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August 23, 2018Bonus Episode -- Interview with Dustin Kirkland from Google
This is a bonus edition of Software Defined Talk. Make sure to subscribe to Software Defined Interviews for more conversations like this one.
Dustin Kirkland joins us to discuss Linux, Cloud Computing and making wine. We talk about Dustin’s career journey from entry-level developer to Google Product Manager. He shares his experience working at IBM, Canonical and now Google. Plus, he tells the story of how working on his own open source project helped him land a job at startup.
Links:
Dustin’s Blog
Dustin on Twitter
Dustin’s presentation at Google Next
Run-one
Vasa Museum
Special Guest: Dustin Kirkland.
1 hr 19 min
August 17, 2018Episode 144: GDPR, Observability, & more on the mystery of serverless, still with half-assed research
“That was the problem: I was always Tech Matt.”
The title says it all.
Sponsored by Datadog
This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Trace Search & Analytics.
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Observations on Observability
https://medium.com/@copyconstruct
This GDPR madness has to stop, son!
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Aurora Serverless
State of the cloud: Amazon Web Services is bigger than its other four major competitors, combined
AWS Serverless Application Repository
Taking Tesla Private
CNCF Serverless Whitepaper v1.0 - not too bad so far.
Kelsey Hightower on Serverless… but wait…. Isn’t this just PaaS?
A developer’s view of getting up and running with kubernetes.
“Progressive delivery,” see also James Governor on the term.
Nonsense
It’s raining tacos
AWS icon quiz
To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms
SoftBank May Invest up to $750 Million in Robotic Pizza Startup Zume
“I took the cool out of Cool Rick.”
Conferences, et. al.
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DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey!
DevOpsDays Berlin, September 12th to 13th.
DevOpsDays Paris, October 16th.
Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11.
DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12.
DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25.
DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6.
Devoxx Belgium, Antwerp, November 12th to 16th.
SpringOne Tour - all over the earth!
Listener Feedback
Andy from Netflix send me a LinkedIn request and got a sticker
SDT news & hype
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Chris Donaldson on Automation
Matthew Brutsché on Amazon Go and Tech Marketing
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Recommendations
Brandon: Westworld.
Matt: Dune fandom. As heard on Song Exploder: Jon Hopkins Singularity. The Red Atlas.
Coté: Hemingway app. Slate Podcast Plus. PodCTL on registries.
Sponsored By:
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
1 hr 6 min
August 10, 2018Episode 143: Serverless now just means “programming”
After some rumination, Coté thins that the people backing “serverless” are just wangling to make it mean “doing programming with containers on clouds.” That is, just programming. At some point, it meant an event based system hosted in public clouds (AWS Lamda). Also, we discuss Cisco buying Duo, potential EBITA problems from Broadcom buying CA, and robot pizza. Of course, with Coté having just moved to Amsterdam, there’s some Amsterdam talk.
Sponsored by Datadog
This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week they Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe.
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Everyone’s favorite Outlook feature, now in G Suite.
Do we know what “serverless” is yet? Someone named that got some funding.
Related, Istio 1.0: “It is aiming to be a control plane, similar to the Kubernetes control plane, for configuring a series of proxy servers that get injected between application components. It will actually look at HTTP response codes and if an app component starts throwing more than a number of 500 errors, it can redirect the traffic.” MUST BE THIS HIGH TO RIDE!
Follow-up: Brenon at 451 says Broadcom is gonna have to sell off some stuff to make it’s margin targets. The mainframe profits are too high, while distributed is low enough to throw the margins out of whack. So, sell off distributed to Micro Focus? To PE BMC? Or a bad analysis.
Austin Regional Clinic is in Apple Health records. Pretty nifty that it sucks them all in...sort of.
Robots make your pizza. Featured in that OKR book. For real.
AWS: still makes lots of money, market-leader by revenue. See also Gartner on the topic: “The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.” Gartner estimates that AWS is ~4 times as big as the next, in 2017.
Tibco might be sold off: “Vista took Tibco private in 2014 in a deal valued at about $4.3 billion including debt. The company, based in Palo Alto, California, makes software that clients use to collect and analyze data in industries from banking to transportation. It currently has about $2.9 billion of debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.”
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Duo Security, $2.35bn.
What’s this ABN e.dentifier thing?
Apprenda shuts down. SASSY!
Conferences, et. al.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
- DevOps Talks Sydney August 27-28 - John Willis, Nathen Harvey!
Cloud Expo Asia October 10-11
DevOps Days Singapore October 11-12
DevOps Days Newcastle October 24-25
DevOps Days Wellington November 5-6
Listener Feedback
Lindsay from London got a sticker an tell us: “Really enjoy the podcast, just the right level of humour, sarcasm and facts for a cynical Brit like me.”
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: Masters of Doom.
Matt: Deadpool 2. If you liked the first, you’ll like the second.
Coté: 1980’s Action Figure tumblr - now that I have fast Internet, tumblr is workable. Mask, Cops, sweet Dune figures, generic GI Joe figures. Dutch Internet, son! SHIT DOG!
Sponsored By:
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
1 hr
July 27, 2018Episode 142: Harness that peer pressure for good
"Harness that peer pressure for good”
This week we cover all the important announcements from the Google Next conference including: GKE On-Prem, Knative and “serverless containers.” Plus, an important parenting discussion on tying shoes.
Relevant to your interests
Google Next
GKE On-Prem | Google Cloud
Google answers 'Why Google Cloud?' with services and spectacle
Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud
IBM, Google Give Birth to Knative Serverless Cloud Project
Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available
Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration/continuous delivery platform
Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors
Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud (Supports AWS and GCP)
Matt’s skeptical
https://deltacloud.apache.org/
https://libcloud.apache.org/
https://github.com/fog/fog
Bonkers Azure bookings give Microsoft a record-breaking $110bn year
Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter unite to simplify data transfers
IBM stock rises after earnings beat
SolarWinds | SolarWinds Acquires Trusted Metrics
Cisco, networking stocks drop on a report Amazon Web Services is considering selling network devices
Exclusive: Apple to deploy 1Password to all 123,000 employees, acquisition talks underway
Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent
Sponsored by Datadog
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
This week DataDog is pleased to announce that Datadog APM has officially released support for monitoring Node.js applications, which joins our existing support for Java, Ruby, Python and Go. Read their announcement blog.
Important nonsense
I got the beer you asked for
Conferences, et. al.
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Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon:
The Sinner on Netflix
Home Depot text message shortcut: Text the this message “121 hammer” to 24564 and you will get a link to the a map of the store showing the section for hammers. Replace "121” with the store number you are in and replace “hammer” with the item you are searching for to make new queries. You will likely have to ask a Home Depot Associate what the store number is or find it online. This is an internal tool used by Home Depot Associates to find stuff when customers ask them.
Matt:
https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT2600ac
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
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Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
1 hr
July 12, 2018Episode 141: Broadcom acquiring CA, AT&T acquiring AlienVault, the mysteries of cloud native vendor product management
We try to discern the strategy behind two acquisitions this week: Broadcom buying CA and AT&T buying AlienVault. Seems fine. Meanwhile, you get to join conversation as we talk about how much different product management seems at cloud native vendors than traditional, “enterprise product management.”
Important nonsense
Vinsanto is the Greek wine Coté was talking about.
No more hot-dogs at Le Café CostCo.
Coté rides a Lime scooter
Sponsored by Datadog
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
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AT&T to Acquire AlienVault
Broadcom buying CA:
Broadcom buying CA for US$18.9bn. "Mainframe solutions dominate CA’s income, pulling nearly $2.2bn in the 2017-2018 financial year, followed by its enterprise solutions segment at $1.75bn and services at $311m."
Coté’s 7 tips for becoming a software company, 2016.
“Wait… what?”
Basho investor to pay up $20m in damages for campaign that put biz on 'greased slide to failure'
Coté: what was Davenport’s plan to profit?
A customer complaint about Google Cloud went viral last week, and now Google is doing damage control to 'ensure this does not happen again’
The mysterious value of dancing hot dog shares, i.e., Snap: ‘You might point out that you own a share in the company that grows in value as the company does, and that right now you can sell that share on the stock exchange for $13.31. But that evades rather than answering the question: What does the person who buys the share from you expect to get from it? The value of a stock in the market is supposed to be equal to the present value of its future cash flows, and there’s nothing about the stock itself that promises you any cash flows. Or you might say that Snap’s directors and officers have a fiduciary duty to you to maximize the profits of the company and the value of your shares, but even if that were true—it’s pretty debatable—it continues to avoid the question. If Snap made massive consistent profits for decades, it would still never have to give any money back to shareholders, and the shareholders would have no way to force it to. “I own a 1/1,258,171,112 share of a massive pile of cash,” you could say, but you could never spend it.’
Improving intranet search, always a problem:
Box buys AI thing: “a startup whose software lets users search within files across multiple work applications. Butter.ai will be shutting down its application as part of the deal.”
Slack fixing search: most anything would be better than how it is now.
IT spending survey from Goldman: security, private cloud, and storage rise. Public cloud and SaaS fall, BI/analytics stays the same.
Conferences, et. al.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
Listener Feedback
Emeric from Romina got a sticker and we will send you one too.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker.
Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
Recommendations
Brandon: In the Dark Podcast.
Matt: Apple hardware, “should be fine.”
Coté: Lovecraft’s commonplace book and such: pictures, some transcription (better spaced version).
Sponsored By:
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
1 hr 1 min
July 06, 2018Episode 140: Meanwhile, in microchips…
For some reason, we talk about Intel. Plus, SUSE going PE and sun screen strategies for kids.
Meet us in Austin
Get your invite — July 11th 5:30 - Software Defined Talk - Drinks & Socializing
# Important nonsense
Coté wrote some stuff on compliance and DevOps/cloud native/digital transformation. What do you call that stuff?
Relevant to your interests
Micro Focus offloads Linux-wrangler SUSE for a cool $2.5bn - that’s 9.5 Red Hats!
Ding dong Dell deal: Firm is set to go public again
Repository Attacks Continue with Backdoored Docker Images
5 Ways Serverless Changes Software Development
Intel veteran departs Google Cloud unit
“What your innovation process should look like,” Steve Blank, and a newer piece on the topic.
What gets me about these things is (a.) they sound real correct, and, (b.) the operational advice is “well, you should do this stuff.”
This one, though, has a good distinction between the innovator force and the get shit done force (“entrepreneur.”)
Adoption Profile: Public Cloud In Europe, Q2 2018
Kubernetes korner
Pivotal Container Service 1.1, Now GA, Helps You Run Kubernetes Without Complexity. Why PKS Just Works.
Kubernetes-fil-A, and interview - running kubernetes in-store for those sweet waffle fries.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
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Conferences, et. al.
July 10th, Austin Cloud Native Meetup - The .Net Cloud-Native Renaissance - Coté’s co-host on Pivotal Conversations, Richard Seroter, brings the .Net flavor.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
SDT news & hype
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Recommendations
Brandon: QuickConcall iPhone App
Matt: Australian NBN, but not my provider; The Wirecutter, just because.
Coté: “The Trouble With Johnny Depp.”
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1 hr
June 29, 2018Episode 139: “Docker? Never heard of ‘em.”
Why would a company buy Docker? With “near triple digit revenue,” perhaps there’s a good business model to match the interest in free, but, in turn, why would an acquirer want to pay for free? We speculate wildly, and without spreadsheets. Also, lots of people have been funded, there’s a new bundle of kubernetes releases, and we discuss t-shirts.
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Important nonsense
What does it mean when you wear Thrasher t-shirt?
Follow-up: duffel bags, they work. One got unzipped slightly, so probably should zip-tie the zippers.
Texas’ Favorite Grocery Store HEB Opens Taco Restaurant
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features
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You’ve got Money!
Splunk to Acquire Software Problem-Solver VictorOps for $120 Million
The IPOs keep coming: The search company Elastic has filed to go public
BuildGroup Raises $330 Million of Permanent Capital to Build Great Software
DevOps automation leader Puppet lands $42M funding round
Puppet raises $42M led by Cisco as its DevOps automation platform passes 40,000 businesses
CloudBees raises $62M for its DevOps platform
Software considered hard
Why software giants are failing
What really is the difference between “maintenance” and SaaS models?
The problem with assigning value (and, thus, price) to any piece of software/IT.
So then, what did Microsoft get right? (And did they?)
Also, more on Oracle’s financials.
DigitalOcean taps Citrix Systems vet to be new CEO
Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
“What we are seeing with customers is that tech is coming up the hype curve pretty quickly,” said Sharples. “Microservices was a pretty quick climb, and serverless is in steeper than that.”
Hot-take: “Wow, just replace each instance of ‘serverless’ with ‘rails,’ and you have a great mid-2000s moment.”
Realtime follow-up: does this mean that Wardley is now DHH?
WTF? The data behind Microsoft's surprising open source track record
“Microsoft may have a mixed history with open source, but today the company is demonstrating some impressive traction when it comes to open source community contributions. If we are to judge the company on its recent actions, the data shows what Satya Nadella said in his announcement about Microsoft being “all in on open source” is more than just words.”
Microsoft starts outlining its Visual Studio 2019 plans
Docker Depot
Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion
Docker CEO Steve Singh says container company is approaching “triple digit” millions in bookings
DockerCon Takeaways
8 surprising facts about real Docker adoption
## Kubernetes Korner
Introducing VMware Kubernetes Engine™ (VKE) - VMware Cloud Community, and in The Register.
EKS vs. ECS: orchestrating containers on AWS
The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now Generally Available - More Regions and New Features
Meanwhile, time for “a scheduled maintenance window”: 1.11 is out.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Conferences, et. al.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
Also at some World Cup things in Cologne and Munich, email if you’re a VP type and interested.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: The North Face Base Camp Duffel Large, Waboba Water Skipping Ball.
Matt: Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
Coté: BOOMIVERSE. Somehow I missed this album last year. GRIND AND STACK! (Props, as they used to say, to my old friend, Mason, for pointing it out to me. Get your super-fast Internet in SF from him!) Also, I can certify that the Courtney Barnett album is good.
1 hr 6 min
June 07, 2018Episode 138: 8 Duffle bags, some permitted food enhancer and, GitHub goes to Redmond
GItHub got bought so we breakdown what it all means for devs and open source. Matt Ray offers expert tips on relocating your family aboard as Coté prepares to move to Amsterdam. Finally, we announced the first live in person Software Defined Talk meetup in July somewhere in Austin. Don’t miss it.
GitHub got bought
Price: $7.5bn in stock. Getting Microsoft stock now is probably good, should have good growth over next 3 to five years (the golden handcuff period, etc.).
See the overview deck from Microsoft.
Very qualitative, not much (or any) business case numbers stuff.
Will “operate independently,” Microsoft’s Nat Friedman to be CEO of GitHub, reporting up to Scott Guthrie.
Does this imply Microsoft will be moving OSS stuff to the GitHub business?
How does this fit with TFS, whatever “Sourcesafe” is now? Coté has no idea about the current state of that business, esp. w/r/t to git. Slides say there’s be the usual seamless integration in VisualStudio, also some marketplace thing additions (presumably, pull in GitHub repos).
Don’t forget the private cloud version of GitHub, plus using it for cloud native/DevOps config storage and release management stuff.
Microsoft’s blog post, GitHub’s blog post.
Google Was Bidding Against Microsoft For GitHub, Report Says | CRN Mobile
# Kubernetes Korner
Four years after release of Kubernetes 1.0, it has come a long way
Enterprise hits and misses - AI hits the curve, SAP subverts the two-speed enterprise
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DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Conferences, et. al.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
Also at some World Cup things in Cologne and Munich, email if you’re a VP type and interested.
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
The Software Defined Talk Meetup
Would you come to a three hour SDT event in July in Austin, TX? Email [email protected] and he will add you to the invite.
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: New York Times Crossword App
Matt: Killing Eve
Coté: that Singaporian soup mix (Song Fa bak kut teh). What are “permitted food enhancer (E621),” though?
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Sponsored By:
Datadog Free Trial: This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog provides visibility into more than 200 technologies, including AWS, Chef, and Docker, with built-in metric dashboards and automated alerts. With end-to-end request tracing, Datadog provides visibility into your applications and their underlying infrastructure—all in one place. Sign up for a free trial today!
53 min
June 01, 2018Episode 137: “I didn’t choose the Immortan Joe life-style, it chose me.”
There’s a new IaaS magic quadrant out that we finally take a look at. Plus, with some nerd-fighting in the kubernetes world, we discuss the point of all these blinking cursors.
This episode brought to you by: Datadog!
This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial at www.datadog.com/sdt
This week Datadog also wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th. You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/sdt use the discount code DASHSDT and save 20%.
DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018
Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018.
Follow up
Did Matt watch The Tick? (Spoiler alert: no.)
Relevant to your interests
BA now part of TSA Pre. Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. It’s hard to find where to enter this: on individual flights?
Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording, slides.
Cloud is a six-horse race, and three of those have been lapped
State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem
Kubernetes won - so now what?
Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. The Full Gartner MQ. Register coverage.
IDC survey on digital transformation says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and be more competitive, among other survey findings. And, as always, “the biggest barriers are people oriented.” Get the Infor sponsored PDF if you’re into this kind of thing.
Infrastructure software is back! Also, Amazon’s DB has huge growth.
“Full Life-cycle Developers” at Netflix
Like SRE, but “platform ops.”
Which is to say, something like, “shallow DevOps.”
“Netflix created centralized teams (e.g., Cloud Platform, Performance & Reliability Engineering, Engineering Tools) with the mission of developing common tooling and infrastructure to solve problems that every development team has. Empowered with these tools in hand, development teams can focus on solving problems within their specific product domain.”
“As additional tooling needs arise, centralized teams assess whether the needs are common across multiple dev teams. When they are, collaborations ensue. Sometimes these local needs are too specific to warrant centralized investment. In that case the development team decides if their need is important enough for them to solve on their own.”
“we arrived at a model where a development team, equipped with amazing developer productivity tools, is responsible for the full software life cycle: design, development, test, deploy, operate, and support”…but not the infrastructure, common middleware and services, and “platform” that they run on. Just like SRE, eh? Which the post says.
Use of the roads seems optional, and sometimes challenging to recruit for: ‘Netflix has a “paved road” set of tools and practices that are formally supported by centralized teams. We don’t mandate adoption of those paved roads but encourage adoption by ensuring that development and operations using those technologies is a far better experience than not using them. The downside of our approach is that the ideal of “every team using every feature in every tool for their most important needs” is near impossible to achieve. Realizing the returns on investment for our centralized teams’ solutions requires effort, alignment, and ongoing adaptations.’
Coté had dinner with Netflix tools engineer many years ago where they described exactly this.
Question: what exactly is DevOps (now) anyways? Is it too expansive to be useful as a phrase, and instead a buffet of thought technologies?
BMC changes PE hands:
Brenon@451: “Terms of the BMC secondary weren't released. However, early reports indicated that the price paid by the syndicate for BMC and the price received for BMC [$6.9bn five years ago] weren't radically different.”
Same: “the software vendor that says it posts revenue of $2bn each year.”
The reporters are like “I got no idea what the fuck these people do”: “Houston-based BMC builds various types of software solutions for businesses looking to manage and streamline their information.”
“BMC has about 6,000 employees in 30 countries, according to its website.”
“BMC has more than $5 billion in debt outstanding, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.”
Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording, slides. Reports that the decks are getting more concise.
Kubernetes Korner
PodCTL #37 covers Helm and other deployment schemes - Very responsible Coté hasn’t listened to it yet.
Nerd fight on forking:
Asay: “Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about vendor lockin, enterprises have demonstrated a remarkable ability to shrug off that concern and buy deeply into Microsoft, Oracle, and, yes, Red Hat’s OpenShift.”
Question: how close are we to going OpenStack on all this? Is that even a helpful question, or just trolling?
“Kubernetes has, in fact, already lost the war to serverless,” James Governor.
By the time you hear this, Coté will have finally given a Kubernetes talk.
The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem:
Overview of all the (vendor) players.
“A Forrester study found that 66% of organizations who adopted containers experienced accelerated developers efficiency, while 75% of companies achieved a moderate to significant increase in application deployment speed.”
“According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is set to grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020”
Important nonsense
BA now part of TSA Pre. Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. Although, it’s hard to find where to enter this. Perhaps it’s ticket-by-ticket.
# Conferences, et. al.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
Listener Feedback
Gabriel from Puerto Rico got a sticker
Daniel had a sticker sent all they way to South Austin
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Recommendations
Brandon: Station Eleven. Zone 1.
Matt: The Terror, still.
Coté: American Airline’s software. Compared to others like BA, Cathey, Korean Air, Thai Air. Also, Star Trek: Discovery. Star Trek: Voyager is pretty good plane TV fodder. That Neelix guy needs to calm the fuck down though with his space-mullet.
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May 25, 2018Episode 136: That time Matt didn’t eat for 24 hours, or, #chefconf 2018
“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we meander between those two we also talk about kubernetes Helm, packaging, and how Docker is (they say) going to save you $50m in computer costs.
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Follow-up
If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless, it’s amazingly good and helpful.
#chefconf
Chef Automate 2.0:
Don’t worry, it’s been rewritten in Go.
Scott Carey: “with the release of Chef Automate 2.0 during Chef Conf in Chicago this week, the company is focusing on building a platform on these three pillars: infrastructure, apps and compliance, setting the company up for wherever the future takes it.”
CEO’s keynote summary.
On-prem Habitat Builder.
Chef Workstation.
Matt tells you how suck out some InSpec stuff from Terraform.
How CapitalOne uses Chef:
“[M]ore than 15,000 nodes for dev, QA, and production environments, all hosted on AWS”
They like public cloud (quote from 2017 article): “About 40 percent of our production workload is on AWS now. At 40 percent we are larger than Netflix on the AWS footprint, it's huge. We are not running a hybrid model - our focus is everything on cloud. There are data centre-based applications being transformed, re-written, re-engineered, thrown out, to get to cloud."
Also, WTF is Helm? See: this talk from Amy Chen is really good, and this other one.
OpenStack Summit
So, it’s still NFV heavy with existing enterprise deploys? Plus, Mirantis us pushing for a CI/CD focus?
Haven’t read the survey yet.
Brief Register coverage: VMwware updates, AT&T and others donate some code, Solarwinds adds in some more support.
VMware likes NFV: ‘VMware is targeting the telecom industry with this release. Gabriele Di Piazza, VMware Telco NFV Business Unit's VP of products and solutions, said in a statement, "VMware Integrated OpenStack 5 will enable customers to achieve the massive scale required to power Telco and private clouds globally, and address NFV and edge computing use cases as telecom networks evolve towards 5G."’
Shuttleworth gonna Shuttleworth: “If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is your company. If you prefer a partner, which offers a soup-to-nuts stack, but at a higher price, look to Red Hat. And, of course, if you're already wedded to VMware, you've made your choice. There's room for all these approaches to the 21st century cloud and containers.”
Over on TechCrunch, in his layup, Frederic Lardinois paints a picture of the current Story of OpenStack.
“That current state produces fewer flashy headlines, but every survey, both from the Foundation itself and third-party analysts, show that the number of users — and their OpenStack clouds — continues to grow.”
Mirantis, after $200m in funding, refocusing(?) on CI/CD with Spinnaker support, “shrunk from almost 1,000 employees to 450 today, but as Mirantis CEO and co-founder Boris Renski told me, it’s now cash-flow positive.”
Boris: “I think that Spinnaker should become part of the Foundation. That’s the opportunity and I think it should focus 150 percent of their energy on that before it builds its own thing and before [Spinnaker] goes off to the CNCF as yet another project.”
Caroline Donnelly covers the quest to become a more general foundation for infrastructure stuff, started in 2015 with “The Big Tent” positioning.
Side-note: Donnely’s and Lardinois’s articles are good example of doing good tech journalism (I mean, I always like more charts and TAM’s, but they don’t really do that over art Oath - could have also gotten a paragraph of “the kubernetes threat” backed up by usage momentum surveys - but, hey! - pretty good all around.).
Relevant to your interests
Coté’s three methods of dealing with grumpy people when you’re digital transforming and DevOps’ing all the things, the The Register.
All these GDPR emails. Oh for fuck’s sake! (Cf. Jon Collins interview.)
What does Terraform do again? When is that company going to be acquired?
Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker's CEO says yes.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst On How He Plans To Win The Container Market.
Docker, Inc. still on that cost take-out strategy:
“What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and infrastructure management cost, and cutting it in half. Let’s say that you can cut 50 million dollars out of your app and infrastructure management cost, which by the way, some of our customers are at. That’s 50 million dollars you can go spend on innovation. That’s not going to the CEO and saying look, I need another hundred million dollars in my budget. That’s freeing up 50-100 million dollars of your existing budget.”
Bro. So the message is “Docker will cut $50m [annually?] out of your IT budget.” $12.5m a quarter in extra cash? That kind of shit could make quarterly numbers. Could that even be real? Bruh.
Salesforce.com, Inc. CRM: MuleSoft, Revisited - Mule “application integration revenue could quickly scale to $1B+” over next 2 to 3 years.
Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant.
Google reps breath a sigh of relief.
Weekly “get off my lawn” segment, monitoring corner edition
Sensu overvu.
Flat vs. hierarchical - You’ll always end up with a reverse tree, complete with those little plus signs at each leaf to expand what’s under it.
Important nonsense
Daily Deal: Nope Portable Sound Microphone Blockers 2-Pack
Conferences, et. al.
May 29th, 2018 - Coté speaking at DevOps meetup in Seoul.
May 31st, 2018 - Coté speaking at DevOps Singapore Meetup.
June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking at Voxxed Days, Singapore.
June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam - come get a sticker!
Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform, in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you!
SDT news & hype
Check out Software Defined Interviews, our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free.
Join us in Slack.
Buy some t-shirts! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off)
Send your name and address to [email protected] and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too!
Recommendations
Brandon: Deadpool 2.
Matt: The Terror AMC mini-series.
Coté: PodCTL podcast, e.g., episode #35; Madam Mam’s Yum Green Bean dish; Tasty Meats Paul’s cold open style.
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