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January 18, 2019Episode 162: The diapers.com effect, also, LTS and the mysteries of software pricing
Are we still on that open source licensing thing? Yes. “The most boring topic of all time.” Also, Slack's logo and long term support software monetization models: how do they work?
Summary:
“Diapers.com buster (AKA Amazon)”
“What is someone really selling with LTS?”
“Artful genitals.”
“It’s not butt ducks”
“I’ve had three dogs since then…”
Microsoft laughed.
This week’s cover art from TheNextWeb.
MONGO, MONGO, MONGO!
MongoDB Issues New Server Side Public License for MongoDB Community Server
MongoDB not in RHEL 8.0
MongoDB "open-source" Server Side Public License rejected
AWS vs. open source: DocumentDB is the latest battlefront
AWS gives open source the middle finger
AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source (Ben Thompson)
Fine, fine…but music companies didn’t “sell” CDs, they sold music. Authors don’t “sell” printed books, they sell stories. They sell IP. The medium isn’t the product.
“This trade-off is inescapable, and it is fair to wonder if the golden age of VC-funded open source companies will start to fade (although not open source generally). The monetization model depends on the friction of on-premise software; once cloud computing is dominant, the economic model is much more challenging.”
There’s some ponderous gyrating between public cloud being good at managed hosting/services (they run the stuff well) vs. software (their features are unique/good).
Ben’s follow-up (subscription required):
“ Atlas was only 8% of total revenue last year, which grew 57% year-over-year; that means that Atlas itself grew 330% year-over-year, from $3.3 million to $14.3 million. Of course cost of revenue grew 68% as well, thanks to a $4.1 million increase in hosting costs (AWS wins either way), but particularly given the addition of a free Atlas offering, those costs aren’t out of line.”
So, with this “SSPL” thing, AWS would have to open source all of itself, or just the DocumentDB part?
Here: “The specific objection is that SSPL requires, if you offer services licensed under it, that you must open-source all programs that you use to make the software available as a service.
From Mongo’s press release on SSPL, Oct. 2018: “The only substantive change is an explicit condition that any organization attempting to exploit MongoDB as a service must open source the software that it uses to offer such service.”
What would happen if AWS was all open source? Given that few companies could use OpenStack or make their own clouds (even with cloud.com and such), just having the code matters little to a successful cloud business, right?
Or, maybe it doesn’t mean all of AWS, just the DocumentDB part. Which is, really, the in the spirit of the GPL.
The competitive tactic of forcing competitors to open source their stuff is weird.
Relevant to your interests
Amazon reportedly acquired Israeli disaster recovery service CloudEndure for around $200M
AWS makes another acquisition grabbing TSO Logic
IBM Just Unveiled The First Commercial Quantum Computer
“Watson! Whatever happened to ‘unikernal’?” Is that one in the bag and this is the new thing?
Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR) | Multicloud Serverless Management Platform
Serverless computing: one step forward, two steps back
Day Two Kubernetes: Tools for Operability
Taking the smarts out of smart TVs would make them more expensive
OneLogin snares $100M investment to expand identity solution into new markets
Want to get rich from bug bounties? You're better off exterminating roaches for a living
Direct Listings Are a Thing Now
Software Maker PagerDuty Files Confidentially for IPO
Slack’s Financials Ahead of Listing Plans - “As of October 2018, the firm had roughly $900 million in cash on its balance sheet.”
Fiserve buying FirstData for $22bn - FundsXpress!
The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach
AWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWS
## Non Sense
The WELL: State of the World 2019
Apple reportedly replaced about 10 times more iPhone batteries than it expected to
Say hello, new logo
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2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours 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. Free lunch and stickers!
Jan 28th to 29th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Charlotte, $50 off with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis. $50 off the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Recommendations
Matt: Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology.
Brandon: DIRECTV Alexa skill.
Coté: Peak, but read in, like 4x mode. Summary: (1.) Model the thing learned, (2.) focused exercises, (3.) coaching, (3.) using feedback loops to improve, (4.) stretching yourself. Derry Girls.
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1 hr 5 min
January 10, 2019Episode 161: “Dad Mode Wins”
Matt and Brandon discuss the“Non-Compete Software” movement, management changes at Chef and how Github just made everyone’s live a little easier. Plus, we offer tips for Dad’s traveling with kids.
Relevant to your interests
The Non-Compete Software Movement
The Cyclical Theory of Open Source
community, you keep using that word – Drew Clay
Optimizing impact: why I will not start an Envoy platform company
The future of Kubernetes is Virtual Machines
Dell returns to market with NYSE listing
GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories
This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far
GitLab Uses TriggerMesh to Offer Knative-Based Serverless Workflows
Announcing TriggerMesh Knative Lambda Runtime (KLR)
CloudCast Episode Serverless Management and Knative
- Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications
The Results are in … The State of K8s 2018 – Heptio
Here's What VMware Paid for Kubernetes Startup Heptio
Chef co-founder and CTO Adam Jacob stepping down, will remain on board of directors
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Conferences, et. al.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours 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. Free lunch and stickers!
Jan 28th to 29th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Charlotte.
Feb 12th to 13th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour St. Louis.
Mar 7th to 8th, 2019 - Incontro DevOps in Bologna, Coté speaking.
Mar 18th to 19th, 2019 - SpringOne Tour London. Get £50 off ticket price of £150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
Mar 21st to 2nd, 2019 - SpringOne Tour Amsterdam. Get €50 off ticket price of €150 with the code S1Tour2019_100.
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Justin Garrison help make Ralph Breaks the Internet
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Brandon: The Dream Podcast
Matt: Tombstone and the Making of Tombstone
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56 min
January 03, 2019New Year's Bonus -- Jake Moilanen Interview
Jake Moilanen started and sold two companies and is now joining the ranks of Venture Capital. We discuss his career, his approach to investing and he explains what it is like to bringup the Linux Kernel on a supercomputer for the first time.
Connect with Jake:
@moilanen
LinkedIn
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1 hr 12 min
December 27, 2018Holiday Bonus -- Don't call me an "evangelist"
Brandon interviews Coté about what it's like to be a tech evangelist. Call it "developer advocacy," "developer relations," being a "thought leader," or just a straight up hustler - it's a job that most companies in the computer industry have at least one of. Most of the successful software and projects out there get a big boost from key evangalists.
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1 hr 22 min
December 21, 2018Episode 160: “Open Source, still not a business model”
Should cloud providers be able to host open source software? Exactly, what does the Australia Assistance Act mean for employees? What is Melbourne Cup Day? We answer these questions and more. Enjoy!
More on the Australia Assistance and Access Act
Australia's encryption laws are 'highly unlikely' to dragoon employees in secret
What's actually in Australia's encryption laws? Everything you need to know
Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password? | 1Password
Relevant to your interests
Chef co-founder Adam Jacob launches new effort to define “sustainable” open-source software
We need Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities
License Changes for Confluent Platform | Confluent
Concerned about cloud providers, Confluent becomes latest open-source company to set new restrictions on usage
Open source confronts its midlife crisis by Bryan Cantrill
A Quick Comment On Bryan Cantrill’s Blog On Licensing
GE to Sell Part of Digital Business
1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years - Geek.com
A is for Austin
3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone
MIPS Goes Open Source
You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle
- Tumblr’s App Store Ban, Tumblr’s NSFW Deadline, Verizon Writes Down Oath
Nonsense
Chase Sapphire Banking
Melbourne Cup Day
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Conferences, et. al.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours 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. Free lunch and stickers!
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Brandon: Apple Music to work on other Alexa-enabled devices
Matt: Emacs Tramp Mode: transparent access to files and remote access.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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56 min
December 15, 2018Episode 159: "Cloud native is pretty simple. You just need to know Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Jaeger, Envoy, Core DNS, Linkerd, Rook, Vitess, Etcd and Raft."
This week we recap all the news and announcements from the KubeCon Keynotes and discuss the repercussions of Australia’s new encryption-busting law. Plus, Brandon offers his review of “The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes“ and Phippy.
Relevant to your interests
Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy
Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with price cuts
Docker's top deck stands by Swarm in face of Kubernetes storm
The 15-Year Odyssey Behind VMware's Ascent To Corporate Greatness
IBM Sells Software for Once
The First Open, Multi-cloud Serverless Platform for the Enterprise Is Here. Try out Pivotal Function Service Today!
Facing up to the need for regulation - Microsoft recognises Big Brother potential
VMware Extends Istio into the 'NSX Service Mesh' for Microservices
2018: The Biggest Year for Open Source Software Ever! (Part Deux)
DocuSign beats Wall Street expectations, reveals executive and board shuffle
The Etcd Database Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Kubernetes is not a development platform
Oracle Cloud Native Framework Promises 'Bi-Directional' Cloud Portability
Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again
Knative Meshes Kubernetes with Serverless Workloads
What makes a company a 'tech company,' and is the title worth the responsibility?
Everything that was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A – Chick-fil-A Tech Blog – Medium
CNCF to Host etcd - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio, Software Defined Interviews.
Matt Ray’s tweet goes viral (soft of)
Warrant Canary via Wikipedia
Nonsense
Costco is selling Macs
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Conferences, et. al.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours 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. Free lunch and stickers!
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SDT news & hype
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Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn
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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.
Recommendations
Brandon: Bear Brook Podcast
Matt: My new favorite episode of 99% Invisible: Devolutionary Design.
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59 min
December 08, 2018Episode 158: Istio is only a check box away
Istio comes to GKE, Kubernetes needs to be patched, Microsoft & Docker announce a standard and what is going on at Faceback. We talk about all this and give you some tips for your next QBR.
Relevant to your interests
Kubernetes' first major security hole discovered.
The Story of the First Kubernetes Critical CVE.
Google Integrates Istio Service Mesh into Kubernetes Service.
Nearly 250 Pages of Devastating Internal Facebook Documents Posted Online By UK Parliament.
Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging and running cloud-native applications easier
Defining “field CTO”: The Pivotal CTO Team Offers You Strategic Advisors. James Urquhart Just Made That Team Even Better.
Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 - Windows Developer Blog
Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10
China’s Alibaba Takes On Amazon in European Cloud
## Nonsense
The Economist’s books of the year.
Lime and Bird worth $10B+ each or 5x to 10x more than their last valuations.
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Conferences, et. al.
Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours 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. Free lunch and stickers!
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## SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker.
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.
## Recommendations
Brandon: Ralph Breaks the Internet and Slate Reviews Ticket to Ride.
Matt: My new favorite episode of 99% Invisible: Devolutionary Design.
Coté: since Christmas is near, and Sinterklaas has come and gone, Apple Watch 4 (no LTE in NL), I recommend revisiting the best Christmas video ever. (I gotta get me some of them sunglasses!)
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1 hr
November 30, 2018Episode 157: Brandon takes a victory lap & Australia muthafuckers!
It’s AWS re:Invent. We talk about the “everything” of it, private cloud, and some RC cars. Also, what exactly is a “field CTO”?
AWS Announcements
AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018
Analytics
AWS Lake Formation: Build a secure data lake in days
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK): Fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service
Blockchain
Amazon Managed Blockchain: Create and manage scalable blockchain networks
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database
Compute
Amazon EC2 A1 Instances: Optimized for scale-out workloads
Amazon EC2 C5n Instances: Up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth
Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances: Optimized for distributed ML training
AWS Outposts – a new dimension to AWS Cloud (Hybrid Cloud with VMware), Run AWS infrastructure on-premises
This is VMware?
Database
Amazon RDS on VMware: Automate on-premises database management
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB): Fully managed ledger database
Amazon Timestream: Fully managed time series database
Internet of Things
AWS IoT Events: IoT event detection and response
AWS IoT SiteWise: IoT data collector and interpreter
AWS IoT Things Graph: Easily connect devices and web services
AWS Partner Device Catalog: Curated catalog of AWS-compatible IoT hardware
Lambda
New languages (Ruby, C++, Rust), more coming Erlang, Elixir, Cobol, N|Solid, PHP
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/
Announcements are still happening
Machine Learning
Amazon Elastic Inference: Deep learning inference acceleration
Amazon Forecast: Increase forecast accuracy using machine learning
Amazon Personalize: Build real-time recommendations into your applications
Amazon Textract: Extract text and data from documents
AWS Inferentia: Machine learning inference chip
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth – Build Highly Accurate Datasets
Amazon SageMaker RL – Managed Reinforcement Learning with Amazon SageMaker
AWS DeepRacer – Go Hands-On with Reinforcement Learning at re:Invent, Autonomous 1/18th scale race car, driven by ML
Machine Learning algorithms and model packages now available in AWS Marketplace
Management & Governance
AWS App Mesh: Monitor and control microservices
AWS Cloud Map: Service discovery for cloud resources
AWS Control Tower: Set up and govern a secure, compliant multi-account environment
AWS License Manager: Track, manage and control license usage
Media Services
AWS Elemental MediaConnect: Reliable and secure live video transport
Migration & Transfer
AWS DataSync: Simple, fast, online data transfer
AWS Transfer for SFTP: Fully managed SFTP service
Mobile
AWS Amplify: Build and deploy mobile and web applications
Networking & Content Delivery
AWS Global Accelerator: Improve application availability and performance
AWS Transit Gateway: Easily scale VPC and account connections
Robotics
AWS RoboMaker: Develop, test, and deploy robotics applications
Satellite
AWS Ground Station: Fully managed ground station as a service
Security, Identity, & Compliance
AWS Security Hub: Unified security and compliance center
Storage
Amazon FSx for Lustre: Fully managed compute-intensive file system
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: Fully managed Windows native file system
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Save with auto-tiering storage
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Lydia says AWS deals are huge.
Relevant to your interests
No room this week.
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Conferences, et. al.
Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours 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. Free lunch and stickers!
Get a Free SDT T-Shirt
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SDT news & hype
Join us in Slack.
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker.
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.
Recommendations
Brandon: Ticket to Ride Board Game
Matt: Speaking of trains, I took the train from Canberra to Sydney. Fantastic!
Coté: Patriot season 2. It’s pretty good. And: HP Color LaserJet Pro M254dw.
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1 hr 17 min
November 21, 2018Episode 156: People: Google doesn’t get ‘enterprise’ and should have people who’re more enterprise focused. GOOG: Look, we just hired an enterprise focused person. People: OMG! Why did just hire an enterprise person?
See title.
Google Cloud
Diane Greene steps down as Google's cloud chief
Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along
Longer CNBC piece on the switch.
Ray Wang: “Enterprise customers need a different level of care, and Google hasn't been able to deliver to date. So the resources available to Diane may not have always been allocated in the right place, but the resource is there and he has to sit down and see what partners and customer are saying.”
More: ‘This might take the form of a growth of the sales or go-to-market teams at Google Cloud, but essentially "enterprises need consistency and roadmaps to adjust as they go," Wang said, and Google Cloud needs to do better at delivering that if it wants to take a bigger chunk of the public cloud market over the crucial coming years. "Google has the opportunity, but the window is closing, so there is 18 months to two years to right the ship," he said.’
History: built middleware business in the 2000s, Fusion ERP apps integration, cloud business.
The Corporate Culture Survival Guide.
Relevant to your interests
Coté’s stump speech recordings.
CX is nothing if you don’t change your business - same for digital transformation, e.g., maybe stuff here.
Uber getting more legal.
“Economic Recession Could Drive Serverless Standardization, Consolidation.”
Oracle to acquire Talari Networks.
BlackBerry agrees to acquire Cylance for $1.4 billion.
Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead.
AWS rolls out new security feature to prevent accidental S3 data leaks.
Users "Starting to Reach for Torches and Pitchforks" amid Fresh Azure and Office 365 Lockout.
Tim Cook defends using Google as primary search engine on Apple devices.
Charles Phillips billboards.
Nonsense
Mark Zuckerburg wants you to use Android
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Conferences, et. al.
Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part.
2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringTours 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. Free lunch and stickers!
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November 15, 2018Episode 155: Existing investments & business innovation fuel
Hybrid cloud and kubernetes with Cisco, and the latest beard analysis from the OpenStack community, and some spontaneous ERP and ethics of Facebook meandering - all this week in our power episode!
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Cisco Introduces First Hybrid Kubernetes Platform Support For Amazon EKS
“The Cisco Hybrid Solution for Kubernetes on AWS enables configuration of the Kubernetes-based Cisco Container Platform optimized for ease of deploying applications on Kubernetes across either Cisco-based on-premises infrastructure or the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).”
I’m pretty sure this means Active Directory now works with k8s:
The style, diction, and tone of this piece is some classic power-marketing, e.g., “first,” “only,” “Enterprises have been forced to make a tradeoff in these choices that they would rather avoid.” Also, notice the “I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS” side-notes here and there.
Cisco’s site on it, and press release.
Developer value-propin’, from the Cisco PR quote: “Now, developers can use existing investments to build new cloud-scale applications that fuel business innovation.” And, elsewhere: “Public clouds provide developers with platforms for rapidly developing and deploying applications, yet most enterprises have their own data centers that house important workloads. That’s why hybrid cloud is a requirement for most enterprises.”
Well, at least their straight-up on pricing: “Pricing for software-only subscriptions will start at approximately $65,000 per year for a typical entry-level configuration. On AWS, customers pay $0.20 per hour for each Amazon EKS cluster that they create in addition to the AWS resources (e.g. Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes) they create to run Kubernetes worker nodes.”
SAP snaps up Qualtrics for $8B days before its expected IPO, will keep Seattle office: “Qualtrics offers software-as-a-service that companies use to measure and manage their reputations with current and prospective customers as well as a similar service for internal use managing employees.”
Report: Vista Equity Partners poised to pay $1.9 billion in private-equity deal for Apptio
Report: Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2
Google went down after traffic was routed through China and Russia
Amazon Announces New York and Virginia as HQ2 Picks
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Amazon’s imminent arrival in Queens
OpenStack Expands With New Projects, Canonical’s CEO Is Not Thrilled
Red Hat Squeezes OpenStack, OpenShift Closer Together
OpenStack expands focus beyond the IaaS cloud
The Foundation keeps on the plan of expanding its portfolio.
Red Hat blends Kubernetes into Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14
Coder: $4.5M Series Seed Announcement – Coder – Medium
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Nonsense
Stamps set for largest-ever price increase in January 2019
The Poddys
Conferences, et. al.
Nov 20th, London: Dell Tech Forum UK - Coté speaking with the pro-Pivotal knob on 11.
Dec 6th, Warsaw - Meetup in Warsaw, Coté talking about enterprise architects, 3rd round,
Dec 8th, Lublin Poland - J-Santa.
Dec 12th and 13th, Toronto - SpringTour Toronto, Coté MC’ing doing open spaces. He won’t be at the Paris one, Dec 4th and 5th which is stupid planning on his part.
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