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- Episode 82: Attack of the two-pizza teams
...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza.
...That sweet OpEx.
..."Easy to stay."
Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.
Footware- Kenneth Cole slip on shoes.
- Keen Austin shoes, slip-on and lace.
- The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire.
Mid-roll- Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy.
- Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo
AWS re:Invent- Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.
- Richard has a write-up as well.
- RedMonk re:Cap
Global Partner Summit- Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners"
- "10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months"
Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…"- Amazon Lightsail
- Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage & static IP
- Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean & Linode
- Amazon Athena
- S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine
- JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others
- Coté: this seems pretty amazing.
- Amazon Rekognition
- Image detection & recognition
- Amazon Polly
- Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages
- Coté: Makes transcripts?
- Amazon Lex
- Conversational voice & text interface builder (ie. chatbots)
- Coté: make chat-bots and such.
- AWS Greengrass
- Local Lambda processing for IoT
- Coté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car?
- AWS Snowball Edge & Snowmobile
- Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I'm thinking easy hybrid on-ramp
- Not just me
- More on it
- Move exabytes in weeks
- "Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center."
- Coté: LEGOS!
- More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for Aurora
- High I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared)
- Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU
- More!
- F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace
- RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently?
Day 2- AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
- Chef blog
- Fully managed Chef Server & Automate
- Previous OpsWorks now called "OpsWorks Stacks"
- Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy
- EC2 Systems Manager
- Tools for managing EC2 & on-premises systems
- AWS Codebuild
- Managed elastic build service with testing
- AWS X-Ray
- Distributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda?
- "easy way for developers to "follow-the-thread" as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services"
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
- Personalized AWS monitoring & CloudWatch Events auto-remediation
- Disruptive to PAAS monitoring & APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics)
- AWS Shield
- DDoS protection
- Amazon Pinpoint
- Mobile notification & analytics service
- AWS Glue
- Managed data catalog & ETL (extract, transform & load) service for data analysis
- AWS Batch
- Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs
- C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions
- Werner Vogels: "serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd"
- Lambda Edge for running in response to CloudFront events, ""intelligent" processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close"
- More
- Step Functions a visual workflow "state machine" for Lambda functions
- More
- BLOX: EC2 Container Service Scheduler
- Open source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deployments
- Blox.github.io
Analysis discussion for all the AWS stuff- Jesus! I couldn't read it all!
- So, what's the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it.
- What's the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you'd go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn't flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.Docker for AWS- "EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS."
- Docker gets paid on usage?
- Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox?
Time to Break up Amazon?- Someone has an opinion
HPE Discover, all about the "Hybrid Cloud"- Hybrid it up!
- Killed "The Machine"
- HPE's Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?)
- Not great timing for a conference
- Sold OpenStack & CloudFoundry bits to SUSE, the new "preferred Linux partner":
How Google is Challenging AWS- Ben on public cloud
- "open-sourcing Kubernetes was Google's attempt to effectively build a browser on top of cloud infrastructure and thus decrease switching costs; the company's equivalent of Google Search will be machine learning."
- Exponent.fm episode 097 — Google vs AWS
Recommendations- Brandon:
- Apple Wifi Calling & Airplane mode.
- Westworld worth watching.
- Matt:
- Backyard Kookaburras.
- Magpies too!
- This gif.
- Coté: W Hotel in Las Vegas and lobster eggs benedict at Payard's in Ceasers'
Outro: "I need my minutes," Soul Position.
Sponsored By:
- Pivotal: Check out Coté's work in progress, the ~50 page cloud native journey, edition two book. It coverers the common questions, best practices, and snarky takes on doing better software in large organizations.
58 min - Episode 81: DevOpsDays Sydney 2016
It's a special interloper episode from Australia! Matt Ray guests on the Arrested DevOps show live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Sydney, along with Bridget Kromhout, Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick Pollard, Katie McLaughlin.
Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.
47 min - Episode 80: The case for flying Southwest and Oracle buying Dyn, and containers
With all the domestic, direct flight, the gang lays out the case for Southwest. Coté salivates at the prospect but is worried about sitting next to chicken cages, but there's plenty of $500 shoe sales people on board. We also discuss Oracle buying Dyn, AWS's power, the looming cloud success of Microsoft, and, of course, containers.
Octogenarian style: It’s episode 80! The Brittle Bones Anniversary.
Feedback & Follow-up- At least one person came correct and said CostCo.
- I think we’re now in the 2,000 to 2,500 downloads range. Good job listeners!
Mid-roll- Coté: stop the container madness and just use Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
- Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have: - or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy.
- Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
- Matt: Sydney AWS Meetups: December 6, December 7.
Oracle Buys Dyn- Coté needs a dial-a-friend on this one.
- Fleshing out their cloud coverage
- This is what Coté frequently concluded when doing cloud strategy
- Softlayer and AWS compared
Sorry Oracle, Taking Down AWS is Alibaba’s Job- “Alibaba Cloud president Simon Hu has said the company is working to surpass AWS within four years.”
- We’ll see if YUGEly can wrap his head around IaaS protectionism.
Skyliner.io- “You only get one hill to die on, so choose wisely”
- New AWS-native PaaS from Etsy/Stripe/SquareSpace veterans
- Coté: I feel like I’ve read this blog post before. Maybe I even wrote it? So much typing.
Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation - we’re beyond the cats and dogs mirror!- Steve Ballmer is spinning in his grave
- More than just Linux
- Add to this Visual Studio on the Mac.
- Google joined .Net Foundation
Windows, internet, phone, cloudBONUS LINKS! Not covered in showRecent Coté Nonsense- “Largile”
- Recent DevOps books review.
Red Hat wants to make Kubernetes boring (and successful)- They’ve certainly made OpenStack boring (zing!)
- “Not that Red Hat is calling Kubernetes "boring." Instead, they're calling it "Enterprise-Ready," which is basically the same thing.”
- I dig that Matt Asay style. Dude knows how to pick a quick topic.
The End of General Purpose Computing- More precisely, as the title says “The End of the General Purpose Operating System“
- “What we're witnessing in the market is the development of vertically integrated stacks”
- “In all of these cases the operating system is an implementation detail of the higher level software. It's not intended to be directly managed, or at least managed to the same degree as the general purpose OS you're running today.”
Apple Drops AirPort Routers- I’ve got 3 of them, pretty solid.
- We don’t talk about Apple much here. Possible topic: what’s up with Apple now-a-days?
Trump vs. Tech- “Now we will have a president whose affinity for high-tech seems limited to Twitter bullying”
- Interesting when you think that the heads of Google, Microsoft, Apple and probably Amazon (Bezos owns Washington Post) are all at odds with Trump. Facebook is trying to not piss anyone off. Not sure if we want to talk about it, so maybe it’s just a show note.
MacOS Security and Privacy Guide- Lots of practical tips for a safer Mac experience
Black Friday & Cyber Monday- "the sweet smell of cyber dealz"
Recommendations- Brandon: Left, Right, Center
- Matt:
- Thanksgiving in Sydney: http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/thanksgiving/
- Magpie Attacks!
- Play your music at 10x slowdown, makes for good ambient listening. It’s up on GitHub if you want to do it to your own music collection, currently Ogg-only :(
- Coté: It Follows.
Sponsored By:
- Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.
- DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016. Promo Code: SDT2016
- Pivotal: Check out Coté's work in progress, the ~50 page cloud native journey, edition two book. It coverers the common questions, best practices, and snarky takes on doing better software in large organizations.
46 min - Episode 79: From a vegan, clothing optional co-op to working with banks and oil companies - Coté’s professional life, part 1
How does one go from living in a vegan, clothing option co-op working on a philosophy degree to hustling enterprise software? That's the story of Coté's career that we discuss in this episode. Matt Ray is out, getting the bills paid, so Brandon interviews Coté about how he got here, professionally. We end the story around 2011; maybe we'll pick up next time it's just the two of us.
Show Notes- House of Commons Co-op, Austin, Texas. See some pictures of a simpler time there.
- I think this is that Victorian Literature professor.
- He's the one that taught me how to use books as tools, writing in them and whatnot.
- A typical day at BMC. Always lots of jokes, there. See more pictures.
- In 2005, Coté wrote two pieces on IBM Lotus stuff: one on "Workplace for Business" and another on how I thought they should move it to Eclipse. Who knows why, really?
- Lala's, where it's Christmas all year round.
- James Governor and Stephen O'Grady.
- Coté at RedMonk.
Recommendations- Brandon: Ready Player One.
- Coté: Start and Scaling Devops in the Enterprise, Gary Gruver’s new book, an awesome 90 minutes read.
Sponsored By:
- Pivotal: Come learn what Pivotal does and why with hands on workshops and keynote show-boatin'. Free breakfast and lunch!
- [Cincinnati - Nov 10](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/cincinnati)- [St. Louis - Nov 14](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/stlouis)- [Hartford - Nov 16](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/hartford)- [Denver - Nov 18](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/denver)- [New York - Nov 22](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/newyork)- [Los Angeles - Nov 28](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/losangeles)- DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016. Promo Code: SDT2016
55 min - Episode 78: Trump's possible effect on tech, plus, containers
We discuss possible effects that the Trump presidency will have on the tech world. The ideas are more or less known, but the details and whether they'd be enacted are sketchy and unreliable. Before that, of course, we talk about containers.
This episode features Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
Mid-roll- Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
- Coté: Nov 16th - Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha, next week.
- Coté: Various dates - Pivotal Cloud Native Roadshows - Cincinnati - Nov 10; St. Louis - Nov 14; Hartford - Nov 16; Denver - Nov 18; New York - Nov 22; Los Angeles - Nov 28.
K8s Operators- Stateful applications for K8s, a shot at Mesos?
- Prometheus & etcd first examples (spark? hadoop?)
- This begs the broad question: so, what’s CoreOS’s business posture now?
Azure Container Service, now with K8s- Those Microsoft folks will just put anything that looks tasty in their cloud - what a reversal from the Microsoft we grew up with.
Docker in Production: A History of Failure- From this dude’s perspective: a failure of product management and stable releases.
- Bugs, documentation spotty, cleanup scripts, kernel support (Debian!?), aufs & overlay & overlay2, 7-hour outage with no post-mortem
- “Docker only moves forward and breaks things”
- “The docker hype is not only a technological liability any more, it has evolved into a sociological problem as well.”
- A retort… that mostly agrees
- “boring tech is what makes money” shiny tech makes resumes?
Mesosphere- Jay Lyman on the momemtum: “Mesosphere does not disclose its number of paying clients, but says it has dozens of large enterprise customers, its primary target. The company says its experience supporting software deployments in production is among its key differentiators, helped by the use of Apache Mesos by companies such as Twitter, Netflix, Airbnb, PayPal and Yelp, which was featured in a 451 User Deployment Report. Mesosphere says its focus is customer deployments of 500-1,000 nodes per day in production. It also says the bulk of its customers are licensees with professional services accounting for less than 10% of its clients, which tend to move to its subscription software.”
TrumpTech, aka, “Putting the 400 lbs hackers on diets.”- Turns out there is some marginally clear policy, just not McKinsey title mode versus white papers.
- Jonathan Shieber@Tech Crunch: "The biggest question facing millions of Americans this Wednesday is: just how much of what Donald Trump said on the campaign does he intend to actually try to make happen." (For example, Korea.)
- Dave Lee, at the BBC has a good laundry list: “Uncertainty, frustration and an increased fragility for the global home of tech innovation. Mr Trump certainly won't want to go down as the president who destroyed Silicon Valley, but the concern here is that of the few policies that have been explained in detail, some seem directly at odds with each other.”
- 10% repatriation program - tech companies have tons of cash abroad:
- Historic rates: “At the highest tax rate, corporations must pay 35% to repatriate capital, minus local taxes charged by countries in which the funds are held.”
- Hardware: “AAPL (93% of $230bln), CSCO (91% of $64.6B), IBM ($8.2B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but note 58% of earnings are from non US operations), HPE ($10.0B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65% of earnings are from non US operations), HPQ ($5.6B total cash, undisclosed % of cash held overseas but 65%-70% of earnings are from non US operations), JNPR (94% of $3.2B).”
- Software: “Specifically, some of the mid and large cap companies that have large cash balances “trapped” offshore are likely to benefit from being able to return a portion of this cash to shareholders. We note companies with high gross cash balances trapped offshore include: ADBE (85% of $4B – from 2015 10-K), ADSK (86% of $2.1B), CA (76% of $2.7B), CTXS (80% of $2.45B), FTNT (38% of $1.2B), ORCL (76% of $56B – pre-N), MSFT (96% of $113B – pre-LNKD purchase), RHT (42% of $2.0B), SYMC (93% of $5.6B – post-BC), VMW (77% of $7.5B), VRSN (68% of $1.9B). We believe the chances increase of a larger share repurchase or (lesser chance) dividend from these companies.”
- Apple & Amazon are not in a good situation - they’ll be a good test of WTF happens. Meanwhile, tech stocks dropping a bit.
- Ovum has a shit ton of quick analysis, all free:
- Fear of US public cloud companies, globally. Remember the freak-out from NSA stuff? Same idea. I think the Gemans got over it.
- Outsources:
- “A massive curtailing of H-1B visas, for example, will mean providers will need to make immediate shifts in what they’re able to offer customers locally, unless or until they’re able to compensate with talent.”
- “For providers, there’s also the unanswered question of the impact on US government spending.”
- [Education](https://www.ovum.com/trumping-expectations-now-us-public-sector-2/ - some proposals for de-centralizing, meaning fragmentation of IT spend.
- Government talent, regulations, and spending - “If there is a large exodus of high-caliber and skilled staff, how will departments fill the gap? It also raises the question of funding for programs aimed at modernizing tech in the federal government such as F18 and FedRAMP. Trump might reduce the barriers to swapping out tech and push down expenditure that way. Certainly, the high cost and length of time needed to get Authority to Operate (ATO) under FedRAMP has been a barrier to uptake.”
- Telcos - other than him stating he’d stop the AT&T/TimeWarner merger, telco stuff is very unclear. No one’s sure what the traditional Republican +/- Trump equals, or what the formula is.
- M&A from Brenon@451: “Chinese buyers probably won't be shopping as freely in the US in the coming years.” They spent $14bn this year, I think.
Chinese buyers have recently picked up Ingram Micro, which swings nearly $50bn worth of tech gear and services each year, 25-year-old printer maker Lexmark and even a majority stake in the gay dating app Grindr." Also see shorter blog post with chart of Chinese M&A spend.- Snowden for Head of NSA!.
Follow-up- That’s how you do it!
- We got actual comments!
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episodeMatt wrote up an Amazon ECS thing- The blog entry
Doing Business in Japan- Not new, but a good primer.
Recommendations- Brandon: New season of The Startup podcast
- Matt: TransferWise for transferring money abroad. A16Z on TransferWise.
- Coté:
“Tighten Up.”, Archie Bell & The Drells - once you’re done being depressed, get your shit back together.HSAs.Meanwhile, this “pastrami burger” at 3 Greens Market in Chicago is AMAZING.Sponsored By:
- DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016. Promo Code: SDT2016
- Pivotal: Omaha Cloud Native Roadshow - Coté is giving the opening keynote, and jabbering through-out the day. Join Pivotal and ProKarma technologists for this half-day workshop where you will discover how you can accelerate software development on a modern cloud platform without compromising operations.
- Pivotal: Come learn what Pivotal does and why with hands on workshops and keynote show-boatin'. Free breakfast and lunch!
- [Cincinnati - Nov 10](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/cincinnati)- [St. Louis - Nov 14](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/stlouis)- [Hartford - Nov 16](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/hartford)- [Denver - Nov 18](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/denver)- [New York - Nov 22](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/newyork)- [Los Angeles - Nov 28](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/losangeles)1 hr 22 min - Episode 77: If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile.
Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever.
Show NotesFollow-up- Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap.
- Check out the last episode, the show page is- God-damned nifty!
- Review in iTunes France
- Osprey “one bag” style backpack.
The Best Uber Driver Ever- Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan.
- The Sweat Hotel
Coté’s Agile shit- Excerpt from a PDF in process.
- IBM design people.
- We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely.
- It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming.
- UK GDS rant.
- Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/culture
- How do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom.
- Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptions
- The Product Manager's Lament.
- If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile
- The big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on - leave some comments!
The End-roll Mid-roll- Coté: Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
- Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in the All Day DevOps virtual conference.
- Coté: Nov 16th, Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list.
- Coté: Various dates - Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows.
- Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
- Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code”.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.OpenStack Anyone?- There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona
35% annual growth sounds good- With friends like these…: “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.”
- Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.”
- OTH, 🤔: "If you do these things the old fashioned way with Puppet, Chef and Ansible, they can be incredibly expensive because now you need the experts for everything," he says. "If you do them with Juju and Charms, you're sharing the cost of operational code with everybody else using those Charms."
- Meanwhile: 451 says “OpenStack revenues to grow at a 35% CAGR and exceed $5bn by 2020.” See chart in my newsletter from this week.
New York Times Buys The Wirecutter for $30 Million- Good write-up about how The Wirecutter is/was very different from Gizmodo and the like
- Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY
http://www.recode.net/2016/10/24/13381002/new-york-times-wirecutter-purchase-30-million-briam-lam-consumer-guideAdrian Cockcroft to AWS- This is like the Warriors getting Kevin Durant, if the Warriors had won the championship last season ;)
AWS Server Migration Service- “automatically replicate live server volumes to AWS and create Amazon Machine Images (AMI) as needed.”
- Currently VMware, more hypervisors coming
- Thanks for the partnership VMware!
RackN gets FundingLooks like a seed round, yay for Rob.
The Barbarian Establishment- Economist on Private Equity
- “private equiteers”
- “The fees they pay each time they buy or sell a company provide a fifth of the global banking system’s revenues from mergers and acquisitions.”
- “This is a particular issue for pension funds, which often need to earn 7% or 8% to meet their obligations.”
Microsoft cloud annualized run rate hits $13bn in strong first quarter- “The company now claims that its commercial cloud annualized run rate has passed $13 billion (it was $12.1 billion last quarter), and that the gross margin of its commercial cloud business is up 7 points quarter-on-quarter to 49 percent.”
- Azure revenue growth was 116% last quarter; now have 11% market share compared to Amazon's 31%
IBM- Hiring lots of people?
Stackanetes as a Product?- “OpenStack on Kubernetes, or “Stackanetes” as the CoreOS team sadly likes to call it”
VMware & AWS: Harder Than it Looks- Former VMware/EMC exec, now at Oracle.
- “hope is not a strategy.”
- “VMware wants the world to use their stack, AWS wants the same for their technology. Not exactly what I would call a long-term stable situation.”
Picks- Brandon: Westworld.
- Coté: Sugar Bowl Madeleines at CostCo. I just ate five and the box ain't empty! Also, while you’re there: Tillamook Cheddar cheese slices, in the expensive refrigerated section. And I got another pair of brushed khaki Kirkland 5 pocket pants.
- Matt: Tokyo!
- Coté’s Bonus Recommendation: Matt Ray’s hair!
Sponsored By:
- Pivotal: Omaha Cloud Native Roadshow - Coté is giving the opening keynote, and jabbering through-out the day. Join Pivotal and ProKarma technologists for this half-day workshop where you will discover how you can accelerate software development on a modern cloud platform without compromising operations.
- DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016. Promo Code: SDT2016
- Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.
- Pivotal: Come learn what Pivotal does and why with hands on workshops and keynote show-boatin'. Free breakfast and lunch!
- [Cincinnati - Nov 10](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/cincinnati)- [St. Louis - Nov 14](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/stlouis)- [Hartford - Nov 16](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/hartford)- [Denver - Nov 18](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/denver)- [New York - Nov 22](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/newyork)- [Los Angeles - Nov 28](https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow/losangeles)1 hr 10 min - Episode 15: Getting executives to fail fast
The idea of “failing fast” is popular in DevOps and agile think. That sounds like the exact opposite of what managers at large organizations would like to do. How do you get them to feel all warm and fuzzy about it? Here’s the top three tactics I’ve seen work.
- Failing fast for the uptight — One of my explanations of "failing fast": it actually means learning; here, a recording of a March 2015 talk.
7 min - Episode 76: Convergental and the battle for the new stack
With a new integration between Kubernetes and VMware, we once again discuss what exactly the battle of the new stack is and how companies could be angling to make money off it. Also, mole and recommendations.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
Mid-roll- Oct 25th - Matt at AWS North Sydney.
- Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there.
- Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
Show notes- If you like video, see this episodes’ video recording.
VMware doing Kubernetes- VMware's post, and a product page.
- Photon platform is VMware’s container-play, trying to leverage the VMware ecosystem (vSAN & NSX stuff)
- The New Stack coverage
BONUS LINKS, not covered in the showUbuntu 16.10- Canonical’s doing Kubernetes too
AWS & Government- Debunking FUD and using AWS in (Australian) government
Randy Bias Leaves EMC- OpenStack advocate/critic, Pets vs. Cattle
- 2 years to the day after the Cloudscaling acquisition
Heading to… JuniperCisco is AWS Skeptical- Good luck with that
What $50 buys You at Huaqianbei- Fascinating article, I hadn’t realized how ridiculously cheap everything had gotten
Recommendations- Brandon: Accused Podcast.
- Matt: Song Exploder podcast and the Tobacco album “Sweatbox Dynasty”
- Coté: Kirkland brushed khaki pants. Also, espadrilles from that store in BCN, La Manual Alpargatera. Apple Live Photos.
Sponsored By:
- Pivotal: Check out the free cloud native road-show in Kansas City, November 2nd. Coté will be there and you can see Pivotal Cloud Foundry in action, all for free.
- DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016. Promo Code: SDT2016
Links:
- VMware Photon to Present ‘Kubernetes as a Service’ - The New Stack
53 min - Episode 75: "AWS and VMware are having a LAN party” or “Matt Ray’s deep story” or “some five year old gibberish”Summary
Big shakes in cloud land this week with VMware and AWS partnering up. Is this the hybrid cloud enterprises have been dreaming on? We also cover systems of records, Oracle, and something about Google phones. It’s a regular episode on all the hot topics!
See full show notes: http://cote.io/sdt75
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
With Brandon Whichard, Matt Ray, and Coté.
Sponsors/Mid-roll- Check out cote.io/promos/ for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.
- Also: Lords of Computing is now Coté.show. Will put upcoming DrunkAndRetired.com special episode in there. And as always check out Pivotal Conversations.
- Nov 2nd - Pivotal Kansas City roadshow, Coté’ll be there.
- For more DevOps awesomeness, join the Chef Community Summit, October 26th and 27th in Seattle, WA. This Open Space event provides a great opportunity to connect with the DevOps Community and Chef Engineers over two days of engaging sessions and hallway discussions. Bring your ideas, passion and excitement for Chef and DevOps to this highly interactive event. Go to summit.chef.io to register for this awesome event and use the code PODCAST to get 10% off your ticket!
- DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
- Matt at DevOps Sydney October 20.
- Matt at AWS North Sydney October 25.
Show notesFollow-up- Buy-side commentary on Oracle storming the AWS castle
- Those reviews are awesome, thanks so much!
- I’ll be re-jiggering the podcast back end again, so expect some annoying weirdness (fireside.fm appears to be awesome, if expensive)
- So who’s buying Twitter?
- Tyler Cowe’s short term focus and going private escape hatch.
VMware and AWS- “VMware Cloud on AWS”
- “The service will be operated, sold and supported by VMware (not AWS) but integrate with the rest of AWS’ cloud portfolio (think storage, database, analytics and more).”
- https://medium.com/@cloud_opinion/aws-blinked–20cddbb537ed#.9cuvcp75o
- “these customers will go to Cloud, but its really a glorified co-lo.”
- “AWS should be encouraging customers to develop their workloads to take advantage of Cloud ( microservices, serverless etc ) and not delay it further.”
- InfoWorld piece:
- They keep talking about hybrid cloud, but what does that mean here? Just “we use multiple cloud types/providers,” or one application running across different clouds?
- “As part of the deal, VMware will be AWS’s preferred private cloud partner and Amazon will be VMware’s preferred partner in the public cloud.”
- Some MSP action: “One of the key differences between this deal and the one VMware announced with IBM in February is that this service is being offered and managed by VMware.”
- “Interested customers can request access to the service’s private beta starting Thursday, but VMware doesn’t expect the service to be live until early next year. General availability of VMware cloud on AWS will have to wait until even later in 2017.”
- Brief 451 note
- No data in DevOps
Google Devices Roundup, and AI interlude- Revisiting the Apple or Google ecosystem question. I hate having to think about ecosystems when buying electronics.
- And AI.
- Walt Mossberg Thinks Siri is Dumb
- Wired Interview with Obama - dude knows AI.
BONUS LINKS, not covered in podcastContainer Madness!- Nothing much new, just content to riff on
- Microsoft shipping Commercially Supported (CS) Docker Engine
- Red Hat and containers - relabel, transitioned from originally a PaaS to CaaS.
- DockerCon coming to Austin
Opentracing joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation- Announcement
- Open tracing
Luke transitions to new Puppet CEO- Luke’s announcement in Twitter
- Luke is one of the main people who started all this stuff, based on annoyance of BladeLogic, cfengine, etc.
- Did I ever tell the one of how I did a terrible sales job getting Reductive Labs signed up with RedMonk?
- The new dude looks like the real deal of enterprise infrastructure.
Recommendations- Matt: Warren Ellis’ Normal - From his latest newsletter “What science fiction, as a field, is good for, is looking at ten thousand possibilities at once," Zapp Branigan reading Trump quotes
- Brandon: Slate Plus. Also, Harry’s Blades.
- Coté: iPhone 7 Plus. Live Photos, Rotate mode, Bokeh stuff actually in beta, Home button takes getting used to, Two speakers is better?
52 min - Episode 74: Being a tech evangelist, with Bridget Kromhout
This week it’s just Coté and Bridget talking about tech evangelism, business travel, and other fascinating topics deep in the boiler room of whatever it is we do around here.
Listen above, subscribe to the feed (or iTunes), or download the MP3 directly.
Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.
48 min
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