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October 25, 2019Episode 202: Does Nike make pleated khakis?
How important is domain knowledge for a new CEO? What is the key to building a successful Open Source Business? What is Kelsey Hightower really asking? We answer all these questions and more. Plus, Matt explains why a bus pass is better than a driver’s license in Australia.
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Executive Shuffles
Google just hired a former Microsoft exec to spearhead G Suite and Javier Soltero’s Bio
Microsoft’s Q1 earnings boosted by cloud and Office as Surface and Xbox stall
ServiceNow Announces Bill McDermott to Become CEO, Succeeding John Donahoe, Who Is Stepping Down to Become CEO of Nike
Nike, ServiceNow and SAP CEOs play a game of musical chairs
Free Software a.k.a Open Source
In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course—is it the right move?
Free Software and Open Source Business - Andreessen Horowitz
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
What $24 Million Means for Our Open Source Community — Grafana
Security
Getting Started with Security Keys
Don’t use admin/admin as username/password
The Chintzy Way Zappos Wants to Compensate Victims of a 2012 Data Breach
Kelsey Hightower asks a question…
Good news for developers: The CLI is back | ZDNet
IBM stock downgraded on fears of long-term Red Hat impact, other worries
Six Reasons Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina
Nonsense
Gulfstream’s New G700 Is Set to Become the World’s Biggest Private Jet
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Conferences, et. al.
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
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. †
SDT news & hype
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
Brandon: Joker
Matt: Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash
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1 hr 6 min
October 18, 2019Episode 201: The 10 pillar strategy
"This week there has been a lot of confusion on social media” around MeetUp charging more, along with the launch of a rival service at LinkedIn. Yeah, we get deep into LinkedIn talk! Then we discuss into what exactly a GitLab is.
Mood board:
Hard to come down on a definitive opinion on carrots.
We can educate Coté.
Learning from each other, the more you know!
There’s a lot of kube shit.
Non-subjugating windows.
Anyone can do a hyphen, you have to go out of your way to do an em-dash.
What’s a ‘fixie’?
HOT LINKEDIN ETHICS DEBATE.
You’re probably using the Twitter webpage and following the “Suggested Follows.”
There have been reports in social media.
It’s the chaos monkey for business models.
We can Armchair Product Management this thing.
I've been asked if crocodiles are considered "pescatarian-friendly."
It’s kind of like the yaml version of the Rational dream.
The whole rest of the world was putting together best of breed tools.
If you say so, Grammerly.
“Monty-python simulation”
Stay out of the room Mr. AI!
It’s paper size A-somebullshit.
We’re puttin’ the Plan column back on!
Space carpets.
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Meetups
Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious
LinkedIn Launches Events to Facilitate Professional Meet-Ups
freeCodeCamp is building an open source alternative to Meetup
GitLab
Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'
GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers
AWS
AWS Promotional Credits for Open Source Projects | Amazon Web Services
Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases
Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Just Turned off its Final Oracle Database | Amazon Web Services
Security
Google teams up with Yubico to build a USB-C Titan Security Key
Thoma Bravo makes $3.9 billion offer to acquire security firm Sophos
Potential bypass of Runas user restrictions
Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They're Restricted
Kube Corner
Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices
Red Hat Flexes OpenShift Kubernetes Muscles
MuleSoft Announces Anypoint Service Mesh, Extending the Power of Anypoint Platform to Any Microservice | MuleSoft
Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules
Ahead of Zuckerberg testimony, new setbacks for Libra
Inside Mozilla's 18-month effort to market without Facebook
Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Memo on HKmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
Open Source Gerrymandering
Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz
Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says
Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million
Why Richard Stallman doesn’t matter
IBM stock falls on revenue miss
IBM Reports Messy Results @themotleyfool #stocks $IBM
Nonsense
The Best Burritos in San Francisco
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Forum Sydney
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
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. †
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: Epson Scanner.
Matt: Anti-pick: The Dead Don’t Die. This Must Be The Gig podcast: Mike Patton.
Coté: The Fifth Season.
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PagerDuty: To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit https://pagerduty.com.
1 hr 19 min
October 11, 2019Episode 200: The mystery of the 2,000
The mystery of the 2,000
Two thrilling topics this week: moderating panels and the mystery of Oracle cloud. Also, some Austin talk.
Mood board:
The East India Company and Kodak
I just want your best 5 hours.
Executives can only pay attention for 20 minutes.
I’m in for a panel.
I’m more interested in hearing from the artist, not the people looking at the painting.
Ten year journey with billions of burn.
We’re talking about trillion dollar companies.
You can’t have enough storage for your podcasts.
Fired 2,000 people…and now hiring 2,000 people.
First-gen cloud building people are often a handful.
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How to moderate a panel.
Oracle Shelves Larry Ellison’s Dream of Cloud Dominance
tl;dr: “this is a bummer, man”…?
“Midlevel product managers were being offered $750,000 in compensation while some engineers with a vice president title were paid more than $5 million a year, people familiar with the matter said.” - Shoulda listed “Oracle cloud” on my LinkedIn…
Oracle to Make 2,000 Hires in Cloud Push
Will Salesforce Dump Oracle and Pick AWS? An Insider’s Perspective
Larry vs Jeff: An Epic Battle who controls Salesforce, coming at Dreamforce
Google Cloud Worth $225 Billion, Deutsche Bank Says
TechCrunch Disrupt: A tale of two markets separates tech from non-tech IPOs
Austin-based AI Startup SparkCognition Raises $100M Series C
Is Microsoft Out to Destroy Linux? Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts
Open Core Summit: The Value of Cloud and Commercial Open Source Software
New browser security debate heats up
Microsoft Unveils Battery-Powered Version of Azure That Fits in a Backpack - Simpsons already did it.
Microsoft using Android is bigger than its Surface Duo phone - looks cool, sure.
Nonsense
Animals on Airbnb Experiences
Drink up! Missouri bar charges by the hour, not by the glass
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Conferences, et. al.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
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.
Listener Suggested Jobs Openings
DevOps Engineer Viasat in San Diego from Justin Hallas
Full-Stack Software Engineer at NS8 remote options from Joshua Hover.
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: Synology, Plex and HDHomeRun.
Coté: cookies with bourbon raisons.
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1 hr 17 min
October 04, 2019Episode 199: 15 meters of cereal
Smokin’ hot webinar tips in this one, tips on things to put on your mouth in Austin, and then scandal in the open source world is getting fun again!
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Mood board:
It’s probably more of a figurative figurative phrase, not a literal figurative phrase.
I should probably start the recording again.
Don’t be so precise.
Kids these days.
There’s lots of issues with the Salt Lick.
Here’s a napkin.
You’re better off getting a Porche from Germany.
Let me translate that from Dutch to American.
15 meters of cereal.
Tradeless Commissions
Some basis points.
Well, I don’t know that, but I’m gonna look it up later.
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The webinar Coté mentioned, “The Business Bottleneck, part 01” with Rick Clark.
Matt Levine on free stock trading stuff.
AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement
Docker, once worth over $1 billion, tells employees it's trying to raise cash amid 'significant challenges'
Google will not donate Knative framework 'to any foundation for the foreseeable future'
The announcement is presumed to apply also to Istio, the service mesh on which Knative depends.
Both Knative and Istio use the Apache License 2.0 and Google's announcement does confirm that Knative will remain open source and with multi-vendor participation.
Jessie Frazelle does not like the CNCF and this tweet too.
Honeycomb Begins Another Chapter with a New Funding Round.
BMC Software taps CA Technologies exec for permanent CEO position.
KeyBanc Capital Markets - with some VMware coverage.
Read the full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s leaked internal Facebook meetings.
Nonsense
Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300 million to Zunleash growth. Then things got messy
Hercules cargo plane flew between skyscrapers
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Conferences, et. al.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
NO-SSH-JJ wants you go to DeliveryConf in Seattle on Jan 21st & 22nd, Use promo code: SDT10 to get 10% off. Call for Papers ends on Oct. 7th. JJ wants you to read about Delivery Conf Format too. †
Listener Feedback
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Ed from Seattle wrote in so we sent him a sticker.
Sent stickers to Chris from Bartlesville and so he got stickers.
Sent sticker to Joe in Colorado.
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: Apple Watch List View; Operation Socialist from Darknet Diaries.
Coté: HEMA bullet journal A5, just €5!; HEMA 4-pack markers, esp. the “0,5mm” one.
Outro: “That's Right, You're Not From Texas,” Lyle Lovett and His Large Band.
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1 hr 9 min
September 27, 2019Episode 198: Don’t get a Private Jet
Matt explains the GitLab vs. CloudBees kerfuffle, Coté offers advice when attending a DevOps Day, we also recommend never buying a corporate jet. Plus, there is some discussion of AXE Body Spray.
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GitLab opens: Jenkins: One year later
CloudBees responds: GitLab's Confusion
What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos?
Apple’s new Mac Pro to be made in Texas
Briefing: Facebook Buys Mind-Reading Startup For Close to $1 Billion
Containership sinks after being blown off course by Kubernetes • DEVCLASS
Announcing Stack Overflow’s New CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar! - Stack Overflow Blog
Mysterious Mac Pro Shutdowns Likely Caused by Chrome Update
Amazon announces new large Echo with better sound
****- What the hell is a vCPU-based on-demand service limit? - Last Week in AWS
Nonsense
WeWork is selling the company's $60 luxurious million private jet that Adam Neumann and his family personalized and used to fly all over the world
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Conferences, et. al.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
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: Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Matt: World’s Worst Video Card
Coté: English Breakfast in a cup
Photo by Product School on Unsplash
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42 min
September 21, 2019Episode 197: WAR_BIRDS
The season of IPOs, bullshit HR tells you about salary, and feeding ravenous 9 year olds.
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Mood board:
The Christmas Greenwich Meantime.
The Salary Vortex.
Podcast Google Alert.
Overnight he is growing 7 inches.
Throwing fish at a growing seal.
I want to be 63.
We’re way too top heavy.
Hot in the sun, cold in the shade.
Is this because of the Federal Reserve?
The chaos monkey of IPOs.
What happened to SVNLab?
College phrases from random places.
War Birds and Red Tides.
Relevant to your interests
VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat
Oracle announces Oracle Autonomous Linux
CentOS release
A developer goes to a DevOps conference
GitLab
Announcing $268 million in Series E funding
GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation
GitLab Strategy
GitHub
GitHub acquires Semmle to help developers spot code exploits
Welcome Semmle to the GitHub family
Leak of Microsoft Salaries Shows Fight for Higher Compensation
Google Warns LastPass Users Were Exposed To ‘Last Password’ Credential Leak
Computer Scientist Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT Over Epstein Comments
Hold My Beer – Let's Watch SoftBank Venture Capital Plunge
Apple reschedules iOS 13.1 and iPadOS releases for September 24th
What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud
Nonsense
The Question of Whether or Not WeWork Is a Tech Company Has Been Answered
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
Sep 25th - Something in London.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
Discount off KubeCon North America which is November 18 – 21 in San Diego. Use code KCNASFTPOD19 for a 10% discount.
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: Use Audible Credits in iPhone App; Radiolab’s episode Tit for Tat.
Matt: Aphex Twin’s website for b-sides and other miscellany
Coté: second bike. Traveling Salesmen - how does it work?
Outro: SDT Theme, charleswhollien.
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1 hr 13 min
September 13, 2019Episode 196: The janitor strategy
Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang.
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Mood board:
Buying something different to try something new.
Australian bagels.
“Let’s start the QBR: we’re gonna have hide my ass.”
“Obviously if we don’t sell ads we can do whatever the fuck we want.”
More fools giving their software away for free
I have a lot of thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon
Hanging out with the Scots at The Hague
I do have a follow-up question, but not on the soap.
Some baroque, bespoke, monster piece of infrastructure.
Matt’s little bit of glue.
How much simpler can you get than straight code?
General Container’s army of yamlites.
Developer tools = vomit on the floor
Write in if you disagree.
Relevant to your interests
Pivotal interviews from CF Summit EU:
the multi-tenant problem in kubernetes.
“In the future K8s will exist as an infrastructure API almost universally.”
“Daimler takes a hybrid cloud approach, using Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud and Alibaba, as well as its own data centre in Stuttgart and a new one being built in Frankfurt.”
Cornelia Davis on PaaS, kubernetes, and cloud native programming.
IBM brings Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift together
“our understanding is that IBM plans to turn this into a fully supported project that will give Cloud Foundry users the option to deploy their application right to OpenShift*,* while OpenShift customers will be able to offer their developers the Cloud Foundry experience.”
COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive us all
Why Red Hat sees Knative as the answer to Kubernetes orchestration
BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage
Data Protection Services Firm Carbonite Considers a Sale
Recap of the “funding” experiment
“you have to admit, the fact that businesses will pay thousands of dollars for some SaaS software while ignoring the maintainers who write the actual open source code itself seems a bit unfair.”
Coté’s hot-take: I mean. Yeah. People will pay $0 for what they want if you give them the chance.
Should open source software advertise?
Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken
Google Could Acquire Nutanix For $9 Billion To Further Its Cloud Ambitions
This is a good example of I-banker think, namely, it doesn’t actually talk about what Nutanix does or what kind of new opportunities Google and them would have together. Lots of fun charts though!
Everything Apple announced today, including the new iPhone 11, Apple TV+, Apple Watch, and more
It's Not Just You: Software Has Gotten Far More Expensive - check out their spreadsheet, with sparkle lines!
Uber stock price drops after missed Q2 expectations
Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube
Announcing Terraform Cloud
Mark Hurd, the co-CEO of Oracle, is taking a leave of absence, citing health reasons
IPO’s
The Datadog IPO: One Of The Best IPOs In Years
WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10 billion...
Cloudflare Raises $525 Million in Above-Range IPO
New Rita McGrath book out, Seeing Around Corners.
Nonsense
Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain, just moved to eliminate 500 million small bottles.
Jack Ma's performance.
“;; I'm using use-package and el-get and evil”
Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly . To try it FREE for 14 days just go to https://loggly.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
Sep 25th - Something in London.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it.
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
Listener Feedback
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Recommendations
Brandon: Land of Giants and Pivot. Related: Robert Scoble.
Matt: Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Mics and Men.
Jim Plamondon: Microsoft Evangelist.
Coté: Trick Mirror.
Outro: "Spottieottiedopalicious (Instrumental)."
Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds and one of their web APM tools: Loggly. It’s scalable cloud-based log management that won’t break the bank. Learn more or try it FREE for 14 days. Just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
1 hr 22 min
September 06, 2019Episode 195: Elite isn’t Elite enough
Searched Guard stole some code, lots of “elites” in the State of DevOps Report and should we really cry for Docker? Plus, we talk Australia Punters invading American Football and why Yahoo! will always be a necessity to football fans.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.
Relevant to your interests
State of DevOps Report with Coté’s notes
“The proportion of our elite performers has almost tripled, showing that excellence is possible—it just requires execution.”
OSS
Dear Searched Guard Users
Why doesn't anyone weep for Docker?
Troubles with the Open Source Gig Economy and Sustainability Tip Jar
More Security
XKCD has been pwned
Twitter temporarily shuts down ability to tweet via SMS
More VMware
With Heptio and Pivotal, VMware Doubles Down on Kubernetes - The New Stack
Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Bring Order to Cluster Chaos - Cloud Native Apps Blog
VMware Welcomes Estranged Sibling Pivotal Back Home
VMworld 2019 US Day 1 General Session
VMworld 2019 US Day 2 General Session
VMware And IBM Go Full Circle To Dominate The Cloud-Native Ecosystem
What Cloud Vendors Really Want From Their Customers - UpperEdge
Modern applications at AWS
Airlines ban all MacBook Pros from checked luggage
NetNewsWire 5.0 RSS Reader Rebuilt from Scratch, Now Free and Open Source
Vienna
One Toolchain to Manage All the Development: A CI/CD-Vendor Obsession
Nonsense
16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes
Costco has a ‘grate’ deal on a 72-pound wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
Agile Scotland
CF Summit EU, Sep 11th to 12th.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
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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:
Short article on Uber Values
Podcast Interview: “The epic battle for Uber, with Mike Isaac from the New York Times”
Audiobook Super Pumped
Matt: Anti-pick: Sports downloads
Cover Art: Image credit
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58 min
August 29, 2019Episode 194: Datadog's S1, Ping, vKubernates
This week, the title says it all.
Mood board:
Jandels and togs
That’s why they call it The Lucky Country.
Decoding “Fly-Wheel.”
1 part synergy and 10 parts how business is done.
Unlocking value.
It’s always fun to see value created.
I bet they got RBAC.
The Funny Name Startup Strategy to Success.
Brandon looks at The Business End.
The Platform of the Future.
Brisket for the last Fortune 500.
It’s too complicated.
You could put a million containers on this one box.
I bet the Oracle field has some really cool spreadsheets.
Bespoke nachos.
Knowing stuff is dangerous.
He’s going to Roko’s Basilisk me for his inheritance.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.
Relevant to your interests
State of DevOps Report - Coté’s notes.
VMware
VMware acquires application security startup Intrinsic.
VMware Adds Containers to Its Cloud Provider Platform.
VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition.
VMware plan elevates Kubernetes to star enterprise status
“VMware says that from 2018 to 2023 – with new tools/platforms, more developers, agile methods, and lots of code reuse – 500 million new logical apps will be created serving the needs of many application types and spanning all types of environments.”
Project Pacific - Technical Overview.
VMware Tanzu
Introducing VMware Tanzu Helm.
VMware gets new CTO in Greg Lavender.
IPO’s
Ping Identity files for $100M IPO on Nasdaq under the ticker ‘Ping’
Datadog S1
Datadog IPO | S-1 Breakdown
Corey Quinn on Monitoring
Service Mesh
Red Hat Creates Service Mesh for OpenShift
Starter Istio from Salesforce.com Engineering
Oracle
Oracle customers cause a Dyn over withdrawal of lifetime licenses
Oracle directors: Shareholders can go ahead with billion-dollar...
Platform9 Raises $25 Million D-Round
Popular JavaScript library starts showing ads in its terminal
Google and Dell team up to take on Microsoft with Chromebook Enterprise laptops
## Nonsense
Apple warns new credit card users over risks of it touching wallets and pockets
Tiny Go
Mobile Phone Markets in a GIF
Apple reportedly shelves 'walkie talkie' iPhone feature
Costco shuts early on first day in China due to overcrowding
Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly . To try it FREE for 14 days just go to https://loggly.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
Coté will be at #AgileScotland this Friday giving a 90 minute overview of how large orgs. scale THE DIGITALTRANSFORMATION. There's still a handful of tickets left, use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount.
CF Summit EU, Sep 11th to 12th.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
Nov 2nd - EmacsConf 2019
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
Listen to Brandon’s interview on the Cloudcast with Brian Gracely
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: Free Solo; GoNFCEast Podcast; listen to Brandon’s interview on the Cloudcast with Brian Gracely
Matt: Empire State of Mind, On The Media.
Cote: Wilhelmina mints, Limoncello.
52 min
August 22, 2019Episode 193: “WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.
“WE” need a forensic accountant for the show.
SignalFX gets bought for a billion, Microsoft buys jClarity and VMWare is buying Pivotal…again? We discuss all this and “WE” try to make sense of all this fancy “trademark accounting.”
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.
Relevant to your interests
Splunk to Acquire Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx
VMware says it’s looking to acquire Pivotal
Microsoft Screws Customers and its Own Advocates Alike - Last Week in AWS
Microsoft takes big gulp of Java with jClarity acquisition, further boosting Azure’s open-source cred
Report: Not all open-source software is created equal
CNCF Archives the rkt Project - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few Have Implemented an Enterprise-Wide Strategy
Backdoor code found in 11 Ruby libraries | ZDNet
Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr
PodPass: Proposal for an Open Protocol to Enable Direct Listener Relationships
Podcasts get that VC cash
WeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
Forget monoliths vs. microservices. Cognitive load is what matters
Everything You Need to Know About the Apple Card I Did Not Need
Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket - Bitbucket
Intel, Google, Microsoft, and others launch Confidential Computing Consortium for data security
Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog
Gene Kim on the Nokia book
Nonsense
Remote Shell and File Editing with Emacs' TRAMP Mode
Harvard Just Discovered that PowerPoint is Worse Than Useless
Air New Zealand is Crazy About Rugby
Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their application performance monitoring tools, Papertrail. To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail for free, go to http://papertrailapp.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
August 30th - Agile Scotland, Glasgow - Coté giving 90 minute workshop. Use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount: from £70 to £56.13.
Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Coté (make sure to use the accented e). Come to the EMEA party if you’re in EMEA.
Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted: Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd, São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th.
December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney
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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: Wyze Cam
Matt: David Byrne on the Long Now Foundation
Intro and Outro: SDT Theme
Cover Art Image by Chris Pastrick Chris Pastrick from Pixabay
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