Episode 149: Selling enterprise software to governments (insert funnier title here)

SPONSOR Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/). See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP). "Residential Diaper Rash" Shit's wet in Texas (https://twitter.com/priskillya/status/738404958391787520) The right kind of rain Battling Billionaires Thiel-attack (https://stratechery.com/2016/peter-thiel-comic-book-hero/)! Internet History podcast (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/) - Microsoft gets the internet (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/03/chapter-2-part-2-bill-gates-gets-the-internet/) and Microsoft at the Dawn of the Internet Era (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2014/02/chapter-2-part-1-microsoft-at-the-beginning-of-the-internet/). Making money in open source Something about a16z and O'Grady's open source piece (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/06/02/future-of-open-source/). ARM licensing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings#Licensees). Battery Ventures conference (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BVOSS) - Mårten Mickos says RDS has probably made more money off MySQL than Oracle has (https://twitter.com/jgrayla/status/738497915195269120). Mid-roll Chef's got something new soon Just wait 260 more hours (https://bignews.chef.io/) SpringOne Platform, August 1st to 4th (https://springoneplatform.io/) - speaker line-up announced, including Coté and some stars from LordsOfComputing.com (https://cote.io/podcasts/loc/) (Matt and Brian (https://cote.io/2016/04/29/loc12/)). Discounts to DevOpsDays: Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-minneapolis/), July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. More shit at https://cote.io/promos/ (https://cote.io/promos/). See cote.io/promos (http://cote.io/promos) for a full list of all the deals and "mid-roll" stuff currently going on. Notes from Corporate Strategy Land Qlik goes private - Thoma Bravo pays $3bn. Good summary of historic BI acquisitions from 451 (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/ma/thoma-bravo-qliks-buy-on-3bn-analytics-deal/). Wither JasperSoft? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JasperReports): "On April 28, 2014, TIBCO announced it had acquired Jaspersoft for approximately $185 million." Court ruling on Dell going private (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/31/michael_dell_buyback_on_the_cheap/) - Coté has nothing to say about that. However, the story of going private in the first part of the 115 page court ruling (http://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=241590) is gripping stuff if you're into corporate strategy - it's a rare chance to see what happens in all these M&A deals. Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report Video of the presentation (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/06/01/meeker-report) Quartz highlights (http://qz.com/697050/mary-meekers-2016-internet-trends-report-all-the-slides-plus-highlights/) Software is getting faster at eating the (ecommerce) world: "The time it takes retailers to get to $100 million in online sales is shrinking. It took Nike 14 years from the time its retail site launched, compared to nine years for Lululemon, and eight year for Under Armour." 213 slides of charts (http://www.kpcb.com/blog/2016-internet-trends-report) (PDF). BONUS LINKS! Ezra Klein on productivity loss (http://www.vox.com/a/new-economy-future/technology-productivity) Oracle loses their case against Google - APIs aren't copyrightable (http://www.wired.com/2016/05/google-doesnt-owe-oracle-cent-using-java-android-jury-finds/)- Counter-view: "cartoon vision of the world" and "banana republics." (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/02/google_oracle_comment/) AWS launches Flourish - Framework for serverless computing (http://thenewstack.io/amazon-debuts-flourish-runtime-application-model-serverless-computing/) - Open up the ability to add new language runtimes Salesforce moving into AWS? - $400 million over 4 years (http://fortune.com/2016/05/25/salesforce-inks-major-aws-deal/) - But what about Oracle? CoreOS launches Torus - GIFEE strikes again (https://coreos.com/blog/torus-distributed-storage-by-coreos.html)! Recommendations Matt: Weird history of fake bands in the 60s (https://www.buzzfeed.com/danielralston/the-true-story-of-the-fake-zombies-the-strangest-con-in-rock). #tronc (https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/738478489322586112). Coté: (1.) Weatherproof button-up shirts from CostCo (http://amzn.to/1XWuLEl). (2.) The old guy hair of Bloodline (http://www.gq.com/story/old-guy-hair-bloodline-sam-shepard). (3.) Coach Taylor seem like a real nice guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chandler). (4.) Provisional recommendation: Gerber Bear Grylls Parang Machete (http://amzn.to/20XxoVR). Brandon: Tortuga Air (http://www.tortugabackpacks.com/products/tortuga-air-carry-on-backpack) - no more fear of gate-checking.

4 Juni 201658min

SPONSORS Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/). Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8HsST6BzTc). Cost Cutting Perks in Silicon Valley More from the snack-track files (http://www.businessinsider.com/cost-cutting-at-dropbox-and-silicon-valley-startups-2016-5). Employees at Kabam, the online-gaming startup worth $1 billion, recently felt like there was a decrease in the number of office snack stands. Although the company denies it, some believe the snack stands are now placed more sporadically in order to reduce the employees' frequency of snack consumption by making it a little harder to get to them. No Uber in Austin Brandon sets us straight on the details. Coté defends the uber-haters. Will Containers Replace Hypervisors, Almost Certainly Yes TL;DR; is the title :) (https://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/will-containers-replace-hypervisors-almost-certainly/) Randy Bias, the "pets vs. cattle" godfather, makes a strong case for hypervisors being on the way out. Once all the legacy apps are re-written to be in containers (cloud native) or decom'ed (you know, in the future (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzpdd4pWvM&feature=youtu.be&t=1m19s)), and we don't want to run multiple OSes (so don't need the driver handling that hypervisors give us)...no need for hypervisors. QED. Cloud chief Diane Greene on how Google can beat Amazon and Microsoft A brief interview (http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/05/06/cloud-chief-diane-greene-on-how-google-can-beat-amazon-and-microsoft/) "Q: How will Google differentiate against AWS and Microsoft? A: Only 5 percent of workloads are in the public cloud. Effectively you're riding another company's innovation curve for free. We've open-sourced a lot of technologies like Kubernetes and TensorFlow. As we add more features, we'll be able to share a lot more strengths with applications." - can OSS be used to attack on-premises cloud? Not in my tater salad (https://twitter.com/Oak2278/status/537436262097907713)! BONUS LINKS! Apprenda buys Kismatic "Apprenda will also take the lead in building out Windows support for Kubernetes, which has been Linux focused," said Sinclair Schuller (http://fortune.com/2016/05/19/apprenda-buys-kismatic/), chief executive of Apprenda. Do you even pop-up, bro? (https://apprenda.com/blog/apprenda-acquires-kismatic/) Apprenda pivoted towards Kubernetes recently, Kismatic was building "Enterprise friendly" Kubernetes "Per Incident" pricing (https://apprenda.com/kubernetes-support/) is really hard to scale. Perhaps Brandon has comments on open source business models. "[I]t is what most would call a dynamic market." (http://fortune.com/2016/05/19/apprenda-buys-kismatic/) Digging into Microsoft's Cloud Numbers Charts! (https://mattermark.com/taking-stock-cloud-wars/) Microsoft has something like $102.6bn cash on-hand (http://www.geekwire.com/2016/apple-microsoft-google-hold-nearly-quarter-u-s-corporate-cash/). Smoke 'em if you got 'em! Internet Giants Resume Data Center Spending "Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook spent a combined $23 billion in 2015 on capital projects. During an investment flurry from 2011 to last year, the companies' combined capex nearly tripled." (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/09/break-internet-giants-resume-data-center-spending-gadfly/) "Parsimony at Alphabet is all relative. The company's $9.9 billion in capital expenditures for 2015 was nearly more than the combined capex spending of Microsoft and Amazon." Facebook Sponsors the Republican National Convention The social network says its participation (http://recode.net/2016/05/05/facebook-republican-national-convention-sponsor/) — which will include a lounge — should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any candidate, issue or political party. It plans to do the same at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Tell me more about this lounge… So, who's going to sponsor the RNC JumboTron for SDT? Nazis on Reddit! Never read the comments (http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11595472/reddit-hitler-nazi-comments-godwins-law) Recommendations Brandon: Y20U noise canceling headphones - cheap! (http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-headphones-under-40/) and the full Area X triology on audible, for just one credit! (http://amzn.to/1sPZ04A) Matt: Doing the Lord's work (https://twitter.com/DungeonsDonald); super heros jumping (https://twitter.com/hownottodraw/status/729797659431686144) Coté: Lomo al Trapo, aka, "towel meat." (http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/08/lomo-al-trapo-colombian-cloth-wrapped-salt-crusted-beef-tenderloin-recipe.html). Also fast.com (https://fast.com/). Also The Botanist gin (https://www.thebotanist.com/).

26 Maj 201656min

This week, we discuss DevOpsDays Austin, Pivotal's funding round, and some follow-up for the OpenStack Summit: turns our Gartner doesn't hate them. Also, with the new ping-model out, we discuss the potential for peak ping pong. SPONSOR Get 30% off OSCON, in Austin on May 18th and 19th, when you register with the code REFERCOTE. Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Get 20% off registration for the Cloud Foundry Summit, May 23rd to 25th, with the code CF16COTE. Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=LP-link&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=cotepivotallandingpage&utm_medium=landingpage&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/). Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWnQ7od08nzkB32oT4gnDiP). Agile & Beyond Conference - Jeffrey Liker keynote. DevOpsDays Austin earlier this week. 500 to 600 people, +200 y/y Matt Ray's talk on compliance (http://www.slideshare.net/mattray/compliance-as-code), Coté's talk (https://cote.io/2016/05/02/devops-for-normals/). Pivotal gets a series C Press release (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160505005598/en/Pivotal-Announces-Series-Financing-Fuel-Continued-Expansion#.Vyta_lwqu5I.twitter) $253 million with new investors Ford and Microsoft. Existing: GE, EMC, and VMware. Momentum by penetration: "30% of the Fortune 100 currently work with Pivotal… The company now works with seven of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the top five global auto manufacturers, and five of the top 10 telecommunication companies." Momentum by run-rate: "Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Big Data Suite having crossed the $200 million and $100 million annual bookings run-rate milestones, respectively." Momentum by logos: "GE, Ford, Verizon, Home Depot, Comcast, Humana, Lockheed Martin, and Allstate" "Person familiar" says (http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0XW11G) Pivotal now has a $2.8bn valuation. From the same article, Ford's chunk is $182.2m. Gartner actually "likes" OpenStack OpenStack and Gartner: The Facts - Alan Waite (http://blogs.gartner.com/alan-waite/2016/05/03/openstack-gartner-facts/) Good representation of many things: how difficult it is to be "part of the conversation" with a paywall. The perception of Gartner is usually skewed Tip: always read the primary source, be it a Gartner PDF or a talk, etc. Ping Pong and the Tech Bubble? "Falling table-tennis sales give a peek into the economics of Silicon Valley, where the right to play on the job is sacrosanct" (http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-tech-bubble-popping-ping-pong-offers-an-answer-1462286089#:K4CFGVr2Ylj1GA) Seriously? No wonder people hate Silicon Valley Hey, look, it's the Pivotal SF offices! Love that chunky coconut water. More DevOpsDays Seattle next week, May 12th and 13th (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-seattle/) - Coté has an ignite talk there (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-seattle/proposals/How_to_survive_and_thrive_in_a_big_company/). Ignite talks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_(event)) Jeff Bezos weighs in on rewrites This anecdote has really stuck with me (https://storify.com/jrauser/on-the-big-rewrite-and-bezos-as-a-technical-leader) Recommendations Brandon: SaveFrom.net/ (http://en.savefrom.net/) - save videos from the web. Matt: New Radiohead "Burn the Witch" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2oS2hoL0k) DevOpsDays Austin speaker gifts. Coté: Lords of Computing #12 (https://cote.io/2016/04/29/loc12/) - with Brian Gregory of Express Scripts. I don't usually toot my own content horn, but this was a good episode. Also, that Elon Musk book by Ashlee Vance (http://amzn.to/1XboAw1). It was $2 on Amazon the other day, so YOLO. Also: James Governor on an Apple Watch with an explosion behind him (https://twitter.com/bennycrime/status/728261918213943296).

6 Maj 201653min

OpenStack is crawling its way into the plateau of productivity, we submit, during this week of the OpenStack Summit. We also discuss the recent Docker survey findings, and some overly precise number on private vs. public cloud adoption. Coté also manages to insult the entire Eastern seaboard, esp. Annapolis. SPONSOR Ads Interested in speeding your software's cycle time, reducing release cycles, and a resilient cloud platform? Check out the free ebook on Cloud Foundry (http://pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-the-cloud-native-platform?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=cotememo&utm_campaign=Duncan-Winn-OReilly-Cloud-Native-eBook-Q116) or take Cloud Foundry for a test drive with Pivotal Web Services (http://try.run.pivotal.io/SDT?utm_source=Cote-promo&utm_medium=cotememo&utm_term=FreeTwoMonthsPWS&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=cote). See those and other things at cote.io/pivotal (http://cote.io/pivotal/). FRONTSIDE.IO – HIRE THEM! (http://frontside.io/cote) Do you need some developer talent? When you have a web project that needs the "A Team," call The Frontside (http://frontside.io/cote). They've spent years honing their tools and techniques that give their clients cutting-edge web applications without losing a night's sleep. Learn more at http://frontside.io/cote (http://frontside.io/cote) Go to a conference on the cheap! Discount Codes I round up all sorts of discount codes for conferences and such, here's what I got today: Get 30% off OSCON (http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us), in Austin on May 18th and 19th, when you register with the code REFERCOTE. Get 15% off DevOpsDays Seattle (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-seattle/), May 12th and 13th, when you register with the code SOFTWARETALK. I'll be there staffing the Pivotal table and also giving an ignite talk. Get 20% off registration for the Cloud Foundry Summit (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/community/summits/attend/?summitId=10016), May 23rd to 25th, with the code CF16COTE. Get $50 off DevOpsDays Minneapolis (http://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-minneapolis/), July 20th and 21st, with the code SDT2016. I'll be getting some for Chicago and Seattle sometime too. Show notes If you like video, see this episodes' video recording (https://youtu.be/x2ClCSW_sks). Agile and Beyond conference (http://agileandbeyond.com/2016/) OpenStack Coté's developer relations and marketing panel (https://twitter.com/alsadowski/status/724746954522021889) - see sample of questions (http://drunkandretired.com/post/143486274111/im-moderating-a-panel-tomorrow-at-the-openstack). Big name membership momentum from @alsadowski (https://twitter.com/alsadowski/status/724746954522021889) Also, 451 market-size estimates (https://twitter.com/cote/status/725374178191265792): 2013: $486m; 2015: $1.2bn; 2018E: $3.37bn Docker Survey out - #WhatDoYouMakeOfThat Get the PDF (https://goto.docker.com/rs/929-FJL-178/images/Docker-Survey-2016.pdf) Respondents are the HN set? - 511 respondents, 59% from software companies, 56% orgs less than 100 employees, 47% devs or dev managers 51% in production "survey respondents reported on average a 13X increase in frequency of software releases." "Because Docker makes it simple and easy to push software out, isolate issues and roll back, over 63% of organizations report a reduction in their MTTR which impacts overall software quality and customer satisfaction." Cloud about to get HUGE "CIOs report that 16.2% of workloads are currently running in the public cloud, and that in five years 41.3% of workloads will run in a public cloud. This suggests at least a 20% CAGR in public cloud workloads over the next five years. In our view, a near- tripling of the public-Cloud-based workload mix represents a monumental architectural shift, which shows no signs of abating and is likely to create a major ripple effect across the entire technology landscape." - "Amazon Seeing 'Momentous' Change of Guard as Public Cloud 'Booms,' Says JP Morgan" (http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/04/14/amazon-seeing-momentous-change-of-guard-as-public-cloud-booms-says-jp-morgan/) How does Wall Street work, again? A Rolex-level of "failure" (https://500ish.com/a-flop-unlike-any-other-c15545c985b5#.skx53yiw9) Back of the Envelop podcast (http://thebackoftheenvelope.tumblr.com/) - where Ed used to teach Coté about how money works. Cisco OSpod podcast (http://www.nextcast.net/openstackpod-events/michael-cot-director-of-technical-marketing-at-pivotal-software-on-ospod-at-openstack-summit-austin-2016) Dan Lyons book (http://amzn.to/1Tz9y0b) - candy walls and HubSpot. Feedback & Follow-up Full Snack Developer: Old Bay Seasoning on French Fries (https://twitter.com/rlangford77/status/723662056117784576) - that is Coté's new God. Mesos is fleet management (https://twitter.com/ryan_maclean/status/723667528782737408). How's that one handle on the curves? Chapters in podcasts. I used Chapter app (http://chaptersapp.com/) and it was better than the half-ass results with Fission (https://rogueamoeba.com/fission/). But, still, the marks didn't line up perfectly. Computers - amiright? (Don't get me wrong: Fission is awesome, but: really?) We should be in Google Play Podcasts - can someone verify this before they EOL it? I heard that two people have used the code CF16COTE to register for the CF Summit. I'm going to believe they're from the listeners here and not my newsletter. HOW YOU LIKE MY CPM NOW?! They love us in Brazil! Recommendations Brandon: TICKR heart-rate monitor (http://amzn.to/1STPmZX). Matt: Public cloud (www.slideshare.net/mattray/why-not-public-cloud). Also: renting your house is hard. Coté: OH YEAH! (https://twitter.com/imgur/status/725459722241892352)

29 Apr 201648min