Episode 220: Everyone loves white papers

Everyone loves white papers

Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension.

Mood board:

• “A Quote from the episode…”
• Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
• “I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.”
• We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’
• Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring?
• Crank up the YouTube
• Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway
• Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now
• Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch
• Garbage trash proposals
• Uniquely sourced
• Why are we still doing this?
• They’re busy running their business.
• “Can you write me a business case.”
• PDFs a Plenty
• The White Paper Album
• Speaking of BS phrases
• The white paper to take down white papers
• “Walking into the door feeling”
• The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever.
• Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon.
• The Idempope.

Relevant to your interests

• Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? - related, from 2006.
• The secret sauce graphics, 2007. Andrew Shafer’s 2010 update.
• White papers (best one ever: “Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey,” Chef)
  • Collateral.
  • Sales tools.
  • Case studies.
  • Thought-leadership/definition.
  • Education.
  • Guidance (vs. Gartner Burton papers).
  • Writing down chunks of sales-hustle lore.
  • How it effects the business.
  • Have opinions.
• Millennials Want Credible Digital Content — So Give It To Them!
• Amazon AMI thing.
• Salesforce secures $1.3B+ deal for Vlocity, also co-CEO left (what’s up with two CEOs?)
• VMware, Tanzu
• Signal signal - Matt’s paranoid security.
• The Tech Revolt Finally Comes for Oracle
• Morgan Stanley Is Buying E*Trade, Betting on Littler Customers
• Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
• Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fightNonsense
• Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role
• DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability
• HP adopts poison pill after Xerox's buyout attempts
• VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger
• Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department - Slashdot
• Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
• Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals
• The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement
• Google Cloud beefs up Chronicle, reCaptcha Enterprise and Web Risk API hit general availability
• When Speakers are Ears
• Why Those Gaps in Kubernetes Are Really a Good Thing
• Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud
• Google Jumps to #4 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Behind #1 Microsoft, #2 AWS, #3 Salesforce
• MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped
• Firefox now encrypts domain name requests by default in the US
• Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace'
• Keith Block Steps Down as Salesforce Co-CEO; Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO

Non Sense

• Report: Austin Ranks No. 1 in the Nation for Jobs
• The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
• Costco’s Famous Hot Dog Could Cost You $60

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Conferences, et. al.

• QCon London, March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking on March 2nd.
• Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions, tickets.
• KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
  • VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop
• DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
• ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4
• DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
• THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.

Listener Talk

• Ryan Kitchens talk “The Meat of It.”

SDT news & hype

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• Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
• Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.

Recommendations

• Brandon: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee on Netflix.
• Matt: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child.
• Coté: Hild. SpringOne Platform 2019 CFP. My book, The Business Bottleneck, is out for free.

Outro: “Hey Now.”