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February 18, 2017Episode 88: Docker is just cheap VMware, right?
There's tell that some people just look at containers as a cheaper way to virtualize, eschewing the fancy-lad "cloud-native stuff." We discuss that idea, plus "the enterprise cloud wars," and also our feel that Slack is actually a really good tool and company.
Old folk jokes
Steve Gillmor
Grandpa walking in and out of Simpson's.
"The Southern Cross"
Follow-up
No call yet from papercall
JJ says when you SSH into a container then you are doing lightweight virtualization. I ask is this really a bad thing? Check it out on Coté Show #21.
It was Hooch, Turner was the human.
Coté: follow-up, my DevOpsDays Charlotte talk recording is up. Also, finally learned how to spell "Charlotte." - See it at cote.io/not-devops
Slack executes the perfect Freemium
Minimum Delight Experience vs. Minimum Viable Product
Build and charge for the enterprise features required by the Fortune 500
Don't apologize that you don't support Markdown or other power user features.
Mid-roll
Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore, March 7th to 8th. The best how to DevOps experience in Maine this year!! Use the code SDT-BALTIMORE to get 10% off. Pivotal's sponsoring, no Coté, tho.
Also, we have one free ticket to give away. If you want it, write us a review in iTunes and email us up that you did so, and we'll semi-randomly select a winner.
Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd
Matt:
DevOps Melbourne March 28th Talking Compliance as Code
ChefCon, May 22nd to May 25th, in Austin, Texas. Matt Ray will be there, and we'll likely record a "live-to-tape" episode.
Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper. tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform.
Jassy Talks About the Competition
Pretty amazingly candid interview for the say nothing company
"I don't think in our wildest dreams we ever thought we'd have a six- to seven-year head start"
When people say lock-in, it's dog-whistling for "Oracle."
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
AI & the Middle Class
Link
"If current trends continue, people are going to rise up well before the machines do."
"He also argued that these trends are reversible, that improved education and a greater emphasis on entrepreneurship and research can help feed new engines of growth"... we (the US) are so screwed
Coté: I keep going back to McKinsey saying 70% of work is menial; I'm sure that "study" is wonky and loaded, but still, we do so much bullshit in daily work. Another example: several Pivotal customers (Allstate, HCSC) say they usually get 40%+ productivity improvements because they stop going to meetings and actually code 7 hours a day instead of bullshit.
Grim. Really, really, really grim.
2017 Worldwide Software Developer Salaries
Move to Austin if you want some of that sweet, botton-line margin.
"In Austin, the average salary for a software engineer on Hired is $110K. But this is the equivalent to making $198K in San Francisco when you consider the cost of living difference between the two cities."
"...we see a similar trend in Melbourne. Even though Melbourne's average salary for software engineers is a relatively low $83K (A$107K), this is equivalent to making nearly $150K in San Francisco."
Don't Trust the Status Page
FAKE STATUS!
"We cannot trust Amazon AWS status updates because the information provided to us about the severity of the issue or how quickly it will really be resolved"
Reminder: https://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/
Chef Joins the CNCF
Link
Intel Rolls Out Another Generation of the Itanium
Link
"HPE will, of course, support its Itanium customers for a number of years, at least until 2025"
Recommendations
Matt:
Spoon in Sydney!
http://atlasobscura.com I just signed up and started looking for more fun places to check out while traveling. My wife made an entry for Tasmazia
(Sub-req: Political Gabfest, The Weeds, Kara Swisher.)
Coté: "Don't tell me what to do!" Also, Bragg's and Hindenberg audio editor.
Brandon: The Upstarts
Sponsored By:
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
Pivotal: Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.
Pivotal: Come see Coté talk about how big companies are succeeding and failing at DevOps, cloud native, and "digital transformation. Based on real life events!
DevOpsDays: March 7th to March 8th - another fantastic DevOpsDays, in Baltimore. Get 10% registration off with the promo code SDT-BALTIMORE.
Promo Code: SDT-BALTIMORE
Chef: DevOps Meetup, Melbourne March 28th - Come see Matt Ray talking "Compliance as Code."
1 hr 1 min
February 11, 2017Episode 87: Snap's cloud billions, Google's social, Monitoring Startups considered hard, DHS wants your passwords
Snap is looking to spend billions on AWS and Google Cloud over the next five years. We talk about what exactly that could be for, then check in with Google's social strategy and thermostat strategies; meanwhile, the America Fuck Yeah crew wants to start gathering passwords at the boarder. Also, Brandon lays out the case that an open-core monitoring startup is a hard row to hoe.
Also, Baltimore is not in Maine. (But Coté is pretty sure it actually is.)
Mid-roll
Coté: we're a media sponsor for DevOpsDays Baltimore, March 7th to 8th. No discount code yet, but we're getting one.
Coté: Come see me talk at the Austin Cloud Meetup, Feb 22nd
Matt:
Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk
ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser
Coté: check out Pivotal's DIY platform paper. tl;dr: for $7m/year with a two year on-ramp, you could build you own, or just buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Many of our customers have gone down this path and ended up not wanting to support the life of their own platform...which doesn't match the pace of innovation that the Cloud Foundry community can follow. Check out softwaredefinedtalk.com/diyplatform.
SnapChat's S-1
The S1
"We had 158 million Daily Active Users on average in the quarter ended December 31, 2016"
"We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years." - perhaps 10% of their billing.
Also: "Snap will spend $1 billion on AWS through 2021."
Coté Show interview with former cloud boy, JJ.
The McLaughlin Group covers Google: What's up with them!
Robots opening doors.
Google, Nest, and DropCam - despite rocky start, maybe it's just a slow ramp-up, they have 50% y/y growth.
People think GCP is the shit.
"Purity vs. pragmatism."
Corrections
"Barra-mundi"
Pronunciation tips
Thing to get angry about this week
DHS considering asking foreigners for passwords
I mean, really? A criminal is just gonna let you see their stuff? They'll just delete it, set up fake accounts, etc.
It's not like popping the trunk for a thief and finding lock picks and guns in the boot: with digital crime tools and weapons, you can hide and subterfuge.
And then the only people getting harmed are innocent people.
What the fuck is wrong with these people, and more importantly the shit-for brains who voted for them? (How can we de-shit those brains for 2018?)
Tweet about 3D chess of this meaning the government can't hack into your stuff...or can they?!?!
CNCF Buys RethinkDB's Code and Donates to the Linux Foundation
Not just marketing, but actually "freeing" code
Switched from AGPLv3 to ASLv2
"Abby," head of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. See a recent discussion with her and RedMonk's James Governor on developer skills in large organizations.
$2.5 million VC for Sensu!
Nagios replacement!!!
Brandon has some advice.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode
Microsoft does Azure Patent Indemnification
"The system is supposed to help ease the transition to the cloud by giving companies extra peace of mind. Right now, lawsuits over intellectual property relating to open source technology in the cloud are rare" Link
"those companies operating in a multi-cloud configuration won't be entirely covered"
Attempting to Categorize the Cloud Native Landscape
Project in GitHub
Cloud native Landscape diagram
Cloud Displacing Intel's Enterprise Sales
"Tectonic shifts in the pattern of Intel's business show the devastating speed at which cloud is displacing traditional enterprise server sales" Link
Slack Enterprise Grid should make user management easier
Link
Uber Steers Away from Trump
"More than 200,000 customers had deleted their accounts." (Link)
"Many employees were not satisfied with his answer. On Wednesday, Uber staff members followed up by circulating a 25-page Google document titled "Letters to Travis" to tell the chief executive how and why his willingness to engage with the administration had affected them."
Puppet adds two vice presidents, hiring from Hewlett-Packard and EMC
"Puppet replaced nearly its entire executive team in 2016, including its chief executive and chief financial officers. It hired six vice presidents last year." (Link)
Rackspace lays off 6%
"Since being taken private [by Apollo], Rackspace has been working to trim its annual budget by 7%, or $100 million, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission." (Link)
More figures from Barb Darrow.
Brief 451 coverage from Al:
"After eight years as a public company, Rackspace went private in August 2016 in $4.3bn leveraged buyout with Apollo Global Management."
"Rackspace just announced a layoff of 6% of its 4,600 employees"
"The company is expected to exceed $2bn in revenue and top 33% EBITDA margin for 2016."
Meanwhile, AWS at ~$10bn for 2016 with something like 20-23% profit margin (OpInc based on 2016Q4 numbers), Azure and GCP catching up: MSFT is probably $5-6bn, depending on how you categorize it. GCP probably $3bn at most (they don't break it out)?
Other thing to get worked up about: eliminating remote work
IBM on that colo shit
Brandon is safe! (He lives in Austin.)
Coté: I won't deny that working in smelling range is the best. But, the gains never feel like enough to enforce it. Plus, mega-city congestion and resulting classist systems, cf. The Wealth of Humans. It's a problem that should be solved, not embraced.
Recommendations
Matt:
Manly Daily newspaper, so much unbridled snark. Link
RTJ on NPR.
I'm not sure I can pull this off.
Coté: Ezra Klein interview with Kara Swisher. She's inspiring is several ways, not least of which in modeling a way to be politely strident and opinionated: the opposite of imposture syndrome. Also, his talk with the Hillbilly Elegy guy. I mean: most of the whole podcast, just skip the ones that look trivial and repetitive, e.g., we get it: Trump is a lunatic. (See The Weeds and "The Nate Silver podcast.")
Brandon:
Skiing in Solitude, Utah.
The Daily podcast, from NYT.
Sponsored By:
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
Chef: Microsoft Ignite Australia, Feb 14th to Feb 17th, Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre . Chef will have a booth & a talk.
Pivotal: Why you shouldn't build your own platform, it'll cost ~$7m/year, even before chunky coconut water opex.
DevOpsDays: March 7th to March 8th - another fantastic DevOpsDays, in Baltimore. Get 10% registration off with the promo code SDT-BALTIMORE.
Promo Code: SDT-BALTIMORE
Pivotal: Come see Coté talk about how big companies are succeeding and failing at DevOps, cloud native, and "digital transformation. Based on real life events!
1 hr
January 30, 2017Episode 86: Life after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&A), CostCo Down Under
With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who the “losers” are. Also, the low-down on CostCo in Australia!
Mid-roll
Coté: I’m speaking at DevOpsDays Charlotte, day two keynote, I think. Use the code SDT to get 25% off!
Matt:
Talking Chef at the AWS Sydney User Group
Microsoft Ignite Australia: Chef will have a booth & a talk
ChefConf ChefConf 2017 Teaser
Coté: much self-promotion to catch up on: I’m writing more “original content” on my blog, and plan to write more; subscribe to my newsletter for a round-up of stuff I blog, sent out on Sunday night, will tweak more.
Also, in the “grim” vein, Coté reviews some books on "automation," which John Allspaw rightly says should be called "new technology," fair enough. The 1983 paper on automation and humans is a good read too.
CostCo field report: Australia
It’s great!
US: No need for a hot pizza sign holder.
US: Rayban Wayfarers are like $130 now!
AppDynamics files for IPO… Cisco says NOT SO FAST
IPO filing...
“Our revenues for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016 were $23.6 million, $81.9 million and $150.6 million, respectively”
Cisco
$3.7 billion, about a 14-17X multiplier
Atlassian Buys Trello for $425 Million
Wired coverage
451 report, paywall.
Public blog from 451.
Oracle Buys Apiary
“API Integration Cloud”
Coté’s coverage, with plenty more links: small asset working on a $660m API management market.
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show.
HP Buys Stuff
Cloud Cruiser for management/chargeback, $650 million
SimpliVity for converged systems, $650 million
You Know What DevOps Needs? An IEEE Standard
They’re working on it
Twitter
Google buying Fabric.
Facebook still king.
Do We Talk About Trump?
OpenStack Summits leaving the US
Red Hat, Microsoft, others making announcements against the Muslim ban
Coté says: these people are proven idiots. Don’t work with them.
Trump’s Twitter Moves Markets
Apparently he watches Fox and parrots their lines, so maybe someone at Fox is making a killing with “insider trading”?
RethinkDB: Why We Failed
Good read for how hard it is to crack the DB and OSS markets.
“In hindsight, two things went wrong – we picked a terrible market and optimized the product for the wrong metrics of goodness.”
Coté follow-up: be careful with TAM picking.
Yahoo is Altaba
… wut?
Dreams $45bn
Google’s AI Awakening
“How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.”
Extensive article on Google’s AI push from back in December
Alexa
Amazon’s OS
Also, there’s an estimated 24.5m of these voice things around.
ClusterHQ Shutting Down
Docker storage startup shuts down
Facebook’s 2016 Open Source Contributions
Open source continues to be great for recruiting (and probably code)
Google buys Twitter’s Fabric
CASH!
Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky “State of the World”
Always a good read
Recommendations
Brandon: RTIC 30oz Tumbler.
Matt:
Donate to the ACLU.
RTJ3 is out, and free!
My 2016 year in the air
Tennis ball making video
Coté: big jar of green hatch! Get a 40! Also, how to feed three people with one bean.
Sponsored By:
DevOpsDays: Come see Coté and many other great speakers at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 6th and 7th. Use the code SDT to get 25% off registration!
Promo Code: SDT
Chef: ChefConf 2017 - ChefCon is coming up, May 22nd to 24th in Austin, Texas. Early bird pricing through March 31st.
Chef: Microsoft Ignite Australia, Feb 14th to Feb 17th, Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre . Chef will have a booth & a talk.
Chef: AWS User Group Sydney - AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, Matt Ray giving a talk there.
Cote.io: Subscribe to Coté's newsletter to get all the things he thinks are important, each Sunday night.
Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.
1 hr 2 min
January 20, 2017Episode 85: Being an analyst without being an asshole - Coté’s professional life, part 2
In part two of Coté navel gazing, we discuss Coté’s life as an analyst and strategists. Matt Ray is off in Australia-land, so it’s just Brandon and Coté. We discuss: what IT analyst work on; working with marketers that have poor, nothing new material; learning how to function inside a large company in the executive suite; M&A and investment bankers, getting shit done in large companies (it’s always slow), like Project Sputnik.
Mid-roll
DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 6th and 7th, 2017 - get 25% of when you register with the code SDT. Coté’s speaking at it!
ChefConf 2017 Teaser
Show Notes
See part one of this series.
Coté’s published work at RedMonk.
Coté’s analysis on disruption in the industry analyst business, going over the business as it matters to the individual analysts.
A discussion of Project Sputnik with Coté and Barton George, episode 34 of Pivotal Conversations.
Collected tips on surviving and thriving in a big company, recording a presentation at Devoxx Poland 2016.
Recommendations
Brandon:
Prototyping for Designers, by Kathryn McElroy.
Pod Save America podcast (née Keepin’ it 1600)
Coté:
Bolthouse Farms, 100% Carrot Juice, 32 oz
The perfect shoe for white collar yokels: Clarks Men's Trapell Form Slip-On Loafer
At CostCo (or Amazon): 505 Southwestern Hatch Valley Green Chile Salsa 40 Oz
Sponsored By:
DevOpsDays: Come see Coté and many other great speakers at DevOpsDays Charlotte, Feb 6th and 7th. Use the code SDT to get 25% off registration!
Promo Code: SDT
49 min
December 21, 2016Episode 84: 2017 Predictions: cloud, containers, AI
After speculating on GitHub’s business we throw out our 2017 predictions. We cover AWS, containers, AI, and government IT. Since holiday family time is coming up, Brandon also suggests some simple family IT help-desk tasks - like backup - and throws out the stretch goal of discussing 2FA at the dinner table.
Mid-roll
Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix, 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking!
Coté: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.9 is out. It adds in Google Cloud & Azure support, so you’re all multi-cloud ready; it will run 250,000 containers concurrently; you can now auto-scale on based on new metrics like HTTP Latency and HTTP Throughput, so when your app seems slow to users, the platform kicks in to make it go faster (previously, CPU; Spring Boot developers will see handy diagnostics info about their apps with new Actuator (diagnostic thing) integrations; devs can use PCF to run “tasks” (one time processes); and, of course, a slew of security updates are bundled in. Go to cote.io/pcf19 to check out my highlights and see a link to a longer, more detailed post.
Feedback & Follow-up
Nice review from Kiyoto!
We’re in the 2,500 downloads an episode range now - thanks listeners!
Show Notes
GitHub
Bloomberg cover their recent year.
...losing $66 million so far for 2016 - what would GitHub be spending that on? Did some upload a lot of JPGs to their repo?
'Sitting in a conference room featuring an abstract art piece on the wall and a Mad Men-style rollaway bar cart in the corner, GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath says the business is running more smoothly now and growing. “What happened to 2015?” says the 31-year-old co-founder and chief executive officer. “Nothing was getting done, maybe? I shouldn’t say that. Strike that."'
“Secular” growth.
Brandon's Predictions
Growth on the Edge, presentation (from a16z GP Peter Levine) - the end of cloud computing and the return to the edge.
Recommendations
Matt: Surfing Santas: Sun, Fun and an Aldi Ham!
Brandon: DBAN - Darick Boot & Nuke, Crashplan, Time Machine Multiple Disk
Coté: Stratechery newsletter. He can be a little trying at times, but who isn't? He’s one of the most interesting, open, and honest IT analysts out there. See the 2016 round-up from Ben
Links:
GitHub Is Building a Coder’s Paradise. It’s Not Coming Cheap
— The VC-backed unicorn startup lost $66 million in nine months of 2016, financial documents show.
Growth on the Edge presentation
— the end of cloud computing and the return to the edge
1 hr 8 min
December 16, 2016Episode 83: I think the word we object to is "DevOps"
...Statler and Waldorf talk with Fozzie
...What's the "OpsOps" of DevOps?.
...Never say you're going to spend $1bn on anything
What exactly is DevOps? We dare to discuss that at first and then get into Amazon's new managed hosting offering. There's some new container news with containerd from DockerInc land, and some little notes on Azure's features and Cisco's InterCloud shutting down. Also, we find out which Muppet each of us would be played by in The Muppets Take Over Software Defined Talk.
Mid-roll
Coté: Come see me January 10th in Phoenix, 5:30pm at the Galvanize Office. Free parking!
Coté: check out my interview with Tony at Home Depot about their first year being cloud native, on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. They went from 0 to ~150 apps in their first year. Like, real, business critical apps that you probably end up interacting with (pro tools, paint), plus internal facing apps.
Feedback & Follow-up
The Doc Martin shoes: Hickmire. Thanks to Chris Short.
The DevOps
App dev vs. IT service delivery.
DevOps Kung Fu, Adam Jacob's talk on the inclusion of everyone in the org chart in DevOps
What is DevOps without Dev? Is there OpsOps?
AWS Managed Services
Amazon will manage your shit now, with real live peoples
"This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud."
"This is actually a thing. It's called managed cloud." - this is a good example of the more subtle way of "paying off analysts." More like: changing their minds.
"Designed for the Fortune 1000 and the Global 2000, this service is designed to accelerate cloud adoption"
AKA "We're eating our partners" AKA "RACKSPACE: YOU'RE UP!"
Coté: Is this like a service desk and a runbook for spinning up AWS stuff? Plus actual AMZN staff to "manage" the infrastructure like patching and such right?
Coté: I was just talking with someone yesterday who's mission was "optimize how we do IT without me telling you what I want to do with IT." That is: lower costs and give us the ability to do whatever we may want in the future in under a year's planning/effort.
Bezos doesn't like meetings without a memo
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5851aebfca7f0c24018b5b6f-2400/ap16349721408436.jpg
Don't Sleep on Microsoft
Damn, that's a monstrous URL
GPUs, HANA, Media Services, Machine Deep Learning, Data Lake, Single-instance virtual machines
Coté: I hear data is a thing. And AI.
Cisco Shutting Down Their InterCloud
Coté's audition for an ElReg headline writer: Cloud InterRUPPTED
$1 Billion isn't enough, "score another body bag win for the unstoppable Amazon Web Services"
"Meanwhile, the cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren't using a lot of Cisco gear. They are increasingly using a new style to build networks that relies more on software and less on high-end, expensive hardware."
Sharwood@ElReg: "OpenStack public clouds have an unhappy history: Rackspace felt it could build a business on the platform, but has since changed tack. HP pulled out of its own Helion public cloud. If Cisco is indeed changing direction, the OpenStack Board has some interesting matters to ponder."
Theory: AWS means on-premise IT is over-serving. You actually don't need all that. Incumbent vendors succumbed to the strategy aphasia of the disruptor's' dilemma (weren't willing to sacrifice/take eye off the ball of existing success and revenue) and lost to Amazon's lower capabilities, lower price approach. WHEN WILL TECH PEOPLE LURN?
There was this talk several years ago that was all like: "well, obviously, we shouldn't compete strategy-to-strategy with Amazon. We should provide the enterprise version!" Apparently, that was dead wrong. People confused Apple's ability to sell at an insane premium with the market not caring about x86 &co.
Docker Contributes Containerd
Docker-engine standardized container runtime for the industry
Engine vs. Machine
Check out this TheNewStack story for a new strategy slide:
Containers in Production!
Round-up of some container survey poking
n=338 respondents
Sidenote: Jenkins win. Good job biffing that one Oracle. But then again: is there any money in it?
"This leads us to a very difficult operational problem – how do we ensure security, and understand the makeup of an application while still allowing developer velocity to increase."
More Docker usage numbers from DataDog!
"ECS adoption has climbed steadily from zero to 15 percent of Docker organizations using Datadog. (And more than 10 percent of all Datadog customers are now using Docker.)"
How do I read this? Does it mean adoption is fast after an initial tire-kicking? "In the 30 days after an organization starts reporting ECS metrics, we see a 35 percent increase in the number of running containers as compared to the 60-day baseline that came before. Using the same parameters, we see a 27 percent increase in the number of running Docker hosts."
CoreOS Tectonic Goes Freemium
Erryone's favorite business model
Kubernetes 1.5 coming soon
Shipping upstream version3
Renamed their distro to Container Linux
They have attempted to coin the phrase "self-driving Kubernetes" -- God help us.
BONUS LINKS! Not discussed on show.
More AWS Followup
Missed a talk?
Open sourced a Deep Learning library:
AWS is still really new to contributing to OSS, Cockcroft has been pushing them. Also see the Blox.github.io stuff we didn't talk about last show
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Q&A
AWS Canada & London!
Strange Brew Region
hello hello hello what's all this then region
"brings our global footprint to 16 Regions and 40 Availability Zones, with seven more Availability Zones and three more Regions coming online through the next year"
Docker Acquires Distributed Storage Startup Inifinit
"the Infinit platform provides interfaces for block, object and file storage: NFS, SMB, AWS S3, OpenStack Swift, iSCSI, FUSE etc."
To be open-sourced
Extends the stateful application story
CA Buys Automic for $635 million
"CA fights legacy status with DevOps automation tools buy" - that's not a good headline for your Christmas cards.
$635 million, Crunchbase says they were founded in 1985(?)
Hey look, it's my man Carl Lehmann at 451!
New CEO at BMC
Beauchamp goes to board, Polycom dude steps in a CEO
"Beauchamp said many of BMC's products are achieving double digit growth and double-digit profitability."
Red Hat OpenShift on GCE and JBoss on OpenShift
In case you need more management on your GCE? AWS is already there, probably Azure soon.
I wonder if there's a deficiency in Google's offering that it's more of a consumed resource than a platform a la AWS? Plenty of management in AWS already?
JBoss on it
Dell Q3
"Dell Technologies Posts $2B Loss, But EMC Deal Already Boosting Revenue"
Stonic, (not) An Ansible Fork?
Stonic will be licensed under AGPL-3.0 :facepalm:
Coté: why is AGPL bad?
Australian 2016 Word of the Year: "Democracy Sausage" (saved you a click)
Democracy Sausage
Google Makes So Much Money It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline - Until Now
Candy, not CREAM
Brandon called this way back when.
But what about Google Fiber in my neighborhood?
Best shruggie use of th eyear
NVIDA $129k computer.
"Fewer than 100 companies and organizations have bought DGX-1s since they started shipping in the fall, but early adopters say Nvidia's claims about the system seem to hold up."
Does it pass the Coté AI Test? I.e.: can it fix scheduling meetings across different organizations?
Recommendations
Brandon: Mobile eating the world.
Matt: Jenn Schiffer's "No One Expects The Lady Code Troll"
Coté: Senso bluetoother headphones. Trapper hats all winter long.
55 min
December 08, 2016Episode 82: Attack of the two-pizza teams
...Eventually, someone has to clean up the leftover pizza.
...That sweet OpEx.
..."Easy to stay."
Amazon came out with a slew of features last week. This week we discuss them and take some cracks at the broad, portfolio approach at AWS compared to historic (like .Net) platform approaches. We also discuss footwear and what to eat and where to stay in Las Vegas.
Footware
Kenneth Cole slip on shoes.
Keen Austin shoes, slip-on and lace.
The Doc Martin's Coté used to wear, Hickmire.
Mid-roll
Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have at cote.io/cloud2 or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy.
Matt: Presenting at the CC Dojo #3, talking DevOps in Tokyo
AWS re:Invent
Matt Ray heroically summarizes all here.
Richard has a write-up as well.
RedMonk re:Cap
Global Partner Summit
Don't hedge your bets, "AWS has no time for uncommitted partners"
"10,000 new Partners have joined the APN in the past 12 months"
Day 1 - "I'd like to tell you about…"
Amazon Lightsail
Monthly instances with memory, cpu, storage & static IP
Bitnami! Hello Digital Ocean & Linode
Amazon Athena
S3 SQL queries, based on Presto distributed SQL engine
JSON, CSV, log files, delimited text, others
Coté: this seems pretty amazing.
Amazon Rekognition
Image detection & recognition
Amazon Polly
Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages
Coté: Makes transcripts?
Amazon Lex
Conversational voice & text interface builder (ie. chatbots)
Coté: make chat-bots and such.
AWS Greengrass
Local Lambda processing for IoT
Coté: is this supposed to be, like, for running Lambda things on disconnected devices? Like fPaaS in my car?
AWS Snowball Edge & Snowmobile
Local processing of data? S3/NFS and local Lambda processing? I'm thinking easy hybrid on-ramp
Not just me
More on it
Move exabytes in weeks
"Snowmobile is a ruggedized, tamper-resistant shipping container 45 feet long, 9.6 feet high, and 8 feet wide. It is waterproof, climate-controlled, and can be parked in a covered or uncovered area adjacent to your existing data center."
Coté: LEGOS!
More instance types, Elastic GPUs, F1 Instances, PostgreSQL for Aurora
High I/O (I3 3.3 million IOPs 16GB/s), compute (C5 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB), memory (R4 488 Gib), burstable (T2 shared)
Mix EC2 instance type with a 1-8 GiB GPU
More!
F1: FPGA EC2 instances, also available for use in the AWS Marketplace
RDS vs. Aurora Postgres? Aurora is more fault tolerant apparently?
Day 2
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
Chef blog
Fully managed Chef Server & Automate
Previous OpsWorks now called "OpsWorks Stacks"
Cloud Opinion approves the Chef strategy
EC2 Systems Manager
Tools for managing EC2 & on-premises systems
AWS Codebuild
Managed elastic build service with testing
AWS X-Ray
Distributed debugging service for EC2/ECS/Lambda?
"easy way for developers to "follow-the-thread" as execution traverses EC2 instances, ECS containers, microservices, AWS database and messaging services"
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Personalized AWS monitoring & CloudWatch Events auto-remediation
Disruptive to PAAS monitoring & APM (New Relic, DataDog, App Dynamics)
AWS Shield
DDoS protection
Amazon Pinpoint
Mobile notification & analytics service
AWS Glue
Managed data catalog & ETL (extract, transform & load) service for data analysis
AWS Batch
Automated AWS provisioning for batch jobs
C# in Lamba, Lambda Edge, AWS Step Functions
Werner Vogels: "serverless, there is no cattle, only the herd"
Lambda Edge for running in response to CloudFront events, ""intelligent" processing of HTTP requests at a location that is close"
More
Step Functions a visual workflow "state machine" for Lambda functions
More
BLOX: EC2 Container Service Scheduler
Open source scheduler, watches CloudWatch events for managing ECS deployments
Blox.github.io
Analysis discussion for all the AWS stuff
Jesus! I couldn't read it all!
So, what's the role of Lambda here? It seems like the universal process thingy - like AppleScript, bash scripts, etc. for each part: if you need/want to add some customization to each thing, put a Lambda on it.
What's the argument against just going full Amazon, in the same way you'd go full .Net, etc.? Is it cost? Lockin? Performance (people always talk about Amazon being kind of flakey at times - but what isn't flakey, your in-house run IT? Come on.)
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
Docker for AWS
"EC2 Container Service, Elastic Beanstalk, and Docker for AWS all cost nothing; the only costs are those incurred by using AWS resources like EC2 or EBS."
Docker gets paid on usage?
Apparently an easier learning curve than ECS + AWS services, but whither Blox?
Time to Break up Amazon?
Someone has an opinion
HPE Discover, all about the "Hybrid Cloud"
Hybrid it up!
Killed "The Machine"
HPE's Synergy software, based on OpenStack (is this just Helion rebranded?)
Not great timing for a conference
Sold OpenStack & CloudFoundry bits to SUSE, the new "preferred Linux partner":
How Google is Challenging AWS
Ben on public cloud
"open-sourcing Kubernetes was Google's attempt to effectively build a browser on top of cloud infrastructure and thus decrease switching costs; the company's equivalent of Google Search will be machine learning."
Exponent.fm episode 097 — Google vs AWS
Recommendations
Brandon:
Apple Wifi Calling & Airplane mode.
Westworld worth watching.
Matt:
Backyard Kookaburras.
Magpies too!
This gif.
Coté: W Hotel in Las Vegas and lobster eggs benedict at Payard's in Ceasers'
Outro: "I need my minutes," Soul Position.
Sponsored By:
Pivotal: Check out Coté's work in progress, the ~50 page cloud native journey, edition two book. It coverers the common questions, best practices, and snarky takes on doing better software in large organizations.
58 min
December 07, 2016 Episode 81: DevOpsDays Sydney 2016
It's a special interloper episode from Australia! Matt Ray guests on the Arrested DevOps show live-to-tape from DevOpsDays Sydney, along with Bridget Kromhout, Matthew Jones, Lindsay Holmwood, Mick Pollard, Katie McLaughlin.
Special Guest: Bridget Kromhout.
47 min
November 28, 2016Episode 80: The case for flying Southwest and Oracle buying Dyn, and containers
With all the domestic, direct flight, the gang lays out the case for Southwest. Coté salivates at the prospect but is worried about sitting next to chicken cages, but there's plenty of $500 shoe sales people on board. We also discuss Oracle buying Dyn, AWS's power, the looming cloud success of Microsoft, and, of course, containers.
Octogenarian style: It’s episode 80! The Brittle Bones Anniversary.
Feedback & Follow-up
At least one person came correct and said CostCo.
I think we’re now in the 2,000 to 2,500 downloads range. Good job listeners!
Mid-roll
Coté: stop the container madness and just use Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Coté: the Cloud Native roadshows are over, but check out the cloud native WIP I have: - or, just check out some excerpts on working with auditors, selecting initial projects, and dealing with legacy.
Matt: Dec 1st and 2nd - DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.
Matt: Sydney AWS Meetups: December 6, December 7.
Oracle Buys Dyn
Coté needs a dial-a-friend on this one.
Fleshing out their cloud coverage
This is what Coté frequently concluded when doing cloud strategy
Softlayer and AWS compared
Sorry Oracle, Taking Down AWS is Alibaba’s Job
“Alibaba Cloud president Simon Hu has said the company is working to surpass AWS within four years.”
We’ll see if YUGEly can wrap his head around IaaS protectionism.
Skyliner.io
“You only get one hill to die on, so choose wisely”
New AWS-native PaaS from Etsy/Stripe/SquareSpace veterans
Coté: I feel like I’ve read this blog post before. Maybe I even wrote it? So much typing.
Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation - we’re beyond the cats and dogs mirror!
Steve Ballmer is spinning in his grave
More than just Linux
Add to this Visual Studio on the Mac.
Google joined .Net Foundation
Windows, internet, phone, cloud
BONUS LINKS! Not covered in show
Recent Coté Nonsense
“Largile”
Recent DevOps books review.
Red Hat wants to make Kubernetes boring (and successful)
They’ve certainly made OpenStack boring (zing!)
“Not that Red Hat is calling Kubernetes "boring." Instead, they're calling it "Enterprise-Ready," which is basically the same thing.”
I dig that Matt Asay style. Dude knows how to pick a quick topic.
The End of General Purpose Computing
More precisely, as the title says “The End of the General Purpose Operating System“
“What we're witnessing in the market is the development of vertically integrated stacks”
“In all of these cases the operating system is an implementation detail of the higher level software. It's not intended to be directly managed, or at least managed to the same degree as the general purpose OS you're running today.”
Apple Drops AirPort Routers
I’ve got 3 of them, pretty solid.
We don’t talk about Apple much here. Possible topic: what’s up with Apple now-a-days?
Trump vs. Tech
“Now we will have a president whose affinity for high-tech seems limited to Twitter bullying”
Interesting when you think that the heads of Google, Microsoft, Apple and probably Amazon (Bezos owns Washington Post) are all at odds with Trump. Facebook is trying to not piss anyone off. Not sure if we want to talk about it, so maybe it’s just a show note.
MacOS Security and Privacy Guide
Lots of practical tips for a safer Mac experience
Black Friday & Cyber Monday
"the sweet smell of cyber dealz"
Recommendations
Brandon: Left, Right, Center
Matt:
Thanksgiving in Sydney: http://www.musicalsoupeaters.com/thanksgiving/
Magpie Attacks!
Play your music at 10x slowdown, makes for good ambient listening. It’s up on GitHub if you want to do it to your own music collection, currently Ogg-only :(
Coté: It Follows.
Sponsored By:
DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016.
Promo Code: SDT2016
Pivotal: Check out free books from O'Reilly Pivotal on microservices, cloud foundry, and putting your cloud native strategy in place.
Pivotal: Check out Coté's work in progress, the ~50 page cloud native journey, edition two book. It coverers the common questions, best practices, and snarky takes on doing better software in large organizations.
46 min
November 17, 2016Episode 79: From a vegan, clothing optional co-op to working with banks and oil companies - Coté’s professional life, part 1
How does one go from living in a vegan, clothing option co-op working on a philosophy degree to hustling enterprise software? That's the story of Coté's career that we discuss in this episode. Matt Ray is out, getting the bills paid, so Brandon interviews Coté about how he got here, professionally. We end the story around 2011; maybe we'll pick up next time it's just the two of us.
Show Notes
House of Commons Co-op, Austin, Texas. See some pictures of a simpler time there.
I think this is that Victorian Literature professor.
He's the one that taught me how to use books as tools, writing in them and whatnot.
A typical day at BMC. Always lots of jokes, there. See more pictures.
In 2005, Coté wrote two pieces on IBM Lotus stuff: one on "Workplace for Business" and another on how I thought they should move it to Eclipse. Who knows why, really?
Lala's, where it's Christmas all year round.
James Governor and Stephen O'Grady.
Coté at RedMonk.
Recommendations
Brandon: Ready Player One.
Coté: Start and Scaling Devops in the Enterprise, Gary Gruver’s new book, an awesome 90 minutes read.
Sponsored By:
Pivotal: Come learn what Pivotal does and why with hands on workshops and keynote show-boatin'. Free breakfast and lunch!
Cincinnati - Nov 10
St. Louis - Nov 14
Hartford - Nov 16
Denver - Nov 18
New York - Nov 22
Los Angeles - Nov 28
DevOpsDays: DevOpsDays Australia is in Sydney, December 1st and 2nd. Listeners can get 20% off using the code SDT2016.
Promo Code: SDT2016
55 min

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