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It’s hard to be a medium sized systems management (“monitoring”) company: you either have to niche it out and exit early, or go big. With some recent funding and PE activity in that area, Brandon and Coté discuss that. Also, a detailed HOWTO on eating Texas BBQ. This episode brought to you 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 all kinds of data about Amazon EC2 instances (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ec2-monitoring/). You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt). Housekeeping Listen to Brandon and Satish talk about product management on Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/70). Make sure to subscribe to the CashedOut.coffee podcast (http://www.cashedout.coffee/) if you like Coté shit. Week’s wunderkammer New MacBook Pro: The touchbar is pretty cool. I do keep hitting “back” because I’m used to resting my fingers on that part of the keyboard. Whatever. The speakers are very nice too, like the iPad Pro. Migrate Utility is either easy to screw up or not fully baked. Dropbox gets a little confused with how long something will take. USB-C: I’m just here so I don’t get fined. How to eat (Hill Country) BBQ Order a plate - two meats (always brisket if it's your first time, then lady's choice), beans, Cole slaw. I’d skip the bread, but load up on onions, and pickles if they’re you’re thing Eat all the BBQ. Eat with your fingers. Don't put sugar on your meat. Don’t tell people how to eat BBQ, or argue about dry rubs and sauce. Just eat. Relevant to your interests HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian): 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian): “Actian is being acquired in an all-cash deal valued at $330m by a JV in which HCL Technologies owns 80% and Sumeru Equity Partners the remaining 20%” 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94765&type=mis&alertid=1417&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94765-HCL+buys+into+hybrid+data+management+with+majority+stake+in+Actian): “Actian told us in March [of 2018?] that revenue was back up to more than $100m while headcount totaled approximately 300." They also own Pervasive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_PSQL) (including Data Junction for ETL/integration soup-to-nuts), y’all: “In 2013, Pervasive Software was acquired by Actian Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive_Software) for $161.9 million. Actian had initially made offers in August 2012 starting at $154 million 30% higher than its shares traded at the time.” Vista buys Logic Monitor from Providence (https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/vista-buys-logic-monitor-providence/#). Meanwhile, AppDynamics seems fine (https://www.zdnet.com/article/appdynamics-touts-the-agility-of-a-startup-with-the-pocket-of-a-global-giant/#ftag=RSSbaffb68). Sensu raises $10M to build a robust monitoring system for all your different operations (https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/13/sensu-raises-10m-to-build-a-robust-monitoring-system-for-all-your-different-operations/). Microsoft’s Linux Distro, for Azure Sphere (https://amp.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4) - IoT, edge device stuff: an edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc. More from (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/microsoft_azure_sphere_iot_chip/) El Reg (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/microsoft_azure_sphere_iot_chip/). Announcing Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 (https://blog.docker.com/2018/04/announcing-docker-enterprise-edition-2-0/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1GallqbGhNR0ppWVdZeSIsInQiOiJiSm1ZZ1BtZDQ5b3RicFk2c1VRT09yNlo1ZE50VnRiK3JNbVQ5OThWYXU3NGdKQVpVenZBdkp2QTdQakFKUzYxN1k5VFlWbFdPYWY5TFI4bFhxemc4TWkrcnUyMG02OXdmUVlpVWIwMHdGZUZIdUluaCtCMnJyeTJuRmg3OGZmZyJ9). Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud (https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/04/changing-calculus-containers-cloud.html). Database decisions: AWS has changed the game for IT (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3268195/database/database-decisions-aws-has-changed-the-game-for-it.html). The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So (https://www.itjungle.com/2018/04/16/the-platform-matters-more-than-ever-the-operating-system-less-so/) For the first time ever, Microsoft will distribute its own version of Linux (https://amp.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-sphere-is-powered-by-linux-2018-4). OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong (https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now). After Months of Development, B3i's Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing (https://www.carriermanagement.com/news/2017/09/12/171103.htm). Nonsense KITECH Dual Arm Robot: using scissors (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6u7g-6Ztf0&feature=youtu.be). A sea of Mark Zuckerberg cutouts has taken over the Capitol lawn (https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/us/group-places-cutouts-of-mark-zuckerberg-on-capitol-lawn-trnd/index.html). Conferences, et. al. April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 16-17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/) May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. 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. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). 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. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too! Listener Feedback Jonathan from Denver says we are the best and we sent him a sticker Jody was binging the Software Defined Talk backlog and asked for a sticker Recommendations Brandon: Killers of the Flower Moon (https://www.audible.com/pd/History/Killers-of-the-Flower-Moon-Audiobook/B01NAEEJJV) and Travis Country Texas Online Property Tax Appeal (https://www.traviscad.org/eservices/). Coté: T (http://www.thegrandbarbershop.com/)he Grand barbershop (http://www.thegrandbarbershop.com/), Austin - they got all the whatnots. Also, Stiles Switch (http://www.stilesswitchbbq.com/): this is how a beef rib is supposed to be (https://www.instagram.com/p/BhwxCs-lXgy/).

20 Apr 201854min

Why does kubernetes even exist, why don’t existing things work just as well for it? And then what kind of applications can you run on it, at least following the original intentions. Once we sort that out, we talk about the same for Istio. We also discuss hospital IT and how large companies like IBM decide which open source projects to work on. Also, Coté helps you turn eating sugar-encrusted pecans into a Buddhist moment. See original show notes (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/64) for more. And, if you liked it: subscribe to Software Defined Interviews if you don't already!

12 Apr 20181h 29min

“In Australia, I have access to all the Full House episodes.” We finally nail down Amazon’s strategy with serverless (AWS Lambda), and also go over some recent AWS announcements in the security and compliance area. Plus, Cloudflare’s new consumer DNS service, The Man in the High Castle, and Oracle goes after those sweet government cloud contracts. And, Coté gets a little too angry about Google Fiber giving his neighborhood the finger. This episode brought to you 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 provide APM and distributed tracing for Java applications (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/java-monitoring-apm/). You can try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt). Relevant to your interests Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service (https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/) Auditing - what you do after AD integration. AWS aggregating compliance gunk (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-config-update-aggregate-compliance-data-across-accounts-regions/). AWS Summit SF: Most definitely not a sales event, nuh uh, no way (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/aws_summit_sf_definitely_not_a_sales_event/) AWS Secrets Manager: Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-secrets-manager-store-distribute-and-rotate-credentials-securely/) AWS Config Rules Update: Aggregate Compliance Data Across Accounts and Regions (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-config-update-aggregate-compliance-data-across-accounts-regions/) Oracle’s Safra Catz Raises Amazon Contract Fight With Trump (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/oracle-s-catz-is-said-to-raise-amazon-contract-fight-with-trump) Simon Wardley’s Serverless Tea Bet (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/972218216679333888) Microsoft’s Windows chief departs as the company pushes further toward AI and the cloud (https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17176220/microsoft-windows-reorg-business-terry-myerson-ai-cloud) The End of Windows (https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/) State of DevOps Report now DORA + Google (https://devops-research.com/2018/03/dora-google-cloud-collaboration/) - not doing it with Puppet. Puppet layoffs not related! Zenoss Announces Partnership With Google Cloud (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zenoss-announces-partnership-with-google-cloud-300624223.html) Apple hires Google’s former AI boss to help improve Siri (https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17195076/google-ai-chief-john-giannandrea-joining-apple-machine-learning-siri) Nonsense The Man in the High Castle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)), which is not really anything like the original book (https://amzn.to/2qa9N9O). 80’s neon in tumblr (https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/80s-neon). Conferences, et. al. April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio (http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/) - Coté speaking (http://sched.co/Dpzf). April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/). April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 16-17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/) May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. 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. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). 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. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too! Listener Feedback Tim says he really enjoys the show and asks if we send stickers to the U.K.? Damn right, we do and he got one! Email name and mailing address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you a sticker. Ray from California thanks us for “ all of the effort that goes into this podcast” an got sticker Ryan got his sticker in mangled envelope but the Postmaster apologized and the sticker was fine ! In-house illustrator for Docker (https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/13/meet-dockers-french-artist-who-spun-her-silicon-valley-misadventures-into-comic-book-glory/). Recommendations Matt: MuseScore (http://musescore.com) for learning piano and writing music Brandon: Developing iOS 11 Apps with Swift (https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-11-apps-with-swift/id1309275316) with course assignments (https://github.com/Scottiiee/cs193p-Fall-2017) Coté: Au Bon Pain in DFW, the little “protein” packs, gate A34.

6 Apr 201852min

Talking about Facebook this week is inescapable, so we do, but in a rant-y kind of way. We also discuss Oracle’s plans to hire 10,000 more people in Austin, Solomon Hykes leaving Docker, and the Google/Oracle case around Java’s copyright. Listener Feedback Eric Larson says Coté is wrong there is no zen in pulling weeds. Craig from Ontario says we are doing a great job and emailed for a sticker John Mitchell from Duke Energy got a sticker and did an interview with us here (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). That French steak house (https://www.yelp.com/biz/le-relais-de-venise-l-entrec%C3%B4te-paris-2?uid=02uxjke4yV-F3CVOQWN6UA&utm_source=ishare). This episode brought to you 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 provide Container Monitoring (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/introducing-live-container-monitoring/). You try it out by signing up for a trial at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt). Relevant to your interests Oracle's Founder Larry Ellison Says Austin Campus is Going to Grow to 10,000 (http://www.siliconhillsnews.com/2018/03/22/oracles-founder-larry-ellison-says-austin-campus-going-grow-10000-employees/) Google-Oracle high-stakes dustup returns to court — with billions on the line (https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/27/google-oracle-high-stakes-dustup-returns-to-court/) Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/oracle_google_android/) Pivotal Software files for IPO (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/pivotal-software-files-for-ipo/) Finally, a more coherent IBM story? (https://medium.com/@krishnan/finally-a-more-coherent-ibm-story-f617a7bbc83e?source=rss-62bf9bdc96bc------2) Facebook confirms it records users' call history, stoking furor (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-confirms-it-records-call-history-stoking-privacy-furor-n860006) Getting acquainted with Kubernetes 1.10 (https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-110-released), (https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-110-released) CoreOS (https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-110-released) Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/27/red_hat_q4_18/) Apollo Is Considering IPO of Cloud-Hosting Firm Rackspace (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/apollo-is-said-to-consider-ipo-of-cloud-hosting-firm-rackspace?mc_cid=6c6cd5146b&mc_eid=825c180d0b) $13 billion Atlassian explains how the 'joy of missing out' led it to totally reinvent one of its core products (http://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-stride-hipchat-generally-available-2018-3/) As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/shifts-cloud-focus-platform-services-oracle-tries-hold-database-legacy/) GitLab 10.6 released with CI/CD for GitHub and deeper Kubernetes integration (https://about.gitlab.com/2018/03/22/gitlab-10-6-released/) Docker, a $1 billion software start-up, has lost its founder a year after new CEO joined (https://news.google.com/news/search/section/q/docker/docker?hl=en&gl=US&ned=us) Solomon Hykes Departs from Docker - The New Stack (https://thenewstack.io/solomon-hykes-departs-from-docker/) Nonsense Honest Status Page (https://mobile.twitter.com/honest_update/status/651897353889259520?lang=en) Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Slips on Banana Peel (https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/972995583370706944) NPR reviews Pacific Rim “Mech & Cheese” (https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2018/03/22/595179094/pacific-rim-uprising-serves-up-another-helping-of-mech-and-cheese) Conferences, et. al. April 3rd to 4th, Dallas - MC Coté at SpringOne Tour (http://springonetour.io/2018/dallas). April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio (http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/) - Coté speaking (http://sched.co/Dpzf). April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/) April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. 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. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). 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 Matt: Disrupting Dystopia - The Bruce Sterling Talk - SXSW 2018 by SXSW (https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/disrupting-dystopia-the-bruce-sterling-talk-sxsw-2018) rainbow-delimiters (https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters) for Emacs Brandon: Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80046694) The Gift (https://www.netflix.com/title/80046694). Coté: Blue Diamond Smoke House Almonds (https://www.costco.com/Blue-Diamond-Smokehouse-Almonds-45-oz.-.product.100368188.html).

30 Mar 20181h 6min

We discuss Salesforce buying Mulesoft, rumors about Google buying Red Hat and provide cold takes on the Facebook crisis. Plus, Matt Ray explains why there are pictures of a giant snake, a kangaroo and dog's bottom posted on Facebook Wall. Matt Ray’s Facebook links BIG SN (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152581031594848&set=p.10152581031594848&type=3&theater)AKE (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152581031594848&set=p.10152581031594848&type=3&theater) Matt Ray’s son and a dog..? (https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/9/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/VCF0qZJ1.jpg) Kangaroo vs. Bicyclist (https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/queensland-cyclist-crashes-into-kangaroo/3322469/?ref=hs) Matt’s Coterie of Browser Plugins: TrackMeNot (https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/) uBlock Origin (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en) Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/) Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) KB SSL Enforcer (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kb-ssl-enforcer/flcpelgcagfhfoegekianiofphddckof?hl=es) TamperMonkey (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en) Relevant to your interests The Cambridge Analytica Debacle is not a Facebook “Data Breach.” Maybe It Should Be. (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/17/the-cambridge-analytica-debacle-is-not-a-facebook-data-breach-maybe-it-should-be/) The Facebook Brand (https://stratechery.com/2018/the-facebook-brand/) Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts (https://www.yahoo.com/tech/salesforce-reportedly-talks-acquire-mulesoft-155720487.html) Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft in $6.5 billion deal (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/salesforce-agrees-to-buy-mulesoft-in-6-point-5-billion-deal.html) Salesforce buys a mule, but pays for a horse (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/salesforce-buys-a-mule-but-pays-for-a-pedigreed-horse-2018-03-20) Salesforce’s $6.5b acquisition of Mulesoft: what it means for the cloud ecosystem (http://techgenix.com/salesforce-mulesoft/) Update: Red Hat could be a Google takeover target – a deal wouldn't be cheap (https://www.wraltechwire.com/2018/03/19/report-red-hat-could-be-a-google-takeover-target-a-deal-wouldnt-be-cheap/) IBM's cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads (http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-cloud-strategy-revolves-around-multi-cloud-support-grabbing-new-workloads/#ftag=RSSbaffb68) IBM's Watson Assistant is coming to IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/blog/2018/03/NewServices1) Apple, IBM add machine learning to partnership with Watson-Core ML coupling (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/apple-ibm-extend-partnership-with-watson-core-ml-coupling/) Oracle's New Licenses Sales Drop While Revenue Meets Estimates (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/oracle-s-new-licenses-sales-drop-while-revenue-meets-estimates) Don’t Anthropomorphize Larry the Lawnmower (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc) Docker Cloud is shutting down • r/docker (https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/85w2vd/docker_cloud_is_shutting_down/) Introducing Windows Server 2019 – now available in preview (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/03/20/introducing-windows-server-2019-now-available-in-preview/) Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence (http://Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence -- ADTmag) This episode brought to you 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 Kubernetes 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). Exegesis Want more talk about FANG? Then Listen to Cotê and Brandon review Scott Galloway’s (http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway) book The Four (https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=the+four+scott+galloway&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=214061735707&hvpos=1t1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11767013390428378688&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028322&hvtargid=aud-416583594430:kwd-345132176336&ref=pd_sl_6onuzfwg4j_e) on Episode of 52 (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/52) of Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/) from awhile back. Even more relevant today! Nonsense Jeff Bezos has a robot dog (http://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/172049593263) WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook (https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17145200/brian-acton-delete-facebook-whatsapp) Conferences, et. al. April 3rd to 4th, Dallas - MC Coté at SpringOne Tour (http://springonetour.io/2018/dallas). April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio (http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/) - Coté speaking (http://sched.co/Dpzf). April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. 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. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). 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 Matt: Earworm video series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5fyqfIwGjH2fYC5fFLfdwW4) from Vox Brandon: Metrex II Black Mesh Task Chair (https://www.costco.com/Metrex-II-Black-Mesh-Task-Chair.product.100177590.html) from Costco Coté: Le Relais de Venise - l’Entrecôte (https://www.yelp.com/biz/le-relais-de-venise-l-entrec%C3%B4te-paris-2?uid=02uxjke4yV-F3CVOQWN6UA&utm_source=ishare)

24 Mar 201846min

This week we recap all the important events at SXSW Interactive, explain why Netflix is not going to be an enterprise cloud vendor, discuss Microsoft's decision to open source Service Fabric and recommend never ordering the Bison Ribs. Fabric Solutions Service Fabric is going open source (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureservicefabric/2018/03/14/service-fabric-is-going-open-source/). “There’s a bit of history to this. We've been developing Service Fabric internally for Windows for close to a decade, and most of that time it was a Microsoft-internal platform, which means we have close to a decade's worth of internal Microsoft tools to migrate and processes to refine before we can put something usable out on GitHub.” Netflix could pwn 2020s IT security – they need only reach out and take (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/08/will_serverless_kill_the_container_star/). Relevant to your interests Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS? (https://medium.com/@krishnan/why-should-kubernetes-be-scared-of-aws-823876d5148b) IBM launches bare metal Kubernetes (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/ibm-launches-bare-metal-kubernetes/) Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/) Moogsoft Secures $40 Million in Series D Funding (https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/13/moogsoft-secures-40-million-in-series-d-funding/) RapidAPI, an API marketplace that processes 400B API calls each month, raises $9M led by A16Z (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/rapidapi-an-api-marketplace-that-processes-half-a-billion-api-calls-each-month-raises-9m-led-by-a16z/) Palo Alto Networks to acquire CIA-backed Evident.io for $300 million (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/palo-alto-networks-to-acquire-cia-backed-evidentio-for-300-million-2018-03-14) a16z Podcast: Containing the Monolith — From Microservices to DevOps (https://a16z.com/2018/03/08/containing-the-monolith-microservices-devops-summit/) Nonsense Toys R Us to Close All 800 of Its U.S. Stores (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/03/14/toys-r-us) VIM Clutch (https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/973022871311257601) This episode brought to you 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). Datadog announces the general availability of (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-logs/) log processing and analytics (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-logs/) (http://Announcing log processing and analytics in Datadog)part of the their Unified Log Management (https://www.datadoghq.com/log-management/) that lets you monitor logs, metrics, and request traces in one platform for full-stack visibility. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkNative-Tshirt). Conferences, et. al. March 22-23, DevOps Talks Conference (http://www.devopstalks.com/) - Melbourne Matt speaking. April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio (http://www.innotechconferences.com/sanantonio/) - Coté speaking (http://sched.co/Dpzf). April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. 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. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). 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 Matt: Dicte (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025899/) (Danish crime reporter drama, on Netflix) Chef policyfiles (https://docs.chef.io/policyfile.html) Brandon: Netflix Altered Carbon (https://www.netflix.com/title/80097140) Coté: anti, bison ribs at Salt Lick (https://saltlickbbq.com/). Garmin vívosmart 3 (https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/567813).[ Photo Credit (https://www.flickr.com/photos/donutgirl/7947803212/in/photolist-bzZ2fe-d7jyZS-4wx425-4wx3Yd-4wsTdV-9oDvZ8-9vaN7v-9Zk3hB-aq5vYh-GzoWdZ-CMvniJ)

16 Mar 201852min

Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which conferences to send talks to. Also, the longest Datadog ad read ever. This episode brought to you 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=SoftwareDefinedTalkNative-Tshirt). Datadog announces the general availability of (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-logs/) log processing and analytics (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/announcing-logs/) (http://Announcing log processing and analytics in Datadog)part of the their Unified Log Management (https://www.datadoghq.com/log-management/) that lets you monitor logs, metrics, and request traces in one platform for full-stack visibility. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkNative-Tshirt). CFP Spray Coté’s new talks (https://www.papercall.io/speakers/cote), Were’s Waldo ‘em! DevOpsDays CFPs (https://www.devopsdays.org/speaking/). Events in papercall.io (https://www.papercall.io/events). Bridget is organized AF (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/958387799237058561). Relevent to your interests Coté’s Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/06/what_does_devops_do_to_decades_old_planning_processes_and_assumptions/) piece (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/06/what_does_devops_do_to_decades_old_planning_processes_and_assumptions/) on process and such changes that DevOps &co. brings. The Kubernetes Lesson (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/03/02/the-kubernetes-lesson/) - O’Grady gives credit to developers for driving kubernetes interest. Nerd fight ensues (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/969610460356988929). Mesosphere DC/OS adds hybrid and multicloud management features (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/03/08/mesosphere-dcos-adds-hybrid-multicloud-management-features/). Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/might-time-big-cloud-share-wealth-open-source-startups/) - people always be freaking out about companies making money off open source. I’d wager they pay the wages of most people who write and commit the code, and would happily do so if those folks wanted a job. Related: Open Source & Dollar Bills: Building a Successful Company on “Free” Software (https://blog.chef.io/2018/03/05/open-source-dollar-bills-building-successful-company-free-software/). From Facebook to the Un (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/will-2018-be-the-year-of-the-neo-luddite)a (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/will-2018-be-the-year-of-the-neo-luddite)bomber (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/will-2018-be-the-year-of-the-neo-luddite). So called “tech companies” have their problems, to be sure, but this kind of absurd shit has got to end. Related: people are quickly thinking tech is bad (https://www.axios.com/axios-surveymonkey-public-wants-big-tech-regulated-5f60af4b-4faa-4f45-bc45-018c5d2b360f.html). Announcing the Flatcar Linux project (https://kinvolk.io/blog/2018/03/announcing-the-flatcar-linux-project/) - “an immutable Linux distribution for containers.” JEE renamed to JEE, at Eclipse (https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/03/java-ee-becomes-jakarta-ee). The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2018 (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/03/07/language-rankings-1-18/). OpenStack Queens release (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/02/28/openstack-queens-expands-support-containers-network-edge-deployments/), 17th release! SUSE, a Micro Focus company (https://www.suse.com/company/executive-management/) Tera Holdings (https://www.teraholdings.co/) — Warren Buffet of Software Conferences, et. al. March 9th to 13th, SXSW (https://www.sxsw.com/) - Brandon in Austin giving out stickers. Coté needs excuses to expense meals and drinks. March 22-23, DevOps Talks Conference (http://www.devopstalks.com/) - Melbourne Matt speaking April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. 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. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). 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 Matt: Mastering Emacs (https://www.masteringemacs.org/) Anti pick - someone trying to sublet my house for SXSW JJ on Dovrk (https://twitter.com/jjasghar/status/956719416053567488). Brandon: T-Mobile (https://www.t-mobile.com/). Coté: weeding; Amazon Treasure Truck (https://twitter.com/treasuretruck) - steaks!

9 Mar 20181h 15min

Dropbox made $1.1bn last year, which is mind-blowing. What can we learn from the way Dropbox wiggled it’s way into so many people’s lives (11m paying users, it seems) versus competitors like Box? Well, probably a lot more than where Apple, Spotify, and Dropbox run their stuff in - or out! - of the cloud, a topic we also discuss. Also, sheep-skin shoes are hot, too hot. Also, something about dtrace and zfs, I don’t know - just listen to it. This episode brought to you 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/lpgs/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalk-Tshirt-Native). Datadog also offers Forecast Alerts (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/), which makes it easy to get notified of potential problems before they cause outages. Read more at: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/ (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/forecasts-datadog/) What even is a “Dropbox”? Now that we know they generated $1.1bn in revenue (http://tomtunguz.com/dropbox-s-1/) in CY2017 (with -10% op margins, translating to a loss of $111.7m (https://www.barrons.com/articles/dropbox-files-s1-with-1b-revenue-lots-of-restricted-stock-1519420407) and actual cash flow)…we should probably contemplate how they fit in. 451 estimates a valuation at $8bn+ (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94433&type=mis&alertid=1161&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94433-Dropbox+opens+up+to+public+markets). More: “Dropbox has taken just over 10 years to go public since its founding in 2007, which we attribute to anxiety over its high private valuation, a sizable profitability gap, and the dour outlook often associated with the EFSS segment.” More from 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94433&type=mis&alertid=1161&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94433-Dropbox+opens+up+to+public+markets): “Its net loss ($111m) shrank by nearly half from 2016 – a faster pace than its topline growth. Its relative sales and marketing costs are lower than most of its peers. The vendor spent 28% of its revenue on sales and marketing – half the level of Box, a fellow FSS compatriot that's half the size as Dropbox." Man, think of the shit-per diem an travel policies for last year. E.g., who knew they were so widely used by normals?! 11m+ paying users, they says (https://www.barrons.com/articles/dropbox-files-s1-with-1b-revenue-lots-of-restricted-stock-1519420407). (But (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=94433&type=mis&alertid=1161&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=94433-Dropbox+opens+up+to+public+markets), it’s 45 to 1 free to pay.) Do we think GDrive/G Suite is this big? I mean, it must be at least once you throw in Docs and GMail. Gartner’s 2016 estimates (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-gsuite/googles-g-suite-is-no-microsoft-killer-but-still-winning-converts-idUSKBN1FL3ZX): “$1.3 billion in G Suite sales ranked a distant No. 2 behind Office’s $13.8 billion, according to 2016 data from Gartner.” Checks out (https://medium.com/@raj_57679/how-big-is-g-suite-within-alphabets-other-revenue-q1-2017-9823783abc97). Tech Co.’s using Google Cloud Apple on Google (https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google-cloud-platform-and-amazon-s3-for-icloud-data/) for iCloud (but also AWS for the same), Spotify on Google (http://www.zdnet.com/article/with-spotify-google-cloud-platform-gets-its-anchor-all-in-customer/), Dropbox on their own cloud (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/dropbox-saved-almost-75-million-two-years-building-tech-infrastructure/) (see Ben’s “turns out!” analysis (https://stratechery.com/2018/dropboxs-cost-of-revenue-cost-of-revenue-and-churn-cloudy-dropbox/)). Does this matter for normals? “Dropbox is likely an outlier with its successful cloud data migration off AWS.” (http://searchaws.techtarget.com/blog/AWS-Cloud-Cover/Dropbox-is-likely-an-outlier-with-its-successful-cloud-data-migration-off-AWS) Wired’s write-up on the migration (https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/) from 2016 Relevant to your interests Pants are sized wrong (https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a8386/pants-size-chart-090710/). DTrace going GPL-compatible (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/19/oracle_open_sources_dtrace_changes_licence_to_gpl/) Arrested DevOps talking with Andrew Shafer and Bryan Cantrill (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/) The ongoing nothingburger of blockchain-beyond-bitcoin (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsofts-guthrie-claims-azure-seeing-blockchain-momentum-thats-not-moving-cloud-needle-time-soon/): “The only mass-market use of blockchain technology right now is bitcoin, and you can certainly debate just how widespread a market that really is. Lots of people are interested in blockchain’s distributed ledger system as a potential way to cut out the middleman in transactions between manufacturers or retailers and their suppliers, but the number of people actually using blockchain technology for those types of services right now is quite small.” More: “The entire market for blockchain services in 2017 — and not necessarily cloud vendor-provided blockchain services — sits at $708 million, according to a report from WinterGreen Research cited by The Information. By comparison, Gartner said last September that it expects cloud services revenue will have reached $260.2 billion in 2017.” WinterGreen, sittin’ in hot tubs, smokin’ those L’s: “In that report, WinterGreen also predicts astounding growth of 757 percent in that blockchain market by 2024 to $60.7 billion, which is among the most dramatic forward-looking statements I’ve seen in a while.” The concept of the millennial is dead (http://www.channelfutures.com/channel-futures/why-are-we-still-talking-about-millennial-problem-workforce). Time to start complaining and belly-aching about how simpering and fucked up the current generation of The Kids are. Conferences, et. al. March 9th to 13th, SXSW (https://www.sxsw.com/) - Brandon in Austin giving out stickers. Coté needs excuses to expense meals and drinks. March 22-23 - DevOps Talks Conference (http://www.devopstalks.com/), Melbourne Matt speaking April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta (http://devopsdays.org/events/2018-jakarta/) - Matt (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120) is keynoting (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120), and Coté will be speaking too (https://twitter.com/agilecircleindo/status/969511498287493120). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 22-25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. 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. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). 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 Matt: Bose QuietComfort 20 headphones (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X9KVVQK/) Brandon: Version Control (https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Version-Control-Audiobook/B01BKY8A8I). Coté: Starbuck’s Blonde roast; low-sodium Kirkland bacon - turns out! - no sugar.

2 Mar 201857min