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April 09, 2017Episode 92: The middle-class metallurgical people - boothing, streaming sportsball, M&As & IPOs
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.
20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Coté: Cloud Native Roadshows, with Pivotal and Google Cloud: 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. LEAD-GEN YERSELF!
Matt:
DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th
Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th
Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th
ChefConf May 22-24
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
"The Accenture rumour is completely untrue. Never even considered it. Completely made up."
Coté round-up, small as it is.
Amazon streaming NFL
10 Thursday night games, CBS or NBC broadcasts streamed
Ben Thompson on bundling, sports and bundling.
Chef 13 is coming
April 10th
Client only, server stays on 12
Time-Series Data
In Google SRE book.
Now you can actually do something with it.
Akamai Buys SOASTA
Monitoring acquisition
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, Link 2
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, esp. comparing to HortonWorks.
BONUS LINKS!
VMware offloading vCloud Air
To OVH, a France-based hosting company expanding into the US
Seems complicated
Another story.
Rackspace done with OpenStack as an AWS defense
Now back to the classics
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
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
Backstory on Python moving to GitHub
Link
"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!!
Coté: AUKEY USB Wall Charger, ULTRA COMPACT Dual Port 2.4A Output & Foldable Plug for iPhone iPad Samsung & Others - go ahead and buy two. Also, always bring one of those car adaptors thingies on trips for those broke-ass, Trans-Atlantic flights.
Brandon:
The Undoing Project
Freakonomics Episode on the book.
Sponsored By:
DevOpsDays: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th - Matt will be there.
Chef: Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th - The team from Chef is on the road helping people learn about Chef for Windows & Habitat. We will be in Singapore for a Hands-on with Chef and Hands-on with Habitat workshop. We would love to catch-up with you to hear about your continuous automation efforts while we are in town, too.
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cote
Pivotal: Come hear how Pivotal and Google are helping your organization improve how it does software with their combined, cloud-native approach. Free with demo's, PowerPoints, and meals included! Cities: 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.
Pivotal: A cloud-native organization's goal is to provide its business with an effective, sustainable means of innovating. This eBook shares cloud-native practices and technologies to fully automate the application stack infrastructure layers. It's not just about technology, though. The hardest part is changing your organization and how people operate. This eBook covers lessons and advice from case studies to help change your organization as well. With both cloud-native practices and technologies in place, your organization can finally attain the focus and release speed needed that results in continually improving software.
52 min
March 30, 2017Episode 91: Container orchestration framework names you can't pronounce, for $500. Or, everything’s coming Up kubernetes.
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 - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote.
Also: DrunkAndRetired reboot, hopefully.
Matt:
AWS Summit Sydney next week
DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th
Hands on Habitat Tokyo April 26th
Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th
ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser, early-bird pricing through March 31st
Brandon
Try Contextual Sync
New Meetup - Microservices Austin.
EBay Replaces native OpenStack Container Manager with Kubernetes-based one
Still OpenStack though
Link
"It elected to roll its own Kubernetes-based solution for container management in OpenStack rather than try to improve Magnum."
¯_(ツ)_/¯
"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.
Rackspace Replacing Docker-based CaaS Carina with Kubernetes
Get Carina
EOL
IBM InterConnect
BlueMix Container Services
And a vulnerability scanner!
How do IBM and others (ie. Oracle) regain mindshare with a "me-too" approach?
Will Smith?!?
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
More...
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
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.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Chef Survey 2017 Results
Analysis, Infographic
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
SoundCloud
I don't understand it
Newsletters!
Monitoring Love.
Last Week in AWS.
Recommendations
Coté:
Google SRE book, and the Google SRE/CRE podcast with Coté and Andrew Sahfer.
Also: The Economist Espresso app.
Anti-recommendation, the "Southern Carbonara Recipe" at the Le Méridien Dallas By The Galleria by the Galleria. It's like a cheesecake with spaghetti and fried chicken tenders.
Brandon:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Homo Deus
Ezra Klein interview with Yuval Harari.
Matt:
New Spoon album Hot Thoughts
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, a Brandon retro-recommendation.
Floppy Drive Orchestra: Beat It
Fighting Johnny Leadgen and Mailinator
Cover-art from You Had One Job.
Sponsored By:
Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cote
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
Chef: AWS User Group Sydney - AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, Matt Ray giving a talk there.
Chef: Hands on with Habitat - Tokyo - Chef recently announced a new open source framework for application automation, Habitat. We are embarking on a tour of cities around the world to provide you with hands-on experience with the project. The workshops are free to attend – we’d love for you to join us.
DevOpsDays: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th - Matt will be there.
Chef: Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th - The team from Chef is on the road helping people learn about Chef for Windows & Habitat. We will be in Singapore for a Hands-on with Chef and Hands-on with Habitat workshop. We would love to catch-up with you to hear about your continuous automation efforts while we are in town, too.
IBM: An open source, real-time, continuous data sync service for web, IoT, and mobile.
Buckets of Fun: Microservices Austin Meetup - This is a technical meetup ( technical referring to content ( recruiters don't waste your time ) ); in an ideal world each meeting will have code involved. Whether that be on the development side or operations side depends on the subject matter. But my "hope" is that every meetup produces some positive outcome. Whether that being a person choosing to present has a feedback loop outside of their bias coworkers or just having general feedback.
55 min
March 15, 2017Episode 90: These strategies work really well except for when they’re totally fucked
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
More from Google...
Cheaper, faster, more data centers
Google Cloud Dataprep for cleaning up data for ingestion
Cloud Opinion's Keynote Day 1
"Differentiation from other cloud providers — "we are Google, damn it" isn't working too well"
Hangouts to take on Slack? This space is getting crowded
Customers: Snapchat, Evernote, Disney, Coca Cola, Home Depot, Whirlpool.
Hosted container builder service
Pivotal was the Google partner of the year!
Mid-roll
Coté at a Meetup next Tuesday, March 21st, in DFW. "Digital transformation in the streets." Hopefully some new material from my ImpossibleDevOps writing.
Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017.
20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
Matt:
DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code
DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th
Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th
ChefConf May 22-24 ChefConf 2017 Teaser, early-bird pricing through March 31st
Pivotal: we make money, cause we have paying customers
"over $270 million in bookings in one year"
Previous years:
2015: In 2015Q3 "Pivotal Cloud Foundry has crossed $100 million in annual bookings run-rate"
2014: "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.
Okta files to go public
S1 filed.
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
"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.
Enterprise product management
The Enterprise Ready SaaS Feature Guides
Coté summarizes Brandon's rant.
USAF locks in with Oracle
"consolidates the 745,768 Oracle licenses already in use"
$293,247,466 with Mythics, Inc.
US Immigration's "Code Test"?
I'd fail this.
Recommendations
Coté: The Art of Business Value - 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. As Matt Ray used to say it's "better than half the stuff out there."
Also: Patriot in Amazon Video.
Brandon:
Missing Richard Simmons podcast.
Matt:
Tripit Pro's Seat Tracker
While reading James Clear's post on Reading Comprehension Strategies he linked to his 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
Sponsored By:
Chef: Chef Meetup - Singapore April 29th - The team from Chef is on the road helping people learn about Chef for Windows & Habitat. We will be in Singapore for a Hands-on with Chef and Hands-on with Habitat workshop. We would love to catch-up with you to hear about your continuous automation efforts while we are in town, too.
DevOpsDays: DevOps Days Tokyo April 25th - Matt will be there.
Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cote
Chef: DevOps Meetup, Melbourne March 28th - Come see Matt Ray talking "Compliance as Code."
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
1 hr 2 min
March 08, 2017Episode 89: The Shit Show Matrix, or, they’re following the playbook which is basically unprofitable
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.
Coté: CF Summit - June 13 to 15th, 2017 - register with the code cfsv17cote for 20%!
Matt:
DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code
ChefConf May 22-24 - early-bird pricing through March 31st
Coté: check out Pivotal’s DIY platform paper. 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)
Version jumps from 1.13.1 to 17.03 for monthly releases, very enterprisey.
Love the socket-based pricing
Solomon weighs in vs. Kubernetes - what the fuck are these nerds even arguing about?
TPM has some good coverage
Whichard’s Maxim of Enterpriseyness: Well, they added AD support. DONE-AND-FUCKIN-DONE!
MuleSoft Prepares to IPO
Link
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
HashiCorp News
Making Money With Freemium
“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: “Hashimoto said HashiCorp has just finished its first 7-figure revenue quarter” Up from “triple-digit”/month in July 2015. So, whatdwegot: $2-3m run-rate?
Twitter, SnapChat & Facebook
Snap IPO is leveling out.
Exstensive coverage from The Economist.
TAM: “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? 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.
Facebook found a product but it was ugly
Ben Thompson picking on Twitter
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
Tweet
Tweet
TIL Google supports S3 API.
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
Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber
I Am An Uber Survivor
Uber SVP Leaves Over Previous Sexual Harassment Allegation
Waymo Sues Uber
Uber Circumvents Authorities by “Greyballing”
Containers, Kubernetes & AWS
Matt Asay
No More Pixel Laptops from Google
Link
“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”
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Quote
Trump is Killing Productivity
Link
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
Warren Ellis’ Dead Pig Collector
Coté: I always forget how good Madvillian and/or MF DOOM are. I’m not smart enough to know what kind of hip-hop this it, but I like it. Also: grapes. They’re delicious! Matt: Four Tet.zx
Brandon: Hit Makers
Music heard at the end: Courtney Barnett's "Avant Gardener".
Sponsored By:
Pivotal: Cloud Foundry Summit is the premier event for enterprise app developers. Want to focus on innovation and streamline your development pipeline? Summit 2017 will make you an expert in microservices and continuous delivery in your language or framework of choice. Fast-track yourself and your business with the quickest way to deliver apps. Promo Code: cfsv17cote
Chef: DevOps Meetup, Melbourne March 28th - Come see Matt Ray talking "Compliance as Code."
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
Pivotal: Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.
1 hr 7 min
February 18, 2017Episode 88: Docker is just cheap VMware, right?
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
Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson's.
"The Southern Cross"
Follow-up
No call yet from papercall
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.
It was Hooch, Turner was the human.
Coté: follow-up, my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up. Also, finally learned how to spell "Charlotte." - See it at 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 or other power user features.
Mid-roll
Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore, 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, and we'll semi-randomly select a winner.
Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd
Matt:
DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code
ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin, Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we'll likely record a "live-to-tape" episode.
Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper. 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.
Jassy Talks About the Competition
Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company
"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
"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.
2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries
Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin.
"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!
"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
Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium
Link
"HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025"
Recommendations
Matt:
Spoon in Sydney!
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
(Sub-req: Political Gabfest, The Weeds, Kara Swisher.)
Coté: "Don't tell me what to do!" Also, Bragg's and Hindenberg audio editor.
Brandon: The Upstarts
Sponsored By:
Chef: DevOps Meetup, Melbourne March 28th - Come see Matt Ray talking "Compliance as Code."
DevOpsDays: March 7th to March 8th - another fantastic DevOpsDays, in Baltimore. Get 10% registration off with the promo code SDT-BALTIMORE. Promo Code: SDT-BALTIMORE
Pivotal: Come see Coté talk about how big companies are succeeding and failing at DevOps, cloud native, and "digital transformation. Based on real life events!
Pivotal: Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
1 hr 1 min
February 11, 2017Episode 87: Snap's cloud billions, Google's social, Monitoring Startups considered hard, DHS wants your passwords
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, 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
Matt:
Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk
ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser
Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper. 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.
SnapChat's S-1
The S1
"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: "Snap will spend $1 billion on AWS through 2021."
Coté Show interview with former cloud boy, JJ.
The McLaughlin Group covers Google: What's up with them!
Robots opening doors.
Google, Nest, and DropCam - 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"
Pronunciation tips
Thing to get angry about this week
DHS considering asking foreigners for passwords
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
Switched from AGPLv3 to ASLv2
"Abby," head of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. See a recent discussion with her and RedMonk's James Governor on developer skills in large organizations.
$2.5 million VC for Sensu!
Nagios replacement!!!
Brandon has some advice.
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
"those companies operating in a multi-cloud configuration won't be entirely covered"
Attempting to Categorize the Cloud Native Landscape
Project in GitHub
Cloud native Landscape diagram
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
Slack Enterprise Grid should make user management easier
Link
Uber Steers Away from Trump
"More than 200,000 customers had deleted their accounts." (Link)
"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)
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)
More figures from Barb Darrow.
Brief 451 coverage from Al:
"After eight years as a public company, Rackspace went private in August 2016 in $4.3bn leveraged buyout with Apollo Global Management."
"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), Azure and GCP catching up: 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
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. It's a problem that should be solved, not embraced.
Recommendations
Matt:
Manly Daily newspaper, so much unbridled snark. Link
RTJ on NPR.
I'm not sure I can pull this off.
Coté: Ezra Klein interview with Kara Swisher. 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. Also, his talk with the Hillbilly Elegy guy. 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. (See The Weeds and "The Nate Silver podcast.")
Brandon:
Skiing in Solitude, Utah.
The Daily podcast, from NYT.
Sponsored By:
Pivotal: Come see Coté talk about how big companies are succeeding and failing at DevOps, cloud native, and "digital transformation. Based on real life events!
DevOpsDays: March 7th to March 8th - another fantastic DevOpsDays, in Baltimore. Get 10% registration off with the promo code SDT-BALTIMORE. Promo Code: SDT-BALTIMORE
Pivotal: Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.
Chef: Microsoft Ignite Australia, Feb 14th to Feb 17th, Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre . Chef will have a booth & a talk.
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
1 hr
January 30, 2017Episode 86: Life after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&A), CostCo Down Under
With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the “losers” are. Also, the low-down on CostCo in Australia!
Mid-roll
Coté: I’m speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off!
Matt:
Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group
Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk
ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser
Coté: much self-promotion to catch up on: I’m writing more “original content” on my blog, and plan to write more; subscribe to my newsletter for a round-up of stuff I blog, sent out on Sunday night, will tweak more.
Also, in the “grim” vein, Coté reviews some books on "automation," which John Allspaw rightly says should be called "new technology," fair enough. The 1983 paper on automation and humans is a good read too.
CostCo field report: Australia
It’s great!
US: No need for a hot pizza sign holder.
US: Rayban Wayfarers are like $130 now!
AppDynamics files for IPO… Cisco says NOT SO FAST
IPO filing...
“Our revenues for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016 were $23.6 million, $81.9 million and $150.6 million, respectively”
Cisco
$3.7 billion, about a 14-17X multiplier
Atlassian Buys Trello for $425 Million
Wired coverage
451 report, paywall.
Public blog from 451.
Oracle Buys Apiary
“API Integration Cloud”
Coté’s coverage, with plenty more links: small asset working on a $660m API management market.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
HP Buys Stuff
Cloud Cruiser for management/chargeback, $650 million
SimpliVity for converged systems, $650 million
You Know What DevOps Needs? An IEEE Standard
They’re working on it
Twitter
Google buying Fabric.
Facebook still king.
Do We Talk About Trump?
OpenStack Summits leaving the US
Red Hat, Microsoft, others making announcements against the Muslim ban
Coté says: these people are proven idiots. Don’t work with them.
Trump’s Twitter Moves Markets
Apparently he watches Fox and parrots their lines, so maybe someone at Fox is making a killing with “insider trading”?
RethinkDB: Why We Failed
Good read for how hard it is to crack the DB and OSS markets.
“In hindsight, two things went wrong – we picked a terrible market and optimized the product for the wrong metrics of goodness.”
Coté follow-up: be careful with TAM picking.
Yahoo is Altaba
… wut?
Dreams $45bn
Google’s AI Awakening
“How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.”
Extensive article on Google’s AI push from back in December
Alexa
Amazon’s OS
Also, there’s an estimated 24.5m of these voice things around.
ClusterHQ Shutting Down
Docker storage startup shuts down
Facebook’s 2016 Open Source Contributions
Open source continues to be great for recruiting (and probably code)
Google buys Twitter’s Fabric
CASH!
Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky “State of the World”
Always a good read
Recommendations
Brandon: RTIC 30oz Tumbler.
Matt:
Donate to the ACLU.
RTJ3 is out, and free!
My 2016 year in the air
Tennis ball making video
Coté: big jar of green hatch! Get a 40! Also, how to feed three people with one bean.
Sponsored By:
DevOpsDays: Come see [Coté and many other great speakers](https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/agenda/) at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 6th and 7th. Use the code SDT to get 25% off [registration](https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/registration/)! Promo Code: SDT
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
Chef: Microsoft Ignite Australia, Feb 14th to Feb 17th, Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre . Chef will have a booth & a talk.
Chef: AWS User Group Sydney - AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, Matt Ray giving a talk there.
Cote.io: Subscribe to Coté's newsletter to get all the things he thinks are important, each Sunday night.
Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.
1 hr 2 min
January 20, 2017Episode 85: Being an analyst without being an asshole - Coté’s professional life, part 2
In part two of Coté navel gazing, we discuss Coté’s life as an analyst and strategists. Matt Ray is off in Australia-land, so it’s just Brandon and Coté. We discuss: what IT analyst work on; working with marketers that have poor, nothing new material; learning how to function inside a large company in the executive suite; M&A and investment bankers, getting shit done in large companies (it’s always slow), like Project Sputnik.
Mid-roll
DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 6th and 7th, 2017 - get 25% of when you register with the code SDT. Coté’s speaking at it!
ChefConf 2017 Teaser
Show Notes
See part one of this series.
Coté’s published work at RedMonk.
Coté’s analysis on disruption in the industry analyst business, going over the business as it matters to the individual analysts.
A discussion of Project Sputnik with Coté and Barton George, episode 34 of Pivotal Conversations.
Collected tips on surviving and thriving in a big company, recording a presentation at Devoxx Poland 2016.
Recommendations
Brandon:
Prototyping for Designers, by Kathryn McElroy.
Pod Save America podcast (née Keepin’ it 1600)
Coté:
Bolthouse Farms, 100% Carrot Juice, 32 oz
The perfect shoe for white collar yokels: Clarks Men's Trapell Form Slip-On Loafer
At CostCo (or Amazon): 505 Southwestern Hatch Valley Green Chile Salsa 40 Oz
Sponsored By:
DevOpsDays: Come see [Coté and many other great speakers](https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/agenda/) at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 6th and 7th. Use the code SDT to get 25% off [registration](https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-charlotte/registration/)! Promo Code: SDT
49 min
December 21, 2016Episode 84: 2017 Predictions: cloud, containers, AI
After speculating on GitHub’s business we throw out our 2017 predictions. We cover AWS, containers, AI, and government IT. Since holiday family time is coming up, Brandon also suggests some simple family IT help-desk tasks - like backup - and throws out the stretch goal of discussing 2FA at the dinner table.
Mid-roll
Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix, 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking!
Coté: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 is out. It adds in Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready; it will run 250,000 containers concurrently; you can now auto-scale on based on new metrics like HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput, so when your app seems slow to users, the platform kicks in to make it go faster (previously, CPU; Spring Boot developers will see handy diagnostics info about their apps with new Actuator (diagnostic thing) integrations; devs can use PCF to run “tasks” (one time processes); and, of course, a slew of security updates are bundled in. Go to cote.io/pcf19 to check out my highlights and see a link to a longer, more detailed post.
Feedback & Follow-up
Nice review from Kiyoto!
We’re in the 2,500 downloads an episode range now - thanks listeners!
Show Notes
GitHub
Bloomberg cover their recent year.
...losing $66 million so far for 2016 - what would GitHub be spending that on? Did some upload a lot of JPGs to their repo?
'Sitting in a conference room featuring an abstract art piece on the wall and a Mad Men-style rollaway bar cart in the corner, GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath says the business is running more smoothly now and growing. “What happened to 2015?” says the 31-year-old co-founder and chief executive officer. “Nothing was getting done, maybe? I shouldn’t say that. Strike that."'
“Secular” growth.
Brandon's Predictions
Growth on the Edge, presentation (from a16z GP Peter Levine) - the end of cloud computing and the return to the edge.
Recommendations
Matt: Surfing Santas: Sun, Fun and an Aldi Ham!
Brandon: DBAN - Darick Boot & Nuke, Crashplan, Time Machine Multiple Disk
Coté: Stratechery newsletter. He can be a little trying at times, but who isn't? He’s one of the most interesting, open, and honest IT analysts out there. See the 2016 round-up from Ben
Links:
GitHub Is Building a Coder’s Paradise. It’s Not Coming Cheap — The VC-backed unicorn startup lost $66 million in nine months of 2016, financial documents show.
Growth on the Edge presentation — the end of cloud computing and the return to the edge
1 hr 8 min
December 16, 2016Episode 83: I think the word we object to is "DevOps"
...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie
...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?.
...Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything
What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get into Amazon's new managed hosting offering. There's some new container news with containerd from DockerInc land, and some little notes on Azure's features and Cisco's InterCloud shutting down. Also, we find out which Muppet each of us would be played by in The Muppets Take Over Software Defined Talk.
Mid-roll
Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix, 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking!
Coté: check out my interview with Tony at Home Depot about their first year being cloud native, on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. They went from 0 to ~150 apps in their first year. Like, real, business critical apps that you probably end up interacting with (pro tools, paint), plus internal facing apps.
Feedback & Follow-up
The Doc Martin shoes: Hickmire. Thanks to Chris Short.
The DevOps
App dev vs. IT service delivery.
DevOps Kung Fu, Adam Jacob's talk on the inclusion of everyone in the org chart in DevOps
What is DevOps without Dev? Is there OpsOps?
AWS Managed Services
Amazon will manage your shit now, with real live peoples
"This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud."
"This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." - this is a good example of the more subtle way of "paying off analysts." More like: changing their minds.
"Designed for the Fortune 1000 and the Global 2000, this service is designed to accelerate cloud adoption"
AKA "We're eating our partners" AKA "RACKSPACE: YOU'RE UP!"
Coté: Is this like a service desk and a runbook for spinning up AWS stuff? Plus actual AMZN staff to "manage" the infrastructure like patching and such right?
Coté: I was just talking with someone yesterday who's mission was "optimize how we do IT without me telling you what I want to do with IT." That is: lower costs and give us the ability to do whatever we may want in the future in under a year's planning/effort.
Bezos doesn't like meetings without a memo
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5851aebfca7f0c24018b5b6f-2400/ap16349721408436.jpg
Don't Sleep on Microsoft
Damn, that's a monstrous URL
GPUs, HANA, Media Services, Machine Deep Learning, Data Lake, Single-instance virtual machines
Coté: I hear data is a thing. And AI.
Cisco Shutting Down Their InterCloud
Coté's audition for an ElReg headline writer: Cloud InterRUPPTED
$1 Billion isn't enough, "score another body bag win for the unstoppable Amazon Web Services"
"Meanwhile, the cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren't using a lot of Cisco gear. They are increasingly using a new style to build networks that relies more on software and less on high-end, expensive hardware."
Sharwood@ElReg: "OpenStack public clouds have an unhappy history: Rackspace felt it could build a business on the platform, but has since changed tack. HP pulled out of its own Helion public cloud. If Cisco is indeed changing direction, the OpenStack Board has some interesting matters to ponder."
Theory: AWS means on-premise IT is over-serving. You actually don't need all that. Incumbent vendors succumbed to the strategy aphasia of the disruptor's' dilemma (weren't willing to sacrifice/take eye off the ball of existing success and revenue) and lost to Amazon's lower capabilities, lower price approach. WHEN WILL TECH PEOPLE LURN?
There was this talk several years ago that was all like: "well, obviously, we shouldn't compete strategy-to-strategy with Amazon. We should provide the enterprise version!" Apparently, that was dead wrong. People confused Apple's ability to sell at an insane premium with the market not caring about x86 &co.
Docker Contributes Containerd
Docker-engine standardized container runtime for the industry
Engine vs. Machine
Check out this TheNewStack story for a new strategy slide:
Containers in Production!
Round-up of some container survey poking
n=338 respondents
Sidenote: Jenkins win. Good job biffing that one Oracle. But then again: is there any money in it?
"This leads us to a very difficult operational problem – how do we ensure security, and understand the makeup of an application while still allowing developer velocity to increase."
More Docker usage numbers from DataDog!
"ECS adoption has climbed steadily from zero to 15 percent of Docker organizations using Datadog. (And more than 10 percent of all Datadog customers are now using Docker.)"
How do I read this? Does it mean adoption is fast after an initial tire-kicking? "In the 30 days after an organization starts reporting ECS metrics, we see a 35 percent increase in the number of running containers as compared to the 60-day baseline that came before. Using the same parameters, we see a 27 percent increase in the number of running Docker hosts."
CoreOS Tectonic Goes Freemium
Erryone's favorite business model
Kubernetes 1.5 coming soon
Shipping upstream version3
Renamed their distro to Container Linux
They have attempted to coin the phrase "self-driving Kubernetes" -- God help us.
BONUS LINKS! Not discussed on show.
More AWS Followup
Missed a talk?
Open sourced a Deep Learning library:
AWS is still really new to contributing to OSS, Cockcroft has been pushing them. Also see the Blox.github.io stuff we didn't talk about last show
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Q&A
AWS Canada & London!
Strange Brew Region
hello hello hello what's all this then region
"brings our global footprint to 16 Regions and 40 Availability Zones, with seven more Availability Zones and three more Regions coming online through the next year"
Docker Acquires Distributed Storage Startup Inifinit
"the Infinit platform provides interfaces for block, object and file storage: NFS, SMB, AWS S3, OpenStack Swift, iSCSI, FUSE etc."
To be open-sourced
Extends the stateful application story
CA Buys Automic for $635 million
"CA fights legacy status with DevOps automation tools buy" - that's not a good headline for your Christmas cards.
$635 million, Crunchbase says they were founded in 1985(?)
Hey look, it's my man Carl Lehmann at 451!
New CEO at BMC
Beauchamp goes to board, Polycom dude steps in a CEO
"Beauchamp said many of BMC's products are achieving double digit growth and double-digit profitability."
Red Hat OpenShift on GCE and JBoss on OpenShift
In case you need more management on your GCE? AWS is already there, probably Azure soon.
I wonder if there's a deficiency in Google's offering that it's more of a consumed resource than a platform a la AWS? Plenty of management in AWS already?
JBoss on it
Dell Q3
"Dell Technologies Posts $2B Loss, But EMC Deal Already Boosting Revenue"
Stonic, (not) An Ansible Fork?
Stonic will be licensed under AGPL-3.0 :facepalm:
Coté: why is AGPL bad?
Australian 2016 Word of the Year: "Democracy Sausage" (saved you a click)
Democracy Sausage
Google Makes So Much Money It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline - Until Now
Candy, not CREAM
Brandon called this way back when.
But what about Google Fiber in my neighborhood?
Best shruggie use of th eyear
NVIDA $129k computer.
"Fewer than 100 companies and organizations have bought DGX-1s since they started shipping in the fall, but early adopters say Nvidia's claims about the system seem to hold up."
Does it pass the Coté AI Test? I.e.: can it fix scheduling meetings across different organizations?
Recommendations
Brandon: Mobile eating the world.
Matt: Jenn Schiffer's "No One Expects The Lady Code Troll"
Coté: Senso bluetoother headphones. Trapper hats all winter long.
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