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  • Episode 101: Cloud is just "jigglin’ wires"

    Calling in hot from New Braunfels Texas, we got a country mile’s worth of topics this week: we have container services from Microsoft, a lengthy discussion of how enterprise software companies organize their global sales regions, the possible emergence of a new private cloud meme, and rumors that BMC is no longer in acquiring CA.

    Also, be sure to check out this week’s white paper analysis for patrons, on IoT.

    Global expansion tips and tricks
    • “EMEAians.”
    • Open source as the scouts.
      • Microsoft laying off 19,000 people
      • Link
      • Who’s hirin’?
        • Microsoft Container Service
        • What’s a “container service”?
          • TechCrunch notices private cloud
          • Link
          • Vendors have begun offering a variety of approaches that give the feel of the public cloud, but inside the comfort zone of a customer’s data center.
          • Oracle cited rather large customers like AT&T and Bank of America using the Cloud at Customer product.
          • Oracle cloud news picking up.
            • That Antitrust Meme in Tech
            • As you know, I’m not a lawyer
            • How would it make sense? What’s the justification?
            • “Google and Facebook Account For Nearly All Growth in Digital Ads.”
            • Coté looking down the barrel of getting taxed at way high?
              • BMC not buying CA
              • Too much regulation
              • CA financials.
                • Flash, he gone
                • Link
                  • BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
                  GoDaddy dumps OpenStack cloud
                  1 hr 5 min
                • Episode 100: “I’ve seen The Hot Dog more times this week than 2FA,” or, is The Hot Dog incremental innovation, or disruptive innovation?
                  “Which chasm is being leaped by this hot dog app?”
                  Sniffing out a huge market in hot dog apps, Amazon might start a messaging app. Also, Google has their ant-data gravity device out and Basho seems to be shutting down. We discuss the wonders of Snap’s hot dog app, the mystery of Amazon’s lack(?) of brand allegiance, and giving up on kale.
                  “Share price down? I gotcha bro.”
                  Dancing Hot Dog (https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/11/snapchat-hotdog-meme-explained/468211001/).
                  Amazon to Start a Messaging App
                  Link (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/16/15978920/amazon-anytime-messaging-app-rumor)
                  I get the whole need to control networks, but it seems like we’ve kinda saturated a lot of these (Allo, is this thing on?). Why not just buy Slack? (Wasn’t that a rumor (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-interested-in-buying-slack-2017-6)? Could this be that diapers.com-style retaliation.)
                  80m Prime customers
                  Twitch and “Stimpy.” The pair of people doing Minecraft.
                  @profgalloway
                  Uber driver on Whole Foods acquisition.
                  Google Transfer Appliance
                  Snowball envy (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/introducing-Transfer-Appliance-Sneakernet-for-the-cloud-era.html)?
                  So, by “data,” they mean not only CSV files, but also VM images? HRM!
                  Data gravity, from Dave McCrory (https://blog.mccrory.me/2010/12/07/data-gravity-in-the-clouds/).
                  Someone finally made a data gravity chart:
                  https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SnFabcStXhM/WW4SEhj6adI/AAAAAAAAEIE/wd6Yqlbt9FELUxsvTc2F92GZDZq2I-_6QCLcBGAs/s640/transfer-appliance-2.png
                  Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google Cloud, etc.
                  Brandon Butler summerizes (https://twitter.com/BButlerNWW/status/887367272263766020)
                  Techcrunch on the announcement (https://cote.io/2017/07/18/rackspace-partners-with-pivotal-to-launch-managed-services-for-cloud-foundry/)
                  List of core stuff (http://www.zdnet.com/article/rackspace-launches-pivotal-cloud-foundry-managed-service-spins-up-managed-google-cloud-platform-beta/):
                  Management of upgrades, releases, and integration of services.
                  Multiple cloud options with Rackspace managing Pivotal Cloud Foundry across private clouds and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack.
                  Support and service level agreements with 99.99 percent uptime and 15 minute response on emergency issues.
                  PCF services put another way (http://sdtimes.com/rackspace-pivotal-cloud-native-app-development/): “...on any public or private cloud as well as on customer-owned infrastructure…. The Managed Pivotal Cloud Foundry solution will feature 24/7 management for troubleshooting, managing updates, feature releases, and integration with various services; multi-cloud capability; and on-demand expertise for handing version updates, feature enhancements and other technical updates.”
                  Check out dem success numbers: “Fortune 500 customers using Pivotal Cloud Foundry to build, deploy, and run their legacy and cloud-native apps have experienced 2,000 percent increase in developer productivity, as well as a 50 percent reduction in IT costs due to platform automation”
                  Basho Shuts it Down
                  “The Reg was obviously keen (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/13/will_the_last_person_at_basho_get_the_lights_oh_too_late/) to put the claims in this story to Basho, but we’ve struggled to find anyone still working at the company to answer us.”
                  Kafka, Casandra - WTF is going on in NoSQL-land, is this shit done yet?
                  Sep. 2016 451 profile (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=90267):
                  “While open source did not fully disappear, the company's primary focus moved from a support and services model to a subscription-based model. Today, Basho reports that support and services make up 10-12% of total revenue, with subscriptions taking up the rest.”
                  “In 2015 Basho cited more that 200 customers and approximately 120 employees. Basho reports similar numbers this time around, except with a higher average deal size among its customer base. Average deal size is greater than $100,000, with high single-digit-customer deals exceeding $1m in total contract value. From 2014-2015, Basho reported a 50% increase in total contract value, a 45% increase in billings and a 50% increase in growth revenue.”
                  Let’s do math...so...oh wait, left my Monte Carlo simulator in my other car.
                  Products: “While both products share some underlying commonalities, they both address certain use cases. Riak KV is a key-value-based NoSQL database promoted generally to address use cases for content storing of session data, log file data, profile data and chat messaging data, particularly with gaming and gambling applications. Basho points out the product's resiliency and scaling capabilities, with integrations to Spark and Redis. Riak TS, on the other hand, is a database geared toward time-series data, with an emphasis on IoT use cases. Specifically, Riak TS can be used for gathering weather, seismic and traffic data, as well as for financial trading data. Time-series data has more structure, so Basho has added functionality to describe the data schema and the ability to query the data with SQL.”
                  Coté was on Speaking in Tech
                  Listen in (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/19/speaking_in_tech_episode_270/)
                  BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
                  CREAM for one
                  Remember When Martin Shkreli Bought the Wu Tang Album? (https://www.wired.com/story/martin-shkreli-bought-the-wu-tang-clan-album)
                  “This wasn’t just calamitous—this was Calamity walking into a bar, sweet-talking Catastrophe, getting really drunk together, smoking some crack, punching Fiasco in the face, then going on a shooting spree while eating orphans and setting fire to kittens.”
                  ## AWS’s private cloud stuff
                  The short pointer-piece (https://cote.io/2017/07/18/aws-talking-with-vmware-about-building-on-premises-software-report/) also has some mention of VMware partnership for THE HYBRID.
                  Coté doesn’t know anything about VMware.
                  In-depth Dive into Schedulers
                  Something Coté didn’t read, but probably should have (https://medium.com/@cindysridharan/schedulers-kubernetes-and-nomad-b0f2e14a896).
                  Probably not a great conversation topic, but a really great article on the use of schedulers and why they chose Nomad over K8s
                  Misc. chuckles
                  #areyounormal (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23areyounormal%20%40Speakingintechsrc=typd) from @SPEAKINGinTech (https://twitter.com/SPEAKINGinTECH).
                  CostCo Pizza (https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman/status/887398593472196608)
                  @vennsplain (https://twitter.com/vennsplain/status/886479589006073857)
                  Meta, follow-up, etc.
                  Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - 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.
                  Current status: 8 people, driving $14 a month. TIME TO QUIT OUR JOBS, BOYS!
                  But, more seriously, thanks to the folks who've signed up! It's encouraging.
                  We’ll do our first members only episode. See overly-detailed noted here (https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/WP001-PwC-says-you-suck-at-THE-DIGITAL-X1hjDkyd1nWpJ70HLUsMr); it might be giving away too much for free, but you’ll at least get a sense of what we’re doing here.
                  SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack)
                  End-roll
                  Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
                  Looks sold out. DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
                  The Register’s conference in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open - submit something!
                  SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
                  Matt’s on the Road!
                  July 20th - DevOps Sydney (https://www.meetup.com/devops-sydney/events/232788708/)
                  July 24th - Chef Meetup Singapore (https://www.meetup.com/mssgug/events/241446061/)
                  July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ (http://www.alldaydevops.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-devops-connect-devsecops-at-rsac-singapore)
                  August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community (https://www.meetup.com/AWS_NZ/events/237833579/)
                  August 8th - Canberra Infracoders (https://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders-Canberra/events/241775704/)
                  August 22nd - Sydney Cloud Native Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/241712226/)
                  October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Bri
                  1 hr 3 min
                • Episode 99: Private cloud is the Reuben sandwich of clouds, or, Shafer’s Theory of (Private) Cloud
                  Microsoft will ship it’s private cloud stack, Azure Stack, in September. Will this work? Will people buy it? What could you even put in that cloud? You can feel that pull people have towards private cloud, so we’re looking forward to what happens. On a related topic, by our reckoning, kubernetes to small to have already fallen. Also: the elusive Baltimore accent, Oracle and containers, and recommendations.
                  Meta, follow-up, etc.
                  Where does Matt Ray find all these stories?
                  Patreon for this thing (https://www.patreon.com/sdt) - 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.
                  SDT Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack)
                  “Not all ‘guys.’”
                  Mid-roll
                  This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758). If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758), and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews (https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Casper-EI_IE990859.11,17.htm), it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs (https://casper.com/jobs/).
                  Also, get $50 off mattresses with the code: horraymattray
                  End-roll
                  DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
                  SpringOne Platform registration open (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration), Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration (https://2017.springoneplatform.io/ehome/s1p/registration).
                  SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094) - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
                  The Register’s conference in London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/) (May 2018) has it’s CFP open - submit something!
                  Matt:
                  July 20th - DevOps Sydney (https://www.meetup.com/devops-sydney/events/232788708/)
                  July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ (http://www.alldaydevops.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-devops-connect-devsecops-at-rsac-singapore)
                  August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Chef-Sydney/events/240660647/)
                  August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community (https://www.meetup.com/AWS_NZ/events/237833579/)
                  October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
                  Up there in New
                  1 hr 1 min
                • Episode 98: “Do I just need some better medication?” or, advertising, antitrust, and talking to strangers

                  Without advertising, there would be no capitalism, and, if you’re not constantly afraid of the DoJ knocking at your door, you’re probably doing it wrong. Those are two whacky theories about advertising and antitrust, at least. With Matt Ray on vacation, Brandon and Coté talk about The Attention Merchants and the recent Google EU antitrust ruling. We also discuss several other books, and how to talk to non-tech people at parties. Surprisingly, no container talk!

                  Mid-roll
                  • This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs. If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply, and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews, it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs.
                    • End-roll
                    • DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (Thanks, Bridget!).
                    • SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration.
                    • SpringDays - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th)
                    • Matt
                      • July 25th - DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ
                      • August 1st - Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st
                      • August 3rd - Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd
                      • October 11th - Brisbane Azure User Group October 11
                        • Show Links
                        • The Drunk & Retired Reboot, Charles and Coté return...every two weeks.
                        • Attention Merchants, Chaos Monkeys.
                        • Slate Monet podcast, #163.
                          • Recommendations
                          • Brandon: Apple Airpods
                          • Coté: Fixing iPad screens, fixin’ to try ATX Cell Repair.
                            • 58 min
                          • Episode 97: The novel strategy of making money, and investing to do so - Amazon + Whole Foods
                            Looks like we’ll be getting cheaper organic food what with Amazon buying Whole Foods. What exactly is the strategy at play here, though? Other than the obvious thing of doing online groceries, how is Amazon advantaged here such that others (like Wal-mart), can’t simply do this themselves. We go over these questions and how they related to MA in general. Plus recommendations and some podcast meta talk.
                            Mid-roll
                            This episode is sponsored by Casper, who’s looking for some good senior SREs (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758). If you’re into building out and managing infrastructure that keeps code running and makes sure you can sleep soundly at night, check out the job listing, apply (https://boards.greenhouse.io/casper/jobs/649758?gh_jid=649758), and be sure to mention that you heard about it on Software Defined Talk. According to Glassdoor reviews (https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Casper-EI_IE990859.11,17.htm), it’s a damn fine place to work. You can also just email [email protected] and browse all their openings at casper.com/jobs (https://casper.com/jobs/).
                            LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
                            SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094) - Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
                            Matt will be at:
                            DevSecOps at RSA Conf APJ (http://www.alldaydevops.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-devops-connect-devsecops-at-rsac-singapore)
                            Sydney Chef Meetup August 1st (https://www.meetup.com/Chef-Sydney/events/240660647/)
                            Auckland AWS User Community August 3rd (https://www.meetup.com/AWS_NZ/events/237833579/)
                            Brisbane Azure User Group October 11 (https://www.meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group/events/240477415/)
                            Podcast meta-talk
                            Podcasts.app to be able to track what you listen to (https://cote.io/2017/06/28/apple-makes-major-podcast-updates/).
                            Just paying for podcasts.
                            $220m+ estimated TAM (https://cote.io/2017/06/28/podcast-market-estimated-at-over-220m/).
                            We have a Casper ad!
                            Amazon Buys Whole Foods
                            This was not covered in the Mary Meeker slide-fest.
                            Coté’s notebook on the topic (https://cote.io/2017/06/28/amazon-buying-whole-foods-notebook/).
                            Stratechery on WF Acquisition (https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/)
                            Exponent Podcast (http://exponent.fm/)
                            What exactly are the barriers to entry here for other grocery stores.
                            The business: online, and just the grocery store on it’s own...plus the 460+ physical stores for other goods?
                            Barriers to entry, Amazon buyers (Whole Foods looks good now?), culture clash?, HEB love, private label
                            BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
                            Gartner Magic Quadrant for IAAS is Here!
                            Larry D. (http://www.zdnet.com/article/gartner-puts-aws-microsoft-azure-top-of-its-magic-quadrant-for-iaas/)
                            Once again, what a change from way back when:
                            CRN (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/300087321/heres-who-made-gartners-2017-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-iaas.htm)
                            The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/19/gartner_confirms_what_we_all_know_aws_and_microsoft_are_the_cloud_leaders_by_a_fair_way/)
                            Johnny Leadgen can get a copy (https://pages.awscloud.com/mq-download-report.html).
                            On Oracle: “Gartner warns potential customers to be cautious of high-pressure sales tactics.”
                            How Microsoft Is Shifting Focus to Open Source
                            Link (https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-shifting-emphasis-open-source/)
                            “Chef is used to manage thousands of nodes internally across Azure, Office 365 and Bing.”
                            Amazon Eyeing Slack?
                            Link (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/messaging-startup-slack-said-to-draw-interest-from-amazon-com)
                            “Buying Slack would help Seattle-based Amazon bolster its enterprise services as it seeks to compete with rivals like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.”
                            Walmart Buys Bonobo
                            I’ve got a Bonobo suit I really like (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/walmart-buy-bonobos-310m-continues-e-commerce-battle-amazon/).
                            They had ModCloth and some others. Their MA strategy has really shifted of late.
                            Walmart Sez Get Off the AWS
                            Finally a reason for multi-cloud (https://thenewstack.io/wal-mart-kicks-partners-off-amazons-cloud-implications-organizations/)
                            BigCo’s gonna bully that supply-chain.
                            What’s Wrong with Jenkins?
                            Jenkins is the Nagios of CI/CD (https://thenewstack.io/many-problems-jenkins-continuous-delivery/)
                            “No toolchain is perfect, but you can achieve software delivery perfection (or something close to it, at least) when you implement the right culture.” Tools don’t substitute culture.
                            Oracle’s Swinging For the Fences (and missing)
                            Link (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/13/specsavers_says_no_to_oracle_cloud/)
                            “He was also unwilling for Specsavers to become a guinea pig for Oracle's cloud.”
                            Ubuntu Mobile Post Mortem
                            Not much strategy… (http://www.lieberbiber.de/2017/06/20/my-ubuntu-for-mobile-devices-post-mortem/)
                            Serverless and the Death of DevOps
                            Link (http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/06/02/serverless-and-the-the-death-of-devops-can-you-not/)
                            Spoiler: “DevOps is the ultimate reactive, or event-driven, tech use case. It’s not going anywhere”
                            State of DevOps 2017 Report
                            Johnny Leadgen to the rescue (https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-devops-report)!
                            Commercial Open Source Software Companies
                            Link (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/17nKMpi_Dh5slCqzLSFBoWMxNvWiwt2R-t4e_l7LPLhU/htmlview#gid=0)
                            A bit of sourcing on the numbers would be valuable
                            Glad Chef’s not on the list, wouldn’t want to comment on the numbers
                            Cloud Foundry Summit
                            A whole mess of videos! 121 of them. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLhuMOCWn4P9hTlDEWJZV8JbVsW01avHF1v=em-W0rVbCLc)
                            Heptio Out of Stealth Mode with K8s Management Tool
                            TheNewStack covere (https://thenewstack.io/heptio-comes-stealth-mode-ksonnet/)
                            Official page (http://ksonnet.heptio.com/)
                            File under “It didn’t already do that. I see.”
                            Not sure this qualifies as “coming out of stealth”, everyone knows they work on open source K8s. I’m not seeing a monetization strategy yet beyond support training. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but they raised $8.5 for their A-round
                            BMC Software Exploring Merging with CA
                            STOP THE PRESSES! TERRIBLE MEETS TERRIBLE (https://mobile-reuters-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN19C036)?
                            So far, no confirmation, but (https://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/CA+Technologies+%28CA%29%3A+Anti+Trust+Should+Not+Prevent+CABMC+Merger+-+Bernstein/13052376.html):
                            “While the two companies were once dominant in the systems management industry, the analyst notes that CA and BMC have 7.5% and 8% share respectively as of FY16 which combined would put them on a near even footing with IBM, the largest vendor, at 15%.”
                            “There are also many other vendors in the market including MSFT (7%) and NOW (5%) so anti trust concerns should not be an issue.”
                            High Level Kubernetes Overvi
                            1 hr 4 min
                          • Episode 96: An AWS private cloud strategy, kubernetes aplenty, microservices by yaml, detailed hot-dog creature analysis
                            The cat-nip of Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report is out this week so we discuss the highlights which leads to a sudden discussion of what an Amazon private cloud product would look like. Then, with a raft of new container related news we sort out what CoreOS is doing with their Tectonic managed service, what Heptio is (the Mirantis of Kubernetes?), and then a deep dive into the newly announced Istio which seems to be looking to create a yaml-based(!) standard for microservices configuration and policy and, then, the actual code for managing it all. Also, an extensive analysis of a hot-dog display, which is either basting itself or putting on some condiment-hair.
                            Alternate Titles
                            I've seen this hot-dog before.
                            I’ve been doing this since dickity-4
                            I’m sticking with the Mary Meeker slides, you nerds go figure it out
                            Mid-roll
                            Pivotal Cloud-native workshop in DC, June 7th (http://connect.pivotal.io/Cloud-Native-Strategy-Workshop-DC.html).
                            LOOK, MA! I PUT IN DATES! DevOpsDays Minneapolis, July 25 to 26th: get 20% off registration with the code SDT (https://devopsdays-minneapolis-2017.eventbrite.com?discount=SDT) (Thanks, Bridget!).
                            Coté: CF Summit June 13 to 15, 2017 (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/event/summit-silicon-valley-2017/).
                            20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
                            Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/index.php?eventid=228094)
                            SpringDays.io
                            Get half-off with the code SpringDays_HalfOff
                            Chicago (May 30th to 31st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/chicago)
                            New York (June 20th to 21st) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/new-york)
                            Atlanta (July 18th to 19th) (https://www.springdays.io/ehome/spring-days/atlanta)
                            Hot-dog guy in Japan
                            Zoom in on that little fellow (https://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/35012640896/).
                            Internet Trends 2017
                            300 plus slides of charts (http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends)
                            Computes!
                            Coté’s notebook (https://content.pivotal.io/blog/analysis-of-mary-meeker-s-internet-trends), summary of summary:
                            Google and Facebook make a lot of ad money.
                            The Kids like using smart phones, the olds like using traditional telephones. One of them will die sooner.
                            Voice, image recognition, etc.
                            China is pretty much a mature market, and it’s huge.
                            India has potential, but doing business there is hard and you need more Internet in a pocket rollout.
                            The public/private cloud debate is still far from over.
                            But, AWS, Microsoft, and Google have pretty much won.
                            Bonus: there’s surprisingly little funding and exits this year.
                            Would Amazon sell some private clouds?
                            Isotoner and Hephaestus - All the new container orchestration poop
                            Coté: Catching up on all this week's container poop as always, my first reaction is “oh, I thought the existing stuff did all that already..so."
                            Managed service for Tectonic as a Service (https://thenewstack.io/coreos-takes-cloud-portability-tectonic-release/) - so, keeping your Kubernates cluster software updated? Presumably enforcing config, etc?
                            However, not all done, still working on the complete solution.
                            But, there’s an etcd thing ‘As a first step, Tectonic 1.6.4 will offer the distributed etcd key-value data store as a fully managed cloud service. “It’s the logical one to offer first because it is everything else gets built on it,” Polvi explained. The data store “guarantees that data is in a consistent state for very specific operations,” he said, referring to how etcd can be essential for operations such as database migrations.’
                            Another etcd description (https://blog.heptio.com/core-kubernetes-jazz-improv-over-orchestration-a7903ea92ca): “etcd is a clustered database that prizes consistency above partition tolerance… Interestingly, at Google, chubby is most frequently accessed using an abstracted File interface that works across local files, object stores, etc. The highly consistent nature, however, provides for strict ordering of writes and allows clients to do atomic updates of a set of values.
                            So, you need locks for - dun-dun-dun! - transactions! Queue JP lecturing me in 2002.
                            Then there’s Istio (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/05/managing-microservices-with-istio-service-mesh.html):
                            Istio (https://istio.io/)?!
                            Whao! Check out the exec-pitch (https://istio.io/blog/istio-service-mesh-for-microservices.html): “ Istio gives CIOs a powerful tool to enforce security, policy and compliance requirements across the enterprise.” And Google (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/istio-modern-approach-to-developing-and.html): “Through the Open Service Broker model CIOs can define a catalog of services which may be used within their enterprise and auditing tools to enforce compliance.”
                            I love their idea of what a CIO does.
                            “An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices“
                            SDN++ overlay for container orchestrators from Google, IBM Lyft - once you control the network with the “data plane,” you add in the “control plane” (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html#architecture) which allows you to control the flow and shit of the actual microservices.
                            Tackling the “new problems emerge due to the sheer number of services that exist in a larger system. Problems that had to be solved once for a monolith, like security, load balancing, monitoring, and rate limiting need to be handled for each service.”
                            And, you know, all the agnostic, multi-cloud, open stuff.
                            Thankfully, they didn’t use a bunch of garbage, nonsense names for things.
                            Let’s look at the docs (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html) (BTW, can you kids start just putting out PDFs instead of only these auto-generated from markdown web pages?):
                            First of all, these are good docs.
                            Monkey-patching for the container era: “You add Istio support to services by deploying a special sidecar proxy throughout your environment that intercepts all network communication between microservices, configured and managed using Istio’s control plane functionality.”
                            The future! Where we all shall live! “Istio currently only supports service deployment on Kubernetes, though other environments will be supported in future versions.”
                            Problems being solved, aka, “ways you must be this tall to ride the microservices ride”: “Its requirements can include discovery, load balancing, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring, and often more complex operational requirements such as A/B testing, canary releases, rate limiting, access control, and end-to-end authentication.”
                            Also: Traffic Management (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html), Observability, Policy Enforcement, Service Identity and Security.
                            Does it have the part where it reboots/fixes failed services for you?
                            So:
                            you monkey-patch all this shit in (er, sorry, “sidecar”),
                            which controls the network with SDN shit,
                            Istio-Manager + Envoy (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/overview.html) does all your load-balancing/circuit breaker (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/handling-failures.html)/canary/AB shit, service discovery/registry, service versioning (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/request-routing.html#service-model-and-service-versions) (i.e., running n+1 different versions of code - always a pretty cool feature), configuring “routes,” what connects to what (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/rules-configuration.html),
                            I don’t think it provides a service registry/discover service (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/load-balancing.html)? Maybe just a waffer thin API (“a platform-agnostic service discovery interface”)?
                            Question: what does this look like in your code?
                            The (https://istio.io/docs/concepts/policy-and-control/mixer.html) thing 12 factor-style passes a configuration into your actual code. Here, you’re adding a bunch of name/value pairs (which can be nested) and also translating them to the name/value pairs that your code is expecting...on an HTTP call? Executing a command in your container? As ENV vars?
                            And then, I think you finally get ahold of the network to reply back with some HTML, JSON, or some sort of HTTP request by (https://istio.io/docs/tasks/ingress.html).,
                            So, big questions, aka, Coté mental breakdown that only Matt Ray can cure:
                            Er...so this all really is a replacement for the VMware stack, right? And OpenStack? Or do you still need those. What the fuck is all this stuff? It just installs the Docker image on a server? And then handles multi-zone replication, and making sure config drift is handles (bringing up failed nodes, too)?
                            So, it’s just cheaper and more transparent than VMware?
                            What’s the set of shit one needs? Ubuntu, Moby Engine (?), Moby command line tools, etcd? Actuality kubernetes code? What’s Swarm do? And then there’s monitoring, which according to Whiskey Charity, is all shit, right?
                            Where’ my fucking chart on this shit?
                            Please write two page memo for the BoD by 2pm today.
                            Meanwhile: Oracle’s cool with it (https://thenewstack.io/oracle-joins-kubernetes-fray/), “WTF is a microservice” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14414031), compared to SOA/ESB and RESTful (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1441150), and James Governor tries to explain it all (http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/31/so-what-even-is-a-service-mesh-hot-take-on-istio-and-linkerd/).
                            BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
                            Rackspace Buys Enterprise Apps Management TriCore
                            Link (http://www.enterprisecloudnews.com/author.asp?doc_id=733171section_id=571)
                            New CEO and biggest acquisition, I thought they were quieting down with the PE
                            Red Hat buys Codenvy
                            Codenvy sets up your developer environments (https://codenvy.com/developers/), and has team stuff.
                            Red Hat is really after the developer market.
                            TaskTop has a good chance of being acquired in this climate.
                            Pour one out from BMC/StreamStep.
                            Notes from Carl Lehmann report at 451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=92575):
                            In-browser IDE and devtool chain(?) for OpenShift.io, based on Eclipse Che
                            “Founded in 2013, San Francisco-based Codenvy raised $10m in January of that year, and used a portion of its funds to buy its initial codebase from eXo Platform, which had developed the eXo Cloud IDE in-browser coding suite to support its social and collaboration applications.”
                            “The company's suite works with developer tools like subversion and git, CloudBees, Jenkins, Docker, MongoDB, Cloud Foundry, Maven and ant, as well as PaaS and IaaS offerings such as Heroku, Google AppEngine, Red Hat OpenShift and AWS.”
                            Check out the Dell Sputnik call-out: “Rivals to Codenvy include cloud-based development suites Eclipse Orion (open source), Cloud9 IDE and Nitrous.IO. There are other 'cloud IDEs,' including Codeanywhere, CodeRun Studio, Neutron Drive and ShiftEdit. On the developer environment configuration front, Pivotal created and open-sourced a developer and OS X laptop configuration tool called Workstation, and now Sprout. Dell's Project Sputnik is seeking to address similar build environment standup productivity challenges.”
                            Uber back in Austin
                            Is that a thing? (https://twitter.com/Uber_ATX/status/867781159178051584)
                            Amazon Hiring Old Folks (Like Me)
                            Anecdotes are the singular of data (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017/05/23/how-aws-cloud-is-demolishing-the-cult-of-youth/)?
                            More Tech Against Texas’ Discriminatory Laws
                            Lords of Tech sign a thing (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2017/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-tim-cook-texas-gov-abbott-pass-discriminatory-laws)
                            “In addition to Facebook founde
                            1 hr 8 min
                          • Episode 94: The Donnie Berkholz Episode, "Freedom in health-care: a regular 'heck of a job, Comey' situation," DevOps security, Canonical's IPO ambitions

                            In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it'd be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical's IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk's acquisition of

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                          • Episode 93: Cloud Rules Everything Around Me - Red Hat, Moby, Docker CEO, and Halo Effect’ing The First Cloud Wars

                            There's much news in the container world with DockerCon and Red Hat having had conferences, plus Docker gets a new CEO. We also do a hindsight analysis of what wrong with the losers of the Cloud Wars. And, as always, recommendations from the three of us.

                            Mid-roll
                            • Coté: CF Summit 2017 - 20% off registration code: cfsv17cote
                            • Coté: Want 2 days of Spring knowledge? Check out SpringDays in ATL, NYC, and Chicago. Get 50% w/code SpringDays_HalfOff: SpringDays.io in Chicago (May 30th to 31st), New York (June 20th to 21st), and Atlanta (July 18th to 19th)
                            • Coté: OSCON Expo Plus discount: I wanted to present to you a Free Expo hall Plus Pass for OSCON coming to Austin May 10/11. You get way more than just a pass to the expo, it also covers three full-day events: TensorFlow Day, InnerSource Day, and our Open Container Summit. If you are interested, you can use the code AUSTIN at checkout. You can see the entirety of what is offered here.
                            • Matt: ChefConf May 22-24
                              • Matt Ray’s APAC Biz Travel Fun
                              • 5 different airlines in a month.
                              • Emirates is the best.
                              • This is why we can’t have nice things - American Airlines raises pay.
                                • Red Hat.
                                • Some cloud stuff we need to read-on more.
                                • Check out Coté's summary of a recent Brian Gracely post on the OpenShift momentum.
                                  • Cloud Rules Everything Around Me
                                  • As summarized by Derrick (via CNBC:
                                    • AWS brought in $3.66 billion in revenue, which was up 42 percent from last year. However, year-over-year growth dropped from last year’s first quarter.
                                    • Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” unit, which includes Azure, grew 11 percent, to $6.8 billion. Microsoft doesn’t break out Azure revenue specifically, but said Azure saw a 93 percent increase in revenue over last year.
                                    • Google Cloud is buried somewhere in “Other Bets” on Alphabet earnings, a segment that grew 50 percent to $3.1 billion.
                                    • What’s the Halo Effect on this? It’s easy to blame the big vendors for shying away from public cloud but it was some scary shit, business-case wise, back in 2008.
                                    • Verizon sells cloud stuff to IBM.
                                      • Docker is now Moby, wait what?
                                      • LinuxKit - the host OS, where you run the containers.
                                      • “Moby is recommended for anyone who wants to assemble a container-based system”
                                      • Moby = open source development
                                      • Docker CE = free product release based on Moby
                                      • Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker EE
                                      • Moby is the name of the upstream umbrella project supervising the open source pieces that are used to build Docker, which is now the commercial-focused product Docker CE/EE
                                      • Letter about Mobyan-open-letter-to-docker-about-moby/
                                      • Moby is Fedora, Docker is like RHEL, Eclipse, Genuitec.
                                      • Coté’s Notebook on Moby and such
                                      • Coté's Notebook on Docker's new CEO.
                                        • BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
                                        EngineYard done!
                                        • Press Release
                                        • A snarky Tweet
                                        • Another Press Release
                                        • Jay Lyman at 451: “It generated revenue of about $36m in 2016.” - I seem to recall that EngineYard would report on revenue.
                                          • “Native” Windows Server Support for Docker
                                          • Link
                                          • “Linux containers running natively on Windows Server through our Hyper-V isolation technology”
                                            • Sysdig Docker Usage Report 2017
                                            • Link 1
                                            • Link 2
                                            • Always fun to read “real” numbers
                                            • 10 containers/host and Kubernetes out in front
                                              • Microsoft and the NSA Exploits Leak
                                              • Link
                                              • Patch your servers and run modern versions people.
                                                • Amazon’s Coming t
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