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This week, we discuss Redis’ license changing move, open source business models in general (of course), SUSE revenue, and some VMworld selections.

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Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/08/15/istio-aims-to-be-the-mesh-plumbing-for-containerized-microservices/)

Michael Cot (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business)é (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business) from Pivotal on Programming the Business by Engineering Culture by InfoQ (https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/michael-cote-from-pivotal-on-programming-the-business)

Mobile App Development Services | Web Development services - The NineHertz (https://theninehertz.com/blog/becoming-an-iot-developer/)

Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump? (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/has-bezos-become-more-powerful-in-dc-than-trump)

What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative? (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/what-will-be-the-real-impact-from-knative/2018/08/)

Google just gave control over data center cooling to an AI (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611902/google-just-gave-control-over-data-center-cooling-to-an-ai/)

O11yCon 2018: Notes and Observations (https://dev.to/dangolant/o11ycon-2018-notes-and-observations-4nbf)

Slack just raised a whopping $427 million to become a $7.1 billion company. Now, it has to defeat Microsoft. (https://www.businessinsider.com/slack-funding-valuation-microsoft-teams-2018-8)

Apple Pay Now Accepted at All Costco Warehouses in United States (https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/20/costco-now-widely-accepts-apple-pay/).

10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey (https://www.simform.com/serverless-examples-aws-lambda-use-cases/).

Announcing resource-based pricing for Google Compute Engine (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/announcing-resource-based-pricing-for-google-compute-engine.html).

DevOps Report 2018 released (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/devops-research-and-assessment-dora-announces-the-2018-accelerate-state-of-devops-report-300703837.html). Will talk about it next week. Until then, enjoy 78 pages of landscape PDF glory. Spoiler alert: elite high performers are elite high performers. Pivotal has a webinar on Oct 11th (https://content.pivotal.io/webinars/oct-11-the-accelerate-state-of-devops-report-webinar) about it.

Community management is a career cul-de-sac (https://thenewstack.io/why-community-manager-is-a-dead-end-job-and-what-to-do-about-it/). See interview next week (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/).

Good example of corpdev thinking, in the US (legal) drugs market (https://contrarianedge.com/2018/08/28/investors-have-misdiagnosed-amazons-push-into-the-pharmacy-business/).

“Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/29/google-steps-back-from-running-the-kubernetes-infrastructure/) to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community.”

Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/armory-lands-10m-series-a-to-bring-continuous-delivery-to-enterprise-masses/).

VMworld NA 2018

VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for multi-cloud management (https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/27/vmware-acquires-cloudhealth-technologies-for-multi-cloud-management/) -

Carl@451 (https://clients.451research.com/reportaction/95582/Toc?ref=Email%3Amis): “Primarily a cost management and analysis platform, it has roughly 3,500 users and has also grown to cover automation, security and governance with a broad, API-based management platform for the major public clouds: AWS, Azure and GCP. CloudHealth mainly operates in the US, meaning VMware will have to square overseas operations and data management with other jurisdictions – primarily the EU GDPR regulations – going forward.”

Est. $500m valuation. They monitor your cloud costs. Cf. Dr. Cloud Pricing Guy at 451 (https://twitter.com/owenrog/status/970708698879406080). Still that MoM in the Clouds vision.

“With CloudHealth, VMware not only gets the multi-cloud management solution, it gains its 3000 customers which include Yelp, Dow Jones, Zendesk and Pinterest.”

VMware CEO: A Virtual Machine Is Still the Best Place to Run Kubernetes (https://thenewstack.io/vmware-ceo-a-virtual-machine-is-still-the-best-place-to-run-kubernetes/). Cameo (https://twitter.com/camhaight/status/1034101496332279810) from the Hill Country’s favorite systems management (former) analyst (https://twitter.com/camhaight).

VMware's Software-Defined Vision (https://www.actualtech.io/vmwares-software-defined-vision/).

Coté remember when he met with Kit Colbert at DockerCon EU 2014 (https://blog.docker.com/2015/01/dockercon-europe-the-future-of-micro-services/), and Coté had no idea what this “cloud native” stuff was. Now, it seems like it’s slowly moving to be the new word for PaaS, but more like the under-girding of PaaS. Also, went back to the NEMO recently. They no longer have the closet of dead things (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/shares/R61a89), sadly.

Project Dimension (https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/08/introducing-project-dimension.html) - on-demand private clouds, driven by SDDC stuff.

Pat’s Pillars (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-step-forward-capturing-full-potential-tech-pat-gelsinger/): ‘“Supe