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December 19, 2017Episode 116: Predictions &co.
What’s going to happen in 2018? No really knows, but people love predicting things this time of year. We can’t resist it so dip out toes in the same game and review some predictions from our friends at Gartner as well. Plus, a smattering of infrastructure software news and recommendations.
Pre-roll SDT news & hype
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Predictions
Coté, of course, used to do these: the last one, for 2015, at 451; 2009 at RedMonk (boy, I sure was full of piss and vinegar back then); some nonsense from 2014;
Coté: DevOps → SRE.
Coté: I met someone who described themselves as a “chatbot developer” last week. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades.
Ducy’s predictions.
Return to monoliths.
Survey of predictions from elsewhere
Good God, man! - something about the role of AI in appdev.
“AIOps” - please, kill me now. (To be fair, I think it down-shifts to ML pretty quick-like. Still)
Gartner’s mode-salad: “Through 2020, n-tier bimodal workloads will encompass 50% of existing Mode 1 workloads and 80% of new Mode 2 workloads.”
I think this means: “50% of old applications will be n-tier, and 80% of new apps will be n-tier,” where “n-tier” means not “client/server, hosted and peer-to-peer architectures.”
Serverless, Gartner: “By 2020, 90% of serverless deployments will occur outside the purview of I&O organizations when supporting general-use patterns.”
This decade in kubernetes, Gartner: “By 2020, more than 50% of enterprises will run mission-critical, containerized cloud-native applications in production, up from less than 5% today.”
Gartner’s PaaS PDF, someone over there had an SEO-stroke: “Application leaders engaged in digital business transformation must master AI, event-driven design, serverless microservices, IoT and strategic integration to serve their business and customers well. Cloud platform innovation drives business leadership.”
A good passage on why private PaaS is hard, from PaaS predictions piece: “These [positive, PaaS] capabilities benefit the organizations and are a positive IT development. But they do not alone amount to a cloud experience. Their challenge is typically organizational. A private cloud requires a division of the IT organization into provider and subscribers, and establishment of a strict separation between them via a cloud services portal and suitable cross-charging model. Without a strict adherence to the isolation of providers and subscribers, there cannot be standardization. The self-service is compromised and without resource use tracking, it is hard to achieve the efficiency of elastic autoscaling and elimination of shelf-ware. In most organizations, the leadership is not committed enough to the vision of private cloud to make the difficult and high-risk investment that can stand up to the right organizational framework, policies and practices. Therefore, these PaaS frameworks have justifed their existence mostly through their support of newer cloud-native development models such as DevOps, rather than cloudiness features.”
Relevant to your interests
Shameless Self Promotion: best digital transformation joke of the year.
Tech M&A prioritization, rough overview from 451:
Forrester Researcher: Containers, PaaS And Managed Private Cloud Will Drive Cloud Adoption Next Year And Beyond - "It’s a waiting game for a comprehensive management platform."
IDC predicts that in 2018, annual IaaS/PaaS service spending (OpEx) will be equal to new on prem infrastructure spending (CapEx) - “They” say public cloud will over-take private cloud in 2019. Meanwhile: "In 2018, we expect 40% to 50% of business users to have moved their core collaboration and communications systems to cloud platforms. By 2021, more than 70% of businesses will be substantially provisioned with cloud office capabilities.”
Last minute gift ideas
Brandon: subscriptions like Spotify, NY Times - no one will do it though, no one wants to give this.
Matt: experiences.
Coté: cash for kids, trialling this year.
Conferences, et. al.
Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul.
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
Recommendations
Matt: Sigur Rós live from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, other Pitchfork concerts
Brandon: United States Postal Service.
Coté: Coté’s DIY Home Office Trail Mix (pea-con pieces & raisons); stock CostCo bacon; the only way to suffer through reading a pile of predictions pieces is listening to Yacht Rock Vol. 1. Co-pilot for all the tedious times in life. (Cf. Vol. 2 and Vol. 3.)
1 hr 2 min
December 13, 2017Episode 115: Confularity at Kublecon
We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer. There is no co-host shortage.
Pre-roll SDT news & hype
Jan 16th, first Live Recording in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul.
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This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon
KubeCon - that a thing?
As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh - climb the stack!
List of announcements, from The Register.
“We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world” - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home.
Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project
Datadog survey.
Heptio has DR in Azure - file under, “oh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing…”
Relevant to your interests
You’re not doing agile - Coté’s Christmas bonus column.
Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted - hey, obviously there’s some hustle, but it’s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less.
Related: receipts considered stupid - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature
Planview buys LeanKit.
Why do I keep seeing “quantum computing” everywhere. Shouldn’t we figure out “computing” first?
Update on Dell financials: "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.”
Conferences, et. al.
It’s the end of the year, not many conferences left.
Dec 19th, 2017 - Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018, Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](https://twitter.com/pczarkowski).
May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
Recommendations
Brandon: Long Shot, Netflix; Presentations: Ten Year Futures, Ben Evans.
Coté: finally got that AAdvantage Executive card.
Andrew: principals sections in the Google SRE book (still free!). Kubernetes Up and Running. Badass. Paper on ML indexing stuff.
Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.
50 min
December 06, 2017Episode 114: SpringOne, talking with analysts, in-browser IDEs, & dressing for SF HA-HA-BUSINESS meetings
It’s SpringOne Platform this week so Coté reports on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 announcements, shipping Pivotal’s kubernetes offering, serverless, and more. We also cover the left-over news from re:Invent. We also cover clothing options for San Francisco.
Pre-Roll SDT News
SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!
No SSH JJ has stickers. Find him at KubeCon.
We’ll be doing a live show, - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup.
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SpringOne Platform - Pivotal News
Change is really hard. There is not tech magic except clearing the decks of bullshit. And then you focus on the intractable, but valuable bullshit.
It’s SpringOne Platform this week.
PCF 2.0 - in addition to actual tech, renaming some things to to make brand-room for PKS.
Serverless bundled in, but not GA yet.
Integrations and such, even with IBM middleware.
Also, use Google Cloud services.
Windows Server 2016 use, most recent version - better integration with it.
Also, a VMware NSX release, but Coté doesn’t know about that.
Also, bunch of Spring stuff. Some kotlin support, reactive, etc.
Things people use Spring for/with charts.
More: Ron Miller at TechCrunch, Paul Krill on serverless, Rene Millman at Cloud Pro/IT Pro, Mike Wheatley at SiliconANGLE.
AWS re:Invent, day 2
Daniel Bryant’s (InfoQ) overview of everything.
Alexa for Business
“Alexia! Fix multi-organization meeting scheduling!”
Watson-lite?
There’s a dangerous step infrastructure companies try to make into collab, often. It usually doesn’t work (cf. VMware Project Octopus circa 2011 and the related stuff) but, good luck storming the castle!
AWS CTO Defines Well-Architected Cloud Security Best Practices “He noted that at AWS, security will always be his group's number one investment area.” (well, for one, what’s “his group,” for second, I’m guessing they’ll always be spending more on hardware, real-estate, and electricity than the team of people coding group security.)
Cloud9 IDE stuff:
Also from Thomas Claburn at El Reg, interesting angle on cost: "Used eight hours a day, it would cost about $48.80 per month on a Linux m4.xlarge instance (4 vCPUs, 16GiB memory) or $5.62 on a less well provisioned t2.small instance. (1 vCPU, 2GiB memory).”
“remote pair-programming features”
This Week in Kubernetes
PKS GA’ed from Pivotal.
Kubernetes momeintum piece from George Leopold.
EKS - it’s a trap! Says @cloud_opinion.
# Misc.
Economist tries explaining bitcoin.
Economist says VR/AR is a not too hot, business-wise.
VMware, still making a lot of money: 3rd quarter "revenue of US$1.98bn... Net profit came in at $443m, up from $319m"
Mid-roll SolarWinds Ad
This is the last run, so get in there now or you’ll miss your chance to check out SolarWinds Cloud…and get that snazy t-shirt.
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform.
And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt, sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.
More:
AppOptics: All Application and Infrastructure Monitoring in One Place
Get a T-shirt from SolarWinds at: https://www.solarwinds.com/sdt
Press release on all this.
End-roll
Conferences
Coté’s junk:
Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
Live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018.
Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.
Recommendations
Brandon: HQ Trivia App
Coté: Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diary.
Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.
1 hr 4 min
November 30, 2017Episode 113: All the great AWS re:Invent news
There’s no clever title this week, just straight to the point of covering the highlights of AWS re:Invent this week. They got the kubernetes now! There’s a passel of releases as well. We also discuss some other news like Meg Whitman leaving HPE (on good standing), net neutrality, WeWork buying Meetup, and Arby’s. For reals!
Pre-Roll SDT News
SDT got a new logo!
SDT got 1,000 logo stickers to give away!
You can get a sticker but completing this survey or sending us your address in Slack.
US Addresses only until Matt can come and get some stickers.
We’ll be doing a live show - probably - on Jan 16 at the CloudAustin Meetup.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Upcoming SDT newsletter.
Misc. news before re:Invent coverage
Changing of the guard at HPE.
WeWork buys MeetUp.
Net Neutrality - I realize this is naive, but I feel like things already operate this way.
EFF write-up
Stratechery & follow-up
This week in PE: OOOHH-OOOO! BARRACUDA! Also, Arby’s: eat all you want you’ll die anyway.
Work in tech? Time to ask for a raise.
Good overview of the end of OpenStack’s big tent theory.
AWS re:Invent
AWS Business Update
Amazon Web Services has an $18 billion revenue run rate and the business is growing 42 percent year over year
New AWS Services (100+ new total)
Loosely break into themes of Containers, Databases, AI/ML, and IOT
Amazon MQ - Apache ActiveMQ as a Service (lunches eaten?)
AppSync - GraphQL as a Service (lunches eaten?)
Aurora Serverless - burst database consumption
Comprehend - Natural Language Processing across 98 languages
DeepLens - video camera with AI embedded
DynamoDB Global - similar to Azure/Google initiatives
EC2 Bare Metal Instances - lots of competitors try to differentiate on this (lunches eaten?)
came out of the VMware work
i3.metal instance types
c5 AMIs can work too (new KVM-based instance type)
EC2 Instance types, up to 25Gbps networking
H1 - higher throughput to storage, replacing D2 instances
M5 - 1.15Gbps write to storage, encrypted at rest, multipurpose instances, new Nitro hypervisor
Deep dive on EC2 virtualization/bare metal
T2 Unlimited - good for microservices, bursty workloads with a credit system
Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) - called it!
upstream K8s
automatically runs K8s with three masters across three AZs
monitoring/healthchecks built in, managed service
Fargate - Containers on demand, no host/orchestrator needed
similar to Azure Container Instances
apparently Google has App Engine Flexible which is similar (thanks JP!)
So, Matt: why would I use EKS instead of Fargate, etc.? Another write-up.
FreeRTOS - AWS bought(?) existing open source IoT operating system vendor
Glacier/S3 Select - run SQL-like queries against your buckets and storage (CSV & JSON)
GuardDuty - continuous security monitoring & threat detection (lunches eaten?)
IoT Analytics - MQTT processing, reporting & storage
IoT Device Defender - reporting, alerting & mitigation of existing IoT fleets
IoT Device Management - lifecycle, management & monitoring of IoT devices
Kinesis Video Streams - video ingestion/processing service
Media Services - YouTube as a Service, including monetization. Seems there should be an embeddable player somewhere.
Neptune - managed graph database service (lunches eaten?)
Rekognition Video - Rekognition now does video
SageMaker - framework for building AI services
Sumerian - VR/AR/3D IDE and platform?
Systems Manager - custom dashboards based off of tags, ties into AWS system management tools
Time Sync Service - AWS NTP
Translate - Google & MS already have this
Transcribe - speech recognition, we should use this!
More: The New Stack, The Register.
This kind of over-the-top analysis is kinda our thing. BACK OFF, MAN!
AWS Strategy Update
On Hybrid Cloud: “In the fullness of time — I don’t know if it’s five, 10 or 15 years out — relatively few companies will own their own data centers. Those that do will have a much smaller footprint. It will be a transition and it won’t happen overnight.” Link
More: ‘Is Multi-Cloud Real?: “We certainly get asked about it a lot. Most enterprises, when they think about a plan for moving to the cloud, they think they will distribute workloads across a couple of cloud providers. But few actually make that decision because you have to standardize on lowest common denominator when you go multi-cloud. AWS is so far ahead and you don’t want to handicap developer teams. Asking developers to be fluent in multiple cloud platforms is a lot. And all the cloud providers have volume discounts. If you split workloads across multi-cloud, you’re diminishing those discounts. In practice, companies pick a predominate cloud provider for their workloads. And they may have a secondary cloud provider just in case they want to switch providers.’
AWS re:Invent Preview Review
✔SaaS lunches will be eaten?
✔Amazon Kubernetes Service?
This Week in Kubernetes
All about AWS this week!
Well, GKS did get rid of billing for cluster managers
Coté finished up this pile of crap (get a preview!) and right after emailing it in was reminded that Ben wrote this up already, plus an update based on re:Invent this week.
End-roll
Conferences
Coté’s junk:
NEXT WEEK, FOOLS! SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th.
Matt’s (not) on the Road! Taking it off for the Holidays.
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Art of War, backlaid by Wu Tang Clan
Brandon: Hindenburg audio editor.
Coté: Programmed Inequality; drink after the kids go to bed; Mindhunter; Jim and Andy.
Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.
1 hr
November 21, 2017Episode 112: SaaS lunches will be eaten?
With Coté away attending to family matters, Matt Ray and Brandon have a lively discussion about the origins of VMware, product strategy and preview possible AWS Re:invent announcements. We also discuss how to celebrate Thanksgiving when you are an living down under. Most importantly, we reveal the new Software Define Talk logo!
Show Notes:
VMware Origins: Masters of Scale: Look Sideways — with Google / VMware’s Diane Greene.
Strategy Discussion: Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies
Bonus Links:
Mesosphere, a San Francisco cloud-infrastructure startup that once famously turned down an acquisition from Microsoft, is now on a $US50 million annualized run rate.
Introducing Certified Kubernetes (and Google Kubernetes Engine!)
Stressed about serverless lock-in? Don't be
Sponsor:
This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, Sign up for a free trial of SolarWinds AppOptics by visiting www.solarwinds.com/sdt and get a free launch t-shirt,
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Recommendations
Matt Ray: Laughing for Days
Brandon: Movie: American Made
Sponsored By:
SolarWinds: This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds Cloud, which just launched AppOptics during AWS re:Invent. In addition to the new converged application tracing and infrastructure monitoring platform, SolarWinds also released significant updates to Papertrail and Pingdom. Together they take a big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform. And in case you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you can still check out AppOptics and get your free launch t-shirt. Just go to www.solarwinds.com/sdt to sign up and be sure to check the details at the bottom.
50 min
November 09, 2017Episode 111: 280 characters on PowerPoint, Product Management, & OpenStack
With Coté stuck in the tail end of polishing up a new stump speech, we discuss the magic of creating the deck and the history of PowerPoint, based on a recently published article. After slides talk and some contemplation of using Rick and Morty references in (supposedly) professional talks, we discuss how impossible keeping everyone happy with product management decisions as a product gets older. We close out talking about the recent OpenStack Summit and Mirantis.
This week’s exegesis
OpenStack User Survey, probably.
# Fuckin’ with PowerPoint, or, “these slides will compile, no matter what”
David Byrne loves PowerPoint.
History of PowerPoint, best $14m acquisition ever! Dive even deeper!
Is Rick and Morty safe for slides?
# 280 Characters of Bullshit(?)
Pro.
Con 1.
Con 2.
Con 3.
# OpenStack Summit
In Sydney.
It’s Mirantis again!
OpenStack Survey - Tasty Meats Paul
# This week in Kubernetes
We’re re-writing all of systems management.
Serverless, what is it, exactly?
# BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
# Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
# Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
Coté’s junk:
Innotech Microservices Conference, Austin, 11/16/2017.
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
November 10 - Microsoft Open Source Roadshow
November 14 - Perth MS Cloud Meetup
# Recommendations
Matt Ray: Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Brandon: Snag it
Coté: Ritz Crackers, all the Courtney Barnett songs.
59 min
November 02, 2017Episode 110: s/private cloud/hybrid cloud/ig
This week, if you can stand it, we talk about why kubernetes won (no solid conclusions are reached), the announcement around Cisco and Google, and IBM’s new private cloud stack, “IBM Cloud Private.”
This week’s exegesis
The Corporate Podcast, plus EBC’ing - sign-up and listen!
Last week we looked at The Lone Wolf Analyst, by way of Ben Thompson.
This week in kubernetes
Why did kubernetes win? (Nerds like to tinker, Google brand? Did the rest of us just need to buy more native advertising in The New Stack?)
Cisco and Google
Not really sure what this Cisco/Google thing is. What does Cisco bring to the table?
“Cisco's HyperFlex platform that includes management tools to enforce security and other policies as applications and services are released with greater frequency.”
Private cloud bundling of kubernetes, Istio, all the great cloud natives.
"This is what we hear customers ask for," Diane Greene.
Big picture: what’s Google’s goal here? Is it really as simple as “on-ramp?”
Even bigger picture: how did it kubernetes win?
IBM’s private cloud stack
So, is the “Blue Mix” brand out the mix?
IBM page: “Overview of IBM Cloud Private.” Another announcement overview.
“Is built on the latest versions of Kubernetes and Docker” - what that mean?
Jeffrey Burt: “IBM Cloud Private can run on a variety of infrastructures, including the vendor’s own mainframe and Power systems, its hyperconverged infrastructure that runs Nutanix software, and IBM Storage’s Spectrum Access solution. In addition, it can run on systems from Dell EMC, Lenovo, Cisco Systems and NetApp, and can be deployed by such VMware, Canonical and other OpenStack distributions as well as bare-metal systems. The private cloud platform also includes such developer services for data analytics as Db2, Db2 Warehouse, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, developer tools like Netcool, UrbanCode, and Cloud Brokerage and open-source management software such as Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, and ElasticSearch.”
Chris Mellor, The Register:
All the great middleware now in (Docker) containers: “IBM has provided containerised versions of WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty, MQ, and DB2, plus Microservice Builder as software bundle components. For example, Cloud Private for Application Modernization provides Cloud Private capabilities plus WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, MQ Advanced, API Connect Professional, DB2 Direct Advanced and Urban Code Deploy.”
Value-prop’in! “The standout aim is to help legacy apps transition to a more cloud-native style of construction and operation so that they can run inside a public cloud-like environment on-premises – private cloud – and connect to and/or be integrated with public clouds in some fashion. The destination in IBM's view, of the evolution of legacy apps is the hybrid cloud with private cloud as a stepping stone.”
The white papers also mention “regulated industries” and the like.
Goin’ for that enterprise cloud, hey, boy.
Also: Coté’s highlights, brief coverage from Tom Krazit at GeekWire.
An oral history of “bursting”: from 2010 to 2017.
Congress now follows you
Kind of a dick move to not send the CEOs.
Holy Shit! “Revealing exactly what was smeared all over the internet during the 2016 elections would, we reckon, be like opening Pandora's box: it would allow citizens to join the dots between Kremlin-crafted lies, the gradual acceptance of those lies online, the discussion and even promotion of said lies on mainstream news networks, resulting in, presumably, dozens of clips of senators responding with indignation about made-up information. In short, everyone is going to look like a chump if it turns out everything argued over last year was based on nothing but Kremlin-devised myths and urban legends. Rumors, in other words, designed to destabilize American politics and perhaps install a preferred candidate in the White House.”
Looks like my rep has been keeping up on Ben Thompson: ‘Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) asked: "Why should you be treated any differently to the press?" All three California outfits responded with a version of the fact that they are "platforms" and not publishers, that their content is user-created, and that they protect people's right to free speech and expression. Cornyn made it clear he was not persuaded. "They may be a distinction lost on most of us," he said.’
Speaking of…Ben nails the analysis:
“Facebook served [an estimated] 276 million unique ads per quarter, and my entire point was the same as Kennedy’s: there is no way that Facebook could ever review every ad, much less investigate who is behind them, without completely ruining their revenue model.”
‘What this hearing highlighted, though, is the degree to which the position of Facebook in particular has become more tenuous. The fact of the matter is that Facebook (and Google) is more powerful than any entity we have seen before. Magnifying the problem is that, over the last year, Facebook has decided to “take responsibility”, and what is that but a commitment to exercise their control over what people see?’
Tech industry doesn’t think/care about the effects of their products
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/925828976882282496
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
MongoIPO
Don’t hate if you have options.
## Australasian technology update - what’s the long-term plan at Atlassian?
"Revenue climbed 41.7% year over year to $193.8 million.”
Things are going well down under.
Well, they do spend as much on R&D as sales & marketing. Compare to Mongo, which is 1:2 or so.
Misc
Using the Correct Tool for the Job written by J Asghar
- Monetizing The Hot Dog - I’m sure the VC stockholders are ecstatic about this development
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exegesis podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something!
Coté’s junk:
Innotech Microservices Conference, Austin, 11/16/2017.
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
November 6-7 - AgileNZ
November 10 - Microsoft Open Source Roadshow
Recommendations
Matt Ray: Kevin Shields/Brian Eno collaboration, “Only Once Away My Son.”
Brandon: Mindhunter and Netflix Skip Intro
Coté: Programmed Inequality.
Sponsored By:
Pivotal: Come check the success stories in cloud-native at SpringOne Platform. Full of the suits and the nerds going over how they've improved their organization's approach to software. Use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off registration!
Promo Code: S1P200_Cote
54 min
October 20, 2017Episode 109: I’m getting Kubernetes Stockholm syndrome
Docker’s now into kubernetes, being the last major vendor outside of Amazon to latch the orchestration framework into its strategy. Yup, as usual, it’s pretty much just kubernetes business yappin’.
This week’s exegesis
We’ll be looking at The Four this week in the exegesis podcast. Coté is vacillating between upset and ¯_(ツ)_/¯
$1 Class-action settlements
Got my Apple iBooks pay-day!
It was $1.14.
For $1.14, I don’t think any sort of crime was committed. Coffee costs triple that (double if you shop around). Sounds like a big waste of time and money.
Did I ever tell you about that refund gift card from T-Mobile I got? For 3 cents? What the fuck I do with that?
Soon we’ll all bow to kubernetes
Docker adds in support, official web-page with burger and brief value-props, and over at The New Stack.
Now we can all just start The Battle of Death by a Thousand Value-props. E.g., hittin’ up that security angle hard-core, talking about easily migrate-n-save for existing apps.
Dave Bartoletti, Forrester: ‘said it's clear that Kubernetes has won at the orchestration layer. "There's too much mindshare around it," he said in a phone interview with The Register. "There are too many developers who just want this.”’…”Bartoletti said he expects vendors will try to move up the stack by providing security, integration, workflow, and managed services. He said Docker now will be free to focus on trying to be the best container platform for enterprises.”
Looks like Bartoletti was the analyst sent around, he shows up in other coverage.
Derrick Harris’s take: “The problem is that it’s difficult to make enterprise sales when users want open source at the lower layers and to pay (real money, at least) at layers they deem more strategic. If that’s Kubernetes, then Docker either needs to support it commercially, or let someone else take all the revenue from the orchestration layer up while Docker keeps on spending money to keep the free part of the puzzle chugging. By supporting Kubernetes as part of Docker Enterprise, it now can make the argument that nobody understands containers better than Docker does, and there’s now no real reason to not pay for its enterprise version.”
MTA IN DA HIZ-OUSE!
“We’ve seen 100 percent success rate for applications that meet our criteria across hundreds of Java and .NET applications. Customers are able to see these results in five days or less.
“Johnston added that some customers are able to double the release frequency of their software and cut total cost of ownership by 50 percent.”
Snoopy on that shit: “MetLife applied this modernization pattern in one day to their Java application. They were able to look across their portfolio and identify 600 other applications that fit this pattern, for a 66 percent savings on total cost of ownership. That nets out to millions of dollars at MetLife. They have over 6,000 applications they want to apply this to.”
Meanwhile, earlier this month, more for the whale: “[Docker] has been putting together a $75 million funding round, which would bring the total amount of money raised by the company to $255 million.”
IBM Wins the Cloud
That revenue!
Hopefully IBM figures it out.
Tech people
Coté’s Register column this month is on “the skills gap,” hiring in tech.
Coincidently, there’s also a story on The Olds in tech.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Misc.
Brandon’s favorite chart updated.
Oracle says don’t do custom IT.
One of the better recordings of Coté’s talk is up, from DevOpsDays Kansas City.
Red Hat likely to be a $3bn company soon - 24 years in the making. Open source is hella hard.
Ben on MongoDB S1: “This is the key to understanding SaaS companies: the first year is hugely negative because of sales costs, but future years are hugely profitable because the customer doesn’t go anywhere.” SaaS businesses are subscription businesses, profits in the out-years.
This week in Azure Stack
Dell has some info out on the SKUs and such.
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Mid-roll & Conferences
Get $50 off Casper mattresses with the code: horraymattray
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something!
Coté’s junk:
Solarwinds THWACKcamp, all online Oct 18th and 19th. DevOps panel on Oct 19th, noon central. http://thwackcamp.com.
All Day DevOps, Oct 24th - Coté is speaking, 2:45pm central.
Fedscoop Digital Transformation Summit, in DC Oct 26th. Meetup the night before on EA & DevOps.
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
October 25-26/27-28 DevOps Days Singapore/PowerShell Asia
November 6-7 - AgileNZ
Recommendations
Brandon: Machine Learning.
Matt Ray: Roseheaven, Utopia.
Coté: now that it’s getting cooler: Patagonia Men's Merlow Wool 1/4-Zip Sweater. I have two!
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52 min
October 12, 2017Episode 108: FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting, & Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50%
Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendors - even Oracle! - have announced support and road-maps for using Google’s container orchestrator in their cloud-native stacks. Also, Chef and Puppet have new suites of tools, Docker sets its sites clearly on reducing VMware costs, and there’s some new momentum stats on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
Do people actually do the DEV-ops?
DevOps sounds cool, but, SREs?
See discussion over on Coté Show.
Chef launches Habitat Builder SaaS
Habitat Builder for the People
Adam Jacob’s commentary
James Governor’s take
TNS coverage, plus, bold muscle-t choice! Celebrate it!
We all succumbing to the cloud-native, even Oracle
JavaEE off the Eclipse, to be more modular (again).
Some deep kubernetes talk.
Chef and Puppet and Pivotal and supporting kubernetes.
CF Summit EU
Round-up press release - mostly more on kubernetes in the Cloud Foundry world. Some Istio mentioning, adding legitimacy to that effort; see Istio discussion in episode #96.
James “my flight got canceled” Governor coverage:
“enterprises now account for more than 40% of Cloud Foundry’s membership”
“Kubernetes too is seeing plenty of tyre kicking, but nowhere near the level of enterprise commitment [to Cloud Foundry] at this point.”
“54% of Cloud Foundry target Amazon Web Services as a platform, that 40% of users are targeting VMware vSphere certainly [i]s” - I assume this is across all distros and OSS, which makes sense. In Pivotal land, it’s mostly on on-premises VMware, last I checked.
Habitat and Cloud Foundry
Programming Languages and Code Quality
Large-scale overview of GitHub projects, their languages and their bug reports
“The data indicates that functional languages are better than procedural languages; it suggests that disallowing implicit type conversion is better than allowing it; that static typing is better than dynamic; and that managed memory usage is better than unmanaged. Further, that the defect proneness of languages in general is not associated with software domains.”
Docker as a cost-cutter
Their CEO says you can slash costs by 50%.
Meg Whitman says it’s more like 40%.
But partners make $7 off of every $1 of Docker spend - does that math work? Scenario:
I used to pay $2 for VMware, now I pay $1 for Docker (50% reduction).
But it costs me $7 to get there, giving me a one time payment of net $8, and, hopefully, just $1 a year after that? (Never mind opex vs. capex GAAP-crap.)
So, then: after 4+ years I’ll start saving money? (with VMware, I would have paid $2/yr., so $8 total, and with Docker over that four year period I pay $8 first year, $1 next three years, so $11 total - hrmm..where’s Excel when you need it?)
Follow-up from 2011: so, Docker really is about replacing VMware…?
Overall, this interview with Docker’s CEO is good stuff for industry watchers. It didn’t occur to Coté that the former CEO of Concur would know, like, every single CFO and CEO at G2000 companies.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
Microsoft Ignite News
SQL Server 2017, Oracle migrations, AzureStack!
Azure Snowball Data Box
Meanwhile, Azure Stack is out now, as of Oct 4th (close enough to September, really).
Security/Acquisitions
SAP buys customer identity management firm Gigya for $350M
Google acquires identity management company Bitium
Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 31 Percent in 2016
Don’t get 100% excited, this just covers public cloud. Cf. “The Problem with PaaS Marketsizing.”
Look who’s #3 (not Google)
Coverage from TPM, including this chart:
MongoDB Going Public
IPO is gonna be webscale!
## HPE, migrate them workloads to cloud
Interview with Meg Whitman.
“We aim to be the largest infrastructure provider that Azure Stack runs on on-prem, and collectively we can sell that to our joint customers.”
HPE's opening bid for cash repatriotization: 2.9% taxfee.
Random
Amazon Treasure Truck
Meta, follow-up, etc.
Patreon - like anyone who starts these things, I have no idea WTF it is, if it’s a good idea, or if I should be ashamed. Need some product/market fit.
Check out the Software Defined Talk Members Only White-Paper Exiguous podcast over there.
Join us all in the SDT Slack.
Mid-roll & Conferences
The Register’s conference, Continuous Lifecycle, in London (May 2018) has it’s CFP open, closed October 20th - submit something!
Coté’s junk:
NEW DISCOUNT! DevOpsDays Nashville, $25 off with the code 2017NashDevOpsDays - Coté will be keynoting - October 17th and 18th, 2017.
Solarwinds THWACKcamp, all online Oct 18th and 19th. DevOps panel on Oct 19th, noon central. http://thwackcamp.com.
All Day DevOps, Oct 24th.
Fedscoop Digital Transformation Summit, in DC Oct 26th. Meetup the night before on EA & DevOps.
SpringOne Platform registration open, Dec 4th to 5th. Use the code S1P200_Cote for $200 off registration. Coté and many others speaking.
Matt’s on the Road!
October 25-26 DevOps Days Singapore
- October 27 Serverless India
November 6-7 - AgileNZ
Listener Shout Outs
Daniel Barker sent me (Brandon) I nice Linkedin Message.
Lots of people at DevOpsDays Kansas City and Auckland.
Recommendations
Brandon:
More Perfect Episode: Who’s Gerry and Why Is He So Bad at Drawing Maps?
Vox: How the Supreme Court could limit gerrymandering, explained with a simple diagram
Matt Ray: Baby Driver, the movie. The forbidden backpack: Echo Rucksack.
Coté: Workflow app - I thought Apple had shut this down after acquiring it, but I guess not. Pro-tip, leave your fruit on the plane when you enter the US; unlike ANZ, there’s no big bins to throw away your stuff and you end up going to a dumb line where they take your fruit and put it in a trash can for you.
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1 hr
October 04, 2017 WHITE PAPER SPECIAL! Just another kubernetes article
This week, we look at an article from Susan Hall at The New Stack. Susan is a solid reporter, so looking at her piece allows us to discuss the world and machination of the tech press, what it’s like to brief them, and our imagination of what it’s like to be a tech reporter.
See the much more detailed notes on this piece.
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