BkcQ_AUICygC&biw=1593&bih=960&dpr=2) is the Greek wine Coté was talking about (https://www.google.com/search?q=Vinsanto&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl2eOyz5LcAhXj5IMKHaK6BkcQ_AUICygC&biw=1593&bih=960&dpr=2). No more hot-dogs at Le Café CostCo (https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/07/10/costco-removes-polish-dog-menu/). Coté rides a Lime scooter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpqEfnZs5Q&feature=youtu.be) Sponsored by Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) Datadog wants you to know they monitor performance metrics (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitoring-kubernetes-performance-metrics/). You try it by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt). Relevant to your interests AT&T to Acquire AlienVault (https://www.alienvault.com/who-we-are/press-releases/at-t-to-acquire-alienvault) Broadcom buying CA (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/12/broadcom_ca_technologies/): Broadcom buying CA for US$18.9bn. "Mainframe solutions dominate CA’s income, pulling nearly $2.2bn in the 2017-2018 financial year, followed by its enterprise solutions segment at $1.75bn and services at $311m." Coté’s 7 tips for becoming a software company (https://medium.com/@cote/so-you-want-to-become-a-software-company-7-tips-to-not-screw-it-up-9580235af076), 2016. “ (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1017402130011971584)Wait… what? (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1017402130011971584)” (https://twitter.com/sogrady/status/1017402130011971584) Basho investor to pay up $20m in damages for campaign that put biz on 'greased slide to failure' (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/09/basho_damages_20m_misinformation_threats/) Coté: what was Davenport’s plan to profit? A customer complaint about Google Cloud went viral last week, and now Google is doing damage control to 'ensure this does not happen again (http://www.thisisinsider.com/google-cloud-responds-viral-customer-complaint-2018-7/)’ The mysterious value of dancing hot dog shares (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-11/investors-gave-snap-a-gift), i.e., Snap: ‘You might point out that you own a share in the company that grows in value as the company does, and that right now you can sell that share on the stock exchange for $13.31. But that evades rather than answering the question: What does the person who buys the share from you expect to get from it? The value of a stock in the market is supposed to be equal to the present value of its future cash flows, and there’s nothing about the stock itself that promises you any cash flows. Or you might say that Snap’s directors and officers have a fiduciary duty to you to maximize the profits of the company and the value of your shares, but even if that were true—it’s pretty debatable (https://www.amazon.com/Shareholder-Value-Myth-Shareholders-Corporations/dp/1605098132)—it continues to avoid the question. If Snap made massive consistent profits for decades, it would still never have to give any money back to shareholders, and the shareholders would have no way to force it to. “I own a 1/1,258,171,112 share of a massive pile of cash,” you could say, but you could never spend it.’ Improving intranet search, always a problem: Box buys AI thing (https://www.axios.com/box-acquires-file-search-tool-butterai-7d7fdd64-a633-4dfa-ae38-5b2d3186b448.html): “a startup whose software lets users search within files across multiple work applications. Butter.ai will be shutting down its application as part of the deal.” Slack fixing search (https://www.zdnet.com/article/slack-announces-improved-search-tool/#ftag=RSSbaffb68): most anything (https://slackhq.com/less-searching-more-doing-d249e59fa8c1) would be better than how it is now. IT spending survey from Goldman (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/technology-spending-by-the-numbers-from-public-cloud-to-security-measures-14644681): security, private cloud, and storage rise. Public cloud and SaaS fall, BI/analytics stays the same. Conferences, et. al. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! Listener Feedback Emeric from Romina got a sticker and we will send you one too. SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Brandon: In the Dark Podcast (https://www.apmreports.org/in-the-dark). Matt: Apple hardware, “should be fine.” Coté: Lovecraft’s commonplace book and such: pictures (https://thelittlesleep.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/john-hay-library-of-providence-and-h-p-lovecraft/), some transcription (https://www.wired.com/2011/07/h-p-lovecrafts-commonplace-book/) (better spaced version (http://www.lapetiteclaudine.com/archives/011196.html)).

12 Jul 20181h

For some reason, we talk about Intel. Plus, SUSE going PE and sun screen strategies for kids. Meet us in Austin Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 - Software Defined Talk - Drinks & Socializing (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/software-defined-talk-drinks-socializing-tickets-47452486665) # Important nonsense Coté wrote some stuff on compliance and DevOps/cloud native/digital transformation (https://medium.com/@cote/dealing-with-compliance-6f5f87141e65). What do you call that stuff? Relevant to your interests Micro Focus offloads Linux-wrangler SUSE for a cool $2.5bn (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/02/linux_makes_suse_sold_for_a_cool_2535bn/) - that’s 9.5 Red Hats! Ding dong Dell deal: Firm is set to go public again (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/02/dell_set_to_go_public_again_after_emc_buy_transforms_it/) Repository Attacks Continue with Backdoored Docker Images (https://thenewstack.io/repository-attacks-continue-with-backdoored-docker-images/) 5 Ways Serverless Changes Software Development (http://thenewstack.io/5-ways-serverless-changes-software-development/) Intel veteran departs Google Cloud unit (https://www.axios.com/intel-veteran-departs-google-cloud-division-13cd620a-4dbd-43d9-905a-d7383f326b16.html) “What your innovation process should look like,” (https://hbr.org/2017/09/what-your-innovation-process-should-look-like) Steve Blank, and a newer piece on the topic (https://steveblank.com/2018/06/05/whats-next-for-getting-stuff-done-in-large-organizations-the-innovation-stack/). What gets me about these things is (a.) they sound real correct, and, (b.) the operational advice is “well, you should do this stuff.” This one, though, has a good distinction between the innovator force and the get shit done force (“entrepreneur.”) Adoption Profile: Public Cloud In Europe, Q2 2018 (https://www.forrester.com/report/Adoption+Profile+Public+Cloud+In+Europe+Q2+2018/-/E-RES142852) Kubernetes korner Pivotal Container Service 1.1, Now GA, Helps You Run Kubernetes Without Complexity. Why PKS Just Works. (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pivotal-container-service-1-1-now-ga-helps-you-run-kubernetes-without-complexity-why-pks-just-works?utm_campaign=content-social&utm_medium=social-sprout&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1530196081) Kubernetes-fil-A (https://www.slideshare.net/BrianChambers10/chickfila-milking-the-most-out-of-thousands-of-kubernetes-clusteres), and interview (https://qconnewyork.com/ny2018/presentation/chick-fil-milking-most-out-thousands-kubernetes-clusters) - running kubernetes in-store for those sweet waffle fries. DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018 Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/welcome/). It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/registration/). Conferences, et. al. July 10th, Austin Cloud Native Meetup - The .Net Cloud-Native Renaissance (http://The .NET Cloud-Native Renaissance) - Coté’s co-host on Pivotal Conversations (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations), Richard Seroter (https://twitter.com/rseroter), brings the .Net flavor. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Recommendations Brandon: QuickConcall iPhone App (https://www.quickconcall.com/) Matt: Australian NBN (https://www.nbnco.com.au/), but not my provider; The Wirecutter (http://thewirecutter.com/), just because. Coté: “The Trouble With Johnny Depp.” (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/the-trouble-with-johnny-depp-666010/)

6 Jul 201859min