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March 13, 2020Episode 222: Self quarantining with half-baked bread
Self quarantining with half-baked bread
Most of our time is spent discussing the joys of eating half-baked bread. We also discuss what a Tanzu is, kubernetes konspiracy theories, and Oxide the new private cloud hardware startup...wait, wut? Hey! Spring Live next week, March 19th starting at 9am California-time - 24 hours! Attend!
Mood Board:
Fresh Bread Talk
I’ve mentioned this before
You’re suppose to listen
Hamthrax?
A tall glass of ice-tea.
The most Dutch thing ever.
Half-baked bread.
American’s tea innovation lead.
Strong opinions loosely held is canceled.
Relevant to your interests
VMware
If you run (VCF) VMware stuff, you can have kubernetes now. TAS/PAS will be moved to run on that sometime later - same stack as we’ve had at Pivotal is still, of course, alive and well.
Interview with Pat Gelsinger on VMware
VMware Rejuvenates Once Again With Kubernetes Injection
VMWare KeyBanc Capital Markets Write Up
VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, built on VMware NSX is Now Available!
Docker
Docker Defines Roadmap with Developer-Focused API Integrations
Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit
AWS
A Peek Into Graviton2: Amazon's Neoverse N1 Server Chip First Impressions
Bottlerocket – Open Source OS for Container Hosting | Amazon Web Services
Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers
Kube Corner
EngineerBetter/k8s-is-not-a-paas
Windows NT 4 into Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes Price Comparison (2020)
HPE Plunges Into Red Hot Kubernetes Market
NVIDIA to Acquire SwiftStack
Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math | Quanta Magazine
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets to keep his job — for now
Robinhood goes down again,
Assessing ERP upgrades in the 21st century
Vista Equity mulls options for IT automation and security provider Infoblox
Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data
Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL
This startup now has millions in no-strings-attached money because one of Silicon Valley's most famous VC firms had to walk away from the deal
Australia sues Facebook for $529 billion. That's more than the government makes in a year.
This little server startup wants to take on a horde of tech giants
Who’s staying home because of COVID-19?
Non Sense
Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of fuel flying empty 'ghost' planes so they can keep their flight slots during the coronavirus outbreak
What's in your wallet? A lot less interest, unless you notice this one word...
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Conferences, et. al.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th.
ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4.
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
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Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Save money and buy a subscription to NY Times via gift certificate for yourself.
Coté: treat yourself with a black Uber. Scott on Pivot as strong opinions loosely held.
1 hr 5 min
March 05, 2020Episode 221: How to turn $2bn into $5bn
Coté probably messed up his math on the Thoma Bravo profit from Compuware. Maybe it's more like $5bn. But, obviously, he's just farting around with incomplete information. He apologies and will sit in the corner for awhile. For entertainment only!
With the virus shutting down conferences and keeping people in the home office, we discuss the value of in-person conferences and how remote ones might could be better. Also, GKE’s kubernetes cluster pricing (and Amazon’s drop to match the price) gives us an anchoring point for pricing running a cluster. Coupled with the recent CNCF survey you could make an interesting stew. Finally, Coté tries to run some numbers to figure out how much Thoma Bravo profited from taking Compuware private. (Also, he always mispronounces it as Thom-oh Bravo.)
Hey! If you want to understand VMware’s new strategy and portfolio around application development, tune into the March 10th webinar on the topic: register now!
Mood Board:
The Hello Boss episode.
You mean I gave my kids a lecture all for nothing?
Shit the living room door.
Espresso macchiato.
Blue bonnet coffee.
What am I missing out on?
Sitting, trapped in your head.
I’m hoping we realize no one needs to be working.
Why blockchain is important for corn
Containers and the mainframes,
Too unqualified to speculate?
This post-conference era
You can’t do your dishes in the office
Those poor developers: having to pay for things!
$879/year per cluster helps someone keep their job.
It’s always Monte Carlo simulations with you
So adult.
I’m trying Matt Ray.
We IPO’d because we were running out of money, what a time to be alive.
This week’s white guys talking about white guys.
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How Marc Benioff’s Vision for Salesforce’s Future Triggered Executive Shuffle
VMware exceeds $10B in sales in FY 2020
Cisco begins new round of layoffs
How much money do SREs make?
Coronavirus 2020 tech conference cancellations list
Google and Microsoft just canceled two conferences ahead of their major ones
HP Enterprise suspends nearly all events
Important OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2020 Update: Shifts to Digital Conference – Red Hat OpenShift Blog
Google cancels its biggest annual event over coronavirus fears
BMC to Acquire Compuware
Baron’s has a bunch of numbers:
https://www.barrons.com/articles/bmc-backed-by-kkr-is-buying-compuware-in-biggest-deal-yet-51583264075
Probably sold for about $2bn.
Selling about $650m of Dynatrace stock.
Got several $100m’s in dividends from DT.
Still owns 52% of DT ($9.294bn valuation, so $4.83bn asset in equity).
Original purchase price: $2.5bn
2 + 0.65 + 0.150 + 9.294 = $12.09bn cash out, plus $4.83bn equity - $16.92bn profit on $2.5bn…?!
Undated Forrester chart showing increasing mainframe spend.
Agile software development is dead. Deal with it.
Coronavirus Updates: Epidemic Slows in China but Spreads Globally - Check out the Ali app angle
Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle lawsuit over slow iPhones
Google makes Hangouts Meet features free in the wake of coronavirus
CNCF survey
No lead-gen on the PDF! CLASSY.
Demographics:
“September and October 2019 and received 1,337 responses.”
30% of respondents from orgs with 5,000+ employees.
??? “The top job functions were software architect (41%), DevOps manager (39%), and back-end developer (24%)”
Most respondents from “Software,” “Technology,” and “Financial Services” - all the bleeding edge.
Amazon is #1, Google probably #2.
CI/CD (loosely applied) is at 40% to 50% - which is close Coté’s ongoing estimates (and, considering that most of the respondents are from tech and banks, if we’re cynical, probably less for the other industries).
The jump in production is really quick, maybe (Page 5, “Use of Containers since 2016”? It took about 4 years for prod use to be broadly done (in Dec 17, prod reached 75% which matches test)
Most figures like these (e.g., number of containers in production) would be a lot more interesting/useful if they were broken out by company size. E.g., larger companies probably use more containers in production, tech and banks probably have put containers in production earlier, also telcos - T-Mobile alone has 34,000 containers in production (probably even more by now).
Similarly, how many clusters are in production would be interesting to see by organization size.
Challenges are sort of interesting, as always.
I don’t like “culture” as a broad category. That usually just means “people don’t do what I think they should do [and instead have their own ideas of what’s best].”
However: obviously “security”…”complexity” is another broad category - and, boy, long-time SDT sponsors must love “monitoring” as a money-pot to go after!
Side-note: so, “servishmesh” means a registry to look-up how to connect to other pods/components in your kubes (like, JNDI); getting the actual network connection to that other component; securing the network connection; load balancing (this term is getting way over-blown, I think?); and then doing the layer whatever networking to account for dynamically assigned IP addresses and stuff in kubernetes. Maybe, like microservices stuff like circuit breakers, or is that too far?
Not that many people use their own serverless framework (10%), but 34% of those who do use knative.
The “why you use kubernetes” chart (pg. 11) didn’t force people to rank enough: pretty much everyone agrees that All The Value-Props are great.
Helm wins for packaging.
I don’t know enough about auto-scaling to say much, but it looks like most people don’t do auto-scaling unless it’s for purely stateless apps, which makes sense. The drop-off after that (queues, batch-jobs, stateless, and DB) seems to indicate that auto-scaling other stuff is difficult, untrusted.
“nginx kept its lead this year as the top Kubernetes ingress provider (62%), followed again by HAProxy (22%)” - F5 got a good control-point on the kubernetes market for $670 million, plus the entire rest of the nginx business.
“40% of respondents get their info from Twitter” - humanity had a good run!
Non Sense
Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat
SETI@home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years
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Conferences, et. al.
KubeCon EU in Amsterdam, July/August, use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th.
ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4.
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration.
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Dark Towers
Press Box Pod - Strain pun headline segment
Tasty Meats Paul’s Instagram
Matt: SelfControl.app
Humble Bundle Cybersecurity 2020
Coté: First 30% of the first Jack Reacher book, The Killing Floor. Also, see other books Matt Yglesias is reading.
Cover art from Marcingietorigie in wikicommons.
1 hr 15 min
February 27, 2020Episode 220: Everyone loves white papers
Everyone loves white papers
Are white papers a force for good or evil? We discuss. Also, the $20,000 AMI and Coté’s current kubernetes comprehension.
Mood board:
“A Quote from the episode…”
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
“I’m happy to talk about Coronavirus.”
We could always go to ‘Paranoid Matt Corner’
Will Coté get to stay in Amsterdam this Spring?
Crank up the YouTube
Nobody’s gonna be traveling anymore anyway
Cote’s gonna be our Ed McMahon now
Your whitepaper should have an elevator pitch
Garbage trash proposals
Uniquely sourced
Why are we still doing this?
They’re busy running their business.
“Can you write me a business case.”
PDFs a Plenty
The White Paper Album
Speaking of BS phrases
The white paper to take down white papers
“Walking into the door feeling”
The AWS Super Inspect tool, or whatever.
Maybe it’ll all work this time Brandon.
The Idempope.
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Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? - related, from 2006.
The secret sauce graphics, 2007. Andrew Shafer’s 2010 update.
White papers (best one ever: “Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey,” Chef)
Collateral.
Sales tools.
Case studies.
Thought-leadership/definition.
Education.
Guidance (vs. Gartner Burton papers).
Writing down chunks of sales-hustle lore.
How it effects the business.
Have opinions.
Millennials Want Credible Digital Content — So Give It To Them!
Amazon AMI thing.
Salesforce secures $1.3B+ deal for Vlocity, also co-CEO left (what’s up with two CEOs?)
VMware, Tanzu
Signal signal - Matt’s paranoid security.
The Tech Revolt Finally Comes for Oracle
Morgan Stanley Is Buying E*Trade, Betting on Littler Customers
Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fightNonsense
Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role
DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M, profitability
HP adopts poison pill after Xerox's buyout attempts
VMware Details its Tanzu/Kubernetes Strategy After Pivotal Merger
Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department - Slashdot
Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals
The Ars Technica semi-scientific guide to Wi-Fi Access Point placement
Google Cloud beefs up Chronicle, reCaptcha Enterprise and Web Risk API hit general availability
When Speakers are Ears
Why Those Gaps in Kubernetes Are Really a Good Thing
Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud
Google Jumps to #4 on Cloud Wars Top 10 Behind #1 Microsoft, #2 AWS, #3 Salesforce
MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped
Firefox now encrypts domain name requests by default in the US
Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace'
Keith Block Steps Down as Salesforce Co-CEO; Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO
Non Sense
Report: Austin Ranks No. 1 in the Nation for Jobs
The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
Costco’s Famous Hot Dog Could Cost You $60
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Conferences, et. al.
QCon London, March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking on March 2nd.
Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions, tickets.
KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
VMware/Tanzu lurnin' workshop
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.
Listener Talk
Ryan Kitchens talk “The Meat of It.”
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee on Netflix.
Matt: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child.
Coté: Hild. SpringOne Platform 2019 CFP. My book, The Business Bottleneck, is out for free.
Outro: “Hey Now.”
1 hr 20 min
February 20, 2020Episode 219: Paranoid security, not paranoid schizophrenic
We try to make sense of the latest Google news, discuss who's spying on whom and a few hot takes on the latest M&A. Plus, Matt Ray teaches us about hippos and wombats.
Relevant to your interests
Google
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is taking a page from the enterprise sales handbook against Amazon and Microsoft
Politics around Istio and Knative within Google are fascinating
“People frequently conflate "open governance" and "neutral IP ownership." It depends greatly on the foundation, but in the case of the CNCF, there are literally zero governance requirements enforced on projects. CNCF projects can be (and are) single vendor governed.”
Welcoming Looker to Google Cloud
Google Cloud reveals major restructuring plans
Google Cloud acquires mainframe migration service Cornerstone
Security
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened.
The CIA’s ‘coup of the century’ Podcast
The End of Privacy as We Know It?
Average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout
DOJ charges four China-backed hackers with Equifax breach – TechCrunch
Ring enables mandatory two-factor authentication and new privacy controls in response to scandals
The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony
Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe
M&A and Going Bust
Dell Nears Deal to Sell RSA Security Business to Private-Equity Firm STG
Koch Industries acquires Infor in deal pegged at nearly $13B – TechCrunch
Xerox raises takeover offer for HP
Android founder's next phone company goes bust
HQ, maker of the once-popular HQ Trivia, is shutting down
Rancher Labs Achieves 169% Revenue Growth, Doubles
Alibaba Cloud revenue reaches $1.5B for the quarter on 62% growth rate – TechCrunch
dgarros/netdevops-survey
The History of Git: The Road to Domination
Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit
Amazon lawyers want to depose Trump
Your .com could soon cost you more .cash
Wi-Fi 6E isn’t here yet—but Broadcom is clearly banking on it
New Relic: New Report: For the Love of Serverless - New Relic Blog
GSMA cancels Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus concerns
Red Hat kicks off long goodbye for CoreOS Container Linux • DEVCLASS
Meet JJ Asghar - DevRel.net
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
## Nonsense
How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
My travel habits
Private equity, explained — The Weeds
They recorded the Seinfeld theme separately for EVERY EPISODE
Chasing Colombia's 'cocaine hippos'
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Conferences, et. al.
HashiTalks Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech)
QCon London, March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking at some point.
Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions, tickets.
KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.
Book Giveaway
Free digital copy of Code Your Way Up: Rise to the Challenge of Software Leadership to the first person to direct message bwhichard in the SDT Slack or on Twitter.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: McMillions on HBO
Matt: Casey Handmer’s Blog space-related blog posts are fascinating
Subscribe to Orbital Index for space news
59 min
February 14, 2020 Episode 218: Kubernetes for developers, with Charles Lowell
"I don't care about networking...and load balancing."
There's a lot of new concepts and stuff to learn when it comes to developing applications that will run on kubernetes. In this episode, Coté talks with Charles Lowell about his experience. Also, we imagine measuring the humidity of mayonnaise.
If you need some excellent app coding, check out Charle's company, Frontside! They also have a podcast where they discuss recent programming frameworks and idea, and relating coding cool stuff.
You may recall that Charles was the co-host of Coté's first podcast empire, DrunkAndRetired.com.
Special Guest: Charles Lowell.
53 min
February 08, 2020Episode 217: You’re eating your hamburger wrong - IBM, unlocking value at Compuware, microservices are dead
With a new CEO and president at IBM, we talk about what’s been going on good and bad at IBM in recent years. Big bets were made and that whole cloud things overshadowed things. We also talk about the mysteries of private equity, here what Thoma Bravo has done to make billions of dollars of Dynatrace and Compuware. Finally, we briefly talk about the whole microservices and serverless are silly trend - monoliths rule! (Oh, and some small Java talk.)
(Sorry there’s so much high-volume on Coté's end. Hopefully your ear-holes won’t hurt too much. Coté needs to get a new pop-filter.)
Mood board:
Interpol can’t find me in Australia, right?
Digital transformation is bad.
Did they decide that the kids are all right?
Thought leader me into happiness.
You are so much more cynical than me.
What does IBM do?
Reverse halo effect.
Surviving the trough of disillusionment.
We’ll stick up for digital transformation - No!
For the rest of your life, do better.
Minor bread talk.
Relevant to your interests
IBM
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down, Arvind Krishna to take over
1 big thing: Ginni Rometty out at IBM
IBM’s Lost Decade
IBM didn’t spent much CAPEX, three others did.
Coté: what’s there to say that’s new? Cloud wasn’t executed well (I guess?) and Watson was a poor choice for such a high priority.
Thoma Bravo to Explore $2 Billion Sale of Compuware
So, did Thoma Bravo do well here?
“could value the mainframe software provider at around $2 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“Thoma Bravo took Compuware private in 2014 in a deal valued at $2.5 billion. It carved out Compuware’s application performance management division, renamed it Dynatrace Inc. and took it public last year.”
Dynatrace market cap is ~$9.1bn, was ~$6.7bn on IPO day (August 2019).
Brenon@451 on the IPO, August 2019: “Post-offering, the PE firm still owns about 70% of Dynatrace.”
And: “Dynatrace raised roughly $570m in its offering, some of which will go toward paying down its nearly $1bn in debt.”
451’s note on the 2014 going private.
So, if Thoma Bravo still owns 70%, then have ~$6.37bn worth of equity (70% of market cap of $9.1bn)…sounds… really good for laying for laying down $2.5bn, plus you might get $2bn more from the rest of Compuware.
That’s crazy, right? That Compuware was sitting on that much extra value?
This week in cloud architecture patterns
tl;dr: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The State of Serverless
This is just about AWS Lambda. (That said, what else is there?)
“Among the companies with the largest infrastructure footprints, more than three quarters have adopted Lambda.”
Lots of node.js and python use, not much Java and .Net use. Java and python were added in the same year (2015), node.js since the start in 2014.
Coté’s summary of their analysis: Lambda used with lots of data processing, primarily with python and node, at mostly large orgs. Not used by Java devs.
Modular Monolithic Architecture, Microservices and Architectural Drivers
“Monoliths are the future,” Kelsey Hightower.
“Now that our industry is finally recovering from the mass delusion that microservices was going to be the future, it's surely time to for the even bigger delusion that serverless is what's going to provide the all-purpose salvation.” @dhh Also: his 2016 suggestion that monoliths work best for small teams, microservices for huge orgs.
Related: Reframing and Retooling for Observability, James Governor - overview of observability, in serious James mode.
JRebel Java survey:
Over 60% use Java 8 or older. Java 8 was released in March 2014, no more updates to Java 8.
Tomcat dominates app server use at 60%+. Free and works is a hell of a combination.
Spring and Spring Boot very dominate.
“It was very surprising to see how many of our survey respondents are paying for Oracle JDK. I fully expected the open source options to have a much larger market share.”
- 1 big thing: Software disaster sinks Iowa caucus
Google Numbers
Google parent Alphabet Q4 earnings: Revenue disappoints
Alphabet discloses YouTube ad revenues of $15.15 billion, Cloud revenues of $8.92 billion for 2019
Related: Instagram brought in an estimated $20bn in 2019.
That’s a lot of money.
Security
Google releases open-source 2FA security key platform called OpenSK
Apple Engineers Propose Standardized Format for SMS One-Time Passcodes
HPE acquires identity management startup Scytale
Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate
Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
Nonsense
Podcast app Overcast adds automatic intro skipping and overhauled Voice Boost feature
I Have a Costco Credit Card. I Never Use It at Costco. Here’s Why.
Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business
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Conferences, et. al.
KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
QCon London, March 2nd to 6th - Coté speaking at some point.
Agile Scotland, March 6th: sessions, tickets.
ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4
DevOpsDays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.
HashiTalks Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: NeverSSL.
Matt: Code the Classics. Faith No More’s coming to Australia & New Zealand
Cote: Beyond the Phoenix Project, from 2018.
1 hr 18 min
January 31, 2020Episode 216: I would give it 5 stars if you still did stars.
How do we fix Privacy? How do you compete with AWS? Is the iPad a hit product? We discuss all this and Matt Ray teaches us how to decouple applications from the operating system. Plus, we offer more advice about tacos.
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Privacy
“Software ate the world, so all the world’s problems get expressed in software”
Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker
Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month
Avast antivirus harvested user data, then sold to Google, Microsoft
Disruption
Clayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67
How to Compete With AWS
After Kubernetes’ Victory, Its Former Rivals Change Tack
Slack Stock Could Be One of the Biggest Opportunities in Software, Analyst Says
Acquired | WhatsApp
Chef Habitat Gains a Foothold in the Enterprise, Streamlines Packaging
Google
Google aims to unify its workplace tools and messaging apps into one service
Google will shut down App Maker on January 19, 2021
Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products
Apple
The 10th Anniversary of the iPad: A Perspective from the Windows Team
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
Apple Holiday Results Top Estimates on Rebounding iPhone Demand
A new chapter for Kohsuke
COBOL on Kubernetes - stackconf
VMware’s vRealize $236M Patent Infringement Loss: 5 Things To Know
VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff
LastPass is discontinuing its native Mac app and replacing it with a more universal web app
Nonsense
Google caves on unpopular favicon change in Search and promises to test more designs
Old Bay hot sauce is here: McCormick launches new way to season wings ahead of Super Bowl
Internal Monologue vs. Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech
Australia slips further in internet speed rankings
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Conferences, et. al.
KubeCon EU in Amsterdam March 30 – April 2*,* use code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
ChefConf 2020 in Seattle June 1-4
Devopsdays Minneapolis, August 4 - 5, 2020 use code SDT for 10% off registration
THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.
HashiTalks Virtual Conference February 20, 2020 FREE (Matt’s presenting on Terraform + Chef tech)
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon:
Matt Levine’s Money Stuff Newsletter
The Animal Spirits Podcast
The Compound YouTube Channel from Josh Brown and Michael Batnick
Matt:
A16Z Podcasts
Daniel Suarez’s Freedom, the sequel to Daemon
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1 hr 3 min
January 24, 2020Episode 215: The Jez Humble/Life Insurance Renewal PDF Continuum
Coté proposes that there’s three types of apps to pay attention to in enterprises. Or something like that. Also, he has a magical method for doing digital transformation: actually do it. We open up discussing the delightful adventure of doing analyst feature matrixes. Also, some brief discussion of Apple Watches in the impeachment trial.
Mood board:
The game is won or lost before the spreadsheet it sent.
Incrementally updating apps, vs. making new businesses (digitizing) - like, maybe there just needs to be more programmers.
It’s not “stupid,” it’s “antiquated.”
Don’t make them think it is a big deal, or they’ll be afraid.
Finding business case loopholes, or ignoring them.
Can you base practices on loopholers?
Wearing Apple Watches to senate hearings - a real ok boomer moment - gadgets in meetings in general.
Audio books.
I just made myself a sandwich, wow.
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Google
AppSheet. Gesundheit! Oh, we see – it's Google pulling no-code development into a cloudy embrace
Epic Systems, a major medical records vendor, is warning customers it will stop working with Google Cloud
Not sure what to think about this.
Google will have to make clear that it doesn't filch data, agreed on or not.
Can they ever convince paranoid enterprise buyers that their data will be safe, not from hackers, but from Google?
Google offers IBM AS/400 apps new home in its cloud
Google to phase out third-party cookies - does this mean ads will disappear for me, or just that Google and Facebook will be the only ones who can do it?
Forrester study highlights benefits of Google Anthos hybrid cloud app platform - and same with Pivotal.
IBM
IBM forecasts full-year profit above estimates on cloud growth
Six months after IBM spent $34 billion to acquire an open source software company, IBM's Q4 results showed that 'Red Hat goodness is kicking in'
IBM Stock Rose More Today Than in the Last 10 Years. It’s Time For A Shake-Up
Bad News
DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected
Report: Firefox maker Mozilla is laying off 70 people
Good News
AI for code, serverless, monitoring, SD-WAN.
Snyk raises $150 million at $1 billion valuation for AI that protects open source code
TriggerMesh 2020 - Cloud Native Integration
DevOps Startup Sysdig Raises $70M Series E
VMware to acquire Nyansa for AI-based network analytics
Australia
Australians Stick With Their Banks Through Years of Scandal
Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle
Phone Hacking
Here Is the Technical Report Suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’ Phone
U.N. Experts Call for Inquiry into Hack of Bezos’s Phone
Apple reportedly scrapped plans to fully secure iCloud backups after FBI intervention
Grab Bag
Istio as an Example of When Not to Do Microservices
VCs are just tired
An introduction to VMware vRealize Operations Cloud
Nearly 200 CEOs just agreed on an updated definition of "the purpose of a corporation"
2020: The year of seeing clearly on AI and machine learning
2019 CNCF Annual Report - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Flow Time - How Fast are We Delivering Business Value? - Tasktop Blog
DuckDuckGo Traffic
The billion-dollar battle over .org registry ownership intensifies
What Senators Wearing Apple Watches During the Impeachment Trial Teach Us About Invisible Tech - seems like an “ok boomer” story.
Nonsense
Why Texans Love H-E-B So Much
Travel company’s sneaky ad trick
Frozen iguanas falling from trees in South Florida
Sunshine Map
To Your Brain, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’
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Conferences, et. al.
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DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
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SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
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Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: The Outsider on HBO
Coté: Tasty Meats Paul’s latest kubernetes and Spring talk. Also, Paul’s food in Instagram.
59 min
January 18, 2020Episode 214: VPNs, Windows 7 EoL, & Crapplications
This week the title says it all. There’s also some more bread talk.
Mood board:
“I love the talk about bread, can I get some stickers.”
Do they have markdown in Intranets now?
Kicking to fit use cases.
Porting of Ports
Crapplications, aka, “Crappity crap”
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Microsoft will stop supporting millions of computers running Windows 7 on Tuesday — here's what you need to know
“According to Net Applications figures from December, 32.74% of all laptops and desktops still run Windows 7, behind Windows 10. Windows 10 runs on more than 900 million devices.”
Now It's Really, Truly Time to Give Up Windows 7
Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud
Check out that Agriculture Inspection app!
Stack Overflow Bolsters Leadership Team With New Chief Product Officer, Teresa Dietrich
Spotify Is Now the Single Biggest Podcasting Platform
Rob Bearden takes over as Cloudera CEO
Microsoft Azure has an edge over Amazon Web Services at big companies, Goldman Sachs survey says
Observability — A 3-Year Retrospective
Anthos Ups Google’s Enterprise Efforts
The president of Marc Benioff's Time reveals how he plans to restore the neglected title and make it a billion-dollar business
The Endgame for LinkedIn Is Coming
Equinix is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet
Your iPhone can now help you securely log into your Google account with a simple tap
Google pays $160m for Irish retail tech company Pointy
Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue
M&A: Negotiations Don't Start Until Someone Says No
Red Hat OpenShift Updates Hit Multi-Cloud, Security
Introducing Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 to Enhance Kubernetes Security
Nonsense
Top 20 IT Podcasts of 2020
When Buying in Bulk Is a Mistake
Zero Mass Water has a new rooftop well that pulls water out of the air
CES 2020: The Planty Cube Aims to Make Vertical Farming More Modular and Automated
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Conferences, et. al.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too.
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020
KubeCon EU, March 30 – April 2*,* use discount code KCEUSDP15 for 15% off.
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
Listener Brett wants you to go to THAT Conference August 3 - 6, 2020 - Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells, WI. Call for Counselors (Speakers) open until March 1st.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Bruce Sterling’s annual State of the World.
Brandon: Slack cleaner.
Coté: Apple News+?
1 hr 3 min
January 10, 2020Episode 213: The inglorious cloud basterds
We discuss weird speculation that Google Cloud would buy Salesforce. It seems like bullshit, mostly, but it gives us a good jumping off point to talk cloud strategy. Also, Coté talks about being part of the VMware Tanzu team, how kubernetes could become the white box of the PC market (this is a good thing), that being #3 in a market is probably just fine, and we discuss poisoning-by-bread.
Mood board:
This is a New Year’s resolution we can all get behind: it’s time to just give up on some stuff.
Man, this coffee is bad.
Carbohydrate Coté is angry.
Coté gets his birthday wrong.
You’re really just pretty negative.
Our man in Tanzu-land Cotem.
After the headline, that article didn’t need to be written more.
I’m not going to get into it, so here I go.
The Turn the hydra head into a nanny acquisition strategy.
Man, I should have just started with the bread.
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Tanzu Coté - VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition.
Google buying Salesforce acid-dream - Google could acquire Salesforce and spin out its cloud business to catch up to Amazon and Microsoft, analyst predicts
ServiceNow!
Sort of examples the vagueness of Google’s Cloud Corporate Strategy.
Drunk under a lamp post M&A click-bait strategy.
“We only want to be #1 and #2 in a market.”
Known fix: just redefine your market so you’re number one or number two.
Share price premium for # 1 or #2 in the market.
Pay people cheaper than you get paid to do things fallacy.
Google 2023 deadline for Google Cloud to beat Amazon.
Things we didn’t get to
- Gartner, Splunk & McKinsey – IT Infrastructure & Operations
A Cloud Guru Announces Acquisition of Linux Academy
For The New York Times, a swing and a miss at Amazon Web Services
Google execs reportedly debated getting out of cloud computing, but instead set a goal of being a top-two player by 2023
Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud
Stratoscale closes down, lays off 60
Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray distributed computing project, launches with $20.6M led by a16z
Compare Red Hat OpenShift vs. Cloud Foundry in a Kubernetes faceoff
IBM tailors Swift relationship after 'review of open source priorities'
AWS hits back at open-source software critics
Amazon Conference Badges Tracked Attendees' Movements
IBM to Google: Istio, Knative, TensorFlow should be under 'open governance'
Exclusive: Pentagon warns military members DNA kits pose ‘personal and operational risks’
Employee error to blame for massive data leak
Video games are easy channel for money launderers
BigID bags another $50M round as data privacy laws proliferate
The Biggest Problems With Bluetooth Audio Are About to Be Fixed
Introducing Cloudflare for Teams
Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers
Code-wise, cloud-foolish: avoiding bad technology choices
Accenture Buys CyberSecurity Services Business of Symantec
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too.
June 1-4: ChefConf 2020
Jordi wants you to go to GitLab Commit Jan. 14th
DevOpsDays Austin 2020 May 4th and 5th
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Matt: Star Wars/Mandalorian, The 15 most awe-inspiring space images of the decade
Brandon: macOS Catalina Patcher; Upgrade your Mac SSD
Coté: iPhone 11 Pro, most recent The Weeds episode, The Weeds episode called “Midichlorian chili.”
Ourto: “I love bread,” Parry Gripp.
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