Software Defined Talk

We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before that, of course, we talk about containers. This episode features Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). Mid-roll Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016). Coté: Nov 16th - Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha, next week (https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/omaha). Coté: Various dates - Pivotal Cloud Native Roadshows (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow) - Cincinnati - Nov 10 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/cincinnati); St. Louis - Nov 14 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/stlouis); Hartford - Nov 16 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/hartford); Denver - Nov 18 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/denver); New York - Nov 22 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/newyork); Los Angeles - Nov 28 (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/losangeles). K8s Operators Stateful applications for K8s, a shot at Mesos (https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operators.html)? Prometheus & etcd first examples (spark? hadoop?) This begs the broad question: so, what’s CoreOS’s business posture now? Azure Container Service, now with K8s Those Microsoft folks will just put anything that looks tasty in their cloud (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-container-service-the-cloud-s-most-open-option-for-containers/) - what a reversal from the Microsoft we grew up with. Docker in Production: A History of Failure From this dude’s perspective (https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/): a failure of product management and stable releases. Bugs, documentation spotty, cleanup scripts, kernel support (Debian!?), aufs & overlay & overlay2, 7-hour outage with no post-mortem “Docker only moves forward and breaks things” “The docker hype is not only a technological liability any more, it has evolved into a sociological problem as well.” A retort… that mostly agrees (https://patrobinson.github.io/2016/11/05/docker-in-production/) “boring tech is what makes money” shiny tech makes resumes? Mesosphere Jay Lyman on the momemtum (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=88226): “Mesosphere does not disclose its number of paying clients, but says it has dozens of large enterprise customers, its primary target. The company says its experience supporting software deployments in production is among its key differentiators, helped by the use of Apache Mesos by companies such as Twitter, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal and Yelp, which was featured in a 451 User Deployment Report. Mesosphere says its focus is customer deployments of 500-1,000 nodes per day in production. It also says the bulk of its customers are licensees with professional services accounting for less than 10% of its clients, which tend to move to its subscription software.” TrumpTech, aka, “Putting the 400 lbs hackers on diets.” Turns out there is some marginally clear policy, just not McKinsey title mode versus white papers (http://www.vox.com/2016/11/10/13584390/donald-trump-first-100-days). Jonathan Shieber@Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/09/what-does-a-president-elect-trump-mean-for-silicon-valley-nothing-very-good/): "The biggest question facing millions of Americans this Wednesday is: just how much of what Donald Trump said on the campaign does he intend to actually try to make happen." (For example, Korea (http://www.vox.com/world/2016/11/10/13585524/donald-trump-phone-call-south-korea-park-geun-hye).) Dave Lee, at the BBC has a good laundry list: “Uncertainty, frustration and an increased fragility for the global home of tech innovation. Mr Trump certainly won't want to go down as the president who destroyed Silicon Valley, but the concern here is that of the few policies that have been explained in detail, some seem directly at odds with each other.” 10% repatriation program (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/11/09/apple-adobe-cisco-citi-focuses-on-big-techs-big-trump-tax-windfall/) - tech companies have tons of cash abroad: Historic rates (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/repatriation.asp): “At the highest tax rate, corporations must pay 35% to repatriate capital, minus local taxes charged by countries in which the funds are held.” Hardware: “AAPL (93% of $230bln), CSCO (91% of $64.6B), IBM ($8.2B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but note 58% of earnings are from non US operations), HPE ($10.0B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65% of earnings are from non US operations), HPQ ($5.6B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65%-70% of earnings are from non US operations), JNPR (94% of $3.2B).” Software: “Specifically, some of the mid and large cap companies that have large cash balances “trapped” offshore are likely to benefit from being able to return a portion of this cash to shareholders. We note companies with high gross cash balances trapped offshore include: ADBE (85% of $4B – from 2015 10-K), ADSK (86% of $2.1B), CA (76% of $2.7B), CTXS (80% of $2.45B), FTNT (38% of $1.2B), ORCL (76% of $56B – pre-N), MSFT (96% of $113B – pre-LNKD purchase), RHT (42% of $2.0B), SYMC (93% of $5.6B – post-BC), VMW (77% of $7.5B), VRSN (68% of $1.9B). We believe the chances increase of a larger share repurchase or (lesser chance) dividend from these companies.” Apple & Amazon are not in a good situation (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/09/tech_trump_silicon_valley/) - they’ll be a good test of WTF happens. Meanwhile, tech stocks dropping a bit (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tech-stocks-plunge-for-second-straight-day-after-trump-win-2016-11-10). Ovum has a shit ton of quick analysis, all free (https://www.ovum.com/us-presidential-election-2016/): Fear of US public cloud companies, globally (https://www.ovum.com/will-trump-presidency-mean-public-cloud-computing-2-2/). Remember the freak-out from NSA stuff? Same idea. I think the Gemans got over it. Outsources (https://www.ovum.com/providers-prepare-trump-presidency-potential-impact-global-delivery-2/): “A massive curtailing of H-1B visas, for example, will mean providers will need to make immediate shifts in what they’re able to offer customers locally, unless or until they’re able to compensate with talent.” “For providers, there’s also the unanswered question of the impact on US government spending.” [Education](https://www.ovum.com/trumping-expectations-now-us-public-sector-2/ - some proposals for de-centralizing, meaning fragmentation of IT spend. Government talent, regulations, and spending (https://www.ovum.com/trumping-expectations-now-us-public-sector-2/) - “If there is a large exodus of high-caliber and skilled staff, how will departments fill the gap? It also raises the question of funding for programs aimed at modernizing tech in the federal government such as F18 and FedRAMP. Trump might reduce the barriers to swapping out tech and push down expenditure that way. Certainly, the high cost and length of time needed to get Authority to Operate (ATO) under FedRAMP has been a barrier to uptake.” Telcos (https://www.ovum.com/trumps-victory-will-affect-us-telecoms-market/) - other than him stating he’d stop the AT&T/TimeWarner merger, telco stuff is very unclear. No one’s sure what the traditional Republican +/- Trump equals, or what the formula is. M&A from Brenon@451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90759&type=mis&alertid=211&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=90759-In+Trump%2C+an+M%26A+watchdog+with+more+bite): “Chinese buyers probably won't be shopping as freely in the US in the coming years.” They spent $14bn this year, I think. Chinese buyers have recently picked up Ingram Micro, which swings nearly $50bn worth of tech gear and services each year, 25-year-old printer maker Lexmark and even a majority stake in the gay dating app Grindr." Also see shorter blog post with chart of Chinese M&A spend (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/investment-banking/in-trump-a-tech-ma-watchdog-with-more-bite/). Snowden for Head of NSA! (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/346998236776640513). Follow-up That’s how you do it! (https://twitter.com/simonmcc/status/794951901720805376) We got actual comments (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/77#disqus_thread)! BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode Matt wrote up an Amazon ECS thing The blog entry (https://blog.chef.io/2016/11/07/habitat-amazon-elastic-container-service/) Doing Business in Japan Not new, but a good primer (http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/). Recommendations Brandon: New season of The Startup podcast (https://gimletmedia.com/episode/shadowed-qualities-season-4-episode-3/) Matt: TransferWise (https://transferwise.com/u/matthewr9) for transferring money abroad. A16Z on TransferWise (https://a16z.com/2016/01/29/a16z-podcast-when-banking-works-like-my-smartphone/). Coté: “Tighten Up.” (https://open.spotify.com/track/2pBgtxhgqevCHEnJ7W5UKI), Archie Bell & The Drells - once you’re done being depressed, get your shit back together. HSAs. Meanwhile, this “pastrami burger” (https://www.instagram.com/p/BMpHcIhDJkk/) at 3 Greens Market (http://3greensmarket.com/) in Chicago is AMAZING.

11 Nov 20161h 21min

Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever. Show Notes Follow-up Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap. Check out the last episode, the show page (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/76) is- God-damned nifty! Review in iTunes France (https://twitter.com/matt_traverse/status/790600017778249728) Osprey “one bag” style backpack (https://twitter.com/scrub/status/790190603023843328). The Best Uber Driver Ever Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-rVFBC5Ps). The Sweat Hotel (http://thesweathotel.iheart.com/) Coté’s Agile shit Excerpt from a PDF in process (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/you-re-not-really-agile-airports-hitting-yourself-absurd-ai-tams-cote-memo-18-34432). IBM design people. We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely. It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming (https://twitter.com/cote/status/794349731627446272). UK GDS rant (https://medium.com/@sheldonline/the-government-it-self-harm-playbook-6537d3920f65#.p8cuon2mj). Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/culture How do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom. Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptions The Product Manager's Lament. If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile The big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on (https://docs.google.com/document/d/19T1B-jdhpNr58p7sONWtT5W48xFtV92aV9hMeb29w6I/edit?usp=sharing) - leave some comments! The End-roll Mid-roll Coté: Check out cote.io/promos (https://cote.io/promos/) for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in the All Day DevOps virtual conference (http://www.alldaydevops.com/). Coté: Nov 16th, Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha (https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/omaha) - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list. Coté: Various dates - Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow). Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016). Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code” (http://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders/events/233990769/). BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode. OpenStack Anyone? There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona (http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2475081/openstack-revenues-predicted-to-top-usd5bn-by-2020) 35% annual growth sounds good With friends like these… (http://www.computerworlduk.com/cloud-computing/mark-shuttleworth-on-openstack-hpe-layoffs-prove-bs-as-service-theory-3648336/): “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.” Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.” OTH, 🤔: "If you do these things the old fashioned way with Puppet, Chef and Ansible, they can be incredibly expensive because now you need the experts for everything," he says. "If you do them with Juju and Charms, you're sharing the cost of operational code with everybody else using those Charms." Meanwhile: 451 says “OpenStack revenues to grow at a 35% CAGR and exceed $5bn by 2020.” See chart in my newsletter from this week (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/you-re-not-really-agile-airports-hitting-yourself-absurd-ai-tams-cote-memo-18-34432). New York Times Buys The Wirecutter for $30 Million Good write-up about how The Wirecutter is/was very different from Gizmodo and the like (https://15minutes.inthemorni.ng/the-nyt-buying-wirecutter-and-sweethome-is-so-much-more-amazing-than-you-think-d9c7a3d04482#.h98byp0k0) Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY http://www.recode.net/2016/10/24/13381002/new-york-times-wirecutter-purchase-30-million-briam-lam-consumer-guide Adrian Cockcroft to AWS This (http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/10/welcoming-adrian-cockcroft-to-tthe-aws-team.html) is like the Warriors getting Kevin Durant, if the Warriors had won the championship last season ;) AWS Server Migration Service “automatically replicate live server volumes to AWS and create Amazon Machine Images (AMI) as needed.” (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-server-migration-service/) Currently VMware, more hypervisors coming Thanks for the partnership VMware! RackN gets Funding Looks like a seed round, yay for Rob (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/10/prweb13766404.htm). The Barbarian Establishment Economist on Private Equity (http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21709007-private-equity-has-prospered-while-almost-every-other-approach-business-has-stumbled) “private equiteers” “The fees they pay each time they buy or sell a company provide a fifth of the global banking system’s revenues from mergers and acquisitions.” “This is a particular issue for pension funds, which often need to earn 7% or 8% to meet their obligations.” Microsoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter “The company now claims that its commercial cloud annualized run rate has passed $13 billion (it was $12.1 billion last quarter), and that the gross margin of its commercial cloud business is up 7 points quarter-on-quarter to 49 percent.” (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/microsoft-cloud-annualized-run-rate-hits-13bn-in-strong-first-quarter/) Azure revenue growth was 116% last quarter; now have 11% market share compared to Amazon's 31% (http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsofts-cloud-buoys-earnings-1476995257) IBM Hiring lots of people? (http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2016/10/30/ibm-from-firing-to-hiring-spree/#155ad4467ce8) Stackanetes as a Product? “OpenStack on Kubernetes, or “Stackanetes” as the CoreOS team sadly likes to call it” (https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/coreos-launches-its-openstack-on-kubernetes-project-as-a-technical-preview/) VMware & AWS: Harder Than it Looks Former VMware/EMC exec, now at Oracle (http://chucksblog.typepad.com/chucks_blog/2016/10/vmware-and-aws-mixed-emotions.html). “hope is not a strategy.” “VMware wants the world to use their stack, AWS wants the same for their technology. Not exactly what I would call a long-term stable situation.” Picks Brandon: Westworld (http://www.hbo.com/westworld). Coté: Sugar Bowl Madeleines (http://amzn.to/2ewqNlU) at CostCo. I just ate five and the box ain't empty! Also, while you’re there: Tillamook Cheddar cheese slices (http://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/Tillamook-Medium-Cheddar-Cheese,-52-Slices,-2.5-lbs.product.11899115.html), in the expensive refrigerated section. And I got another pair of brushed khaki Kirkland 5 pocket pants. Matt: Tokyo! Coté’s Bonus Recommendation: Matt Ray’s hair (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/793653770424987648)!

4 Nov 20161h 9min

With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/4131abb5-d143-4e84-93f3-2050aeb31c05.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). Mid-roll Oct 25th - Matt at AWS North Sydney (http://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Web-Services-Sydney-North-User-Group/events/234184228/). Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there (https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/kansas-city). Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016 (https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016). Show notes If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP). VMware doing Kubernetes VMware's post (http://www.vmware.com/radius/vmware-introduces-kubernetes-as-a-service-on-photon-platform/), and a product page (http://www.vmware.com/products/photon-platform.html). Photon platform is VMware’s container-play, trying to leverage the VMware ecosystem (vSAN & NSX stuff) The New Stack coverage (http://thenewstack.io/vmware-photon-present-kubernetes-service/) BONUS LINKS, not covered in the show Ubuntu 16.10 Canonical’s doing Kubernetes too (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3130822/linux/ubuntu-1610-ups-cloud-ante-with-kubernetes-openstack.html) AWS & Government Debunking FUD and using AWS in (Australian) government (http://fractio.nl/2016/10/12/aws-in-government-myths-risks-misconceptions/) Randy Bias Leaves EMC OpenStack advocate/critic, Pets vs. Cattle 2 years to the day after the Cloudscaling acquisition Heading to… Juniper (https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/my-last-day-at-emc/) Cisco is AWS Skeptical Good luck with that (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/14/aws_cisco_canalys/) What $50 buys You at Huaqianbei Fascinating article, I hadn’t realized how ridiculously cheap everything had gotten (https://shift.newco.co/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most-fascinating-electronics-market-f0384d9fca32#.ec626kidu) Recommendations Brandon: Accused Podcast (http://www.cincinnati.com/series/accused/). Matt: Song Exploder podcast and the Tobacco album “Sweatbox Dynasty” (http://songexploder.net/tobacco) Coté: Kirkland brushed khaki pants. Also, espadrilles from that store in BCN, La Manual Alpargatera (http://www.lamanualalpargatera.es/). Apple Live Photos.

21 Okt 201652min

Summary Big shakes in cloud land this week with VMware and AWS partnering up. Is this the hybrid cloud enterprises have been dreaming on? We also cover systems of records, Oracle, and something about Google phones. It’s a regular episode on all the hot topics! See full show notes: http://cote.io/sdt75 Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly. With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté. Sponsors/Mid-roll Check out cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Also: Lords of Computing is now Coté.show. Will put upcoming DrunkAndRetired.com special episode in there. And as always check out Pivotal Conversations. Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there. For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket! DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016. Matt at DevOps Sydney October 20. Matt at AWS North Sydney October 25. Show notes Follow-up Buy-side commentary on Oracle storming the AWS castle Those reviews are awesome, thanks so much! I’ll be re-jiggering the podcast back end again, so expect some annoying weirdness (fireside.fm appears to be awesome, if expensive) So who’s buying Twitter? Tyler Cowe’s short term focus and going private escape hatch. VMware and AWS “VMware Cloud on AWS” “The service will be operated, sold and supported by VMware (not AWS) but integrate with the rest of AWS’ cloud portfolio (think storage, database, analytics and more).” https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/aws-blinked–20cddbb537ed#.9cuvcp75o “these customers will go to Cloud, but its really a glorified co-lo.” “AWS should be encouraging customers to develop their workloads to take advantage of Cloud ( microservices, serverless etc ) and not delay it further.” InfoWorld piece: They keep talking about hybrid cloud, but what does that mean here? Just “we use multiple cloud types/providers,” or one application running across different clouds? “As part of the deal, VMware will be AWS’s preferred private cloud partner and Amazon will be VMware’s preferred partner in the public cloud.” Some MSP action: “One of the key differences between this deal and the one VMware announced with IBM in February is that this service is being offered and managed by VMware.” “Interested customers can request access to the service’s private beta starting Thursday, but VMware doesn’t expect the service to be live until early next year. General availability of VMware cloud on AWS will have to wait until even later in 2017.” Brief 451 note No data in DevOps Google Devices Roundup, and AI interlude Revisiting the Apple or Google ecosystem question. I hate having to think about ecosystems when buying electronics. And AI. Walt Mossberg Thinks Siri is Dumb Wired Interview with Obama - dude knows AI. BONUS LINKS, not covered in podcast Container Madness! Nothing much new, just content to riff on Microsoft shipping Commercially Supported (CS) Docker Engine Red Hat and containers - relabel, transitioned from originally a PaaS to CaaS. DockerCon coming to Austin Opentracing joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announcement Open tracing Luke transitions to new Puppet CEO Luke’s announcement in Twitter Luke is one of the main people who started all this stuff, based on annoyance of BladeLogic, cfengine, etc. Did I ever tell the one of how I did a terrible sales job getting Reductive Labs signed up with RedMonk? The new dude looks like the real deal of enterprise infrastructure. Recommendations Matt: Warren Ellis’ Normal - From his latest newsletter “What science fiction, as a field, is good for, is looking at ten thousand possibilities at once," Zapp Branigan reading Trump quotes Brandon: Slate Plus. Also, Harry’s Blades. Coté: iPhone 7 Plus. Live Photos, Rotate mode, Bokeh stuff actually in beta, Home button takes getting used to, Two speakers is better?

14 Okt 201651min

This week it’s just Coté and Bridget talking about tech evangelism, business travel, and other fascinating topics deep in the boiler room of whatever it is we do around here. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/29d80059-77a3-415b-a662-4bb0d1247f81.mp3). Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.

1 Okt 201647min

Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it's destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/69b48ec5-05d5-4440-a2ae-4cd30027952b.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). SPONSOR Check out cote.io/pivotal (https://cote.io/pivotal/) for free books, free cloud time, etc. Come to DellEMCWorld on Oct 18th to 20th (http://dellemcworld.com/), in Austin. I'll be speaking there. There's also the annual vBBQ event (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vbbq-2016-dellemcworld-edition-tickets-27951018248?ref=estw), Oct 17th at the Salt Like. Pivotal is sponsoring (check out my CORPORATE AMEX, BITCHES!). Come to it, it's mostly free-ish. For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io (http://summit.chef.io) to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket! Show notes Wordpress Talk Pantheon (https://pantheon.io/features/wordpress-hosting-on-pantheon) Dreamhost (https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/wordpress/) WP Engine (https://wpengine.com/) macOS Sierra Try rebooting (https://twitter.com/b6n/status/767263631230636032). Can't get Apple Watch thing to work. Bartender broke-dick. What have you done for me lately, FREE SOFTWARE? (Just freed up 15 gigs of space with the storage optimizer (http://lifehacker.com/all-the-new-stuff-in-macos-sierra-1786817117), so, there's that.) Also, ordered a ~$1,000 phone today. JESUS (https://twitter.com/cote/status/778981660175937536)! Another way to find big files on OS X (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/). YubiKey support for OSX (https://www.yubico.com/2016/09/yubikey-smart-card-support-for-macos-sierra-2/) Oracle is gonna cream AWS. Wait, wut? Lydia has a good write-up (https://cote.io/2016/09/21/oracle-launches-a-new-iaas-checks-out/). She's a bit wry, you know. This is like the 3rd or 4th go at it. To be an apologist: doing cloud is freakin' hard. Maybe Oracle should try being less of a jerk rhetorically though? It's help with their credibility (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/19/oracle_openworld1/). Ben Thompson is on the case (https://stratechery.com/2016/oracles-cloudy-future/) BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. This week in tech PE Vista Equity Buying Infoblox for $1.6 Billion (http://fortune.com/2016/09/19/vista-infoblox/) Microservices - Please don't Maybe microservices ain't all they're cracked up to be (https://blog.komand.com/microservices-please-dont) 5 "truths" (spoiler, maybe not) It keeps the code cleaner It's easy to write things that only have one purpose They're faster than monoliths It's easy for engineers to not all work in the same codebase It's the simplest way to handle autoscaling, plus Docker is in here somewhere This piece (http://www.kennybastani.com/2016/08/strangling-legacy-microservices-spring-cloud.html) by my man Kenny (https://twitter.com/kennybastani) is ball-exploding awesome. Too Old to Code? Tim Bray is old and codes (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/09/14/Old-Geek). "That's fine for you, Marge, but I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. ... Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky.". – Homer Simpson Recommendations Brandon: Reminders App (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205890) Matt: Usual Suspects (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/); also, my wife’s blog (http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/?p=1795) Coté: Logitech Keys-To-Go Ultra-Portable Bluetooth Keyboard for Tablets, Red (http://amzn.to/2cUzeao) - $37.90 at Amazon: only 16 left in stock! GOOD PRICE! Also, don’t get Fantastical...if you’re like me.

22 Sep 201659min

At DevOpsDays DFW, Coté recorded a joint-podcast with Arrested DevOps and The Food Fight Show. Along with some local guests, we discuss the event, DevOpsDays, and computers in North Texas.

22 Sep 201657min

Too old https://giphy.com/gifs/3b1JW7LxfsAKs It's all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it's software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee...plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets. Listen above, subscribe to the feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SoftwareDefinedTalk) (or iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-defined-talk-podcast/id893738521?mt=2)), or download the MP3 directly (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/9b74150b-3553-49dc-8332-f89bbbba9f92/7b7bb7d7-4596-4d97-8d14-b1d09feada3d.mp3). With Brandon Whichard (https://twitter.com/bwhichard), Matt Ray (https://twitter.com/mattray), and Coté (https://twitter.com/cote). Show Notes Twitter going to sell: The rumors (https://www.thestreet.com/story/13692580/1/twitter-is-finally-starting-to-wake-up-to-reality-and-consider-selling-itself.html) “I still think Alphabet makes for the most logical acquirer of Twitter” Dark Horse: Apple. Really Dark Horse: IBM. This Week in Tech PE: HPE Spins off Software They got divested (https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-spin-off-software-assets-in-8-8b-transaction/) “HPE will be retaining tools that support the company’s cloud and infrastructure businesses but will be spinning off tools for application delivery management, big data, enterprise security, information management, governance and IT operations management.” From what I know of HPE, this seems to be overlapping. I’d love a list of “stays vs. goes” Q3 2017, and you thought Dell/EMC was slow Where does this leave HP? Will they acquire more SW or stay a “systems” company. It makes you realize how “small” their SW group was. Coté’s notebook on this topic (https://cote.io/2016/09/07/hpe-software-sold-for-88bn-to-micro-focus/). Also, Thoma Bravo says it gets, like, 20-45% returns on assets it takes private (https://cote.io/2016/09/12/thoma-bravo-getting-20-45-returns-on-taking-tech-companies-private/). Mid-roll Check out cote.io/promos (https://cote.io/promos/) for more - free books, free cloud time, etc. Lead-gen free webinar (https://cote.io/pivotal/) with an actual, real customer talking about cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. An analyst and Coté too. Check out my Sep. column over on The Register, about ROI and shit for DevOps (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/13/return_on_investment_for_devops/). I’m really desperate to answer this “question.” Put on some high-waders and check out the comments, leave some to go spice it up in that asylum. For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io (https://summit.chef.io/) to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket! Google buying Apigee. The whole API Economy thing. They got bought! (http://apigee.com/about/apigee-join-google) More (http://www.recode.net/2016/9/8/12851164/google-diane-greene-enterprise-apigee-acquisition) Hear us talk about it on Pivotal Conversations: the gigantic strangler pattern (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/033-gigantic-strangler-and-crazy-infrastructure-working-on-legacy-code-with-rohit-kelapure)! MASHUPS FTW! Hashicorp Gets $24 million B-round Vault Enterprise, Nomad Enterprise, Terraform Enterprise, Consul Enterprise (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/devops-leader-hashicorp-announces-24-163500016.html) Coté: what’s the deal with these folks? Are they a competitor to all us? Blogging is dead Coté gets better views/reads in Medium (https://twitter.com/cote/status/775857081479856128) than on his broke-dick blog (https://twitter.com/cote/status/775857543591530497). (Maybe about 80-100 RSS subscribers.) This makes him sad and confused about what he should do. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show A16Z Not Best of the Best? Clickbait (http://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/marc-andreessen-vc-firm-may-trail-behind-competitors.html) “Thought(sp?) it may fall short of some rivals, the company outperforms the average fund: Overall, its three funds have almost doubled their investment capital since inception.” What’s Cisco Up To? Our favorite Halo Effect company (http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/01/ciscos-buy-up-of-containerx-reveals-a-larger-game-plan/) What’s up with “software defined networking”? I was talking with someone recently and they posited that it’s “dead-as-in-over-cause-all-the-big-cos-won.” Plus NSX does a lot (1,700 customers (https://cote.io/2016/09/12/vmwares-portfolio-mix/)), right? Short History of Open Source Forks Lots of examples of successful open source forks (http://thenewstack.io/may-fork-short-history-open-source-forks/) “Oracle doesn’t seem to have a very good reputation with open source communities.” OS X <- NeXT <- “select parts of BSD” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#History) Thoughts on Nano Windows Server 2016 Is this the future of Windows (no Windows)? (https://www.petri.com/nano-server-debate-yes-no) Moving from Docker to Rocket Bumps in the road but rkt is staying “smaller” per last week’s conversation. (https://medium.com/@adriaandejonge/moving-from-docker-to-rkt-310dc9aec938#.k1vhi6skt) Picks Brandon: The Night Of (http://www.hbo.com/the-night-of). Coté: Complete Works of HP Lovecraft (http://amzn.to/2cwx6EC). Checks out. Also see the series of commentary from the two authors over on tor.com (http://www.tor.com/series/the-lovecraft-reread/). Matt: Silent music videos: Dancing In The Streets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc) (And, the original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ)). The Terror (http://amzn.to/2d3LSSy). They found the boat (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt).

16 Sep 20161h 3min