Episode 528: You can’t spell Clippy without CLI

In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it'd be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical's IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk's acquisition of Conjur to discuss the state of privileges access management (PAM). We end, as always, with recommendations, including some CostCo discussion. See the full show notes at http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/94 Mid-roll DevOpsDays MSP, July 25th to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!). Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/). 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&) SpringDays.io Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff Chicago (May 30th to 31st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago) New York (June 20th to 21st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york) Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta) Matt: ChefConf May 22-24 (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) NEXT WEEK! The news from Australia Y'all gotta get your avocado pricing under control (http://time.com/money/4778942/avocados-millennials-home-buying/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter). $1.50 for a large one is about the ceiling 'roind here. As ever (https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/864170776873840640), the first step of your life-plan should be to become independently wealthy in your early 20s. Go work in a coal-mine otherwise. Also, pro-tip: if you're rich, your default position on social commentary should generally by STFU. Matt needs a driver's license Health-insurance choices HSA is probably a good idea. Better get a FAX machine. This is a trigger issue for Coté, beware. Donnie Berkholz at Carlson Wagonlit He Tweetered it (https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/862706228127965184): "to help them with their DevOps journey." He's a VP! (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dberkholz/) - exec level #AchievementUnlocked He says: " With an all-new CEO and CPO/CTO, we're making a major pivot to become a software company focused on travel, rather than a travel agency with some apps." It'll be fun to see (hopefully!) what his group actually procures, uses, and does. He's already on that "welcome to enterprise software" shit (https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/862494049160355840): "Current status: Hating on vendors that don't publicly post pricing." Conference, travel, expenses? - like Concur/Amex travel? I recall using them for a lot of travel in the analyst days. Checks out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Wagonlit_Travel): "Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company reported $23 billion in total transaction values[2] in 2016 and recorded almost 59 million transactions. The company has over 18,000 employees across nearly 150 countries." Their owner, Carlson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson_Companies) (yes, of hotel fame, but also used to own things like TGI Friday's [from 1975 to 2014] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.G.I._Friday%27s)) is in MN. But then the hotels were bought by a Chinese group, HNA (https://skift.com/2016/12/09/hna-closes-its-acquisition-of-carlson-hotels/)? So now, Carlson Group is mostly just Wagonlit? Canonical Eying an IPO? Coté's notebook on the topic (https://cote.io/2017/05/09/canonical-refocusing-on-ipoing-momentum-in-cloud-native-highlights/). Link (http://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-starts-ipo-path/): "in the last year, Ubuntu cloud growth had been 70 percent on the private cloud and 90 percent on the public cloud." In particular, "Ubuntu has been gaining more customers on the big five public clouds." 5? Still, there is "no timeline for the IPO." First, Shuttleworth wants all parts of the slimmed down Canonical to be profitable. Then "we will take a round of investment." After that, Canonical will go public. The S1 filing is going to be fascinating. Mirantis still into OpenStack, Coté was straigh-up wrong (https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/mirantis-launches-its-new-openstack-and-kubernetes-cloud-platform/): "The new platform allows users to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters side-by-side with OpenStack — or separately." CyberArk Buys Conjur "DevOps" is used 19 times in the press release (https://www.cyberark.com/press/cyberark-acquires-conjur-revolutionizing-devops-security-drive-greater-business-agility/). Coté: so, is this like "vault" type stuff in cloud-native land? Coté talked with a CyberArk SE at DevOpsDays Austin, they had a booth! 451 report from Garrett Bekker (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92456&type=mis&alertid=473&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=92456-A+whiff+and+a+homer%3A+CyberArk+misses%2C+but+adds+DevOps+security+with+Conjur+pickup): "privileged access management (PAM)" "Conjur [founded in 2013] marks CyberArk's third acquisition, following the 2015 pickups of endpoint security vendor Cybertinel for an undisclosed sum and Windows least privileged management and application whitelisting firm Viewfinity for $30m. CyberArk paid $42m in cash and we estimate a multiple slightly north of 10x trailing revenue, potentially boosted by a competitive bid. Once the transaction closes, 20 Conjur employees will join CyberArk." Conjur's "three core products are Privileged Access Management for managing 'secrets' such as SSH keys, Dynamic Traffic Authorization for controlling and brokering access to resources, and Compliance Monitoring for real-time reporting." Founded in 1999, CyberArk "went public in September 2014 and is currently valued at about $1.7bn, with 2016 revenue of $216m." JJ on avoiding SSH (http://www.cote.show/21), Coté Show #21. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in the show. GNU GPL Stands Up In Court Keith Collins, Quartz write-up (https://qz.com/981029/a-federal-court-has-ruled-that-an-open-source-license-is-an-enforceable-contract/). Appears willful, embedding GPL software implicitly accepts the license. It's over (http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=98d5ec53-ce49-40fc-a2e4-7a1c84a2aa46): "Ghostscript—an interpreter for the PostScript language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)." It has dual-licensing, a la MySQL and friends. "Hancom issued a motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the company didn't sign anything, so the license wasn't a real contract." "[Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley] denied the motion, and in doing so, set the precedent that licenses like the GNU GPL can be treated like legal contracts, and developers can legitimately sue when those contracts are breached." This has come up for Artifex as well, back in 2008 (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081104/1621182738.shtml). Not sure what this lawyer-cant is (http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=98d5ec53-ce49-40fc-a2e4-7a1c84a2aa46), but: "A few aspects of the decision are of particular interest to the open source community. For example, Hancom argued that Artifex could not plead breach of contract for violation of GPL and could not request specific performance of the terms of GPL. Hancom also argued that copyright damages were not available because the GPL grants royalty-free rights." More: "Here, in denying a motion to dismiss, the District Court only holds that the claims may proceed on the theories enunciated by Artifex, not necessarily that they will ultimately succeed." More history and context from Kieren McCarthy, at The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/13/gnu_gpl_enforceable_contract/), which Coté didn't really read. DevOpsDays Austin Recap? Coté's main talk ("Not Actually a DevOps Talk") (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIF4iAGx2Z0&feature=youtu.be&t=1h57m17s), and then Ignite (not up yet, but here's slides (https://www.slideshare.net/cote/surviving-thriving-in-a-big-compay)). Also, a rare chance to see me setting up for a talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIF4iAGx2Z0&feature=youtu.be&t=1h55m46s), with all the cord shit and all. Nicole Forsgren's slides (https://www.slideshare.net/nicolefv/how-metrics-make-your-devops-awesome) Kelsey Hightower's talk, very personal and a great story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36S7N7OZSTI&feature=youtu.be&t=45m30s). Videos are sort of up, just not cut-up (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK65QYThGym3D6eNxw3rn_A/videos). WannaCry Windows XP still? Realish-time twitter bot watching ransomware payments into the BitCoin accounts (https://twitter.com/actual_ransom/). Find it with InSpec and fix it (https://blog.chef.io/2017/05/15/detecting-wannacry-exploit-inspec/). Linux in the Microsoft Store - Pigs seen flying over Redmond (https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-will-offer-3-flavors-of-linux-on-the-windows-store/) "Straightening" Out the Moby Story Coté: at the end of this, it seems like a pretty small deal to normals, only vendors should care…? From Lee Calcote at TheNewStack (https://thenewstack.io/what-is-the-moby-project/). ## Rackspace + Dell EMC Doing OpenStack Partnership (https://blog.rackspace.com/rackspace-dell-emc-team-revolutionize-private-cloud) Recommendations Brandon: Nobel Sandwich (http://noblesandwiches.com/), in Austin, esp. breakfast/brunch. Freakonomics episode: "Why is my life so hard" (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-my-life-so-hard/) Matt: Catastrophe Season 3 (http://amzn.to/2pHxj0H) - profane, realistic comedy with Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan (Amazon/BBC) Fuzzes search engines to prevent them from profiling you (http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/). Coté: Early on use, but, Google Photos (https://photos.google.com) - the XKCD perspective](https://xkcd.com/1832/) on photo management. Coté's Apple photo management rant in episode 22 of the Coté Show (http://www.cote.show/22). Also, butterfly your CostCo chicken breasts (eating just one half, or both) and cook to about 150-155 degrees, letting it heat up to 165 on the plate (http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/10/how-to-take-meat-temperature-thermometer-cooking-doneness.html). Much better than figuring out the wicked problem of cooking a full, thick breast.

16 Maj 201759min

There's much news in the container world with DockerCon and Red Hat having had conferences, plus Docker gets a new CEO. We also do a hindsight analysis of what wrong with the losers of the Cloud Wars. And, as always, recommendations from the three of us. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/) - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094&). Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago), New York (June 20th to 21st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta) Coté: OSCON Expo Plus (https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx/public/content/exhibitplus) discount: I wanted to present to you a Free Expo hall Plus Pass for OSCON coming to Austin May 10/11. You get way more than just a pass to the expo, it also covers three full-day events: TensorFlow Day, InnerSource Day, and our Open Container Summit. If you are interested, you can use the code AUSTIN at checkout. You can see the entirety of what is offered here (https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx/public/content/exhibitplus). Matt: ChefConf May 22-24 (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) Matt Ray’s APAC Biz Travel Fun 5 different airlines in a month. Emirates is the best. This is why we can’t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay. Red Hat. Some cloud stuff we need to read-on more. Check out Coté's summary of a recent Brian Gracely post on the OpenShift momentum (https://cote.io/2017/05/01/red-hat-openshift-momentum-highlights/). Cloud Rules Everything Around Me As summarized by Derrick (http://news.architecht.io/issues/architecht-daily-it-s-earnings-and-ipo-season-for-cloud-and-cloudera-55782) (via CNBC (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/27/microsoft-azure-growing-faster-than-aws-google-cloud-behind.html): AWS brought in $3.66 billion in revenue, which was up 42 percent from last year. However, year-over-year growth dropped from last year’s first quarter. Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year. Google Cloud is buried somewhere in “Other Bets” on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion. What’s the Halo Effect on this? It’s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008. Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM (http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-to-snap-up-remnants-of-verizons-cloud-managed-hosting-business/). Docker is now Moby, wait what? LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers. “Moby (https://mobyproject.org/) is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system” Moby = open source development Docker CE = free product release based on Moby Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE Moby is the name of the upstream umbrella project supervising the open source pieces that are used to build Docker, which is now the commercial-focused product Docker CE/EE Letter about Moby (https://osenetwork.com/2017/04/21/)an-open-letter-to-docker-about-moby/ Moby is Fedora, Docker is like RHEL, Eclipse, Genuitec. Coté’s Notebook on Moby and such (https://cote.io/2017/04/22/the-news-from-docker-land-plus-the-money-being-fought-over-notebook/) Coté's Notebook on Docker's new CEO (https://cote.io/2017/05/03/dockers-new-ceo-steve-singh-highlights/). BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. EngineYard done! Press Release (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/engine-yard-leader-ruby-rails-131500016.html) A snarky Tweet (https://twitter.com/craig_tracey/status/857004524447432704) Another Press Release (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/engine-yard-a-leader-in-ruby-on-rails-acquired-by-crossover-to-become-a-full-stack-ruby-platform-300444820.html) Jay Lyman at 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92309&type=mis&alertid=445&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=92309-Engine+Yard%27s+end+of+the+road+is+acquisition+by+Crossover): “It generated revenue of about $36m in 2016.” - I seem to recall that EngineYard would report on revenue. “Native” Windows Server Support for Docker Link (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2017/04/18/dockercon-2017-powering-new-linux-innovations-with-hyper-v-isolation-and-windows-server/) “Linux containers running natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology” Sysdig Docker Usage Report 2017 Link 1 (https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-docker-usage-report-2017/) Link 2 (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3189385/open-source-tools/kubernetes-is-king-in-container-survey.html) Always fun to read “real” numbers 10 containers/host and Kubernetes out in front Microsoft and the NSA Exploits Leak Link (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/04/14/protecting-customers-and-evaluating-risk/) Patch your servers and run modern versions people. Amazon’s Coming to Australia Link (http://mashable.com/2017/04/19/amazon-confirms-australia-expansion/) “The moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. “ Intel Drops out of OpenStack Innovation Center Link (http://fortune.com/2017/04/14/intel-openstack-project-rackspace/) 30 Rackers moving internally, Intel is still participating within OpenStack Huawei Want to Enter the Cloud Fray Link (http://www.cbronline.com/news/cloud/public/cloud-wars-huawei-enters-fray-sets-sights-aws/) Everybody wants a piece of AWS Microsoft buys Deis Coté’s notebook on the topic (https://cote.io/2017/04/10/microsoft-buys-deis-deeper-into-kubernetes-1-1bn-container-market-notebook/). Oracle Buys Wercker Link (http://blog.wercker.com/oracle) “container lifecycle management” - foundation for a container PaaS if you tie it to the StackEngine acquisition? How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide Link (http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/how-many-data-centers-needed-world-wide/) Deep cut from James Hamilton, AWS Datacenter guru Re: Oracle “if you assume the big three are spending roughly equally, how can $1.7B compete with more than $10B when it comes to serving customers?” “2+1 redundancy is cheaper than 1+1 and, when there are 3 facilities, a single facility can experience a fault without eliminating all redundancy from the system. Consequently, whenever AWS goes into a new region, it’s usual that three new facilities be opened rather than just one with some racks on different power domains.” “latency is not the prime driver of very large numbers of regions” “being close to population centers and major communications hubs matters to most operators more than cooling costs” Canonical/Ubuntu priorities Link (https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/) Dropping Unity desktop and phone stuff in favor of desktop, cloud & IOT BrickerBot Bricks Unsecured IOT Devices Link (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-malware-intentionally-bricks-iot-devices/) “BrickerBot the work of a vigilante?” OmniTI Shutting Down OmniOS Development Link (https://lists.omniti.com/pipermail/omnios-discuss/2017-April/008699.html) Open source Solaris-compatible clone “OmniTI will be suspending active development of OmniOS” Apple makes GarageBand, iMovie and iWork free Link (http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/18/15344834/apple-free-apps-garageband-imovie-pages-keynote-numbers) MacOS and IOS! Keynote is the best, why not open source for an attempt at cross-platform? Recommendations Brandon: S-town podcast (https://stownpodcast.org/), some background from the creator (https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-239-brian-reed). Matt Ray: Google Translate video realtime AR stuff. Coté: The Big Sleep (http://amzn.to/2pyAeak).

3 Maj 20171h 1min

Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There's also some brief talk of Akamai buying SOASTA, Cloudera filing to IPO, and the lost dichotomy of agent/agentless. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/). 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Coté: Cloud Native Roadshows, with Pivotal and Google Cloud (https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow): Boston, Chicago, MSP, Atlanta, DC, Charlotte, Detroit, Toronto, St. Louis, Paris, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Dallas, Denver, LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore. Coté: my big old how to cloud strategy paper is out, find the link at cote.io/cloud2 (https://content.pivotal.io/ebooks/crafting-your-cloud-native-strategy). LEAD-GEN YERSELF! Matt: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-tokyo/welcome/) Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th (https://events.chef.io/events/hands-habitat-tokyo/) Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th (https://pages.chef.io/ChefMeetup_Singapore_RSVP.html) ChefConf May 22-24 (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) Boothing Wearing the t-shirt. Success criteria for boothing. Don't speak Spanish in Japan. Sponsoring the coffee. Oracle NOT Buying Accenture From Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/oracle-never-considered-buying-accenture-2017-4) "The Accenture rumour is completely untrue. Never even considered it. Completely made up." Coté round-up, small as it is (https://cote.io/2017/04/05/that-rumor-about-oracle-buying-accenture-nope/). Amazon streaming NFL 10 Thursday night games, CBS or NBC broadcasts streamed (http://news.morningstar.com/all/market-watch/TDJNMW20170404635/amazon-nfl-sign-50-million-streaming-deal-for-thursday-games.aspx) Ben Thompson on bundling (https://stratechery.com/2017/the-great-unbundling/), sports and bundling (https://stratechery.com/2016/the-sports-linchpin/). Chef 13 is coming April 10th (https://blog.chef.io/2017/03/29/upgrading-chef-client-13/) Client only, server stays on 12 Time-Series Data In Google SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/practical-alerting.html). Now you can actually do something with it. Akamai Buys SOASTA Monitoring acquisition (https://www.soasta.com/press-releases/akamai-agrees-to-acquire-soasta-inc/) SOASTA is testing right? A commercial district of some synthetic user testing thing? "Through SOASTA solutions, Akamai customers will then be able to test optimizations at scale prior to deployment and validate the business impact of those optimizations once they are live in production. The result is a comprehensive set of cloud-based performance and business outcome optimization." Maybe Brandon can tell us the context/issues (good and bad) for synthetic web transaction monitoring from the SiteAngel days. Cloudera Going Public Link (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/31/cloudera-ipo-s-1-sec-filing.html), Link 2 (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/31/cloudera-posts-long-awaited-ipo-filing/) Revenue: $261.0 million in the year ending Jan. 31, up from $166.0 million a year ago Net loss: $187.32 million, narrower than the $203.14 million from a year ago (cut ~$16m in spending). Analysis from Brenon at 451 (https://blogs.the451group.com/techdeals/investment-banking/an-earthbound-ipo-for-cloudera/), esp. comparing to HortonWorks. BONUS LINKS! VMware offloading vCloud Air To OVH, a France-based hosting company expanding into the US Seems complicated (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/05/ovh_vmware_details/) Another story (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/04/04/vmware-sells-off-cloud-services-business-to-ovh/). Rackspace done with OpenStack as an AWS defense Now back to the classics (https://cote.io/2017/03/31/rackspace-positioning-around-cloud-and-openstack-from-the-ceo/) Still on that private cloud thing: "What we are learning is the world doesn't need another public cloud, so OpenStack is shifting from and going private cloud." Yahoo/AOL to be called "Oath" Link (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/aol-and-yahoo-will-become-oath-after-merger-closes-2017-4) First there was Yahoo + Alibaba as "Altaba", now there is "Yahoo + AOL" as "Oath". Clearly this is corporate trolling at this point. DellEMC financials Link (http://www.eweek.com/pc-hardware/reality-sets-in-for-dell-emc-with-1.7-billion-q4-earnings-loss) Backstory on Python moving to GitHub Link (https://snarky.ca/the-history-behind-the-decision-to-move-python-to-github/) "But what ended up happening is nearly none of those volunteers stuck around." Recommendations Matt: anti-recommendation: macOS 10.12.4. Broke USB headset. BOO! (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7904080)! Coté: AUKEY USB Wall Charger, ULTRA COMPACT Dual Port 2.4A Output & Foldable Plug for iPhone iPad Samsung & Others (http://amzn.to/2oJUQcY) - go ahead and buy two. Also, always bring one of those car adaptors thingies (http://amzn.to/2oJQv9H) on trips for those broke-ass, Trans-Atlantic flights. Brandon: The Undoing Project (http://amzn.to/2nXtpvw) Freakonomics Episode (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/men-started-thinking-revolution/) on the book.

9 Apr 201751min

We discuss the continual rise of Kubernetes, with Amazon as seemingly the main hold-out. This leads to a not-too-painful discussion of the stat of open source, at least how companies are using it tactically. Then we close out discussing the rumor that Oracle is considering buying Accenture and how the enterprise software plus services model seems to be panning out. Mid-roll Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/) - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote. Also: DrunkAndRetired reboot (http://www.cote.show/22), hopefully. Matt: AWS Summit Sydney next week (https://aws.amazon.com/summits/sydney/) DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-tokyo/welcome/) Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th (https://events.chef.io/events/hands-habitat-tokyo/) Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th (https://pages.chef.io/ChefMeetup_Singapore_RSVP.html) ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84), early-bird pricing through March 31st Brandon Try Contextual Sync (http://www.contextualsync.io/) New Meetup - Microservices Austin (https://www.meetup.com/Microservices-Austin/). EBay Replaces native OpenStack Container Manager with Kubernetes-based one Still OpenStack though Link (http://www.infoworld.com/article/3154936/open-source-tools/kubernetes-tool-saves-ebay-from-its-openstack-woes.html) "It elected to roll its own Kubernetes-based solution for container management in OpenStack rather than try to improve Magnum." ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (https://twitter.com/cote/status/844996693284343812) "It's not clear if Tess.io can or will be released as open source" - what's the point of open sourcing something if a vendor isn't going to make it more accessible for consumption? Do they really expect anyone else to use something built for Ebay by Ebay and find use? Rip out Magnum in OpenStack and toss it in there? I'm always skeptical about adoption when I hear about non-software companies open sourcing a big project. -Matt There can only be one Netflix. A software company that just happens to be an auction company. What's the deal with OSS now? Companies open sourcing software for the sake of open sourcing it...but not for a revenue reason. Is open source about tactically creating standards? Pivotal can deploy k8 with BOSH, thus manage it and such Blog post on it, in alpha (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/meet-kubo-bosh-powered-web-scale-release-engineering-for-kubernetes). Rackspace Replacing Docker-based CaaS Carina with Kubernetes Get Carina (https://getcarina.com/) EOL (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7X1zsfVoAAaJMi.jpg) IBM InterConnect BlueMix Container Services (http://containerjournal.com/2017/03/20/ibm-launches-managed-kubernetes-service/) And a vulnerability scanner! How do IBM and others (ie. Oracle) regain mindshare with a "me-too" approach? Will Smith?!? (https://twitter.com/AyleeNielsen/status/843885300027805696/video/1) Peyton Manning previously. Remember Bill Clinton at DellWorld? Coté's Analyst-hack: Watch keynotes from your hotel room. containerd & rkt donated to the CNCF Something was contributed (https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-container-runtime-to-the-cncf.html) More... (https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-donates-containerd-to-cncf/) Boring part of the stack commoditized & foundationed "Container-D or Contai-Nerd" is the real question "contaiNERD" - GET IT?!?!! Oracle Eyeing Accenture From The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/28/oracle_doing_due_diligence_on_accenture_yep_you_heard_that_right/) Everybody wants to be IBM Global Services Coté'd tl;dr: financial aside (which I don't know), probably makes sense. While we might bemoan EDS and GBS downsizing, there's endless money in the "solution" sales (tech + meatware). And - I'm sure the deal decks are saying - with SaaS penetration at 20-30%, there's a shit-ton of churn in IT in the next 10-20 years, all requiring services. Most importantly, the G2000 and governments will want to hire "trusted" brands, like Accenture, to help them. On the other hand, maybe that goofy Accenture touch screen in ORD will now be a way to touch-screen up Oracle wares: God help us. HP EDS, IBM GBS, Dell Services (Perot), etc. "Accenture has a market cap of $77.5bn, and shareholders will expect a premium offer." HPE Services and CSC, it's a thing (http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/614361/combined-csc-hpe-enterprise-services-company-named-dxc-technology/). BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. Chef Survey 2017 Results Analysis (https://blog.chef.io/2017/03/15/chef-survey-2017-results/), Infographic (https://pages.chef.io/rs/255-VFB-268/images/chef-survey-2017.pdf) Reads really well if you imagine bullet points as spinning newspaper headlines: "Workloads are increasing faster than headcount" More: "61% are automating infrastructure, 30% are automating compliance, and only 27% are automating container management." "Of those users, 73% wait to assess compliance after development work has begun and new features have been implemented. 59% assess compliance once code is already running in production, possibly resulting in additional rework as change is re-architected to meet Information Security standards." On the one hand, this is a bummer. On the other hand: "hey, you 59% lot: you call yourself auditors?" Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs "Containers on the other hand are not real things" Down in the weeds on containers vs. everything else (https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/) SoundCloud I don't understand it (http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/soundcloud-may-run-out-of-cash-this-year-as-it-posts-e51m-loss/) Newsletters! Monitoring Love (http://weekly.monitoring.love/). Last Week in AWS (https://lastweekinaws.com/). Recommendations Coté: Google SRE book (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html), and the Google SRE/CRE podcast with Coté and Andrew Sahfer (https://cote.io/2017/03/20/pivotal-conversations-running-like-google-the-cre-program-pivotal-with-andrew-shafer/). Also: The Economist Espresso app (http://www.economist.com/digital). Anti-recommendation, the "Southern Carbonara Recipe" at the Le Méridien Dallas By The Galleria (http://www.starwoodhotels.com/lemeridien/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3041&SWAQ=63EP&PS=LGEN_AA_DNAD_CGGL_TPRP) by the Galleria. It's like a cheesecake with spaghetti and fried chicken tenders. Brandon: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (http://amzn.to/2oeLN75) Homo Deus (http://amzn.to/2nPic31) Ezra Klein interview with Yuval Harari (http://www.vox.com/2017/2/28/14745596/yuval-harari-sapiens-interview-meditation-ezra-klein). Matt: New Spoon album Hot Thoughts (http://www.spoontheband.com/) Radiolab Presents: More Perfect (https://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect), a Brandon retro-recommendation (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/66). Floppy Drive Orchestra: Beat It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YosUQjIaVBs) Fighting Johnny Leadgen (https://www.10minutemail.com) and Mailinator (https://www.mailinator.com/) Cover-art from You Had One Job (https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/844302886486130689).

30 Mars 201754min

While it's unknown how much time you should let your kids play Minecraft, it's equally unclear at the moment who'll win the second cloud wars. Between Google, Azure, AWS, and all the others, how companies differentiate themselves and what customers will buy on isn't sorted just yet. We discuss Google Next, Pivotal's momentum announcement, and serious theories for Okta IPO'ing. Pardon the shoddily formatted show notes below, Coté was in a hurry to get to Spring Break. Google NEXT Competing on features? Or just pricing and brand? The "complete solution." Richard summarizes announcements (https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/03/google-cloud-next) More from Google... (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/Google-Cloud-Platform-your-Next-home-in-the-cloud.html) Cheaper, faster, more data centers Google Cloud Dataprep for cleaning up data for ingestion Cloud Opinion's Keynote Day 1 (https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/google-next-day-1-keynotes-45c78be3dbfc) "Differentiation from other cloud providers — "we are Google, damn it" isn't working too well" Hangouts to take on Slack (http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14864552/google-hangouts-chat-update-announced-slack-group-messaging-video)? This space is getting crowded Customers (http://fortune.com/2017/03/06/google-cloud-event/): Snapchat, Evernote, Disney, Coca Cola, Home Depot, Whirlpool. Hosted container builder service (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/Google-Cloud-Container-Builder-a-fast-and-flexible-way-to-package-your-software.html) Pivotal was the Google partner of the year (https://twitter.com/phillip_webb/status/839506314975821825)! Mid-roll Coté at a Meetup next Tuesday, March 21st, in DFW. "Digital transformation in the streets." (https://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/237314533/) Hopefully some new material from my ImpossibleDevOps writing (https://cote.io/2017/03/07/cloud3/). Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/). 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote Matt: DevOps Melbourne March 28th (https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/) Talking Compliance as Code DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-tokyo/welcome/) Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th (https://pages.chef.io/ChefMeetup_Singapore_RSVP.html) ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84), early-bird pricing through March 31st Pivotal: we make money, cause we have paying customers "over $270 million in bookings in one year" (https://content.pivotal.io/announcements/why-the-fortune-100-turn-to-pivotal-for-digital-transformation) Previous years: 2015 (https://pivotal.io/corporate/press-release/pivotal-announces-changes-in-executive-leadership-and-record-results): In 2015Q3 "Pivotal Cloud Foundry has crossed $100 million in annual bookings run-rate" 2014 (https://pivotal.io/platform/press-release/pivotal-cloud-foundry-record-breaking-fastest-first-year-sales-growth-for-an-open-source-product): "In less than a year, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has booked ~$40 million in software sales" In addition to customers mentioned there, see some more testimonials in John Allwright's post (https://content.pivotal.io/cloud-native/the-cloud-native-ops-opportunity). Okta files to go public S1 filed (http://www.businessinsider.com/okta-files-for-ipo-2017-3). I don't get it. This is going to be a disaster. Whatever the fantasy running SFDC and MSFT running identity. BONUS LINKS! Five AI Startup Predictions for 2017 Link (http://www.bradfordcross.com/blog/2017/3/3/five-ai-startup-predictions-for-2017) "Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them" <- GOLD Bots go bust Deep learning goes commodity AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs MLaaS dies a second death Full stack vertical AI startups actually work Facebook Bots are failing (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/22/facebook_ai_fail/). Enterprise product management The Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides (https://www.enterpriseready.io/) Coté summarizes Brandon's rant (https://twitter.com/cote/status/839535143585005568). USAF locks in with Oracle "consolidates the 745,768 Oracle licenses already in use" (https://defensesystems.com/articles/2017/03/08/oracle.aspx?m=1) $293,247,466 with Mythics, Inc. US Immigration's "Code Test"? I'd fail this (https://www.wired.com/2017/03/immigrant-says-customs-quizzed-prove-can-code/). Recommendations Coté: The Art of Business Value (https://cote.io/2017/03/08/were-getting-exactly-the-government-it-we-asked-for/) - I haven't even finished this yet and it's already fantastic. Also, I added most all of the DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast to archive.org (https://archive.org/details/DrunkAndRetired/). As Matt Ray used to say it's "better than half the stuff out there." Also: Patriot (http://amzn.to/2nulTbS) in Amazon Video. Brandon: Missing Richard Simmons (https://www.missingrichardsimmons.com/) podcast. Matt: Tripit Pro's Seat Tracker (https://twitter.com/mattray/status/839354510493429760) While reading James Clear's post on Reading Comprehension Strategies (http://jamesclear.com/reading-comprehension-strategies) he linked to his Book Summaries (http://jamesclear.com/book-summaries) which are amazing good. I really like this idea, have to try to implement it for myself Hypnotic video of global earthquake data (https://www.facebook.com/scienceonasphere/videos/10157877630135083/)

15 Mars 20171h 1min

Docker’s new enterprise SKUs and, once again, the open-core model. Also: IPO mania with Snap and MuleSoft. In discussion Docker EE, we start with a discussion on how socket-based pricing may seem goofy, but all pricing schemes are pretty weird, so you gotta choose one. We then try to dissect what exactly you get with the enterprise edition and conclude that we should have done more prep work. Mid-roll Coté wrote about Java at The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/03/pizza_roaches_and_java/). Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/) - register with the code cfsv17cote for 20%! Matt: DevOps Melbourne March 28th (https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/) Talking Compliance as Code ChefConf May 22-24 (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) - early-bird pricing through March 31st Coté: check out Pivotal’s DIY platform paper (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn’t match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Docker Goes Enterprise Community Edition (CE) & Enterprise Edition (EE) (https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-enterprise-edition/) Version jumps from 1.13.1 to 17.03 for monthly releases, very enterprisey. Love the socket-based pricing (https://www.docker.com/pricing) Solomon weighs in vs. Kubernetes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13774295) - what the fuck are these nerds even arguing about? TPM has some good coverage (https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/03/02/docker-reaches-enterprise-milestone/) Whichard’s Maxim of Enterpriseyness: Well, they added AD support. DONE-AND-FUCKIN-DONE! MuleSoft Prepares to IPO Link (https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/17/app-platform-company-mulesoft-files-for-ipo/) I don’t get the proposed $100 million IPO when they took $259 million in funding. Please explain it to me. OpenNMS on FLOSS Weekly Open source monitoring for years and years (https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/418) HashiCorp News Making Money With Freemium (http://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2017/02/23/jay-fry-leaves-new-relic-to-head-hashicorp-marketing/2/#2248032a235c) “The question of how to make money from Open Source is a vexed one, with Red Hat frequently held up as the poster child of commercial open source success, yet it remains a lonely occupant of the category "Open Source Companies That Are Profitable” Good Narrative fallacy going here: "The open source products are really focused on the practitioner," McJannet said. "The enterprise products are focused on the needs of the organisation." August, 2016 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2016/08/10/exclusive-david-mcjannet-joins-hashicorp-as-ceo/#71ad1dc7864d): “Hashimoto said HashiCorp has just finished its first 7-figure revenue quarter” Up from “triple-digit”/month in July 2015 (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hashicorps-atlas-leaves-beta-triple-040100802.html). So, whatdwegot: $2-3m run-rate? Twitter, SnapChat & Facebook Snap IPO is leveling out (http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-stock-price-falls-march-6-2017-2017-3). Exstensive coverage from The Economist (http://www.economist.com/news/business/21716070-app-company-has-pioneered-distinctive-vision-internet-snaps-ipo-will-be-largest). TAM (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/even-an-old-dude-knows-that-snap-isnt-another-twitter-2017-02-27): “The ad market is $652 billion worldwide and will hit $760 billion by 2020, research firm IDC says. Mobile-ad sales will triple — to $196 billion from $66 billion.” Where’s Steve Gillmor when you need him (http://www.zdnet.com/article/getting-a-piece-of-the-action-the-attention-economy/)? See also closing plea in The Attention Merchants (book review from Coté forth coming once he finishes Chaos Monkeys): “If we desire a future that avoids the enslavement of the propaganda state as well as the narcosis of the consumer and celebrity culture, we must first acknowledge the preciousness of our attention and resolve not to part with it as cheaply or unthinkingly as we so often have.” SO ADORABLE! The SnapChat demo is good but the The Snap Company Council looks weird (http://snap.netroadshow.com/retail/roadshow.aspx). Facebook found a product but it was ugly (https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure/dp/0062458191) Ben Thompson picking on Twitter (https://stratechery.com/2017/twitter-live-and-luck/) Hindsight fallacy Twitter could have been WhatsApp or Instagram or something else... BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. AWS S3 Outage Good post-mortem here (https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/) Tweet (https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/836659635159379969) Tweet (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5xo9n7UoAEfnCo.jpg) TIL Google supports S3 API (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13755673). TIL The 11 9's of are for durability, and not availability. 99.9% is S3's monthly SLA (43 minutes downtime). WTF Uber (...and The Rest of the Software Industry)? Uber is Doomed (https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/02/uber-is-doomed/) Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber (https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber) I Am An Uber Survivor (https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-uber-survivor-c6d6541e632f#.msxr8pge9) Uber SVP Leaves Over Previous Sexual Harassment Allegation (https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/27/ubers-svp-amit-singhal-leaves-company-because-he-didnt-disclose-a-sexual-harassment-allegation/) Waymo Sues Uber (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/googles-robocar-lawsuit-kill-ubers-future-send-execs-prison/) Uber Circumvents Authorities by “Greyballing” (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html) Containers, Kubernetes & AWS Matt Asay (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/kubernetes_aws_great_undoing/?mt=1488387031974) No More Pixel Laptops from Google Link (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/03/01/pixel-towel) “Google hasn’t backed away from laptops. We have the number two market share in the U.S. and U.K. — but we have no plans for Google-branded laptops.” Texas Legislature Takes Action on Emojis “although it is a nice flag” (http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/85R/billtext/html/HC00075I.htm) Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. Quote (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/miketyson382439.html) Trump is Killing Productivity Link (https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/02/cant-get-any-work-done-new-survey-reveals-politics-is-killing-productivity/) She didn’t want to be “that person,” the one who is always opining on social media. But all of that changed Nov. 8. Recommendations Matt: Finally a practical use for AI (http://blog.zikes.me/post/how-i-ruined-office-productivity-with-a-slack-bot/) Warren Ellis’ Dead Pig Collector (http://amzn.to/2lZQHze) Coté: I always forget how good Madvillian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madvillain) and/or MF DOOM are. I’m not smart enough to know what kind of hip-hop this it, but I like it (https://open.spotify.com/track/3T06pIOmXJ6EkJmVRN2sv6). Also: grapes. They’re delicious! Matt: Four Tet.zx (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3EFJK0-Sxw) Brandon: Hit Makers (http://amzn.to/2lZSioE) Music heard at the end: Courtney Barnett's "Avant Gardener" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnIhzaDTd0).

8 Mars 20171h 6min

There's tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad "cloud-native stuff." We discuss that idea, plus "the enterprise cloud wars," and also our feel that Slack is actually a really good tool and company. Old folk jokes Steve Gillmor (https://twitter.com/stevegillmor) Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson's (http://giphy.com/gifs/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW). "The Southern Cross" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw) Follow-up No call yet from papercall (https://twitter.com/cote/status/832260016346431488) JJ says when you SSH into a container then you are doing lightweight virtualization. I ask is this really a bad thing? Check it out on Coté Show #21 (http://www.cote.show/21). It was Hooch, Turner was the human (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_%26_Hooch). Coté: follow-up, my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJE0c7kY8rg). Also, finally learned how to spell "Charlotte." - See it at cote.io/not-devops (http://cote.io/not-devops) Slack executes the perfect Freemium Minimum Delight Experience vs. Minimum Viable Product Build and charge for the enterprise features required by the Fortune 500 Don't apologize that you don't support Markdown (https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202288908-Format-your-messages) or other power user features. Mid-roll Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/), March 7th to 8th. The best how to DevOps experience in Maine this year!! Use the code SDT-BALTIMORE to get 10% off. Pivotal's sponsoring, no Coté, tho. Also, we have one free ticket to give away. If you want it, write us a review in iTunes and email us up that you did so (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/contact), and we'll semi-randomly select a winner. Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd (https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/) Matt: DevOps Melbourne March 28th (https://www.meetup.com/devops-melbourne/events/237351075/) Talking Compliance as Code ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin, (https://chefconf.chef.io/2017/) Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we'll likely record a "live-to-tape" episode. Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). Jassy Talks About the Competition Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company (http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-cloud-leader-andy-jassy-sizes-competition-rare-public-remarks-rivals/) "I don't think in our wildest dreams we ever thought we'd have a six- to seven-year head start" When people say lock-in, it's dog-whistling for "Oracle." BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show. AI & the Middle Class Link (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-threat-isnt-skynet-end-middle-class/) "If current trends continue, people are going to rise up well before the machines do." "He also argued that these trends are reversible, that improved education and a greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and research can help feed new engines of growth"... we (the US) are so screwed Coté: I keep going back to McKinsey saying 70% of work is menial; I'm sure that "study" is wonky and loaded, but still, we do so much bullshit in daily work. Another example: several Pivotal customers (Allstate, HCSC) say they usually get 40%+ productivity improvements because they stop going to meetings and actually code 7 hours a day instead of bullshit. Grim. Really, really, really grim (https://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics/). 2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin (https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017). "In Austin, the average salary for a software engineer on Hired is $110K. But this is the equivalent to making $198K in San Francisco when you consider the cost of living difference between the two cities." "...we see a similar trend in Melbourne. Even though Melbourne's average salary for software engineers is a relatively low $83K (A$107K), this is equivalent to making nearly $150K in San Francisco." Don't Trust the Status Page FAKE STATUS! (https://blog.ably.io/honest-status-reporting-and-aws-service-status-truth-in-a-post-truth-world-8b9a31c8cc90) "We cannot trust Amazon AWS status updates because the information provided to us about the severity of the issue or how quickly it will really be resolved" Reminder: https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/ Chef Joins the CNCF Link (https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2017/02/14/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-11-new-members-annual-open-source-leadership-summit) Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium Link (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/15/next_superdome_cpu_chips_amble_into_hpe/) "HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025" Recommendations Matt: Spoon in Sydney! (http://www.frontiertouring.com/spoon) http://atlasobscura.com I just signed up and started looking for more fun places to check out while traveling. My wife made an entry for Tasmazia (http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tasmazia-and-the-village-of-lower-crackpot) (Sub-req: Political Gabfest (http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gabfest.html), The Weeds (http://www.vox.com/the-weeds), Kara Swisher (https://overcast.fm/+F_9GoG-WU).) Coté: "Don't tell me what to do!" (https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/832247845302521856/photo/1) Also, Bragg's (http://amzn.to/2ls48v0) and Hindenberg audio editor (https://hindenburg.com). Brandon: The Upstarts (https://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/The-Upstarts-Audiobook/B01MU30HTG)

18 Feb 20171h

Snap is looking to spend billions on AWS and Google Cloud over the next five years. We talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google's social strategy and thermostat strategies; meanwhile, the America Fuck Yeah crew wants to start gathering passwords at the boarder. Also, Brandon lays out the case that an open-core monitoring startup is a hard row to hoe. Also, Baltimore is not in Maine. (But Coté is pretty sure it actually is.) Mid-roll Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-baltimore/welcome/), March 7th to 8th. No discount code yet, but we're getting one. Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd (https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/237172788/) Matt: Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk (https://events.chef.io/events/microsoft-ignite-australia/) ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHpt-Xhj84) Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform (http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform). SnapChat's S-1 The S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517029199/d270216ds1.htm) "We had 158 million Daily Active Users on average in the quarter ended December 31, 2016" "We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years." - perhaps 10% of their billing. Also (http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/09/snap-will-spend-1-billion-on-aws-through-2021/): "Snap will spend $1 billion on AWS through 2021." Coté Show interview with former cloud boy, JJ (http://www.cote.show/21). The McLaughlin Group covers Google: What's up with them! Robots opening doors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFkrwagYfc&index=5&list=RDYEjQMMhDkjU). Google, Nest, and DropCam (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/nests-time-at-alphabet-a-virtually-unlimited-budget-with-no-results/) - despite rocky start, maybe it's just a slow ramp-up, they have 50% y/y growth. People think GCP is the shit. "Purity vs. pragmatism." Corrections "Barra-mundi" (https://twitter.com/owenhollands/status/826326363367837696) Pronunciation tips (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=barramundi+pronunciation) Thing to get angry about this week DHS considering asking foreigners for passwords (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/08/dhs_wants_enhanced_digital_vetting/) I mean, really? A criminal is just gonna let you see their stuff? They'll just delete it, set up fake accounts, etc. It's not like popping the trunk for a thief and finding lock picks and guns in the boot: with digital crime tools and weapons, you can hide and subterfuge. And then the only people getting harmed are innocent people. What the fuck is wrong with these people, and more importantly the shit-for brains who voted for them? (How can we de-shit those brains for 2018?) Tweet about 3D chess of this meaning the government can't hack into your stuff...or can they?!?! CNCF Buys RethinkDB's Code and Donates to the Linux Foundation Not just marketing, but actually "freeing" code (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/06/cncf-purchases-rethinkdb-source-code-contributes-linux-foundation-apache-license) Switched from AGPLv3 to ASLv2 "Abby," (https://twitter.com/ab415/) head of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. See a recent discussion (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/filling-the-developer-skills-gap-with-abby-kearns-and-james-governor) with her and RedMonk's James Governor on developer skills in large organizations. $2.5 million VC for Sensu! Nagios replacement!!! (https://sensuapp.org/blog/2017/01/30/introducing-sensu-inc.html) Brandon has some advice (https://sensuapp.org/features#compare). BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode Microsoft does Azure Patent Indemnification "The system is supposed to help ease the transition to the cloud by giving companies extra peace of mind. Right now, lawsuits over intellectual property relating to open source technology in the cloud are rare" Link (http://www.cio.com/article/3167724/cloud-computing/microsoft-launches-new-azure-intellectual-property-protections.html) "those companies operating in a multi-cloud configuration won't be entirely covered" Attempting to Categorize the Cloud Native Landscape Project in GitHub (https://github.com/cncf/landscape) Cloud native Landscape diagram (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cncf/landscape/master/landscape/CloudNativeLandscape_v0.9.3.jpg) Cloud Displacing Intel's Enterprise Sales "Tectonic shifts in the pattern of Intel's business show the devastating speed at which cloud is displacing traditional enterprise server sales" Link (http://diginomica.com/2017/02/01/tectonic-shifts-at-intel-as-cloud-rips-into-enterprise-server-sales/) Slack Enterprise Grid should make user management easier Link (http://www.itpro.co.uk/collaboration-software/28001/slack-enterprise-grid-should-make-user-management-easier) Uber Steers Away from Trump "More than 200,000 customers had deleted their accounts." (Link (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/technology/uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-trump-advisory-council.html)) "Many employees were not satisfied with his answer. On Wednesday, Uber staff members followed up by circulating a 25-page Google document titled "Letters to Travis" to tell the chief executive how and why his willingness to engage with the administration had affected them." Puppet adds two vice presidents, hiring from Hewlett-Packard and EMC "Puppet replaced nearly its entire executive team in 2016, including its chief executive and chief financial officers. It hired six vice presidents last year." (Link (http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2017/02/puppet_adds_two_vice_president.html)) Rackspace lays off 6% "Since being taken private [by Apollo], Rackspace has been working to trim its annual budget by 7%, or $100 million, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission." (Link (https://therivardreport.com/rackspace-lays-off-200-locals-in-companywide-cuts/)) More figures from Barb Darrow (http://fortune.com/2017/02/08/rackpace-layoffs/). Brief 451 coverage from Al (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=91609&type=mis&alertid=299&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=91609-Rackspace+lays+off+6%25+of+workforce): "After eight years as a public company, Rackspace went private in August 2016 in $4.3bn leveraged buyout with Apollo Global Management (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90092)." "Rackspace just announced a layoff of 6% of its 4,600 employees" "The company is expected to exceed $2bn in revenue and top 33% EBITDA margin for 2016." Meanwhile, AWS at ~$10bn for 2016 with something like 20-23% profit margin (OpInc based on 2016Q4 numbers (http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/02/aws-posts-3-53-billion-in-revenue-in-q4-2016-up-47-from-last-year/)), Azure and GCP catching up (http://www.geekwire.com/2017/cloud-report-card-amazon-web-services-12b-juggernaut-microsoft-google-gaining/): MSFT is probably $5-6bn, depending on how you categorize it. GCP probably $3bn at most (they don't break it out)? Other thing to get worked up about: eliminating remote work IBM on that colo shit (https://twitter.com/cote/status/829739491850022912) Brandon is safe! (He lives in Austin.) Coté: I won't deny that working in smelling range is the best. But, the gains never feel like enough to enforce it. Plus, mega-city congestion and resulting classist systems, cf. The Wealth of Humans (http://thenewstack.io/review-automation-wake-call-fill-vacuum-tech-ethics/). It's a problem that should be solved, not embraced. Recommendations Matt: Manly Daily newspaper, so much unbridled snark. Link (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/manly-daily/naked-ice-suspect-swings-into-karate-kid-mode/news-story/03245799b7b0a33001c004e96c9765fd) RTJ on NPR (http://uproxx.com/realtalk/run-the-jewels-npr-tiny-desk-concert-video/). I'm not sure I can pull this off (http://uglyxmasrashie.com.au/). Coté: Ezra Klein interview with Kara Swisher (https://overcast.fm/+F_9GoG-WU). She's inspiring is several ways, not least of which in modeling a way to be politely strident and opinionated: the opposite of imposture syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome). Also, his talk with the Hillbilly Elegy guy (http://www.vox.com/2017/2/2/14404770/jd-vance-trump-hillbilly-elegy-ezra-klein-show). I mean: most of the whole podcast, just skip the ones that look trivial and repetitive, e.g., we get it: Trump is a lunatic (https://twitter.com/TrumpDraws/status/830115871657910272). (See The Weeds (http://www.vox.com/the-weeds) and "The Nate Silver podcast." (https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast/)) Brandon: Skiing in Solitude, Utah (https://skisolitude.com/). The Daily podcast (https://overcast.fm/itunes1200361736/the-daily), from NYT.

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