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July 05, 2019Episode 186: SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”
SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”
How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week with Google's Nathen Harvey about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene.
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Conferences, et. al.
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things.
Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
SDT news & hype
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Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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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
Coté: sit at a cafe in Paris and people watch.
Special Guest: Nathen Harvey.
Sponsored By:
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28 min
July 01, 2019Episode 185: Drink your own dog food
Drink your own dog food
No matter the searing product strategy insight, ops is always left holding the bag. With few exceptions (like NSX), infrastructure software has to be free and easy to check out and even use. All product management and strategy decisions flow from that. Usually. Except when they don’t. Also, developers don’t pay for anything, they trick ops into it. Maybe that’ll change in public cloud land, but who knows?
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap!
Also:
Dark green smoothies.
Immediate value.
Gotta schedule a phone call to optimize phone calls.
A light under a bushel.
Free bread crumbs to the public cloud oven.
Don't feel ashamed, everywhere else is fucked too, cf. Lean accounting.
OpenShift too expensive, but no one actually checked the price.
Slit your wrists with a business card.
“DJ Pull Request.”
Brandon’s organic trash matter.
Kim did no approve this wallet.
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MongoDB CEO on Open Source, Taking on Oracle, and Scaling Up
Huge fluctuations in database market-share.
Get your Audible credits up-front…if you pay up-front.
IBM gains unconditional EU approval for $34 billion Red Hat deal.
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
Slack CEO, ahead of NYSE debut, predicts the end of company email as we know it in 7 years
Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi
How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today
The Power of Costco
Software Below the Poverty Line
Deconstructing Balenciaga’s Wacky Instagram Nonsense
Acquired Podcast about SuperHuman
Nonsense
Talk Like a Texan: This One’s for All Y’All
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This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools, Papertrail™. To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail free for 14 days, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun again.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Check out GO CARDLESS.
Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform Netflix.
Senior Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering Netflix.
Chef - Community Manager.
Platform Operations Engineer Aspect.
Come work at Pivotal.
Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides and Talk.
Listener Feedback
Charles from Greensboro, NC sent in some SDT theme music so we sent him stickers.
Troy from San Mateo got some stickers this week.
SDT news & hype
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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: City of Austin Garbage Collection Reminders.
Matt: “I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers.”
Coté: Secrid (Coté got the “Vintage Cognac-Rust”).
Outro: “softwaredefinedsong,”charleswhollien
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1 hr 13 min
June 21, 2019Episode 184: The developer survey bong talk SIG
Do organizations ever just want to do a good job? Not really. Also, after looking through a new developer survey: Developers change what they use, but pretty much stay the same. Also, half of the, still don’t use build pipelines or issue trackers. When will these kids learn? And Coté explains why Nietzsche’s Eternal Return thing seems unhelpful.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap!
Also:
Pretty hard stop in an hour.
Slack Messaging Transport Protocol and The Cold Chain
Drum-circle free zone at Vondelpark!
Like us on Facebook as we hate on Facebook
As people would call it… bong talk.
If I’m gonna do a good job I’m gonna need a good editor.
Do .ini files still exist? Or has Microsoft gone all yaml?
The back 1/3 of all sci fi movies and religions.
Relevant to your interests
The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic
Only half use CI/CD? Been like that in surveys for many years, since 2012 or so.
Also, only 44% use an issue tracker? Weird.
Testing is pretty good with 70% doing unit testing.
Kubernetes Turns Five: Cloud Native Goes Mainstream
Open Core Summit 2019
This is a VC/startup conference, seems.
Why cloud is the best defense against AWS
I guess it’s some fanfic on OSS companies being good at running managed middleware services?
Not too far fetched of an idea: they just need good SREs and the ability to reliably and cheaply run on public clouds.
Kind of like selling against generics in grocery stores.
Kubernetes and the future of cloud native: We chat with Kelsey Hightower
TechExplorers: Kelsey Hightower
Lots of people doing it wrong: gotta have cloud native apps; don’t build platforms?
Apple joins the open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The goal of digital transformation is outcomes, not engineering
Coté just wanted to point out that this is a good newsletter. Listeners will like it, relevant to your interests.
Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet
- Pull Panda is joining GitHub
Mission critical apps make successful open source platforms
Really good write-up of the sales life-cycle for any type of infrasture software.
Good attention to the whole life of a customer and paying attention total revenue across their “life,” e.g.:“A customer might spend 6 months scaling their deployment on their own. But if we could help them do that in 3 months, then we probably just pulled in our next sale by one quarter. “
What are the “average” prices for thing here? Analogously, you can bucket the pricing for all condemnts (with truffle oil being an outlier) in the $1 to $15 range. But not, like, $100. There must be some basic clusters of OSS pricing. (Expensive stuff is hard to sell in this funnel.)
I suppose looking at avg. annual revenue per customer for all these OSS companies would get you there.
“Bodies in Seats” - Facebook moderators
Even FB outsources! Here to Cognizant.
Seems terrible.
Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop?
Follow-up on Hortonworks acquisition, road-map confusion: ‘Cloudera was also dogged by other factors that resulted in a slowing of bookings in the quarter by existing customers, which represent more than 90 percent of the company’s usual growth, Reilly said during a conference call with Wall Street analysts yesterday. The merger with Hortonworks “created uncertainty, particularly regarding the combined company roadmap, which we rolled out in March of this year,” he said. “During this period of uncertainty, we saw increased competition from the public cloud vendors.”’
Nonsense
Subway History: How OS/2 Powered The NYC Subway For Decades
The machines are going to hate us
English units
Sponsor: Solarwinds
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Vilynx - Building the most powerful AI Brain
Listener Feedback
Mark from Wimbledon (London, England) wrote in so we sent him laptop sticker.
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
Coté: Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs.
Matt: 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy:
"The Cold Chain".
Outro: “All I Eat is Pizza,” Koo Koo Kanga Roo.
Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
53 min
June 14, 2019Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind
Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary Meeker’s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management.
Also:
Wacky tobaccy
Seattle Smell
Denver’s Flaming Skull Mayor Announces Plans To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms.
Miller time is any time.
Here’s how you’ll be disappointed.
After the gold rush
The dispassionate gang of four.
Lifestyle businesses like IBM.
Everyone overvalues the present.
Spend $50 million here to make a billion there.
The Super Mainframe.
Talking points:
Coté fell asleep.
Ate too much French butter, had salt crystals in it, tho.
Using wildcard emails for logins - pinboard guy on securing Congressional campaign.
TED Talks.
Father’s Day? (Yes, June 16th)
What’s the position on booze now-a-days?
Zoom.us works, like dropbox works. Why was that so hard?
Passport photos and Skillcraft pens (a bit pricey in Europe).
Relevant to your interests
Salesforce to buy Tableau Software in $15.7 billion deal.
This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace.
Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds.
Mozilla to Launch Firefox Premium.
ceejbot/economics-of-package-management.
“Money let’s talk about.”
What’s driving open source software in 2019
GitHub hires former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as COO
“Brescia handled COO duties at Bitnami from its founding in 2011 until it was sold to VMware last month.”
Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL - huh?
- Project Svalbard: The Future of Have.
Forget power outages -- what happens when Google goes out?
Pedant tone: compared to what? Zip drives? My own laptop that’s not backed up? A corporate email server that goes down? Not backing up my photos? Was any data lost?
CrowdStrike prices IPO at $34, above range.
No Easy Way Forward For Commercial Open Source Software Vendors.
Software company MapR, once worth more than $1 billion, to lay off 122
I’ll be passing on Google’s new 2fa for logins on iPhones and iPads. Here’s why
Food Fight Farewell.
Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet
Coté: Been reading up on “disruptions” in various industries. (I want to write a very practical, “here, put these features in your software/do these projects/etc.” kind of write-up for various industries.)
Most of the the innovations and responses - “digital transformation” are just getting better apps.
Like, power companies that charge annually, my life insurance company with PDFs.
E.g., Lemonade doing a claim for a Canadian Goose jacket for $979 in 3 seconds, Zürich Insurance using AR with risk engineers…Pivotal stories aplenty.
The framing is basically “use these opportunities to reframe their relationship with the customer, leveraging the principles of customer experience and, in turn, will change their key processes and operations to deliver the CX-centric utility.”
That is, better customer service, faster sales transactions (buying, whatever) with the customers, and easier research/comprehension (test out how long it takes you to find the details of benefits for your credit card - look up the price you pay for water - see what your total return on your retirement investing is, etc.).
THIS IS ALL GREAT!
BUT WHY SO HARD? (IS IT HARD?)
My theory: this stuff isn’t hard, it just costs money and time. And just like developers don’t want to pay for anything, executives don’t want to pay for anything.
Turns out, though, when you pay for something you get, you know, something.
LegacyConf day 3 keynote: 10 Government Legacy Systems Cost Taxpayers $337 Million Every Year.
“How to Use Your Meat Buyer’s Guide” - SCHOOL IS IN SESSION.
Nonsense
NASA is opening the International Space Station to private astronauts.
LaCroix slammed with new lawsuit alleging execs sparred over whether to falsely claim its cans were free of toxic chemicals.
Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty.
Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools, Papertrail™
To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail free for 14 days, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun again.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Best IT Development Podcasts 2019 for consultants - Qemploy
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
Coté: Magma notebooks.
Matt: Ricky Gervais Humanity on Netflix; GORUCK Echo (Discontinued).
Brandon: I am Mother on Netflix.
Sponsored By:
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1 hr 11 min
June 07, 2019Episode 182: It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software!
It’s chaos week in Enterprise Software! Cloudera misses their forecast, Oracle and Microsoft team up on cloud computing and more open source licensing discussion. Plus, we try to make sense of the metric system once and for all!
Relevant to your interests
Open-Source ‘Great Satan’ No More, Microsoft Wins Over Skeptics
Reporter's Notebook: Trees, fiber, petition
The boldest WWDC move: Sign In with Apple
Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company
An update on Sunday’s service disruption | Google Cloud Blog
Why We're Relicensing CockroachDB - Cockroach Labs
What's actually changing with iOS 13
Why the new Mac Pro makes sense
Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds – TechCrunch
Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion – TechCrunch
Mad King Leo pulled the wool over HP shareholders' eyes, ex-CEO Whitman tells court
Cloudera plummets 40% after CEO abruptly departs and company cuts forecast
Mongo Q1 Numbers
## Nonsense
Microsoft is making Xbox body wash
“what does Xbox smell like? Microsoft says the answer is fruit, herbs, and various styles of wood.”
## Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their web APM tools: Loggly®.
It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Director of Product for Poppulo Waltham, MA
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
Matt: Deadwood
Brandon: This Land
Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
1 hr 5 min
June 03, 2019Episode 181: There wasn’t a sign that said I was in a drum circle zone
You can now pay open source developers directly, well, those in the closed beta. Seems like a good idea, really. Also, the Commonwealth and Friends club doesn’t like Huawei, and thought lords can be bores.
Hey! Want to get Coté’s book, a collection of writing on DevOps, agile, and THE DIGITAL? Go to leanpub.com/digitalwtf and use the code SDT to get $20 off Digital WTF, so $5 total. And, if you want a free copy, contact Coté and tell him you’ll help market it (advertise it, put it in Twitter, by post to your uncle, whatever!) and he’ll send you a code for a free copy.
Also:
What kind of hippy were you, Coté?
Any whistles?
Low-tech rave.
3 slides in Guam.
Thought-acting.
New hire announcements need to be auto-deleted.
Not for you.
I can assure you conference organizers… I am not polished.
YAML for good.
No YAML for payment.
It’s going to be more than $10,000 for LDAP.
Can’t tell if I like American Gods, but I keep reading/watching it.
German crossbow guys, aka, crossbow bolt cult in Germany.
A crossbow only does d4 of damage.
Every time I log into Skype there's an upgrade.
British people totally into yelling at their kids.
Relevant to your interests
Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source
“.github/FUNDING.yml”
Never mind total committers/LoC, now you can boast on cash-money given.
ARM cuts ties with Huawei, threatening future chip designs
The Tech Cold War Has Begun
How to thought lead — Twitter Thread
Shingy’s Wikipedia page is up for deletion
David Shing
Adam Jacob at ChefConf
Why no Docker
Splunk adds 400 enterprise customers in Q1, ups outlook
What’s the deal with Splunk (and, sort of, ServiceNow)?
Are they just the new normal that everyone buys, the new “legacy” and/or “lock-in as too expensive?”
Also, like, maybe they work really well…?
Containers, microservices, and service meshes
“~jpetazzo/index” - the World Wide Web!
Jesus - why the fuck isn’t this just built into how networking works? Was SDN too expensive, or something?
“it made more sense to build a new proxy than to extend an existing one” - ladies and gentlemen: the story of open source.
So. Basically, with a local proxy and distributed hashmap you can cloud?
Am I reading this right? We should add another layer on-top of all of this in some kind of framework hand-slapping game? “One approach that has a lot of potential is to use a tool like SuperGloo. SuperGloo offers an abstraction layer to simplify and unify the APIs exposed by service meshes.”
Elsewhere: “The service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for handling service-to-service communication in order to make it visible, manageable, and controlled.”
Paging Dr. Alexa: Hospitals call on voice assistants, envisioning ‘massive’ impact on healthcare
The usual AI/ML speech stuff.
Also, getting Alexia to turn the TV on for you: “By the way, I don’t think nurses also like to come and turn on the TV for you,” Gholami said. “They want to care for you. They want the emotional connection part.”
Coté: I was using the IVR for a rental car company recently. I mean, it was an IVR, really annoying.
Voice is bullshit.
Why so much “science” used in design is bullshit: Android, Losada and Frankfurt.
Enterprise DevOps Company CloudBees Raises $10 Million
Pivotal adds support for open Java in latest release
Facebook plans to launch crypto-currency
Palo Alto Networks to acquire container security startup Twistlock for $410M
The World Health Organization officially recognizes ‘burnout’
Tech giant brings software to a gun fight
Nonsense
LaCroix faces a crippling 'free fall' as it turns 'from bad, to worse, to disastrous,' analyst says.
Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools, Papertrail™. To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail free for 14 days, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun again.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
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
Matt: After Life & Dead to Me.
Brandon: Dead to Me on Netflix.
Coté: The Fine Art of Small Talk, excerpts in Coté’s Twitter.
Listener recommendation from Jordi: Humble Book Bundle: Hacking 2.0
Cover-art: "Third Beach Drum Circle," from Kyle Pearce.
Outro: spitting out lyrics with Courtney Barnett’s “Nameless, Faceless.”
Sponsored By:
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1 hr 19 min
May 24, 2019Episode 180: “I’m not sure Mudhoney plays a lot of corporate events”
Matt goes to ChefConf, Microsoft launches a new Service Mesh and turns out SMS is pretty good for two-factor authentication. Plus, we brainstorm about a new type of conference and then we talk more about tacos, always tacos!
Relevant to your interests
ChefConf Highlights
Habitat in your dashboards, Habitat + Chef/InSpec and chef.io/migration
DJ Darek Mazzone
Mudhoney + Deep Sea Diver
Kube stuff
At peak hype? Kubernetes hopes to survive the boom and bust cycles of cloud services
Apptio, Inc Announces Intent To Acquire Cloudability
Microsoft makes a push for service mesh interoperability
Digital Ocean’s Kubernetes service is now generally available
Security
New research: How effective is basic account hygiene at preventing hijacking
Over 10 million people hit in single Australian data breach: OAIC | ZDNet
How do high-tech services outsmart ransomware? Often, by paying the ransoms
Building Software
How Netflix Thinks of DevOps
Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech
The Problem with Software: A Conversation With Former Microsoft Programmer Adam Barr
Grab Bag
U.S. regulators approve new Silicon Valley stock exchange
Data collected by connected cars ends up with carmakers, not consumers
Google attempts to shed light on the confusing 'Works with Nest' to 'Works with Google Assistant' transition
HP Enterprise acquires supercomputer maker Cray in the race to "exascale" performance
Nonsense
New Board Game Uses All Your Other Unopened Board Games as Resource Tokens
Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
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.
Recommendations
Matt: American Gods Season 2
Brandon: Facebook Marketplace
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Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
1 hr 8 min
May 16, 2019Episode 179: I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin
I don’t know if it has a pickle plugin
Salesforce synergizing at IBM and Red Hat, VMware buys Bitnami, and Linux Desktop market share analysis. Plus, pickles.
Opening comments:
The intersection between business books and dog vomit.
Democracy sausage.
Coté can’t get extra pickles.
Let me close out this topic of pickles.
It’s not Burger King.
Enterprise Salespeople don’t get tattoos
T-shirt currency arbitrage.
Literally misspelled responsibility
Tacos and IT transformation
7 layer burrito of IT transformation.
BSD and Linux are the same, right? (Don’t email me.)
Don’t watch Coté’s old videos.
Did the cat walk on your keyboard?
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VMware to acquire Bitnami:
VMware’s desires: “Upon close, Bitnami will enable our customers to easily deploy application packages on any cloud— public or hybrid—and in the most optimal format—virtual machine (VM), containers and Kubernetes helm charts. Further, Bitnami will be able to augment our existing efforts to deliver a curated marketplace to VMware customers that offers a rich set of applications and development environments in addition to infrastructure software.”
Coté: so Bitnami is a thing that packages up software for you in (VMs?) containers and stuff, maybe with some Helm chart stuff for deploying to kubernetes? And a service that manages them in EC2?
Jay@451: “The acquisition will also help VMware support applications in various forms – including VMs, containers and Kubernetes Helm charts – across the different infrastructures. With Bitnami, VMware is also positioned to support ISVs and open source software components with Bitnami's catalog of curated, secured, certified components.”
“VMware says it has acquired Bitnami for its multi-cloud competency and its Kubernetes expertise. VMware's acquisitions of CloudVelox, Heptio and CloudHealth have signaled its appetite for multi-cloud and Kubernetes.”
The New Stack coverage: “Monocular, a service described by Bitnami as an open source search and discovery frontend for Helm Chart repositories.”
https://thenewstack.io/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami-the-app-marketplace-platform-and-container-packager/
Holy high street, Sainsbury's! Have you forgotten Bezos' bunch are the competition?
Coté’s collection of interesting bits, including:
“This was effectively taking a WebSphere e-commerce monolith with an Oracle RAC database, and moving it, and modularising it, and putting it into AWS.”
“’Today, we run about 80 per cent of our groceries online with EC2, and 20 per cent is serverless.’ In total, the company migrated more than 7TB of data into the cloud. As a result, or so Jordan claimed, the mart spends 30 per cent less on infrastructure, and regularly sees a 70-80 per cent improvement in performance of interactions on the website and batch processing.”
Australian $50 bills
Symantec CEO Greg Clark steps down, stock drops
GitHub Package Registry: Your packages, at home with their code
JFrog and Sonatype watch out
How Windows and Chrome quietly made 2019 the year of Linux on the desktop
It’s time for another installment of Coté’s Pedantry on Market Share Analysis (tm).
Windows ships a Linux in a nifty VM.
Chromebook market share was ~13% in Gartner’s 2016Q4 estimates (based on 9.4m Chromebooks shipped out of 72.6m laptops total).
Meanwhile, Gartner estimates that something like 2bn mobile devices (phones and tablets) were shipped in 2016. Gartner said shipments for “PCs, tablets and mobile phones” was 2.33bn in 2016 (if I read the press release right - something around those numbers).
…if you run-rate the Chromebook Q4 (which is very kind since Christmas and corporate end-of-year spending is in Q4), you get 2016 shipments of 37.6m Chromebooks. So, out of all types of computing devices, Chromebooks are, like 37.6m out of 2.3bn, or ~2%, right?
Clearly: LINUX DESKTOP VICTORY! (I guess you could throw MacOS in there, but those who’d care say that was BSD or something, right? Even if you do throw them in and do *nix market share, what’s it like? Gartner says 2018Q4 Apple share was 7.2%, so add in Chromebooks and we’re at 9.2% - round it up for shits and giggles, and we’re at 10%. That anything?)
iOS - FreeBSD?
Google now lists playable podcasts in search results
ParkMyCloud is Now Part of Turbonomic - ParkMyCloud
Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech
It’s the new Spotify Culture!
Oppressive countries used a newly-discovered WhatsApp flaw to spy on activists
The red hot 'FAANG' trade is officially over, now bet on your fellow 'MAAN'
FOSDEM 2019 - The clusterfuck hidden in the Kubernetes code base
Microsoft warns wormable Windows bug could lead to another WannaCry
Suggested headline: “Wutzit! Washington Windows Wunderkin Wonder Why Worms WannaCry”
Google replaces its Bluetooth security keys because they can be accessed by nearby attackers
New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011
Google is about to have a lot more ads on phones
Donald Trump is short-circuiting the electronics industry
IBM reps can sell IBM and Red Hat: ‘in the field, "IBM sales guys will get comped on Red Hat products, but our sales guys will only get comped on Red Hat products."’
Nonsense
World’s Most Expensive Coffee Costs $75 A Cup; Now Being Sold In Southern California
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: Paris (May 23rd & 24th), San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
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Matt: Sending money internationally? Get yourself some TransferWise.
Planet Money podcast: How Uncle Jamie Broke Jeopardy
Semi-anti-recommendation: The Wandering Earth
Brandon:
Jonathan on Netflix.
DameWare SSH Movie Trailer vs. MSFT Terminal Video.
Outro: Burger King commercial, 1974.
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May 09, 2019Episode 178: What is this: a fucking marquee/ tag?
Putting together the M&A case for Docker, Microsoft Build, Google I/O, and Oracle’s cloud grudge.
Plus:
The Most Expensive Free Dog in the World.
Dead frogs tell no tales.
It’s just me and the dog.
Smart enough not to go up the stairs, dumb - enough to think the eggs are coming back.
Is Docker the new MySQL.
Most valuable, unrealized container brand: Google.
JEDI grudge.
Nihilism, greatly underrated.
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Announcing Docker Enterprise 3.0: Delivering High-Velocity Application Innovation
A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom
Department of Justice approves $34B IBM acquisition of Red Hat
How Airbnb took over the world
Canonical Sharpens Focus on Red Hat, VMware; IPO Plans Remain
RHEL 8 released: It's the last pre-IBM Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux
8.0 release notes - Red Hat Customer Portal
Salesforce acquires Tel Aviv-based conversational AI startup Bonobo for a reported $50 million
Bucking a trend of rapid growth, Microsoft actually shuts down an Azure data center
Microsoft Build:
Microsoft Botched Its First HoloLens Demo of Build 2019
Microsoft Build 2019: the biggest news from the developer conference
Microsoft Build Day 1: Windows Subsystem For Linux Gets More Linux
Spatial - Collaborate from anywhere in Augmented Reality
Minecraft mobile AR game teased, full reveal coming May 17
Microsoft Edge gets IE mode tabs and better security control
Google I/O 2019
The 8 biggest announcements from the Google I/O 2019 keynote
What is Uber? Forget the sharing economy – it's just a libertarian scam
10 Most Interesting Announcements From Microsoft Build
Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys
In gambling mecca, Dell’s founder offers evidence that big bets on multicloud, AI and edge will pay off
Marketing Daily: Study: Voice Assistants Far From Hot Marketplace For Buying
Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction
SAP makes its cloud data service, data management play with HANA
Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift
Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO
Google launches Portals, a new web page navigation system for Chrome
Oracle Releases GraalVM Enterprise
OpenShift 4: Red Hat's on ramp for the hybrid cloud
After two years as Docker CEO, Steve Singh steps down, Rob Bearden steps in
Nonsense
Red Hat employees permanently inked with new company logo
Parent of Schick razors to buy shaving start-up Harry’s for $1.37 billion
Bird has a new electric scooter: it’s durable, comes in three different colors, and you can buy it
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ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
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Matt: Fleabag Season 2 (BBC/Amazon); Word for the week: Acedia.
Brandon: Episode 908: I Am Not A Robot and Overcast Clipping.
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May 03, 2019Episode 177: "It’s going to be just as fast as Google Fiber”
Microsoft and VMware made peace, Java goes native, Apache goes to Github and Red Hat gets a new logo. Plus, Matt Ray explains why the Internet in Australia is slow.
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Can Google Cloud Revenues Reach $20 Billion by 2020?
Microsoft, Dell unveil new Azure-VMware integrations
Dell Technologies and Microsoft expand partnership with new VMware Solutions
The Apache Software Foundation has moved all its projects to Microsoft GitHub
Red Hat's Quarkus Brings Natively Compiled Java to Kubernetes
Project Quarkus, Kubernetes-native Java
Announcing k3OS: A Kubernetes Operating System
Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
Here's Red Hat's new logo – why change? 'A much different company' today
Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor's involvement (AMZN)
Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses
Washington Legislature Passes 30-day Data Breach Notification Law
Jenkins is Getting Old
Alphabet's stock tanks with analysts asking, 'Hey Google, what happened to revenue growth?’
A Cloud Guru raises $33M to guide companies into the cloud | Built In Austin
F8 2019 keynote in 12 minutes
Apple Engineering Leader Handling 5G Efforts Leaves Company
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board after 18 years
Alphabet Investor Relations
Remote Code Execution on most Dell computers
Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers
Nonsense
Airports and the TSA are gearing up for the Real ID deadline. You should be, too
‘Suspicious Object’ Leads Police To Shut Down State Street … But It Was Just A Can Of Chef Boyardee On Wheels
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: Paris (May 23rd & 24th), San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf 2019 May 20-23. Matt’s speaking!
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
SDT news & hype
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Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a free laptop sticker!
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.
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Emacs in Rust
Clippers’ Postgame Interview on Kevin Durant
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