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January 23, 2018Episode 119: The ethics of fur lined shoes, bi-modal IT critiques, Amazon HQ2
Amazon has narrowed down it’s search for a second headquarters to 20 cities. Is the promise of 50,000 jobs and $38bn shot into the local economy worth it? We don’t really know, of course, but we talk through some issues to consider and strategy frameworks for thinking through the question. Plus, we talk about bi-modal IT as relates to dad jeans, metaphorically speaking.
Amazon HQ2
The Problem With Courting Amazon, The Atlantic.
Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle.
Why your city should avoid Amazon HQ2.
Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1.
The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin.
Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location.
An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of.
Tech ethics elsewhere
Facebook hoopla - “Trump 2.0” vs. “Obama 2.0.”
Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy.
iPhone Addiction.
“Owing” something to open source.
Work-place culture, diversity.
New Economy, Meet Old Continent
Digital publishers want platforms to pay up
The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
'Need More Time'? Guideposts For Tech Founders Going To Market When No Market
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a pretty good idea of quarterly earnings 3 years in advance
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: All the Money in the World and Dark Money.
Coté: Friendly Fire podcast.
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1 hr 8 min
January 19, 2018 WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Fear of FANG
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Everyone’s freaking out about tech companies. What they mean by “tech companies,” of course is the combination of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and maybe Netflix. They (mostly) mean companies who are using tech to disrupt their industries (media, retail, entertainment) and using the business models of tech companies. The line is, to be sure, fuzzy, but these are not companies that make their money from selling hardware, software, or even IT services (like Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Pivotal, etc.).
This week, we look at one write-up of this freaking out from The Economist. They also have
1 hr 6 min
January 17, 2018Episode 118: Bad chips, garbage home IoT, cloud spending
Sure, there’s something wrong with all those chips, but what exactly is it? More importantly, how would you exploit it and protect yourself from it. This week, we talk about All The Great Chip Problems. And we also discuss some recent IT spending and forecasts, including survey results going over public versus private cloud deployments. There’s also some home automation (IoT!) talk, namely, Coté needs to find the problem this great solution solves.
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Canceled: Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul.
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Wemo IoT
All the devices - plugs, dimmers, HomeKit bridge (HomeKit is kinda garbage).
There’s plenty of IFTTT applets that do Wemo things, but…are they useful?
Those chip problems - what would you use them for?
What’s this mean?
Another Y2K? The world didn’t seem to end, so are we good?
The Register coverage, lots of gobbly-gook.
TPM estimates cost to IT departments to deal with it.
Suspicious stock sale, or maybe he just needed a new winter home.
What are people doing with exploits?
More IT spending in 2018, public cloud use growing
451 and IDC have some cloud forecast numbers out.
Ent. software growth.
Trad’l IT shrinking, but not too fast 451 days private cloud still the winner, but barely.
451 tracks by survey with plans to put workloads across the different types of infrastructure:
PaaS in not included (see a recent round-up of PaaS market-sizings, tho), but for 2019: public cloud totals ~37% (or 46.3% if you included hosted), private cloud 53.6%
IDC’s tracks hardware spend:
Meanwhile, an analyst says Azure had a gain on AWS in Q4: “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a year earlier, KeyBanc's Brent Bracelin and other analysts wrote in a note on Thursday. Microsoft Azure jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent, and Google's share increased from 10 percent to 12 percent, they said.”
Also, more spending forecasts from Gartner:
The move to SaaS continuing: “Organizations are expected to increase spending on enterprise application software in 2018, with more of the budget shifting to software as a service (SaaS). The growing availability of SaaS-based solutions is encouraging new adoption and spending across many subcategories, such as financial management systems (FMS), human capital management (HCM) and analytic applications.”
Really, doesn’t that make the most sense for where to spend most of your priority? Clears out the under-brush. Perhaps there should be a split between “innovation” (customer IT) and “keep the lights on.” I often think bi-modal got lost in that distinction.
Hey, that sounds like Big Data! ‘"Looking at some of the key areas driving spending over the next few years, Gartner forecasts $2.9 trillion in new business value opportunities attributable to AI by 2021, as well as the ability to recover 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity," said Mr. Lovelock. "That business value is attributable to using AI to, for example, drive efficiency gains, create insights that personalize the customer experience, entice engagement and commerce, and aid in expanding revenue-generating opportunities as part of new business models driven by the insights from data."’
451’s surveys show more IT spending too: “fully 50% of the 872 respondents said their company is giving a ‘green light’ for IT spending. That was the highest reading since 2007, and 13 basis points higher than the average survey response for the month of November for the previous five years”
The exciting world of monitoringobservability
With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service: “With the acquisition of Loggly, SolarWinds obtains an asset that was slow in getting started but has hit a patch of growth recently. As of September, we believe the company was on track to finish 2017 with roughly $10m in billings, up from mid-single digits in 2016. Founded in 2009 with a mission of offering a SaaS-based, easy-to-use logging product with helpful visualizations built using advanced analytics, Loggly had raised $47m in venture capital, including a $11.5m series D round in June 2016.” They estimate ~3,000 paying customers.
Microsoft gets serious about monitoring, pulling together it’s different things Nancy at 451 reports: “Microsoft's vision is to deliver tools that can offer a holistic view of services to application architects looking to optimize their software; performance information and debugging capabilities for DevOps and ops pros; insight into KPIs for executives; and information about customer usage to product owners. Microsoft doesn't yet have a cohesive offering for all of the above, but it has the pieces to enable it and has begun delivering on some integrations across products.”
You may recall that Datadog acquired Logmatic.io back in the Fall.
Relevant to your interests
Annual Letter from Planet Earth, Scott Galloway: a pretty good moral tent-pole for tech.
Feel like a little kid in the container world? Welcome to the club: “industry adoption more accurately reflected in 451 Research's survey data that pegs adoption at 27 per cent. Of those 27 per cent of enterprises that have container religion, just 52 per cent are running containers in production, according to the same survey. In other words, a mere 13.5 per cent (or so) of enterprises are running containers in production.”
Finally, an explanation of that Cisco/Google partnership: “CloudCenter is key to the hybrid cloud partnership that Cisco and Google recently announced, where CloudCenter will be used to integrate Google Cloud Platform services with on-premises datacenters. The integrated offering includes Cisco's Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure and Nexus 9k networking. Cisco is also leveraging its networking (CSR) and security (Stealthwatch Cloud) portfolio to ensure a consistent environment across the hybrid cloud. Google's Kubernetes container runtime uses Apigee to consume and manage APIs, as well as Google's range of cloud services, including machine learning and visual recognition. The open source Istio service management platform is key to the offering, supported in CloudCenter, providing traffic management, observability, policy enforcement and service identity and security for microservices. There will also be integrations to AppDynamics. Solution engineering efforts are underway, and Cisco and Google are working on predefined statements of work that can be executed by both companies' direct sales teams and by the partner channels. The joint offering will be fully supported by the Cisco Technical Assistance Center. The Cisco-Google partnership on hybrid cloud is non-exclusive, but Google is working closely with Cisco on the joint engineering work around open hybrid cloud.”
Taking Stock of Cloud Application Platforms: basically, he expects it to all go kubernetes. See also this developer-oriented comparison of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and kubernetes.
IBM combining GBS and GTS. This means consulting/outsourcing and hosting, right? Lots of staff shifting and lay-offs, as The Register reported.
Dropbox to IPO - “doing over $1B in annualized sales and are cash flow positive,” well with some added nuance: “[i]t’s also been profitable, excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. “ $10bn valuation, they say.
Speaking of: 20 years of big-ass VC exits.
Watch out for the Weka, by Ned Barraud, kid's book.
Conferences, et. al.
Coté talking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 22nd to 23rd.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
Recommendations
Matt:
I Contain Multitudes.
Goruck Echo Backpack.
Brandon: Wind River.
Coté: OluKai Moloa Slipper - it says “slipper,” but I feel like it could be an everyday, even EBC shoe. Bit bulbous like those 90s Cadillac boats.
Sponsored By:
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
57 min
December 26, 2017 Episode 117: Who is the CISO?
With Cotê and Matt Ray away on vacation, Brandon takes over the feed to talk all about security. Andy Land from the CISO Exec Network joins us to breakdown what CISOs are worried about and what developers should know about security.
Special Guest: Andy Land.
1 hr
December 19, 2017Episode 116: Predictions co.
What’s going to happen in 2018? No really knows, but people love predicting things this time of year. We can’t resist it so dip out toes in the same game and review some predictions from our friends at Gartner as well. Plus, a smattering of infrastructure software news and recommendations.
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Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul.
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Predictions
Coté, of course, used to do these: the last one, for 2015, at 451; 2009 at RedMonk (boy, I sure was full of piss and vinegar back then); some nonsense from 2014;
Coté: DevOps → SRE.
Coté: I met someone who described themselves as a “chatbot developer” last week. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades.
Ducy’s predictions.
Return to monoliths.
Survey of predictions from elsewhere
Good God, man! - something about the role of AI in appdev.
“AIOps” - please, kill me now. (To be fair, I think it down-shifts to ML pretty quick-like. Still)
Gartner’s mode-salad: “Through 2020, n-tier bimodal workloads will encompass 50% of existing Mode 1 workloads and 80% of new Mode 2 workloads.”
I think this means: “50% of old applications will be n-tier, and 80% of new apps will be n-tier,” where “n-tier” means not “client/server, hosted and peer-to-peer architectures.”
Serverless, Gartner: “By 2020, 90% of serverless deployments will occur outside the purview of I&O organizations when supporting general-use patterns.”
This decade in kubernetes, Gartner: “By 2020, more than 50% of enterprises will run mission-critical, containerized cloud-native applications in production, up from less than 5% today.”
Gartner’s PaaS PDF, someone over there had an SEO-stroke: “Application leaders engaged in digital business transformation must master AI, event-driven design, serverless microservices, IoT and strategic integration to serve their business and customers well. Cloud platform innovation drives business leadership.”
A good passage on why private PaaS is hard, from PaaS predictions piece: “These [positive, PaaS] capabilities benefit the organizations and are a positive IT development. But they do not alone amount to a cloud experience. Their challenge is typically organizational. A private cloud requires a division of the IT organization into provider and subscribers, and establishment of a strict separation between them via a cloud services portal and suitable cross-charging model. Without a strict adherence to the isolation of providers and subscribers, there cannot be standardization. The self-service is compromised and without resource use tracking, it is hard to achieve the efficiency of elastic autoscaling and elimination of shelf-ware. In most organizations, the leadership is not committed enough to the vision of private cloud to make the difficult and high-risk investment that can stand up to the right organizational framework, policies and practices. Therefore, these PaaS frameworks have justifed their existence mostly through their support of newer cloud-native development models such as DevOps, rather than cloudiness features.”
Relevant to your interests
Shameless Self Promotion:
1 hr 2 min
December 13, 2017Episode 115: Confularity at Kublecon
We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer. There is no co-host shortage.
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Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul.
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This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon
KubeCon - that a thing?
As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh - climb the stack!
List of announcements, from The Register.
“We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world” - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home.
Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project
Datadog survey.
Heptio has DR in Azure - file under, “oh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing…”
Relevant to your interests
You’re not doing agile - Coté’s Christmas bonus column.
Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted - hey, obviously there’s some hustle, but it’s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less.
Related: receipts considered stupid - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature
Planview buys LeanKit.
Why do I keep seeing “quantum computing” everywhere. Shouldn’t we figure out “computing” first?
Update on Dell financials: "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.”
Conferences, et. al.
It’s the end of the year, not many conferences left.
Dec 19th, 2017 - Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](https://twitter.com/pczarkowski).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
Recommendations
Brandon: Long Shot, Netflix; Presentations: Ten Year Futures, Ben Evans.
Coté: finally got that AAdvantage Executive card.
Andrew: principals sections in the Google SRE book (still free!). Kubernetes Up and Running. Badass. Paper on ML indexing stuff.
Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.
50 min
December 06, 2017Episode 114: SpringOne, talking with analysts, in-browser IDEs, dressing for SF HA-HA-BUSINESS meetings
It’s SpringOne Platform this week so Coté reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal’s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from re:Invent. We also cover clothing options for San Francisco.
Pre-Roll SDT News
SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!
No SSH JJ has stickers. Find him at KubeCon.
We’ll be doing a live show, - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup.
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SpringOne Platform - Pivotal News
Change is really hard. There is not tech magic except clearing the decks of bullshit. And then you focus on the intractable, but valuable bullshit.
It’s SpringOne Platform this week.
PCF 2.0 - in addition to actual tech, renaming some things to to make brand-room for PKS.
Serverless bundled in, but not GA yet.
Integrations and such, even with IBM middleware.
Also, use Google Cloud services.
Windows Server 2016 use, most recent version - better integration with it.
Also, a VMware NSX release, but Coté doesn’t know about that.
Also, bunch of Spring stuff. Some kotlin support, reactive, etc.
Things people use Spring for/with charts.
More: Ron Miller at TechCrunch, Paul Krill on serverless, Rene Millman at Cloud Pro/IT Pro, Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE.
AWS re:Invent, day 2
Daniel Bryant’s (InfoQ) overview of everything.
Alexa for Business
“Alexia! Fix multi-organization meeting scheduling!”
Watson-lite?
There’s a dangerous step infrastructure companies try to make into collab, often. It usually doesn’t work (cf. VMware Project Octopus circa 2011 and the related stuff) but, good luck storming the castle!
AWS CTO Defines Well-Architected Cloud Security Best Practices “He noted that at AWS, security will always be his group's number one investment area.” (well, for one, what’s “his group,” for second, I’m guessing they’ll always be spending more on hardware, real-estate, and electricity than the team of people coding group security.)
Cloud9 IDE stuff:
Also from Thomas Claburn at El Reg, interesting angle on cost: "Used eight hours a day, it would cost about $48.80 per month on a Linux m4.xlarge instance (4 vCPUs, 16GiB memory) or $5.62 on a less well provisioned t2.small instance. (1 vCPU, 2GiB memory).”
“remote pair-programming features”
This Week in Kubernetes
PKS GA’ed from Pivotal.
Kubernetes momeintum piece from George Leopold.
EKS - it’s a trap! Says @cloud_opinion.
# Misc.
Economist tries explaining bitcoin.
Economist says VR/AR is a not too hot, business-wise.
VMware, still making a lot of money: 3rd quarter "revenue of US$1.98bn... Net profit came in at $443m, up from $319m"
Mid-roll SolarWinds Ad
This is the last run, so get in there now or you’ll miss your chance to check out SolarWinds Cloud…and get that snazy t-shirt.
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform.
And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt, sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.
More:
AppOptics: All Application and Infrastructure Monitoring in One Place
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Press release on all this.
End-roll
Conferences
Coté’s junk:
Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
Live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018.
Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.
Recommendations
Brandon: HQ Trivia App
Coté: Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diary.
Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.
1 hr 4 min
November 30, 2017Episode 113: All the great AWS re:Invent news
There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals!
Pre-Roll SDT News
SDT got a new logo!
SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!
You can get a sticker but completing this survey or sending us your address in Slack.
US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers.
We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup.
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Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Upcoming SDT newsletter.
Misc. news before re:Invent coverage
Changing of the guard at HPE.
WeWork buys MeetUp.
Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way.
EFF write-up
Stratechery & follow-up
This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway.
Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise.
Good overview of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory.
AWS re:Invent
AWS Business Update
Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year
New AWS Services (100+ new total)
Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT
Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)
AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?)
Aurora Serverless - burst database consumption
Comprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages
DeepLens - video camera with AI embedded
DynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiatives
EC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?)
came out of the VMware work
i3.metal instance types
c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type)
EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking
H1 - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instances
M5 - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisor
Deep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal
T2 Unlimited - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit system
Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) - called it!
upstream K8s
automatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs
monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed service
Fargate - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed
similar to Azure Container Instances
apparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!)
So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up.
FreeRTOS - AWS bought(?) existing open source IoT operating system vendor
1 hr
November 21, 2017Episode 112: SaaS lunches will be eaten?
With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also discuss how to celebrate Thanksgiving when you are an living down under. Most importantly, we reveal the new Software Define Talk logo!
Show Notes:
VMware Origins: Masters of Scale: Look Sideways — with Google / VMware’s Diane Greene.
Strategy Discussion: Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies
Bonus Links:
Mesosphere, a San Francisco cloud-infrastructure startup that once famously turned down an acquisition from Microsoft, is now on a $US50 million annualized run rate.
Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!)
Stressed about serverless lock-in? Don't be
Sponsor:
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Recommendations
Matt Ray: Laughing for Days
Brandon: Movie: American Made
Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.
50 min
November 09, 2017Episode 111: 280 characters on PowerPoint, Product Management, OpenStack
With Coté stuck in the tail end of polishing up a new stump speech, we discuss the magic of creating the deck and the history of PowerPoint, based on a recently published article. After slides talk and some contemplation of using Rick and Morty references in (supposedly) professional talks, we discuss how impossible keeping everyone happy with product management decisions as a product gets older. We close out talking about the recent OpenStack Summit and Mirantis.
This week’s exegesis
OpenStack User Survey, probably.
# Fuckin’ with PowerPoint, or, “these slides will compile, no matter what”
David Byrne loves PowerPoint.
History of PowerPoint, best $14m acquisition ever! Dive even deeper!
Is Rick and Morty safe for slides?
# 280 Characters of Bullshit(?)
Pro.
Con 1.
Con 2.
Con 3.
# OpenStack Summit
In Sydney.
It’s Mirantis again!
OpenStack Survey - Tasty Meats Paul
# This week in Kubernetes
We’re re-writing all of systems management.
Serverless, what is it, exactly?
# BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
# Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
# Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
Coté’s junk:
Innotech Microservices Conference, Austin, 11/16/2017.
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
November 10 - Microsoft Open Source Roadshow
November 14 - Perth MS Cloud Meetup
# Recommendations
Matt Ray: Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Brandon: Snag it
Coté: Ritz Crackers, all the Courtney Barnett songs.
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