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August 15, 2019Episode 192: Coté still doesn’t understand how startup valuations work
We discuss WeWork vs. Regus, Cloudera, and tumblr. Plus, some clarifications on trans-dimensional bomb defusing.
Mood board:
You talk about the Pacific Northwest, but have you thought about Florida?
I could be like the 35 year old Andy Rooney.
Hey Google, where are my keys?
We’re driving off hosts at this point
Herbalife.
Funny logs.
Was it real money?
It’s probably cheaper than severance.
I am not following any of it.
Where’s Tim Wu when you need him?
This is Tumblr all over again.
Nothing but insects please.
Oh Andy Rooney, save me!
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.
Relevant to your interests
Apple Card Review: The Credit Card of the Future Is No Card At All - Banking.
Matt Asay goes to AWS
Verizon to Sell Tumblr to WordPress.com Owner
Automattic’s bargain-bin Tumblr deal plugs right into the WordPress business model
Verizon agrees to sell Tumblr to owner of Wordpress
Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera
Kubernetes open sourced their security audit. What can we learn?
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B
Broadcom's Strategy for its Symantec Deal Has a Lot in Common with its CA Deal
Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion
Cloud Computing without Containers
Spiceworks acquired.
Amazon announces general availability of AWS Lake Formation
Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com
Introducing Certificate Transparency Monitoring
The XY Problem - or (x)Y?
Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD camera
A cofounder of NPM, a startup that 11 million developers rely on, has resigned in the wake of a period of employee unrest
He tried to prank the DMV. Then his vanity license plate backfired big time.
Clever Vanity License Plate Backfires On Man, Winds Up With Tons Of Tickets
I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets
Microsoft culls Office 2019 from its Home Use Program
War and Peace (Book)
Nonsense
Man dies after competing in California taco-eating contest
Real ad that a real restaurant in Mexico
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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
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: Azlo and TransferWise.
Matt: Eluvium An Accidental Memory In the Case of Death
Coté: Thunderspace app.
Outro: “Andy Rooney MONTAGE.”
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1 hr 10 min
August 08, 2019Episode 191: Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?
Renaming to align with kunernetes and JEDI master Trump.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.
Mood board:
Have either of you ever eaten dog meat?
He easily slides into meataterian.
Skype would be terrible if it weren’t so great!
Follow the foot-stones
Going up the well
I like dogs, what I don’t like is additional responsibility.
My life is mostly avoiding more responsibility
Sorry about your dog…
Oyster and Opals.
Dogs and trains
Once you get to Atlanta, trains be like, fuck that shit.
I’m going to write that down and look at it when I’m depressed.
Who put kubernetes in my Mesosphere?
Not investment advice.
2 to 3 yards of J2EE books.
If you put it into a container, you’ll probably be OK.
Relevant to your interests
Mesosphere changes name to D2IQ, shifts focus to Kubernetes, cloud native
IBM fuses its software with Red Hat’s to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut
After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon reexamines $10 billion JEDI cloud contract process
Your multicloud strategy is all wrong
A Technical Analysis of the Capital One Hack
Dynatrace S-1 Analysis — Tracing a Transition
NetApp Stock Is Tumbling After the Company Warned That Tech Spending Was Slowing
Will Uber ever make money? Day of reckoning looms for ride-sharing firm
It’s the end of the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR’s assets
Microsoft launches Azure Security Lab, expands bug bounty rewards
Nonsense
Alabama teen wins PowerPoint World Championship
Airlines are finally fixing the middle seat
Why is called an Oyster Card?
Sponsors
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TrackJS
Conferences, et. al.
August 12th to 15th - Cloudbees DevOps World and Jenkins World, San Francisco - use the code GOLOCAL for a discount. Also in Lisbon, Dec 3rd to 5th.
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
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: Hard Knocks and Last Chance U.
Matt: Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country.
Coté: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion.
Outro: “Depreston,” Courtney Barnett.
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1 hr 12 min
August 03, 2019Episode 190: Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.
Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft.
There’s a clutch of data breaches this week and Coté finally learns why this is bad. Also, monitoring company IPOs, nachos, and the eating management and the terrors of European fry condiment management.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.
Moodboard:
I’m making my way to the microphone. The only way I know how.
We need to start a YouTube channel where we do webinar reactions.
We got some cool stuff to talk about with this latest breach.
I just wanted a meal and now I have a problem to solve.
I think I have some swamp stuff in Europe for the geographic oddity section.
That’s my problem, I don’t like fun.
Back to nachos
The nacho of nachos
Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week.
The nonsense was the logs, not the log reader.
Unnonsense your nonsense.
Cause lawyers get paid.
No time for the infinite scrolling ban.
He had an affinity for green glass.
Relevant to your interests
All about Pivotal stuff on kubernetes - Richard and Coté discuss it on this week’s Pivotal Conversations episode.
The inevitability of K8s: Pivotal CEO describes the pain and benefits of technology transition
Apple Acquiring the Majority of Intel's Smartphone Modem Business
Google Cloud's annual revenue run rate disclosure adds color to cloud race | ZDNet
Google Cloud to run VMware Cloud Foundation workloads
Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform
Google teams up with VMware to bring more enterprises to its cloud
Oracle has quietly altered course on the way it sells its 'private-cloud' product, a key area of its cloud-computing strategy
Google Cloud’s run rate is now over $8B
Amazon reports $63.4 billion in Q2 2019 revenue: AWS up 37%, subscriptions up 37%, and ‘other’ up 37%
Microsoft reports $33.7 billion in Q4 2019 revenue: Azure up 64%, Surface up 14%, and LinkedIn up 25%
Why Zoom Is the Best Videoconferencing Service
URGENT/11 VxWorks RTOS Vulnerabilities Found, Critical Systems Affected
GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions
Write like an Amazanion
A former Amazon employee hacked the credit card data of 100 million Americans
Amazon refuses blame for massive Capital One data breach, says its cloud services were "not compromised in any way"
FTC warns Equifax claimants will get 'nowhere near' $125 cash payout
Microsoft will drop Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021 | ZDNet
Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
Should your B2B brand create social media stories?
Datadog IPO: Cloud-based Monitoring's Next Move? - ChannelE2E
Dynatrace Prices IPO Above Range At $16/Share, Valuing The Software Company At $4.5B
IBM Fired as Many as 100,000 in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows
Nonsense
Our Favorite Laptop Backpacks for 2019
This is a black and white photograph. Only the lines have colour.
Contact Lenses That Can Change Focus and Zoom When You Blink Move Closer to Reality
Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along：The Asahi Shimbun
Celsius vs.Fahrenheit
Get real good-like at talking English.
Will Matt Ray give an Emacs keynote?
Sponsors
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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.
Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas - get $200 off registration before August 20th. 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
Kubeyland 2019 via Justin Garrison
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
Follow-up
Italy had a swamps that were drained: “The road proved difficult to keep above water. Under Augustus, a compromise was reached with the construction of a parallel canal. The part of the marsh above sea level was successfully drained by channels, and new agricultural land of legendary fertility came into being. Whenever the channels were not maintained, the swamp reappeared. Meanwhile, frequent epidemics of malaria at Rome and elsewhere kept the reclamation issue alive. Under Benito Mussolini's regime in the 1930s, the problem was nearly solved by placing dikes and pumping out that portion of the marsh below sea level. It continues to need constant maintenance. Italian confidence in the project was so high, the city placed by Mussolini in 1932 in the center of the marsh, Latina, became the capital of a new province, Latina.”
There were German colonies - mostly in Africa.
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: Running from Cops.
Matt: Stories from the Frontlines of Synthetic Fraud
Coté: Grolsch Blond; Freak Kingdom and The Gonzo Tapes.
Outro: The Usual Suspects.
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1 hr 3 min
July 26, 2019Episode 189: The 6 clouds you’ll meet in the MQ
It’s cloud magic time! We go over the evolution of the IaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant, or whatever it’s called now. Plus, is it so hard to do do enterprise sales? (Yes.) And too much commentary on umlauts, ASCII, and Munich bike bells.
Mood board:
CI/CD is this podcast’s VDI.
“Dude, I’ll read.”
It’s hot here.
Did those clothing-optional vegan hippies invite themselves over to your room a lot?
Ruled by actuarial tables
I need to look up what constitutes a swamp
Google cloud is people.
You can’t put the math back in the box.
Cee-star-o.
Bad things are bad.
You can be a low-value target and I’ll still draw a funny picture in your book.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap! And check out his other book that this guy likes.
Relevant to your interests
Google Cloud gains in Gartner's 2019 cloud infrastructure Magic Quadrant
Microsoft Hits Record High as Cloud Revenues Drive Q4 Earnings Beat. Also, one analyst estimates that their cloud revenue now matches on-premises.
Equifax to Pay at Least $650 Million in Largest Data-Breach Settlement Ever
Kazakhstan’s internet crackdown shows the world wide web is becoming less worldwide
Related, US Attorney General wants backdoors, but just for “not nukes.”
CircleCI closes $56M Series D investment as market for continuous delivery expands
Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology).
Nonsense
230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019
Sponsors
Solarwinds
To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail for free, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun.
TrackJS
TrackJS is an engineer-owned cloud service that gives you visibility to client-side issues. Try it free at TrackJS.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things.
Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
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: Prometheus (The Movie).
Matt: Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks – Extended Edition; https://pinfinder.net/
Coté: Pee-wee's Big Holiday. Ballon scene. Laundry books are good.
Outro: Nelson.
Sponsored By:
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1 hr 4 min
July 20, 2019Episode 188: The transit private/public partnership, and, yeah, still, of course, kubernetes shit of the week
There’s a couple kubernetes announcements this week: we mostly talk about Pivotal’s, and a tad on IBM. Plus, maybe scooters are actually good for cities and compiling source code for your infrastructure software is probably a bad idea. Don’t @ us.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap!
Mood Board:
Evil Hodor is cancelled.
Must be this short to ride free.
The full mullet of monitoring.
There is no nuance to this statement.
Just keep using VMware.
If you’re compiling the source code, you’re gonna have problems.
LAMP stack.
Tell me how to do what I want, not why I can’t do it.
Relevant to your interests
Pivotal kubernetes stuff, alpha of running all the stuff on Kubernetes (PKS), Pivotal’s JRE/Tomcat product now GA.
“PAS on Kubernetes is packaged as a tile for Ops Manager, and uses BOSH to deploy its system components. It requires vSphere, NSX-T, and Enterprise PKS. “ (“Tile” is Pivotal speak for “feature/sub-system/plugin/extension/component/product/etc.”)
Good summary from NL coverage:
Build Service: Easily automates container images for developers and offers companies audit and security controls that are needed to work with confidence on a large scale. Build Service is made possible by the CNCF Cloud-Native Buildpacks project and is co-developed by Pivotal.
RabbitMQ for Kubernetes: Automates the implementation and management of RabbitMQ. In addition, RabbitMQ is configurable and offers a self-service experience for developers;
Service Mesh: Automates the installation and configuration of Istio. This allows developers to drop apps to production quickly and safely. In addition, it provides secure networks that businesses need.
Spring Runtime: It offers comprehensive support for Java environments, including OpenJDK, Spring Support and Apache Tomcat.
The New Stack: The Pivotal Application Service Addresses Kubernetes Complexity.
Pretty good summary of Pivotal Cloud Foundry as a whole: “Pivotal Application Service is a software application development platform based on the open-source Cloud Foundry project, which provides a range of clouds, developer frameworks and app services to work with. The idea is to make it easier for developers to build, test, deploy and scale up their apps on a variety of cloud platforms.”
Taft: “This reflects an important strategic shift by Pivotal to acknowledge the importance of Kubernetes as an integral component of customers' application modernization programs, said Charlotte Dunlap, an analyst at GlobalData in Santa Cruz, Calif.”
Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester: "For a while I've spoken to enterprises that are worried that they have to make a choice: PAS and Cloud Foundry, or go with Kubernetes and give up what they like about PAS. This makes it possible to keep what they like about PAS and work at a higher level of abstraction, without worrying about somehow missing out on all the innovation going on in the Kubernetes world."
IBM kubernetes stuff, at OSCON.
‘Appsody is pitched as allowing developers to quickly create microservices to their organisation’s standards and requirements, using pre-configured stacks and templates for “popular open source runtimes and frameworks, providing a foundation to build applications for Kubernetes and Knative deployments.”’
‘Codewind, is a project to provide extensions to IDEs, starting with VS Code, Eclipse and Eclipse Che, to allow them to be used to build containerised applications.’
‘As for Kabanero, this aims to bring together projects like Knative, Istio and Tekton, along with Codewind, Appsody, and Razzee, to allow users to “architect, build, deploy, and manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes-based applications.” The project includes “pre-built deployments to Kubernetes and Knative (using Operators and Helm charts)…so, developers can spend more time developing scalable applications and less time understanding infrastructure.”’
For Digital Transformers, It's About Fast-Moving Data. Here Are Three Ways to Speed Up.
The Google Cloud Developer's Cheat Sheet.
IBM's Last Report Without Red Hat Was a Mixed Bag.
Bulgaria Beat: Data of Nearly Every Adult in Bulgaria Likely Stolen in Cyberattack.
Apple is reportedly planning to pay for exclusive podcasts. Hot-take: 🙄
IBM and Microsoft get milly-ons from AT&T for cloud stuff:
IBM: ‘As part of the agreement announced Tuesday, AT&T will use Red Hat’s open-source platform to manage workloads and applications and “better serve” enterprise customers. AT&T and IBM will also team up on developing “edge computing platforms” that harness 5G networks and internet-connected devices.’
Microsoft: Office 365, plus: “Beyond AT&T’s own internal use of Microsoft technology, the companies are working together on developing tools for artificial intelligence and high-speed 5G wireless, and plan to announce additional services later this year.”
Also, coverage from Tim Anderson at The Register.
Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide - cities’ traffic planning and management is fully disrupted, really. They (well, meaning us via taxes) have to suck up the capital costs and upset people while the usual tech people skim data for advertising profits. Plus, you know, we get really good transportation options. See opening prattle.
Computer password inventor dies aged 93, meanwhile, Turing to be on 50 pound note.
IBM Takes A Hands Off Approach With Red Hat: “Given that it has been a decade and only 20 percent of the workloads have moved, there is a lot that is going to stay private and on premises, and we need a way to operate in all of these environments as opposed to having different siloes that can’t and have skills fungibility across all of them.”
Symantec share price nose dives after rumored Broadcom biz gobble taken off the menu.
Judge shoots down Oracle protest over $10B JEDI cloud contract, leaving Amazon and Microsoft as finalists.
Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force: “The e-commerce giant said Thursday that it planned to spend $700 million to retrain about a third of its American workers to do more high-tech tasks, an acknowledgment that advances in technology are remaking jobs in nearly every industry — and that workers will need to adapt or risk being left behind.”
Nonsense
Hot dog fan? You can now stay in a 27-foot long Wienermobile on Airbnb.
Follow-up: there is some newer Lovecraft stuff out there!
Sponsors
Solarwinds
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly .
To try it FREE for 14 days just go to http://loggly.com/sdt.
TrackJS
TrackJS is an engineer-owned cloud service that gives you visibility to client-side issues.
Try it free at TrackJS.com/sdt.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Check out GO CARDLESS.
Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform Netflix.
Senior Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering Netflix.
Chef - Community Manager.
Platform Operations Engineer Aspect.
Come work at Pivotal.
Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides and Talk.
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: Secrets of Sand Hill Road; How To Raise Money from a Venture Investor; How To Understand And Choose a Venture Investor.
Coté: Gillette Foamy Regular Shave Foam, 2 oz, 56g. The little, metal red bottle. Available at Target, etc.
Outro: “softwaredefinedsong,” *[*charleswhollien](https://github.com/charleswhollien)*.*
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.
TrackJS: TrackJS is an engineer-owned cloud service that gives you visibility to client-side issues. Try it free at TrackJS.com/sdt.
Promo Code: SDT
1 hr 6 min
July 13, 2019Episode 187: Beyond the Fitzgeraldian Theory of Cloud Barriers to Entry
With IBM closing its acquisition of Red Hat, we discuss the changing mechanics of an enterprise software business. Why do we think the big clouds will have such an indefinite hold on market leadership when every past tech leader has been disrupted and fallen? Speaking of, Broadcom is tryin’ hard to become a portfolio company. Also, security sucks, Coté finds video chats annoying, and he can’t keep all the camera lingo in his head.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap!
Also:
I wish I could turn other people’s videos off.
Makes money, that’s a good strategy.
Security through diversity, is that a thing?
Breaking news, public cloud is a good thing.
I’ve been replaced by software.
What the fuck do I do with a histogram?
Clicking auto fixed the photo fine.
Flywheelin’.
You can’t cut costs by cutting your employees legs off.
It was something about FStop, and then I lost it.
Relevant to your interests
Zoom problems.
Cloudera Sees Inspiration in Red Hat, Goes "All-In" on Open Source.
Not sure what exactly this covers, vs. Hadoop itself. I guess all the commercialized stuff wrapped around Hadoop?
IBM finalized Red Hat acquisition:
Charles Fitzgerald aptly plays the part of Charles Fitzgerald.
Related, upcoming webinar: Red Hat on free software and pay software.
British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach - not sure what the HACK actually was.
Symantec shares soar on report that Broadcom is in talks to acquire the security software maker.
For filler topic.
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? - Low quality architecture and code means you can’t change as quickly and as much as you’d like. is “tech debt” a good metaphor, or drying cement?
Gates Says Steve Jobs Cast ‘Spells’ to Keep Apple From Dying - “minor wizard.”
AWS makes another acquisition, grabbing TSO Logic - “The company takes data about workloads and applications and helps customers find the most efficient place to run them by measuring requirements like resource needs against cost to find the right balance at any given time.” CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IS SO HOT RIGHT NOW.
Meet the Great Duke of... DLL: Microsoft shines light on Astaroth, a devilishly sneaky strain of fileless malware - I mean, security seems hard to get right 100% of the time? Related: problems in ruby-land, and JavaScript.
QA Acquires Cloud Academy to Create a World-leading Corporate Skills Platform.
Nonsense
The 4 Stages of Culture Shock - maturity cycle for living abroad.
@Clipart1994bot.
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Check out GO CARDLESS.
Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform Netflix.
Senior Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering Netflix.
Chef - Community Manager.
Platform Operations Engineer Aspect.
Come work at Pivotal.
Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides and Talk.
Listener Feedback
Coté is not coordinated enough to include that this episode.
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Recommendations
Matt: *[*Endeavour](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2701582/)*;* The Terror **(again!).
Coté: Old Navy for the kids.
Outro: “softwaredefinedsong,” *[*charleswhollien](https://github.com/charleswhollien)*.*
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1 hr 8 min
July 05, 2019Episode 186: SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”
SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”
How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week with Google's Nathen Harvey about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene.
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Conferences, et. al.
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things.
Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
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.
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Recommendations
Coté: sit at a cafe in Paris and people watch.
Special Guest: Nathen Harvey.
Sponsored By:
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28 min
July 01, 2019Episode 185: Drink your own dog food
Drink your own dog food
No matter the searing product strategy insight, ops is always left holding the bag. With few exceptions (like NSX), infrastructure software has to be free and easy to check out and even use. All product management and strategy decisions flow from that. Usually. Except when they don’t. Also, developers don’t pay for anything, they trick ops into it. Maybe that’ll change in public cloud land, but who knows?
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap!
Also:
Dark green smoothies.
Immediate value.
Gotta schedule a phone call to optimize phone calls.
A light under a bushel.
Free bread crumbs to the public cloud oven.
Don't feel ashamed, everywhere else is fucked too, cf. Lean accounting.
OpenShift too expensive, but no one actually checked the price.
Slit your wrists with a business card.
“DJ Pull Request.”
Brandon’s organic trash matter.
Kim did no approve this wallet.
Relevant to your interests
MongoDB CEO on Open Source, Taking on Oracle, and Scaling Up
Huge fluctuations in database market-share.
Get your Audible credits up-front…if you pay up-front.
IBM gains unconditional EU approval for $34 billion Red Hat deal.
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
Slack CEO, ahead of NYSE debut, predicts the end of company email as we know it in 7 years
Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi
How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today
The Power of Costco
Software Below the Poverty Line
Deconstructing Balenciaga’s Wacky Instagram Nonsense
Acquired Podcast about SuperHuman
Nonsense
Talk Like a Texan: This One’s for All Y’All
Sponsors
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Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Check out GO CARDLESS.
Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Platform Netflix.
Senior Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering Netflix.
Chef - Community Manager.
Platform Operations Engineer Aspect.
Come work at Pivotal.
Matt Ray’s How to Resume’: Slides and Talk.
Listener Feedback
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SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: City of Austin Garbage Collection Reminders.
Matt: “I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers.”
Coté: Secrid (Coté got the “Vintage Cognac-Rust”).
Outro: “softwaredefinedsong,”charleswhollien
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1 hr 13 min
June 21, 2019Episode 184: The developer survey bong talk SIG
Do organizations ever just want to do a good job? Not really. Also, after looking through a new developer survey: Developers change what they use, but pretty much stay the same. Also, half of the, still don’t use build pipelines or issue trackers. When will these kids learn? And Coté explains why Nietzsche’s Eternal Return thing seems unhelpful.
Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap!
Also:
Pretty hard stop in an hour.
Slack Messaging Transport Protocol and The Cold Chain
Drum-circle free zone at Vondelpark!
Like us on Facebook as we hate on Facebook
As people would call it… bong talk.
If I’m gonna do a good job I’m gonna need a good editor.
Do .ini files still exist? Or has Microsoft gone all yaml?
The back 1/3 of all sci fi movies and religions.
Relevant to your interests
The state of Developer Ecosystem in 2019 Infographic
Only half use CI/CD? Been like that in surveys for many years, since 2012 or so.
Also, only 44% use an issue tracker? Weird.
Testing is pretty good with 70% doing unit testing.
Kubernetes Turns Five: Cloud Native Goes Mainstream
Open Core Summit 2019
This is a VC/startup conference, seems.
Why cloud is the best defense against AWS
I guess it’s some fanfic on OSS companies being good at running managed middleware services?
Not too far fetched of an idea: they just need good SREs and the ability to reliably and cheaply run on public clouds.
Kind of like selling against generics in grocery stores.
Kubernetes and the future of cloud native: We chat with Kelsey Hightower
TechExplorers: Kelsey Hightower
Lots of people doing it wrong: gotta have cloud native apps; don’t build platforms?
Apple joins the open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The goal of digital transformation is outcomes, not engineering
Coté just wanted to point out that this is a good newsletter. Listeners will like it, relevant to your interests.
Opening up our Atlassian Term Sheet
- Pull Panda is joining GitHub
Mission critical apps make successful open source platforms
Really good write-up of the sales life-cycle for any type of infrasture software.
Good attention to the whole life of a customer and paying attention total revenue across their “life,” e.g.:“A customer might spend 6 months scaling their deployment on their own. But if we could help them do that in 3 months, then we probably just pulled in our next sale by one quarter. “
What are the “average” prices for thing here? Analogously, you can bucket the pricing for all condemnts (with truffle oil being an outlier) in the $1 to $15 range. But not, like, $100. There must be some basic clusters of OSS pricing. (Expensive stuff is hard to sell in this funnel.)
I suppose looking at avg. annual revenue per customer for all these OSS companies would get you there.
“Bodies in Seats” - Facebook moderators
Even FB outsources! Here to Cognizant.
Seems terrible.
Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop?
Follow-up on Hortonworks acquisition, road-map confusion: ‘Cloudera was also dogged by other factors that resulted in a slowing of bookings in the quarter by existing customers, which represent more than 90 percent of the company’s usual growth, Reilly said during a conference call with Wall Street analysts yesterday. The merger with Hortonworks “created uncertainty, particularly regarding the combined company roadmap, which we rolled out in March of this year,” he said. “During this period of uncertainty, we saw increased competition from the public cloud vendors.”’
Nonsense
Subway History: How OS/2 Powered The NYC Subway For Decades
The machines are going to hate us
English units
Sponsor: 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.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Vilynx - Building the most powerful AI Brain
Listener Feedback
Mark from Wimbledon (London, England) wrote in so we sent him laptop sticker.
SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
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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
Coté: Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs.
Matt: 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy:
"The Cold Chain".
Outro: “All I Eat is Pizza,” Koo Koo Kanga Roo.
Sponsored By:
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53 min
June 14, 2019Episode 183: Miller Time is a state of mind
Lowering your expectations on open source is a favorite topic of ours, so we return to it. Spoiler: people gotta make money somehow. Also, we explore inebriation in Amsterdam and other locales, Mary Meeker’s slide fest, public cloud outages vs. desktop computers, and better consumer identity management.
Also:
Wacky tobaccy
Seattle Smell
Denver’s Flaming Skull Mayor Announces Plans To Decriminalize Magic Mushrooms.
Miller time is any time.
Here’s how you’ll be disappointed.
After the gold rush
The dispassionate gang of four.
Lifestyle businesses like IBM.
Everyone overvalues the present.
Spend $50 million here to make a billion there.
The Super Mainframe.
Talking points:
Coté fell asleep.
Ate too much French butter, had salt crystals in it, tho.
Using wildcard emails for logins - pinboard guy on securing Congressional campaign.
TED Talks.
Father’s Day? (Yes, June 16th)
What’s the position on booze now-a-days?
Zoom.us works, like dropbox works. Why was that so hard?
Passport photos and Skillcraft pens (a bit pricey in Europe).
Relevant to your interests
Salesforce to buy Tableau Software in $15.7 billion deal.
This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace.
Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds.
Mozilla to Launch Firefox Premium.
ceejbot/economics-of-package-management.
“Money let’s talk about.”
What’s driving open source software in 2019
GitHub hires former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as COO
“Brescia handled COO duties at Bitnami from its founding in 2011 until it was sold to VMware last month.”
Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL - huh?
- Project Svalbard: The Future of Have.
Forget power outages -- what happens when Google goes out?
Pedant tone: compared to what? Zip drives? My own laptop that’s not backed up? A corporate email server that goes down? Not backing up my photos? Was any data lost?
CrowdStrike prices IPO at $34, above range.
No Easy Way Forward For Commercial Open Source Software Vendors.
Software company MapR, once worth more than $1 billion, to lay off 122
I’ll be passing on Google’s new 2fa for logins on iPhones and iPads. Here’s why
Food Fight Farewell.
Mary Meeker’s most important trends on the internet
Coté: Been reading up on “disruptions” in various industries. (I want to write a very practical, “here, put these features in your software/do these projects/etc.” kind of write-up for various industries.)
Most of the the innovations and responses - “digital transformation” are just getting better apps.
Like, power companies that charge annually, my life insurance company with PDFs.
E.g., Lemonade doing a claim for a Canadian Goose jacket for $979 in 3 seconds, Zürich Insurance using AR with risk engineers…Pivotal stories aplenty.
The framing is basically “use these opportunities to reframe their relationship with the customer, leveraging the principles of customer experience and, in turn, will change their key processes and operations to deliver the CX-centric utility.”
That is, better customer service, faster sales transactions (buying, whatever) with the customers, and easier research/comprehension (test out how long it takes you to find the details of benefits for your credit card - look up the price you pay for water - see what your total return on your retirement investing is, etc.).
THIS IS ALL GREAT!
BUT WHY SO HARD? (IS IT HARD?)
My theory: this stuff isn’t hard, it just costs money and time. And just like developers don’t want to pay for anything, executives don’t want to pay for anything.
Turns out, though, when you pay for something you get, you know, something.
LegacyConf day 3 keynote: 10 Government Legacy Systems Cost Taxpayers $337 Million Every Year.
“How to Use Your Meat Buyer’s Guide” - SCHOOL IS IN SESSION.
Nonsense
NASA is opening the International Space Station to private astronauts.
LaCroix slammed with new lawsuit alleging execs sparred over whether to falsely claim its cans were free of toxic chemicals.
Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty.
Sponsors
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds® and one of their DevOps tools, Papertrail™
To learn more or to try SolarWinds Papertrail free for 14 days, go to papertrailapp.com/sdt and make troubleshooting fun again.
Conferences, et. al.
ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things. Coming up in: San Francisco (June 4th & 5th), Atlanta (June 13th & 14th)…and back to a lot of US cities.
ChefConf London 2019 June 19-20
Monktoberfest, Oct 3rd and 4th - CFP now open.
Recommended Jobs from Listeners
Best IT Development Podcasts 2019 for consultants - Qemploy
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
Coté: Magma notebooks.
Matt: Ricky Gervais Humanity on Netflix; GORUCK Echo (Discontinued).
Brandon: I am Mother on Netflix.
Sponsored By:
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1 hr 11 min

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