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- Episode 226: Justin Garrison on Cloud Native Infrastructure
This week Coté interviews Justin Garrison coauthor of Cloud Native Infrastructure. They discuss all things "Cloud Native" and what it's like to be a software engineer who helps make movies.
Photo by David Brooke Martin on Unsplash
Special Guest: Justin Garrison .
43 min - Episode 225: All my kids have opinions on Scratch
We discuss micoVMs vs. Containers and Intel vs. ARM. Plus, Matt offers advice on when to teach your children about Github. Big congrats to Coté and his wife on their new baby!!!
Relevant to your interests- Containers are Not the Future
- Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances - Honeycomb
- No more O’Reilly Conferences
- Lightspeed-backed WorkOS launches to help startup services become enterprise-ready
- The Demise Of Symantec
- Ex-Uber engineer pleads guilty to trade secret theft from Google
Non Sense- These are the hotels and airlines offering elite status extensions for those impacted by coronavirus
- Peak Cory Doctrow! Pluralistic: 24 Mar 2020
SponsorsArrested DevOps Podcast:
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- Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
- ChefConf 2020 June 2, All Digital.
- DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: The Rewatchables
- Matt Ray: Generation Kill
- Reggae: Toots & The Maytals, Jimmy Cliff
Photo Credit
1 hr - Episode 224: Miles Matthias on getting started with Containers and Kubernetes
Brandon interviews Miles Matthias from Container Heroes and they discuss how to get started with Containers, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio and Spinnaker. Plus, Miles tells us a story about Warren Buffet.
Links:
- Container Hereos
- @miles_matthias
- Miles talk at Spinnaker Summit 2019
Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash
Special Guest: Miles Matthias.
1 hr 5 min - Episode 223: What’s a Terraform?
Coté finally learns what HashiCorp does. Also, yellow rubber gloves.
Mood Board:
- Blur my foreground, that’s what I want.
- No Yodas
- Lot of rubber gloves in your youth?
- I have never really enjoyed a Steven King book.
- Maybe it’s for the Rip Van Winkle set
- You watch Netflix, you should watch more Netflix.
- I don’t need your recommendations, don’t tell me how to live my life.
- It was like a bunch of Duplo blocks in a junior high theater class.
- As someone said: teams is like a front-end to Sharepoint
- The screenshot they showed was kind of like Teams.
- Why can’t they make it 100% OK?
- You’ve got a big TV, put me on it!
Relevant to your interests- Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Skype
- Does anyone really know what the deal is with this JEDI thing? - The Pentagon says it 'wishes to reconsider' the award to Microsoft of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract
- HashiCorp - Vagrant sure is valuable!
- HashiCorp Scores $175M Funding Round, $5B Valuation
- Exclusive: DevOps unicorn HashiCorp could be valued at $5.25B in new round
- Rancher - EDGE, BABY!
- Rancher Labs Raises $40 Million Series D Round to Accelerate Growth of Its Kubernetes Management Platform
- Platform9 Announces Freedom for Kubernetes Users with New, 'Freedom' and 'Growth' SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Plans
- npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog
- Next Phase Montage
- CNCF starts new artifact hub - “pre-alpha stadium.”
- Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions
- Book review: The Real Deal - technology deal making in the 2020's
- Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread
- Righting a Wrong: IBM is a Leader in the Cloud...
- Trump Surprised Google With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Claim
- Google: G Suite now has 2 billion users
- Coronavirus quarantine enforced for all people entering Australia, lockdowns on the table
- Coronavirus Will Change How We Shop, Travel and Work for Years
- Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely
- NSW govt pledges to introduce mandatory data breach reporting
- What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu
- Announcing OpenShift Serverless 1.5.0 Tech Preview - A sneak peek of our GA
- Google indefinitely delays the digital version of its Cloud Next conference
- Microsoft starts a grand unification attempt with .NET 5
- Apple unveils new iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support in iPadOS
- Spectro Cloud Launches With $7.5 Million to Help Enterprises Realize the Promise of Kubernetes
- Not just video-conferencing apps taking a dive: IBM Cloud hit by partial Tuesday outage
- Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe
- Mainframe Developers Get Boost From BMC Acquisition Of Compuware
Non Sense- How Much Toilet Paper?! The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator
- You can now get alcohol delivered with your food when you order from Texas restaurants, Gov. Abbott says
SponsorsArrested DevOps Podcast:
Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/.Conferences, et. al.- DevOpsDays Austin 2020 — Cancelled or Postponed.
- ChefConf 2020 June 2, All Digital.
- DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: Devs on FX/Hulu .
- A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs
- Matt Ray: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money.
- Tim Hartford’s Cautionary Tales podcast.
- Coté: Look Up.
Outro: “They’ll work until the very last minute,” Dune.
1 hr 14 min - Episode 222: Self quarantining with half-baked breadSelf quarantining with half-baked bread
Most of our time is spent discussing the joys of eating half-baked bread. We also discuss what a Tanzu is, kubernetes konspiracy theories, and Oxide the new private cloud hardware startup...wait, wut? Hey! Spring Live next week, March 19th starting at 9am California-time - 24 hours! Attend!
Mood Board:
- Fresh Bread Talk
- I’ve mentioned this before
- You’re suppose to listen
- Hamthrax?
- A tall glass of ice-tea.
- The most Dutch thing ever.
- Half-baked bread.
- American’s tea innovation lead.
- Strong opinions loosely held is canceled.
Relevant to your interests- VMware
- If you run (VCF) VMware stuff, you can have kubernetes now. TAS/PAS will be moved to run on that sometime later - same stack as we’ve had at Pivotal is still, of course, alive and well.
- Interview with Pat Gelsinger on VMware
- VMware Rejuvenates Once Again With Kubernetes Injection
- VMWare KeyBanc Capital Markets Write Up
- VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, built on VMware NSX is Now Available!
- Docker
- Docker Defines Roadmap with Developer-Focused API Integrations
- Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit
- AWS
- A Peek Into Graviton2: Amazon's Neoverse N1 Server Chip First Impressions
- Bottlerocket – Open Source OS for Container Hosting | Amazon Web Services
- Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers
- Kube Corner
- EngineerBetter/k8s-is-not-a-paas
- Windows NT 4 into Kubernetes
- Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison (2020)
- HPE Plunges Into Red Hot Kubernetes Market
- NVIDIA to Acquire SwiftStack
- Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math | Quanta Magazine
- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets to keep his job — for now
- Robinhood goes down again,
- Assessing ERP upgrades in the 21st century
- Vista Equity mulls options for IT automation and security provider Infoblox
- Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data
- Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL
- This startup now has millions in no-strings-attached money because one of Silicon Valley's most famous VC firms had to walk away from the deal
- Australia sues Facebook for $529 billion. That's more than the government makes in a year.
- This little server startup wants to take on a horde of tech giants
- Who’s staying home because of COVID-19?
Non Sense- Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of fuel flying empty 'ghost' planes so they can keep their flight slots during the coronavirus outbreak
- What's in your wallet? A lot less interest, unless you notice this one word...
SponsorsArrested DevOps Podcast:
Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/.Conferences, et. al.- DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th.
- ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4.
- DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: Save money and buy a subscription to NY Times via gift certificate for yourself.
- Coté: treat yourself with a black Uber. Scott on Pivot as strong opinions loosely held.
1 hr 5 min - Episode 221: How to turn $2bn into $5bn
Coté probably messed up his math on the Thoma Bravo profit from Compuware. Maybe it's more like $5bn. But, obviously, he's just farting around with incomplete information. He apologies and will sit in the corner for awhile. For entertainment only!
With the virus shutting down conferences and keeping people in the home office, we discuss the value of in-person conferences and how remote ones might could be better. Also, GKE’s kubernetes cluster pricing (and Amazon’s drop to match the price) gives us an anchoring point for pricing running a cluster. Coupled with the recent CNCF survey you could make an interesting stew. Finally, Coté tries to run some numbers to figure out how much Thoma Bravo profited from taking Compuware private. (Also, he always mispronounces it as Thom-oh Bravo.)
Hey! If you want to understand VMware’s new strategy and portfolio around application development, tune into the March 10th webinar on the topic: register now!
Mood Board:
- The Hello Boss episode.
- You mean I gave my kids a lecture all for nothing?
- Shit the living room door.
- Espresso macchiato.
- Blue bonnet coffee.
- What am I missing out on?
- Sitting, trapped in your head.
- I’m hoping we realize no one needs to be working.
- Why blockchain is important for corn
- Containers and the mainframes,
- Too unqualified to speculate?
- This post-conference era
- You can’t do your dishes in the office
- Those poor developers: having to pay for things!
- $879/year per cluster helps someone keep their job.
- It’s always Monte Carlo simulations with you
- So adult.
- I’m trying Matt Ray.
- We IPO’d because we were running out of money, what a time to be alive.
- This week’s white guys talking about white guys.
Relevant to your interests- How Marc Benioff’s Vision for Salesforce’s Future Triggered Executive Shuffle
- VMware exceeds $10B in sales in FY 2020
- Cisco begins new round of layoffs
- How much money do SREs make?
- Coronavirus 2020 tech conference cancellations list
- Google and Microsoft just canceled two conferences ahead of their major ones
- HP Enterprise suspends nearly all events
- Important OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2020 Update: Shifts to Digital Conference – Red Hat OpenShift Blog
- Google cancels its biggest annual event over coronavirus fears
- BMC to Acquire Compuware
- Baron’s has a bunch of numbers:
- https://www.barrons.com/articles/bmc-backed-by-kkr-is-buying-compuware-in-biggest-deal-yet-51583264075
- Probably sold for about $2bn.
- Selling about $650m of Dynatrace stock.
- Got several $100m’s in dividends from DT.
- Still owns 52% of DT ($9.294bn valuation, so $4.83bn asset in equity).
- Original purchase price: $2.5bn
- 2 + 0.65 + 0.150 + 9.294 = $12.09bn cash out, plus $4.83bn equity - $16.92bn profit on $2.5bn…?!
- Undated Forrester chart showing increasing mainframe spend.
- Agile software development is dead. Deal with it.
- Coronavirus Updates: Epidemic Slows in China but Spreads Globally - Check out the Ali app angle
- Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle lawsuit over slow iPhones
- Google makes Hangouts Meet features free in the wake of coronavirus
- CNCF survey
- No lead-gen on the PDF! CLASSY.
- Demographics:
- “September and October 2019 and received 1,337 responses.”
- 30% of respondents from orgs with 5,000+ employees.
- ??? “The top job functions were software architect (41%), DevOps manager (39%), and back-end developer (24%)”
- Most respondents from “Software,” “Technology,” and “Financial Services” - all the bleeding edge.
- Amazon is #1, Google probably #2.
- CI/CD (loosely applied) is at 40% to 50% - which is close Coté’s ongoing estimates (and, considering that most of the respondents are from tech and banks, if we’re cynical, probably less for the other industries).
- The jump in production is really quick, maybe (Page 5, “Use of Containers since 2016”? It took about 4 years for prod use to be broadly done (in Dec 17, prod reached 75% which matches test)
- Most figures like these (e.g., number of containers in production) would be a lot more interesting/useful if they were broken out by company size. E.g., larger companies probably use more containers in production, tech and banks probably have put containers in production earlier, also telcos - T-Mobile alone has 34,000 containers in production (probably even more by now).
- Similarly, how many clusters are in production would be interesting to see by organization size.
- Challenges are sort of interesting, as always.
- I don’t like “culture” as a broad category. That usually just means “people don’t do what I think they should do [and instead have their own ideas of what’s best].”
- However: obviously “security”…”complexity” is another broad category - and, boy, long-time SDT sponsors must love “monitoring” as a money-pot to go after!
- Side-note: so, “servishmesh” means a registry to look-up how to connect to other pods/components in your kubes (like, JNDI); getting the actual network connection to that other component; securing the network connection; load balancing (this term is getting way over-blown, I think?); and then doing the layer whatever networking to account for dynamically assigned IP addresses and stuff in kubernetes. Maybe, like microservices stuff like circuit breakers, or is that too far?
- Not that many people use their own serverless framework (10%), but 34% of those who do use knative.
- The “why you use kubernetes” chart (pg. 11) didn’t force people to rank enough: pretty much everyone agrees that All The Value-Props are great.
- Helm wins for packaging.
- I don’t know enough about auto-scaling to say much, but it looks like most people don’t do auto-scaling unless it’s for purely stateless apps, which makes sense. The drop-off after that (queues, batch-jobs, stateless, and DB) seems to indicate that auto-scaling other stuff is difficult, untrusted.
- “nginx kept its lead this year as the top Kubernetes ingress provider (62%), followed again by HAProxy (22%)” - F5 got a good control-point on the kubernetes market for $670 million, plus the entire rest of the nginx business.
- “40% of respondents get their info from Twitter” - humanity had a good run!
Non Sense- Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat
- SETI@home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years
## SponsorsArrested DevOps Podcast:
Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/.Conferences, et. al.- KubeCon EU in Amsterdam, July/August, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
- VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop
- DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th.
- ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4.
- DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: Dark Towers
- Press Box Pod - Strain pun headline segment
- Tasty Meats Paul’s Instagram
- Matt: SelfControl.app
- Humble Bundle Cybersecurity 2020
- Coté: First 30% of the first Jack Reacher book, The Killing Floor. Also, see other books Matt Yglesias is reading.
Cover art from Marcingietorigie in wikicommons.
1 hr 15 min - Episode 220: Everyone loves white papersEveryone loves white papers
Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension.
Mood board:
- “A Quote from the episode…”
- Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
- “I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.”
- We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’
- Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring?
- Crank up the YouTube
- Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway
- Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now
- Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch
- Garbage trash proposals
- Uniquely sourced
- Why are we still doing this?
- They’re busy running their business.
- “Can you write me a business case.”
- PDFs a Plenty
- The White Paper Album
- Speaking of BS phrases
- The white paper to take down white papers
- “Walking into the door feeling”
- The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever.
- Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon.
- The Idempope.
Relevant to your interests- Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? - related, from 2006.
- The secret sauce graphics, 2007. Andrew Shafer’s 2010 update.
- White papers (best one ever: “Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey,” Chef)
- Collateral.
- Sales tools.
- Case studies.
- Thought-leadership/definition.
- Education.
- Guidance (vs. Gartner Burton papers).
- Writing down chunks of sales-hustle lore.
- How it effects the business.
- Have opinions.
- Millennials Want Credible Digital Content — So Give It To Them!
- Amazon AMI thing.
- Salesforce secures $1.3B+ deal for Vlocity, also co-CEO left (what’s up with two CEOs?)
- VMware, Tanzu
- Signal signal - Matt’s paranoid security.
- The Tech Revolt Finally Comes for Oracle
- Morgan Stanley Is Buying E*Trade, Betting on Littler Customers
- Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
- Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fightNonsense
- Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role
- DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability
- HP adopts poison pill after Xerox's buyout attempts
- VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger
- Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department - Slashdot
- Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
- Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals
- The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement
- Google Cloud beefs up Chronicle, reCaptcha Enterprise and Web Risk API hit general availability
- When Speakers are Ears
- Why Those Gaps in Kubernetes Are Really a Good Thing
- Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud
- Google Jumps to #4 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Behind #1 Microsoft, #2 AWS, #3 Salesforce
- MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped
- Firefox now encrypts domain name requests by default in the US
- Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace'
- Keith Block Steps Down as Salesforce Co-CEO; Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO
Non Sense- Report: Austin Ranks No. 1 in the Nation for Jobs
- The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
- Costco’s Famous Hot Dog Could Cost You $60
SponsorsArrested DevOps Podcast:
Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/.Conferences, et. al.- QCon London, March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking on March 2nd.
- Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions, tickets.
- KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
- VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop
- DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
- ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4
- DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.
Listener Talk- Ryan Kitchens talk “The Meat of It.”
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee on Netflix.
- Matt: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child.
- Coté: Hild. SpringOne Platform 2019 CFP. My book, The Business Bottleneck, is out for free.
Outro: “Hey Now.”
1 hr 20 min - Episode 219: Paranoid security, not paranoid schizophrenic
We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats.
Relevant to your interests- Google
- Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is taking a page from the enterprise sales handbook against Amazon and Microsoft
- Politics around Istio and Knative within Google are fascinating
- “People frequently conflate "open governance" and "neutral IP ownership." It depends greatly on the foundation, but in the case of the CNCF, there are literally zero governance requirements enforced on projects. CNCF projects can be (and are) single vendor governed.”
- Welcoming Looker to Google Cloud
- Google Cloud reveals major restructuring plans
- Google Cloud acquires mainframe migration service Cornerstone
- Security
- The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened.
- The CIA’s ‘coup of the century’ Podcast
- The End of Privacy as We Know It?
- Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout
- DOJ charges four China-backed hackers with Equifax breach – TechCrunch
- Ring enables mandatory two-factor authentication and new privacy controls in response to scandals
- The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony
- Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe
- M&A and Going Bust
- Dell Nears Deal to Sell RSA Security Business to Private-Equity Firm STG
- Koch Industries acquires Infor in deal pegged at nearly $13B – TechCrunch
- Xerox raises takeover offer for HP
- Android founder's next phone company goes bust
- HQ, maker of the once-popular HQ Trivia, is shutting down
- Rancher Labs Achieves 169% Revenue Growth, Doubles
- Alibaba Cloud revenue reaches $1.5B for the quarter on 62% growth rate – TechCrunch
- dgarros/netdevops-survey
- The History of Git: The Road to Domination
- Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit
- Amazon lawyers want to depose Trump
- Your .com could soon cost you more .cash
- Wi-Fi 6E isn’t here yet—but Broadcom is clearly banking on it
- New Relic: New Report: For the Love of Serverless - New Relic Blog
- GSMA cancels Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus concerns
- Red Hat kicks off long goodbye for CoreOS Container Linux • DEVCLASS
- Meet JJ Asghar - DevRel.net
- Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
## Nonsense- How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
- My travel habits
- Private equity, explained — The Weeds
- They recorded the Seinfeld theme separately for EVERY EPISODE
- Chasing Colombia's 'cocaine hippos'
SponsorsArrested DevOps Podcast:
Subscribe today by searching for “Arrested DevOps” in you favorite podcast app or by visiting https://www.arresteddevops.com/.Conferences, et. al.- HashiTalks Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech)
- QCon London, March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking at some point.
- Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions, tickets.
- KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
- DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
- ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4
- DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.
Book Giveaway- Free digital copy of Code Your Way Up: Rise to the Challenge of Software Leadership to the first person to direct message bwhichard in the SDT Slack or on Twitter.
SDT news & hype- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations- Brandon: McMillions on HBO
- Matt: Casey Handmer’s Blog space-related blog posts are fascinating
- Subscribe to Orbital Index for space news
59 min - Episode 218: Kubernetes for developers, with Charles Lowell
"I don't care about networking...and load balancing."
There's a lot of new concepts and stuff to learn when it comes to developing applications that will run on kubernetes. In this episode, Coté talks with Charles Lowell about his experience. Also, we imagine measuring the humidity of mayonnaise.
If you need some excellent app coding, check out Charle's company, Frontside! They also have a podcast where they discuss recent programming frameworks and idea, and relating coding cool stuff.
You may recall that Charles was the co-host of Coté's first podcast empire, DrunkAndRetired.com.
Special Guest: Charles Lowell.
53 min - Episode 217: You’re eating your hamburger wrong - IBM, unlocking value at Compuware, microservices are dead
With a new CEO and president at IBM, we talk about what’s been going on good and bad at IBM in recent years. Big bets were made and that whole cloud things overshadowed things. We also talk about the mysteries of private equity, here what Thoma Bravo has done to make billions of dollars of Dynatrace and Compuware. Finally, we briefly talk about the whole microservices and serverless are silly trend - monoliths rule! (Oh, and some small Java talk.)
(Sorry there’s so much high-volume on Coté's end. Hopefully your ear-holes won’t hurt too much. Coté needs to get a new pop-filter.)
Mood board:
- Interpol can’t find me in Australia, right?
- Digital transformation is bad.
- Did they decide that the kids are all right?
- Thought leader me into happiness.
- You are so much more cynical than me.
- What does IBM do?
- Reverse halo effect.
- Surviving the trough of disillusionment.
- We’ll stick up for digital transformation - No!
- For the rest of your life, do better.
- Minor bread talk.
Relevant to your interests- IBM
- IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down, Arvind Krishna to take over
- 1 big thing: Ginni Rometty out at IBM
- IBM’s Lost Decade
- IBM didn’t spent much CAPEX, three others did.
- Coté: what’s there to say that’s new? Cloud wasn’t executed well (I guess?) and Watson was a poor choice for such a high priority.
- Thoma Bravo to Explore $2 Billion Sale of Compuware
- So, did Thoma Bravo do well here?
- “could value the mainframe software provider at around $2 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.”
- “Thoma Bravo took Compuware private in 2014 in a deal valued at $2.5 billion. It carved out Compuware’s application performance management division, renamed it Dynatrace Inc. and took it public last year.”
- Dynatrace market cap is ~$9.1bn, was ~$6.7bn on IPO day (August 2019).
- Brenon@451 on the IPO, August 2019: “Post-offering, the PE firm still owns about 70% of Dynatrace.”
- And: “Dynatrace raised roughly $570m in its offering, some of which will go toward paying down its nearly $1bn in debt.”
- 451’s note on the 2014 going private.
- So, if Thoma Bravo still owns 70%, then have ~$6.37bn worth of equity (70% of market cap of $9.1bn)…sounds… really good for laying for laying down $2.5bn, plus you might get $2bn more from the rest of Compuware.
- That’s crazy, right? That Compuware was sitting on that much extra value?
- This week in cloud architecture patterns
- tl;dr: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- The State of Serverless
- This is just about AWS Lambda. (That said, what else is there?)
- “Among the companies with the largest infrastructure footprints, more than three quarters have adopted Lambda.”
- Lots of node.js and python use, not much Java and .Net use. Java and python were added in the same year (2015), node.js since the start in 2014.
- Coté’s summary of their analysis: Lambda used with lots of data processing, primarily with python and node, at mostly large orgs. Not used by Java devs.
- Modular Monolithic Architecture, Microservices and Architectural Drivers
- “Monoliths are the future,” Kelsey Hightower.
- “Now that our industry is finally recovering from the mass delusion that microservices was going to be the future, it's surely time to for the even bigger delusion that serverless is what's going to provide the all-purpose salvation.” @dhh Also: his 2016 suggestion that monoliths work best for small teams, microservices for huge orgs.
- Related: Reframing and Retooling for Observability, James Governor - overview of observability, in serious James mode.
- JRebel Java survey:
- Over 60% use Java 8 or older. Java 8 was released in March 2014, no more updates to Java 8.
- Tomcat dominates app server use at 60%+. Free and works is a hell of a combination.
- Spring and Spring Boot very dominate.
- “It was very surprising to see how many of our survey respondents are paying for Oracle JDK. I fully expected the open source options to have a much larger market share.”
- 1 big thing: Software disaster sinks Iowa caucus- Google Numbers
- Google parent Alphabet Q4 earnings: Revenue disappoints
- Alphabet discloses YouTube ad revenues of $15.15 billion, Cloud revenues of $8.92 billion for 2019
- Related: Instagram brought in an estimated $20bn in 2019.
- That’s a lot of money.
- Security
- Google releases open-source 2FA security key platform called OpenSK
- Apple Engineers Propose Standardized Format for SMS One-Time Passcodes
- HPE acquires identity management startup Scytale
- Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate
- Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
Nonsense- Podcast app Overcast adds automatic intro skipping and overhauled Voice Boost feature
- I Have a Costco Credit Card. I Never Use It at Costco. Here’s Why.
- Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business
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- Cote: Beyond the Phoenix Project, from 2018.
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