Software Defined Interviews

We discuss a recent Forrester Wave: “The Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery And Release Automation, Q3 2017.” 

See more detailed notes here.

On the DevOps question: sure they do, but there are many variations depending on the company.

Links:

• Tommy's Margarita
• Anthony Lee and David Brock talk platform operations — The Pivotal Conversations episode mentioned.

This week, we talk about two PDFs setting out to briefly describe the kubernetes and great container orchestration landscapes. See [the usual more detailed write-up and analysis elsewhere](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP006-Kubernetes-container-landscapes-from-Forrester-Gartner-pnTuTycrvQribNjWNB7tE).

This episode was also made free in the regular Software Defined Talk podcast feed - marketing!

This week’s paper is sent in by Matt Ray: “Continuous Automation for the Continuous Enterprise.”

See detailed, typed analysis in the show-notes, find the paper attached, and enjoy the podcast in your members only RSS feed.

We look at the 2017 Gartner PaaS Hype Cycle, just released. See more show notes, though not very detailed here.

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It’s another in the Matt Curry discussions sub-series! We discuss how enterprise are shifting over to a microservices approach, or not. As Matt explains:

We discuss what the deal is with Canadian whiskey and then talk about why we like The Economist.

Your pals, @cowboyd & @cote.

IoT will be big by 2035, a trillion devices driving a $1tn of spend/year, according to this paper. How does one come to that figure, and what exactly is IoT. Even better, how would you put together the business case to justify doing an IoT project? Well, you’ll get an average of 5x returns, the paper says, so that’s a compelling start. Also, you should buy some ARM chips. Put together by one of ARM’s investor relations people, this paper is squarely targeted a money people interested in IoT and ARM.

See also the raw notes on the paper, references, and more details on the paper. Also, of course, available as a PDF attached here.

This paper in question (attached here, as well) was suggested by Alek.

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This week, Brandon and Coté talk analyze Coté's 2016 stump-speech, Not a DevOps Talk. We talk about the process of putting together a talk like this, how it flows, and the desired effect and rhetoric behind it all.

See the extensive show notes and much more detail in the attached PDF or online. There's also a bonus write-up about two of Coté's Register columns.

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Let’s finally get to the punchline on this “cloud-native enterprise architect” quest. Here, Matt Curry, Andrew Clay Shafer, and I discuss the things that would motivate such a role and try to chart out what functions the cloud-native EA would serve. This still doesn’t answer the question perfectly, but it does point towards good why’s and even some how’s. We do alright at trying to pull it all together.